{"id":1199,"date":"2010-08-27T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T14:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/?page_id=1199"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:45:56","slug":"cas-biee-578-marine-geographic-information-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/academic-programs\/bump-marine-semester\/cas-biee-578-marine-geographic-information-science\/","title":{"rendered":"CAS BI\/EE 578, Marine Geographic Information Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/bump\/files\/2019\/02\/PicForCoursePage_MarineGIS-636x492.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"279\" class=\"wp-image-4742 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/files\/2019\/02\/PicForCoursePage_MarineGIS-636x492.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/files\/2019\/02\/PicForCoursePage_MarineGIS-768x594.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/files\/2019\/02\/PicForCoursePage_MarineGIS-1024x792.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/files\/2019\/02\/PicForCoursePage_MarineGIS.png 1455w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><br \/>\nContact the Professor:<\/strong><br \/>\nSophia Tigges, stigges@bu.edu<\/p>\n<p><em>Marine Geographic Information Science is an introductory course on GIS principles, theories, and practices for marine environmental applications.\u00a0 We will focus on the fundamentals of marine GIS, spatial data, and spatial analysis by using real-world marine datasets using ESRI\u2019s ArcGIS software.\u00a0 Topics will include, but are not limited to, oceanographic data acquisition, habitat modeling, species distribution modeling, and marine spatial planning for conservation and human uses.\u00a0 There are no pre-requisites for this class, but computer proficiency is needed and basic understanding of statistics is helpful.\u00a0 The class will also host guest lecturers from the Marine GIS field.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"\/bump\/files\/2024\/05\/BI_GE_578_Syllabus_2023.pdf\">MarineGIS_Syllabus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact the Professor: Sophia Tigges, stigges@bu.edu Marine Geographic Information Science is an introductory course on GIS principles, theories, and practices for marine environmental applications.\u00a0 We will focus on the fundamentals of marine GIS, spatial data, and spatial analysis by using real-world marine datasets using ESRI\u2019s ArcGIS software.\u00a0 Topics will include, but are not limited to, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"parent":40,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6348,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1199\/revisions\/6348"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}