Dr. Scott Drzyzga attended the 2024 Pennsylvania GIS Conference at State College and presented his work titled: “New Datums and a new State Plane Coordinate System Are Coming in 2025.” He also mentored two “Advanced GIS” students, Theresa Haug (GR) and Ekaterina Hampton (UG), who presented their map of the migrant crisis in the mountainous…
Dr. Scott Drzyzga, was recertified as a Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP). Scott maintains his GISP so he can stay current and prepare students using first-hand information for the 4-hour exam, portfolio review, and professional contributions and ethics requirements. By design, Ship students who earn any 4-year degree and successfully complete our GIS Certificate Program (or…
Dr. Scott Drzyzga, presented his paper, “A New State Plane Coordinate System is Coming in 2025 … and It’s Not Like What We’re Used To” at the joint annual meetings of the Pennsylvania Geographical Society and the Mid-Atlantic Division of the Association of American Geographers, which were held in Salisbury, Maryland. While there, Scott’s mentee,…
Dr. Drzyzga initiated with help from Bruce Herring (Facilities Dept.) and Greg Day (IT Dept.), a public-private partnership between AlphaRTK and Shippensburg University. AlphaRTK installed a continuously operating GPS reference station atop Dauphin Humanities Center, which it uses to provide commercial GPS augmentation services that support coordinate surveys and vehicle automation. He is currently teaching…
Dr. Zume recently presented his research titled, “Assessing the vulnerability of coastal groundwater quality to climate change impacts in Cape Coast, Ghana”, at the 18th World Water Congress held in Beijing, China, from September 11th – 15th, 2023. Dr. Zume’s trip was supported with a grant from the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program.
Dr. Joseph Zume, professor of geography and earth science, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation International Research Experience for Students (IRES) Program. In 2018, Zume began research on the impacts of on-site septic systems on the quality of shallow groundwater at coastal location with the University of Cape Coast in Ghana as…