Geographic Information Systems
 in Inquiry-Based Education

Group Members:
James Ballantine, Rochelle Barton-Silver, John Kelley, Thomas Kennedy,  
Dora Nelson, Will O'Leary

Project Advisor: Tenley Conway

Prepared at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Environmental Institute
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
July 20, 2001
 

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New Jersey and its Counties

 Abstract
An investigation utilizing Geographic Information System (GIS) technology was employed to site a 300 unit development on 500 acres of land in the Barnegat Bay watershed located in Ocean County New Jersey using environmental design and planning principles.  Participants learned how to use ArcView software to scientifically locate possible building sites using a variety of environmental and cultural criteria.  The study identified nine possible sites and maps were created to analyze these sites.  The building site chosen was hillier than expected indicating that important criteria not selected in the ArcView study may have important ramifications on land use planning.