Lab Description:
Lab sections for Geography 225 meet 1 hour a week, either at 1:10pm on Mondays or 9:00am on Tuesdays. Lab assignments are designed to allow the student to apply the concepts taught in lecture in a computer lab setting. Each student will be assigned a computer and will save all of their work on that particular machine.

Lab Instructor:
The lab sections are taught by Birgit Mühlenhaus, the GIS Lab Instructor and Manager.
Department of Geography, Carengie 103
Tel: 651.696.6906
Email: muehlenhaus@macalester.edu
Office Hours: Tues. 10 - 11 am; Wed. 2 - 3 pm; or by appointment

Lab TA:
Sandy Robson will be the Lab TA available during the lab sections to assist in answering questions during class. Her email address is: lvrobson@macalester.edu.

Lab Hours:
Open lab hours can be found on the GIS homepage.

Lab Manual:
Students will be working on assignments from a lab manual, which will be provided for you on the first day of class. PDF versions of the lab manual are available below, should you forget yours at home. The PDFs will all open in the same window.

Spring 2008 Lab Schedule

GIS Lab Procedures and Policies

ArcGIS: An Introduction

Digitizing

Geocoding

Global Positioning Systems (GPS)

Joins and Queries

Map Design – Part 1

Map Design – Part 2 

Map Types

Overlay and Geoprocesssing Functions

Scale, Projections, and Layout

Extra Credit

Appendix A: Course Dropbox

Appendix B: Data Backup & Archival

Appendix C: Data Resources Online

Appendix D: Map Design Tips

Appendix E: Project Organization

Appendix F: Toolbar Reference Sheet