How are spatial concepts and technologies being incorporated into academic disciplines other than geography?
Those of us in the field help people learn that there is a basic science in which you can do research and development, but for most people it is simply an aspect of their practice. The Department of Anthropology here at Penn State is looking to hire an anthropologist with some expertise in GIST, to help infuse that mode of analysis into their discipline and their students’ education. Similarly, at the College of Agricultural Science, GIST has for some time played a significant role in agriculture. One of the exciting areas in that field is “agro-security” — the idea that there is food security, not just against terrorist threats but also against pandemic diseases and such. We’re developing a new master’s degree in agro-security and certainly GIST will play some role in that. Another example would be landscape architecture. It has been more of a CAD-based, rather than GIS-based, enterprise, but nowadays landscape architecture departments are looking to hire people with the skills to mak
