Geography
Intensive Level Survey of and National Register
Nomination for College Gardens Residential District
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, Payne County,
Oklahoma. This study area, as defined by the 1998 reconnaissance level survey,
consists of both sides of Redwood Drive north of Admiral Avenue, both sides of
sides of Arrowhead Place west to King Street, then south to Arrowhead Drive,
then west along arrowhead Drive to King Street, then south to Sunset Drive,
then east to King Street, then south to West University Avenue, and the east to
Redwood Drive.
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, Okla., 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. (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
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 &
the University of World Economy & Diplomacy; & 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 today 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 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 and 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
Toward an Integrated Web-GIS Decision Support System for
Evaluating United States Department of Agriculture Conservation Reserve Program
(CPR)
This project will address some
of the critical aspects by designing a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation
platform where novel software-enabled control strategies can be tested. Structure
of this project will be along the following thrusts: A simulation and
visualization tool for UAV navigation, robust mode-switching control for
autonomous formation flight, and an experimental platform for
hardware-in-the-loop/Unmanned Aerial Vehicles coordination.
Sponsor: University of Oklahoma, NASA EPSCoR
PIs: Mahesh Rao
Computer Science: Johnson Thomas
School of Electrical &
Computer Engineering: Gouliang Fan
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
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 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 assistance from 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