Intensive
Level Survey of and National Register Nomination for College Gardens
Residential District, Stillwater, Oklahoma
This project consists of an intensive level
architectural and historic survey and nomination to the National Register of Historic
Places for the College Gardens Residential District in Stillwater, Oklahoma, an
historic residential area adjoining the west side of the Oklahoma State
University campus. The survey will be conducted in accordance with the
Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Identification
and Evaluation, as well as the guidelines for intensive level surveys specified
by the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office.
Sponsor: Oklahoma Historical Society and National
Parks Service
PI: Brad Bays
Reconnaissance
Level Survey of Portions of Three Northwestern Oklahoma Towns: Goodwell, Guymon
and Hooker
Four
objectives direct this project: 1) To locate and identify all buildings,
objects, structures, sites and districts within each area that warrant further
study to determine their eligibility for listing in the National Register of
Historic Places; 2) To record and photograph those individual properties and
potential districts in the project area that warrant further study; 3) To
identify and characterize those portions of the project area that warrant no
further study to exclude them from consideration for nomination to the National
Register of Historic Places; and 4) To identify and annotate all reference
materials necessary for completing National Register Nominations of properties
and districts located in the study area.
Sponsor:
Oklahoma Historical
Society
PI:
Brad Bays
Reconnaissance
Level Survey of Ada, Oklahoma
Four
objectives direct this project: 1) To locate and identify all buildings, objects,
structures, sites and districts within the Ada, Oklahoma area that warrant
further study to determine their eligibility for listing in the National
Register of Historic Places; 2) To record and photograph those individual
properties and potential districts in the Ada area that warrant further study; 3)
To identify and characterize those portions of the Ada area that warrant no
further study to exclude them from consideration for nomination to the National
Register of Historic Places; and 4) To identify and annotate all reference
materials necessary for completing National Register Nominations of properties
and districts located in the Ada area.
Sponsor: Oklahoma Historical Society and National
Parks Service
PI: Brad Bays
Oklahoma
Landmarks Inventory (OLI) Database Project: Phase IV
The OLI is a
record of the buildings, structures, sites, districts, and objects across
Oklahoma obtained through the federal preservation program for which the
OK/SHPO is responsible. The OLI is the central repository for information about
Oklahoma’s historic properties and is used daily by OK/SHPO staff, other
government agencies, preservation professionals, nonprofit preservation
organizations, and concerned citizens. To maximize the use of this invaluable
collection, its computerization is essential. The project maintains the
National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma interactive website and the
placement of the OLI database on the web.
Sponsor: Oklahoma Historical Society and National
Park Service
PIs: George Carney, Allen Finchum
Analyzing
Socioeconomic Impacts of Highway Construction Activities in Oklahoma
This
research seeks to expand a Geographic Information Systems-based methodology to
analyze the socioeconomic impacts of highway bypasses in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Department of
Transportation (ODOT) wanted to formalize its analysis of economic impacts of
highway bypasses, and a recent project delivered to ODOT was successful by
highlighted several problems that need to be overcome for a more detailed
analysis of bypass impacts: 1) Scale of the project—Due to the limited
scope of the project, only the U.S. 70 corridor between Ardmore and Idabel was
modeled in the original GIS database; 2) Business data availability—Due
to the rural nature, business data for many small towns in Oklahoma are not
disclosed in U.S. Census Bureau publications; and 3) Socioeconomic data
availability—Also due to the state’s rural nature, detailed,
spatially disaggregated social and economic data were not published for
Oklahoma until the 1990 census, preventing any sort of analysis of changing
characteristics over time. Each of
these major areas will be addressed by this research.
Sponsor: Oklahoma Transportation Center
PIs: Jonathan C. Comer, Allen Finchum
Holocene
Landscape History in Southwestern Crimea, Ukraine
This research
project involves palynological (pollen and spore analysis) and geomorpholoical
studies aimed at reconstructing past landscapes around the ancient Greek city
of Chersonesos, located within the limits of the modern city of Sevastopol.
Although the main focus of the project was originally to reconstruct Greek
farming landscapes in the Heraklean Peninsula during the 5th-2nd
centuries B.C., this project now attempts to reconstruct the history of
vegetation and soils for the entire Holocen period (the past 10,000 years). The
peleoecological information for these reconstructions was recovered from
sediments accumulated in wetlands and depressions. The main issues highlighted
by the preliminary data recovered are the progressive transformation of the
local flora through climatic change and human influences.
Sponsor: The Packard Humanities Institute through
the Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Texas at Austin
PI: Carlos Cordova
The Potential
of Holocene Deposits for Pollen Analysis and Vegetation Reconstruction in
Jordan
This
research project will focus on testing pollen preservation and concentration in
floodplain deposits and in silt sequences trapped behind ancient dams. This
study will also include analysis of surface pollen samples, which are to be
used as a reference of modern pollen rain and testing of pollen preservation
and concentration of present sedimentary deposits. The main goal is to explore
the possibilities of pollen analysis for paleavegetaion reconstruction in
semi-arid and arid regions.
