EARTHQUAKES AROUND THE WORLD

A little exercise I suggest to get familiar with ArcGIS Explorer Online, where you can add different files (.csv, .shp, .gpx). In this case, I used a csv file from GeoCommunity at: http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/features/quakes2000/, and filtered information of earthquakes around the world registered in January 2000, but selected only the events with a magnitude higher than 4.00. Here's the result.

Components of a GIS

Clic here to access to a mind map of the GIS components made with ExamTime.

VISIT UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DEL NORTE (UTN)

You can visit the University´s website at: http://www.utn.edu.ec/web/portal/

Get to know our campus in Ibarra

Come for a visit either virtual or real, check out our campus, and see why life in Ibarra is amazing. It is surrounded by beautiful mountains, a peaceful lake 5 minutes from UTN, kind people, and the most wonderful weather all year long. You will learn about our academic programs and courses, faculty and staff, current students, alumni, library, and research. You’re welcome to visit UTN anytime!

To give you an idea of the location of UTN, I prepared these simple maps for you. If you have any questions feel free to contact me at this blog or at the e-mail addresses: mjromero@utn.edu.ec or passionforgis@gmail.com.

SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL (SWAT)

Check out my new post about Soil and Water Asssessment Tool (SWAT) in the  page GIS INFORMATION (Spanish) of the blog.

SOIL CONSERVATION PROJECT

When you have a little time, check out my post about SOIL CONSERVATION PROJECT in the page "PROJECTS" of this blog. It's about a new project I'm working on in the basin of Mira River. We plan to apply GIS for the analysis of soil and water parameters. I'll be more than satisfied if you give us suggestions of how to improve it!

Welcome to my blog!

Hello everyone, welcome to my blog.
My name is María José Romero. I am working as a GIS teacher at Universidad Técnica del Norte in Ibarra - Ecuador. The main purpose of this blog is to share GIS information, to show interests, and to keep in touch with other GIS professionals.