This project was conducted for the city of Salinas to assign geographic coordinates to a large set of public data, so that the city is able to obtain the locations of business licenses visibly by using ArcGIS. Our team was assigned approximately 8,252 total businesses and we had to verify the address location to ensure […]
University: CSU Monterey Bay
The Big Ear Project
This project is an experiment in deep listening. A group of California State University Monterey Bay students enrolled in the Media for Social Change class have engaged in one-to-one conversations with diverse Salinas residents exploring their experience of living and working in the city. Students used questions as civic tools to generate curiosity and conversations […]
Beautification of Broadway Street, Seaside
This project has a total of 4 goals to be addressed through a survey of the business community along Broadway Avenue. 1. To better the quality of life for business owners, their employees and the community 2. Help build and support the financial stability of the business owners 3. Bring more visitors and locals onto […]
Promoting new Seaside business applications for startup funding
This project involved promotion of the opportunity to apply to the City for the startup monies. The information on the opportunity was spread by this class via fliers and word of mouth at various events prior to the deadline. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable City Years Program Contact […]
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Ethnic Representation and Outreach to the Latino Community in the City of Seaside
This project addressed two concerns of the City of Seaside: the need for a visual representation of Seaside’s demographics and representation within government, and a question about why the Hispanic and Latino population are not more involved at city meetings. These goals are important in informing the city’s 2040 general plan: seeing and understanding the […]
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Cannabis Club
This project describes the implementation of a Cannabis Club that will allow visitors a safe space to Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info University Faculty Contact Dante Digregorio Business Associate Professor ddigregorio@csumb.edu Local Government / Community Contact Gloria Stearns Economic Development Economic Development Program […]
Modeling the West Alisal Road Diet and Campus Congestion
This group’s analysis of the W. Alisal corridor was conducted under the context of the implementation of a road diet. For the study of the Salinas roadway we took several factors into consideration when conducting a road diet and mapped the plausible effects of the infrastructure improvement in a causal loop diagram. Then diagram was […]
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Seaside Pipe Flush Project
The purpose of our project was to see if we can create a cohesive map of the pipe systems under Seaside, to see which pipes are simultaneously being flushed. We want to illustrate when we flush a pipe at point A, what other pipes will be flushed at the same time. Read the final student […]
Fort Ord Assimilation
The Fort Ord Army base was decommissioned in 1994. The base was 28,000 acres large, roughly the same size as San Francisco. The Fort Ord Base Reuse Plan was developed to find new uses for the vacated land; 21,000 acres were designated for conservation while 7,000 acres were designated for development. The CSU Monterey Bay […]
Summary of Fall 2017 GIS Projects
Summary of Fall 2017 St8udent projects which included: Fat Oils & Grease Project ADA Ramp Project Water Conservation Project MST Project Fire Department Accident Data Future Work Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info University Faculty Contact Jessie Doyle Natural Sciences lecturer jdoyle@csumb.edu Local Government […]