{"id":138,"date":"2007-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-54-professor-and-associate-dean-research\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:29:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:29:46","slug":"innovation-anthology-54-professor-and-associate-dean-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2007\/08\/02\/innovation-anthology-54-professor-and-associate-dean-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #54: Professor and Associate Dean, Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 054.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To understand the bigger picture on water, scientists like <b>Dr. Derek Peddle<\/b> are turning to GIS, or <b>Geographical Information Science.  <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peddle is the science director for WISE, the <b>Water Institute for Semi-Arid Ecosystems<\/b> at the University of Lethbridge.<\/p>\n<p>Using GIS, he can integrate data from satellite imagery, aerial photographs, and geographical maps, with samples taken in the field.<\/p>\n<p><b>DR. DEREK PEDDLE:  <\/b><em>Drought is a big issue here and we need to understand the flow of water, the availability of water and also the quality. So we, for example, would take water quality samples at individual locations, say in lakes or rivers, but also then we would put that  into a large spatial database and assess that over a larger region and try and  develop trends and patterns of drought.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GIS technology also allows Dr. Peddle to  investigate historical influences on water availability.<\/p>\n<p><b>DR. DEREK PEDDLE: <\/b><em>We can go back about between 30 to 100 years, depending on what type of imagery youst Management Network<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3>Stan Blade, PhD, <\/h3>\n<h4>Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Stan.Blade@albertainnovates.ca<\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02007-08-02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand the bigger picture on water, scientists like <b>Dr. Derek Peddle<\/b> are turning to GIS, or <b>Geographical Information Science.   <\/b>Dr. Peddle is the science director for <em>WISE, the Water Institute for Semi-Arid Ecosystems<\/em> at the University of Lethbridge.   Using GIS, he can integrate data from satellite imagery, aerial photographs, and geographical maps, with samples taken in the field. <em> (The University of Lethbridge)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/81derek_peddle.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}