Námskeiðslýsing

Introduction to the concepts, principles, approaches, and issues associated with Geographical Information Systems. No previous exposure to GIS necassary. The course will provide the student with an understanding of the basic concepts of GIS and its role as a data management tool in coastal zone management. It will provide students with an understanding of the techniques of GIS data and spatial analysis. The course is divided between lectures and laboratories and an emphasis is places on practical experience using GIS software (ArcGIS).

Hæfniviðmið

On completing this course the student will have:

• An awareness of the main sources of spatially referenced data
• Skills and practical experience in handling spatially referenced data
• A knowledge of GIS data, data models and spatial databases
• An appreciation of issues relating to data quality in GIS
• An awareness of how GIS is used in coastal zone management

Námsmat

TBA

Kennari

Lorraine Gray received her PhD from Napier University, Edinburgh, while somehow managing to swap her Scottish winters for Australian summers to do the survey work. She studied the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals and sewage effluent on the behaviour and morhology of the male mosquitofish, both in the laboratory and in the field.

She then went on to teach ecology in further education in Scotland. In 2004, she moved to Shetland to work for Shetland Islands Council surveying and mapping contaminated land. She also had a short contract environmental auditing the Council, before taking up a post at the NAFC Marine Centre.

For the past six years she has been responsible for taking the Shetland Marine Spatial Plan from inception through to implementation. One of the keys to success of the Plan was securing stakeholder involvement, and this included mapping fishing grounds through one-to-one interviews and workshops with the local fleet. Lorraine retains direct involvement with developers, planners, regulators and other stakeholders to advice on site selection and to facilitate pre-application consultation.

Astrid Fehling is from Hamburg, Germany. She came to Iceland in 2010 as a part time student of the CMM masters program at the University Centre. Falling in love with this place and always wanting to live so close to the sea, she has stayed in Ísafjörður since. Astrid holds a bachelor's degree in Geography (University of Bremen, Germany) and has recently received her master's degree in Environmental Management from the University of Kiel, Germany. In her master's thesis, Astrid addressed the involvement of stakeholder in coastal and marine management projects, using a project from the Westfjords as a case study. Her particular interest throughout her studies focused on the investigation, planning and protection of coastal regions as well as integrative management concepts to find solutions for complex environmental issues including socio-economic components

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