Sponsor: Association of American Geographers
Research Grants
PI: Carlos Cordova
Development of a Web Based Information Retrieval
System for National Register Sites in Oklahoma
Information and photographs
of all properties in the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma will
be prepared for dissemination of the World Wide Web and a website to serve this
information in both a text- and map- based format will be prepared. The map
based retrieval system will allow the user to work with a fully interactive map
displaying the location of all National Register locations in Oklahoma and
connect the user to the appropriate text and photo record for the desired site.
The project will encompass all preparation of the data, including scanning of
site photographs, editing and display of text data, and construction of a
complete user interface to allow easy access to the data for users throughout
the state and nation.
Sponsor: Oklahoma Historical Society
and National Park Service
PI: Allen Finchum
Reconnaissance Level Survey for Four East
Central Oklahoma Towns: Henryetta, Holdenville, Wetumka and Wewoka
The purpose of this project is to evaluate the
properties within the designated boundaries of the four study towns in order to
identify those that are potentially eligible for listing in the National
Register of History Places. This project also identifies districts that warrant
further study as potential historic districts as well as individual properties and
areas that do not warrant further study. This research will provide information
that can be used for the evaluation of properties under the review and
compliance program of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act,
and will increase the area and number of recorded historic properties within
Oklahoma.
Sponsor: Oklahoma Historical Society
PI: Alyson Greiner
Partnership
Between OSU and the University of World Economy and Diplomacy; and Samarkand
State Institute of Foreign Languages
This
proposal aims to strengthen the structure of higher education in Uzbekistan by
providing curriculum development and instructional expertise directed at what
is potentially one of the most profitable, and to-date least exploited, of the
country’s natural assets: tourism. This will be accomplished by sharing
American expertise in tourism development across a spectrum of disciplines:
business, journalism, political science and geography. American academics from
these fields will share their knowledge and experience in tourism marketing,
business law, management information systems, tourism advertising and strategy,
economics and in developing a cadre of public administrators for the tourist
industry in Uzbekistan. The significant end-product of the project is a
comprehensive textbook on tourism in Uzbekistan, based on the cooperative work
of the participants of the program. This text will be employed by future
generations of Uzbekistani professionals in the field of tourism economics,
thereby attracting badly needed foreign investment and currency, and generating
employment opportunities in the Uzbek economy. Finally, the ancillary economic
benefits to tourism development in Uzbekistan will be crucial to the future
stability of the country.
Sponsor:
USIA
PI:
Reuel Hanks
The
purpose of this project is to develop web-based instructional modules that
address theory, operation, and applications of global positioning system (GPS)
technology and its integration with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Increasing
use of GPS within agriculture, transportation, natural resource management, and
other fields highlights the importance of understanding GPS principles and
application. Four modules will be designed for adaptation within undergraduate
geography (or related) courses that emphasize basic navigation/positioning,
spatial data capture, data management/integration, or the analysis of
geographic information. Modules will contain presentation materials for
instructors, interactive web-based lessons and testing, and
“hands-on” field and lab exercises emphasizing data capture,
processing, integration, or analysis. Following evaluation by a curricula
review team and testing within selected universities and courses, the GPS Tools
for Geographers web page will begin dissemination of this educational resource.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
PIs: Michael Myers, Thomas Wikle
Developing
a GIS-Based Tool for Automated Feature Information Retrieval from Multisource
Geospacial Data: Application to CRP Mapping in Texas County, Oklahoma
This project aims at developing a GIS-based
tool, Automated Feature Information Retrieval System (AFIRS), for
remote-sensing (RS) applications. In addition to satellite imagery, AFIRS will
involve multisource geospatial data to achieve accurate and robust feature
extractions. The proposed AFIRS will be used as an analytical tool to aid in
the delineation of USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) tracts and
to achieve accurate and detailed digital CRP maps.
Sponsor: Environmental Institute — Water
Research Center
PIs: Mahesh Rao, Guoliang Fan
EPIC-View:
Developing Model Calibration and Validation Tools
The project in collaboration with SST
Development Group, Stillwater, aims at developing model calibration and
validation tools for EPIC-View. EPIC-View is a user-friendly, GIS-based
modeling system developed integrating EPIC with ArcView GIS. EPIC,
(Erosion-Productivity Impact Calculator) is a hydrologic/crop growth/ water
quality model that can be used to determine the effect of management strategies
on agricultural production and soil and water resources.
Sponsor:
Oklahoma Center for the
Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST)
PIs: Mahesh Rao, David Waits
Radiometric
Studies to Characterize the Onset of Greenbug-Induced Stress in Wheat: Phase II
A critical component of integrated past
management (IPM) involves a method for monitoring fields to determine whether
there is a pest problem. Remote sensing techniques can identify pest
infestations in agricultural fields. Field-based remote sensing techniques
could provide a vital tool to study such stress in crop plants. The aim of this
research is to determine the onset of change in the spectral characteristics in
wheat canopy when subjected to stress due to greenbug, an economically
important insect pest of wheat. Such studies will greatly enhance the
understanding of the greenbug pest outbreaks and provide a significant basis to
initiate control measures. There also exists as immense potential for such
studies to scale up to different remote sensing platforms such as aircraft and
satellite, considering the tremendous improvements in sensor characteristics
that include both spatial and spectral resolutions.
