GIScience Research at Hunter College, City University of New York

Current
Research

Arranged alphabetically according to author's last name

• Update and Maintenance of the New York City Base-map, sponsored by Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (Ahearn)
• Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Orthophotography and Planimetrics for New York City, sponsored by NYC Department of Environmental Protection (Ahearn, Goldsmith)
• Database Development for New Jersey, and satellite land-cover classification of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, sponsored by the US Environmental Protection Agency  (Ahearn)
• Individual-based, object-oriented modeling of Bengal Tigers (Ahearn)
• Prospective analysis of the West Nile Virus using space time correspondence of dead-birds in the five boroughs of New York (Ahearn)
• Long Term Ecosystem Monitoring II, USA Corp. of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs (Ehlschlaeger) 
• Metadata and Technology Transfer for the Southeast Sandhills Ecoregion, USA Corp. of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs (Ehlschlaeger)
• Noise Location Algorithm Project, USA Corp. of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs (Ehlschlaeger)
• Noise Monitoring Project, USA Corp. of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs (Ehlschlaeger)
• Long Term Eco System Monitoring, USA Corp. of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs (Ehlschlaeger)
• Environmental Policy & Military Education Development, USA Corp. of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs (Ehlschlaeger)
• Scoping Requirements for a Regional GIS, Phase II, DACA88-99-M-0222, USA Corp. of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs (Ehlschlaeger)
• Overseas Environmental Support: An HBCU Partnership Contractual Initiative, USA Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs (Ehlschlaeger)
• Demonstration and Validation of Combined Field Survey / Remote Sensing Techniques for Spatial Extrapolation of USLE/RUSLE C-Factor Estimates, USA
  Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs (Ehlschlaeger)
• Advanced Cartography Research Initiative, Graduate Research and Technology Initiative, Dormitory Authority (Ehlschlaeger)
• Integration of Research and Education in Remote Sensing and Environmental/Climate Research, NASA (Ehlschlaeger)
• Quantification of Uncertainty in Spatial Data for Ecological Applications, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, National Science Foundation (Ehlschlaeger)
• Geographic Information System Alternative Ocean Disposal and Replacement Mud Dump Sites; and Monitoring and Modeling the New York Bight, New York District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Goldsmith)
• Geographic Information  System for Zone of Siting Feasibility in Support of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Dredged Material Disposal (Goldsmith)
• Variable Scales in an Oceanographic GIS, US Army Corps of Engineers and NY Sea Grant Institute (Goldsmith)
• An Oceanographic  Geographic Information System (GIS) for Designation and Monitoring of Open Water Disposal Sites,  US Army Corps of Engineers and NY Sea Grant Institute (Goldsmith)
• Development of  a Digital Cartographic Base Map For the  State of NY, State/EPA Data Management Financial Assistance Program, US EPA (Goldsmith)
• The DEP Open Space GIS for NYC, New York City Department of Environmental Protection (Goldsmith)
• Compilation of Physical and Chemical Parameters of Newark Bay, Construction of Newark Bay GIS, and Display of these Parameters in the GIS, ChemRisk (Goldsmith)
• Data Mapping Using GIS for the Governor's Coastal Erosion Task Force, NYS DEC & DOS (Goldsmith)
• Development and Data Accumulation Within A DEP Upstate Watershed GIS, NYC Department of Environmental Protection (Goldsmith)
• Technology Transfer and System Development of the DEP Natural Resources GIS,  NYC Department of Environmental Protection (Goldsmith)
• Mapping the Social Geography of Housing for NYC, CUNY Collaborative Incentive Grant (Goldsmith)
• Identify & Evaluate Methods for Measuring & Analyzing Crime  Patterns & Trends with GIS, with NYPD, US National Institute of Justice (Goldsmith)
• Mapping Estimates of Hard Drug Users and Operatives in Central Harlem, NY, National Development and Research Institutes (Goldsmith)
• Development of Geographic Information Systems  for Earthquake Loss Estimation, CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant Program (Goldsmith)
• Site Specific Assessment of CCTV in Public Housing: An Application of GIS and Spatial Statistics, US Department of Housing and Urban Development (Goldsmith)