GIS and GPS Applications in Support of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program Implementation in Middle Tennessee David A. Padgett and Bintou Njie Department of History, Geography and Political Science Tennessee State University Nashville, Tennessee

Radnor Lake Water Quality Assessment Study Bintou Njie Tennessee State University

THE HISTORY OF RADNOR LAKE The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company impounded Radnor Lake in In 1923 the Tennessee Ornithological Society proposed that the area become a sanctuary for wild life. In 1962 the area was preserved as a park. In 1973 Radnor Lake was purchased by the Tennessee Department of Conservation.

GLOBE LANDCOVER PROTOCOL Locating a field plot (Land Cover Sample) Using GPS Using field instrumentation (compass, tubular densiometer, clinometer) SKILLS

GLOBE GPS PROTOCOL Reading Maps Using the GPS Receiver Using Latitude and Longitude in Mapping SKILLS

GLOBE HYDROLOGY PROTOCOL Transparency, Water Temperature Dissolved Oxygen, pH Electrical Conductivity, Salinity Alkalinity, Nitrate Weekly Measurements

GLOBE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN OCTOBER 2001: GLOBE TRAINER CERTIFICATION NOVEMBER 2001: MEET WITH GLOBE AND MTSU REPRESENTATIVE JANUARY-MARCH 2002: PURCHASE GLOBE MATERIALS AND TOOLS APRIL-MAY 2002: BEGIN GLOBE TRAINING AT TSU