Earth Science & Geography

Vassar College

Meg E. Stewart

Geographic Information System Laboratory Computing Consultant

Contact Meg E. Stewart

office: Ely Hall 102
box: 735
phone: 845-437-7708

B.S., Geology, California State University, Hayward, 1992
M.S., Geology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1994

Meg Stewart is an Academic Computing Specialist in support of GIS and works closely with the department on geospatial projects and in support of the GIS lab. Her interest and experience in GIS came while on the job in consulting. She worked on a broad-based project using GIS to site landfill disposal locations for dredged sediments from the New York-New Jersey Harbor. The database included land use and land cover data (such as soils, Geology, wetlands, buildings, etc.) and digital elevation models (DEMs) for parts of New York and New Jersey. She also has a strong background in computer graphics, slide presentation production and spreadsheet usage.

Selected publications

Books

  • Stewart, Meg E., Cunningham, Mary Ann, Schneiderman, Jill S., and Gold, Liv, (2004), Exploring Environmental Science With GIS: An Introduction to Environmental Mapping and Analysis: New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, ISBN 0-07-297564-4

Papers

  • Menking, Kirsten and Stewart, Meg, 2007, Using Mobile Mapping to Determine Rates of Meander Migration in an Undergraduate Geomorphology Course, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 55, n. 2, p. 147-151.
  • Stewart, Meg, 2006, Paperless, Wireless, Inkless Mapping: Academic Commons, August, 2006. http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/notes-ideas-paperless-wireless-inkless-mapping
  • Cunningham, Mary Ann and Stewart, Meg E., 2006, GIS technology at a small liberal arts college: The importance of administrative support: Transformations, May 1, 2006. http://www.nitle.org/index.php/nitle/transformations/2006_5_1_cunningham_stewart
  • Taylor, Wanda J., Stewart, Meg E. and Orndorff, Richard L., 2001, Fault segmentation and linkage: Examples from the Hurricane fault, southwestern U.S.A.: in The Geologic Transition, High Plateaus to Great Basin &endash; A Symposium and Field Guide, The Mackin Volume, Utah Geological Association Publication 30 - Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists Publication GB78, p. 113-126.
  • Stewart, Meg E., Schneiderman, Jill S., and Andrews, Stephanie B., 2001, A GIS class exercise to study environmental risk: Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 49, n. 3, p. 227-234.
  • Stewart, Meg E., 2000, Dredging to Keep the New York-New Jersey Harbor Alive: in Schneiderman, J.S., ed., The Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet, W.H. Freeman, New York, NY, p. 232-243.
  • Stewart, Meg E., and Taylor, Wanda J., 1996, Structural analysis and fault segment boundary identification along the Hurricane fault in southwestern, Utah: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 18, p. 1017 to 1029.

Recent Abstracts with Faculty and Student Collaborators

  • Stewart, Meg E., Van Camp, Keri, Johnson, Lucille L., Fritz, Robert S., and Jones , Virginia, 2008, Assessing student learning outcomes when using a tablet PC for data collection in field-based classes in Archaeology and Ecology, North East Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) Annual Conference, March 10-12, Providence, RI.
  • Stewart, Meg E., Cunningham, Mary Ann, Menking, Kirsten and Bolton, Ken, 2007, Sharing project data using Google Earth: Doing GIS without learning GIS, Association of American Geographers National Meeting Program, San Francisco, CA.
  • Stewart, Meg E., Cunningham, Mary Ann, and Menking, Kirsten, 2006, Teaching environmental studies, urban studies, and geomorphology using tablet PC technology and GIS, Association of American Geographers National Meeting Program, Chicago, IL.
  • Schneiderman, Jill S., Stewart, Meg E., Zhou, Yu, Harris, Emily M., Pearce, Ryder, Lee, George R., and Archer, Marnie, 2004, Geology, geography, justice and GIS, Geological Society of America Abstracts-with-Programs, National Meeting v. 36, n. 5, p. 232.
  • Stewart, Meg E., Zhou, Yu, Schneiderman, Jill S., Archer, Marnie, and Harris, Emily M., 2004, GIS-based environmental inventory for the mid-Hudson valley, New York: Association of American Geographers 1904-2004 Centennial Meeting Program, Philadelphia, PA, p. 271-272.
  • Stewart, Meg E., Schneiderman, Jill S., Archer, Marnie, Harris, Emily M., Lee, George R., and Zhou, Yu, 2003, Building a comprehensive environmental inventory for the mid-Hudson valley, New York: Geological Society of America Abstracts-with-Programs, National Meeting, v. 35, n. 6, p. 262.
  • Archer, Marnie, Schneiderman, Jill S., and Stewart, Meg E., 2003, Compiling an environmental database for the mid-Hudson valley, New York: New York State Geographic Information Systems Conference, October 1-2; v. 19, p. 56.

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