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Research
As federal, state, and local budgets for environmental management and
research are unable to support historically manpower-intensive monitoring
and research programs, the role of technology, both in the field and in
the lab, must be expanded. The GIP Lab supports research exploring and
expanding the increasingly important roles that technology and
technological innovations play in monitoring, assessing, modeling and
managing our environmental resources and associated health issues. Using
the tools of Geographic Information Processing (GIP), GIP Lab staff and
students develop and apply spatial models to study the impacts of
anthropogenic and physiographic influences to environmental resources.
These tools of GIP include Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote
sensing and digital image processing, Global Positioning Systems (GPS),
and environmetrics.
Research studies are multidisciplinary and may include researchers and
students from Biology, Economics, Geology, Environmental Health Sciences,
Geography, Marine Science, Exercise Science, Epidemiology, and Statistics.
The scope of our research efforts are illustrated by following projects:
- developing and implementing a coastal
non-point source pollution model
- modeling the cumulative impacts of
regulatory permitting programs on coastal wetlands
- assessing the impacts of urbanization on
localized estuaries
- developing a GIS-based logger-head
turtle tracking program
- analyzing the variability in thematic
content derived from remotely sensed data of varying resolution
- tracking spatial and temporal
distributions of oyster pathogens
- risk assessment modeling
- biomass and chlorophyll mapping
- bathymetric mapping
- developing suitability models for
invasive species (hydrilla)
- studying environmental supports for
physical activity
- tracking changes in land cover over
multiple years
- identifying and assessing estuarine
anomalies
NOAA, NASA, CDC, NSF, EPA, NIH, DOE,
USGS, SREL, SCDHEC, SCGUARD, SCEPSCoR, and Richland County represent
federal, state, and county agencies that have funded or currently are
funding research activities of the GIP Lab.
For more information on these state and federal agencies, visit these web
sites:
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