Sponsor: University Center for Water Research
(UCWR)
PI: Mahesh Rao
U.S.
Sport Databases
Development of
U.S. facility databases for golf, tennis, and skiing. Analysis of
geo-demographic demand characteristics and patterns for golf, tennis, and
skiing for the period 1980-1993. The merging of supply and demand will create
predictive models for the location of new facilities through the year 2000.
Sponsor: New York Times Leisure Division
PI: John Rooney
Automated
Weather Mesonetwork for Oklahoma
With personnel
from the OSU Division of Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources and the
University of Oklahoma, work has continued toward a state-of-the-art,
automated, weather reporting network for Oklahoma. The system became
operational in 1994.
Sponsor: State of Oklahoma
PIs: Stephen Stadler
University of
Oklahoma: Ken Crawford
Biosystems and
Agricultural Engineering: Ron Elliott
University of
Oklahoma: Howard Johnson
NSSL: David
Stensrud
OSU: Al
Sutherland
Oklahoma
Wind Power Assessment Initiative
This project is a joint effort with personnel
from the University of Oklahoma assessing wind power potential for siting of
wind turbines across Oklahoma. Using a wind power model employing Oklahoma
Mesonet wind summaries, digital elevation models, and landuse/landcover
(surface roughness) the entire state is being examined in grid cells less than
400 m across. Within a GIS we are incorporating the results from the wind power
modeling with infrastructure features (e.g., location of roads and power grids)
and land ownership types (e.g., avoidance of wildlife reserves) to produce maps
identifying the most favorable sites for wind power development.
Sponsor: Oklahoma State Senate
PI: Steve Stadler
Terrestrial
Environmental Variables Derived from EOS Platform Sensors
This
research will be used to exploit the compliment of measurements from the
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MOSDIS) and the Advanced Spaceborne
Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), soon to be orbited on EOS
AM-1, as well as Landsat-7, to refine and improve measurements of near-surface
environmental conditions that constrain terrestrial net primary production.
Also included will be the continued use of the afternoon orbit AVHRR sensor to:
1) transition from the AVHRR historical record; 2) improve diurnal, temporal
understanding; and 3) anticipate use of MIDOS observations from EOS PM-1. This
suite of EOS and AVHRR observations provides a substantial opportunity to
improve measurements of near-surface environmental conditions. The refinements
in radiometry and spectral, spatial and temporal coverage should contribute to
significant advances in the precision and accuracy of measuring terrestrial
patterns of air temperature, atmospheric moisture, and soil moisture. This in
turn should lead to more accurate assessments of global and regional patterns
and inter-annual dynamics of net primary production.
Sponsor:
NASA
PI:
Steven Stadler
Integrating
Mesonet Data with GIS to Create a Decision Support System for Agricultural
Producers
The purpose of
this project is to create a spatial decision support system that integrates
meteorological data into regional and site-specific GIS databases that
agricultural producers can utilize as a management aid in their operations.
Sponsors: National Aeronautics and Space
Administration—EPSCoR, Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education
PI: David Waits
Oklahoma
Wind Power Assessment Initiative, Phase II: Initial Analysis of Mesonet Wind
Products and Landscape Data
The project is a joint effort with personnel
from the University of Oklahoma studying the spatial variations in the
suitability of the Oklahoma landscape relative to wind power development. The
study is based on two scales: 1) Small scale wind generation (50 Kw or less)
suitable for households and small businesses; and 2) Large scale wind farms (10
Kw or more) suitable for connection to existing power grids. In a geographic
information system (GIS) covering the entire state, we are incorporating
several layers of data (wind power potential, existing power transmission
grids, access to roads, land ownership, etc.) to identify more and less
suitable sites of potential development for wind power. The high spatial
resolution of this work is fostered by the incorporation of the wind data from
the Oklahoma Mesonet that provides mesoscale measurements of wind.
Sponsor: OSU Energy Institute
PIs: Steve Stadler, Allen Finchum
The underlying goal of developing
hypothesis-based learning (HBL) lessons for earth science education is to
provide middle school teachers with lessons that bring excitement that comes
with posing questions, thinking critically and combining knowledge with
observations. Instead of a topical approach to earth science, HBL lessons will
be created to reflect a “systems” within earth sciences,
emphasizing interrelationships among earth’s dynamic processes.
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
PIs: Thomas Wikle
Geology:
Richard Marston
The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Site provides ten undergraduate students with unique opportunities to taste the
excitement of the research process through applications of geographic
information system (GIS) to soil and water research problems. With the assistance
of their mentors, student researchers are responsible for: 1) conceptualizing a
research question; 2) data collection; 3) GIS and statistical analysis; and 4)
interpretation and presentation of project results. Examples of the topic areas
for projects include GIS-based investigations of phosphorus and sediment
transport, evaluating soil and water constraints on urban development and
studies of regional evapotranspiration.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
PIs: Thomas Wikle, Michael Myers