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A multidisciplinary unit has young engineers explore Geographic Information Systems (GIS), an essential tool in planning any engineering projects. The lessons and activities in Part 1 of the unit look at GIS in general. Part 2 focuses on using GIS to study data related to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Instructors may choose to expose their scholars to GIS and digital mapping or have them investigate environmental issues in depth.
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africa, cartographers, cartography, citations, communication, coordinate plane, environmental hazards, environmental science, food chains, food webs, garbage, globes, google earth, human impact on the environment, hydrocarbons, latitude and longitude, map projections, marine life, microsoft excel, ocean currents, oceans, pesticides, petroleum, physical geography, plagiarism, pollution, polymers, recycling, solid waste, technical writing, the earth, the internet, topographical maps, word processing, ocean pollution, plastic, african geography, contamination, coordinate pair, environmental safety, geographic information systems, geographic locations, grid maps, mapmaking, orthogonal, petroleum products, technology resources, gps, reference materials, grid systems, the pacific ocean
