Materials

Talks and Presentations.

CURCA Poster Design Workshops (April 2024).
Poster Presentations 101 (GPS Senior Seminar, 28 March 2024).
GPS Portfolio Template (8 March 2024).
Mapping The Climate Crisis: Risks & Solutions. GPS Department (Geography Awareness Week, 16 November 2023).
The (Forgotten) Glaciers of the Wind River Range (Wyoming): A 2023 Update. Dr. Carsten Braun (NESTVAL 2023, 28 October 2023, virtual).
Mapping Climate Change. (Dr. Carsten Braun, 18 October 2023).
Climate Incentives Forum (27 September 2023).
What is GPS? (Springfield High School of Science and Technology, 31 May 2023).
Climate Change 101: The Science, the Impacts, the Solutions (Wilbraham Public Library, 5 April 2023).
Our Geologic Past & Future in 5 Steps (Hilltown Charter Public School, 4 April 2023).
Poster Presentations 101 (#normal). Regional Planning Senior Seminar (7 March 2023).
Mapping Climate Change. Dr. Carsten Braun & Dr. Brian Conz (S.O.A.R. Westfield, 15 November 2022).
The Recession of Glaciers in the Rwenzori Mountains: A 2022 Update. Dr. Carsten Braun (Fall 2022 NEARC, 7 November 2022)
The Recession of Glaciers in Uganda and Venezuela: A 2022 Update. Dr. Carsten Braun (NESTVAL 2022, 5 November 2022).
The City of Westfield Web GIS. Dr. Carsten Braun (18 October 2022).
Going Swimming in the Happy Valley 15,000 Years Ago: The Beaches and Bottom of Glacial Lake Hitchcock. A Field Trip for K-12 STEM Educators. Dr. Carsten Braun, NEIGC 2022 Field Trip Guide (2 October 2022, PDF)
Rocks, Volcanoes, and Dinosaurs in Franklin County, MA: A Field Trip Along Route 2 for K-12 STEM Educators. Carsten Braun, Richard Little, Tarin Weiss, and Steven Winters. NEIGC 2022 Field Trip Guide (1 October 2022, PDF)
NEIGC 2022: Field Trips in Massachusetts and Surrounding Areas (Story Map Website).
Climate Change 101: What You Need To Know. Climate Prepardness Week, 26 September 2022).
Time Management For Students. Academic Strategies Sessions (4 September 2022).
Poster Presentations 101. Regional Planning Senior Seminar (29 March 2022).
GPS & GIS @ Westfield State. Dr. Carsten Braun (Holyoke Community College, 11 March 2022).
Climate Change 101. Dr. Carsten Braun (Introduction to Meteorology, 6 October 2021).
Code Red For Humanity: Understanding Global Warming’s Risks: What Each Of Us Can Do To Make A Difference & Stem the Tide. Dr. Carsten Braun (Climate Prepardness Week, 27 September 2021).
GIS in Higher Education. Dr. Carsten Braun & others (Spring 2021 NEARC, 18 May 2021).
Global Warming 101. Earth Day Presentation (22 April /2021).
Poster Presentations 101. Regional Planning Senior Seminar (6 April 2021).
Options for Portfolios. Regional Planning Senior Seminar (2 February 2021).
The Coolest GIS S%!# on the Internet. Dr. Carsten Braun & Dr. Tim LeDoux (MA GIS Day, 18 November 2020).
Climate Change Solutions (PVPA, 3 November 2020).
Sustainable Energy (Earth Day “Reusable Brown Bag Chat-a-Thon” 22 April 2020).
Climate Change: The Basics. (19 November 2019).
GIS Educators Day. Dr. Tim LeDoux and Dr. Carsten Braun (NEARC, 20 October 2019).
Climate Change and You: The Local Impacts and What We Can Do. (Agawam Public Library, 30 September 2019) handout.
Sustainable Energy: The Basics. (27 September 2019).
Mapping Opioids in Massachusetts. Drs. Alina Gross, Tim LeDoux, Brian Conz, Sam Ndegeah, and Carsten Braun (23 September 2019).
The Earth Educators’ Rendezvous (EER) 2017 (11 April 2019).
Climate Change and Sustainability. (29 November 2018).
The Geographies of Racism. Drs. Alina Gross, Tim LeDoux, Brian Conz, and Carsten Braun (17 September 2018).
The Science of Climate Change. Part of panel discussion Carbon Pricing in MA – A Key To Solving A Warming Climate (8 May 2018, Youtube video).
Glaciers and Climate. Loomis Village, South Hadley (26 September 2017).
Space, Place, and Perspective: Mapping and Perception. Dr. Carsten Braun and Dr. Tim LeDoux (11 September 2017).
Library Research Lab: Does the Ozone Hole cause Global Warming? Earth Educators’ Rendezvous 2017, 17-21 July, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Glacier Mapping with ASTER on Ellesmere Island, Canada. ValleyGIS Group Meeting, 13 December 2016.
The Global Connections Between Food and Global Warming. (Monday, 3 October 2016, New Hall B).
Mapping (Shrinking) Glaciers Using GPS, GIS, and Remote Sensing: Examples from the Canadian High Arctic, Peru, Venezuela, and Kilimanjaro. Spring 2016 NEARC @ UMass Amherst. (PDF)
Mapping, Stories and the Environment: Reading and Thinking Through Geography Lenses (29 September 2015, Part 1, Part 2).
Carsten Braun: Maps Tell Stories. First-Year Convocation Faculty Speaker, 1 September 2015).

Workshops.

Let’s talk Digital Humanities. Dr. Carsten Braun and Dr. Tim LeDoux (4 April 2018, 11:30 to 12:30, Faculty Center).
Story Mapping Workshops (18 September 2015, 25 September 2015, 16 November 2015, 10 March 2016, 19 April 2016).

Other.

HIST 0243 Mapping The New Deal. I was involved in this project and use of Story Maps early on, but they have taken it to a new level.
Veterans @ Westfield State (8 October 2015).
The Bonobo and the Atheist (by Frans de Waal) as a simple ArcGIS Online web app.
The Connecticut River Higher Education Greenway. A ‘map’ of the ‘ecology’ of ‘green’ higher education opportunities in our area. This story map is a few years old and needs to be updated.
My YouTube Channel (used for teaching).
Google Blogger as e-Portfolio. The Blogger interface has changed a little, but the basic premise remains: Blogger is a nice and simple way for curating resources.
Mount Cardigan Story Map. Simple combination of GPS tracking with online photographs and videos.
Student Success Strategies.

CURCA: Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity.

I was one of the founding members of the CURCA and served as CURCA Faculty Director / CURCA Committee Chair until September 2018.

Undergraduate Research in Earth Science Classes: Engaging Students in the First Two Years.

I attended the SERC Workshop Undergraduate Research in Earth Science Classes: Engaging Students in the First Two Years (August 2014) and contributed two activities and one presentation: