Well its been a good summer interning with the PHMC. Last week I
sat in on a seminar and was given an example of a situation in which
the PHMC has to handle at times. Apparently some of the Cultural
Resources data was inaccurate and it caused construction workers to
halt their work in order to preserve the site and develop an
alternative solution. An interesting scenario but important to grasp
because there might be a challenge like this in which I might have to
help manage someday. On Monday the intern coordinator offered a
farewell lunch for us at the Speakeasy. It was nice to have a final
meal with all of the amazing people I had the opportunity to work
with. On Tuesday, the Keystone interns were invited to attend a
planetarium show in the State Museum. The show was narrated by Tim
Allen and talked about how different organizations across the globe
are competing to develop a technological method for anyone to go to
the moon at an affordable price. Of course it is a very long stretch
but it was interesting to see some of the different innovations and
ideas the different groups focused on in order to achieve this goal.
Penn State apparently has a program to build a rocket and land on the
moon and travel at least 500 meters with a lunar rover on the
surface. I never knew there were so many people working on this. It
makes me feel great that we are developing technology which will
allow anyone to see this one day. I finished my Allegheny National
Forest map georeferencing for the summer. Hopefully I paved a road
well enough for future interns to pick up the pieces. During the week
I worked on presenting Esri Storymaps regarding the internship and
the various places I traveled and the project I worked on. The links
to these maps are provided below. Everyone was very amazed that there
was such amazing technology available. My supervisor suggested I
should share the Ephrata Cloister storymap with the staff of the site
down in Lancaster. I will show it to them once I get the chance. I
have to say, with all the trips and seminars I attended this summer
this was a fantastic internship and a great opportunity to understand
the efforts that the PHMC puts out in order to help keep the state of
Pennsylvania the way we see and know it.
Allegheny Oil Fields - My main work for the PHMC:
http://hacc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/SimpleViewer/index.html?appid=d95ec353b00345779248e590f041ae95
Trip to the Allegheny National Forest:
http://hacc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=7a892940201447e8aa24702f5d907f1e&webmap=618903d1389e41a4a960955e509a4cda
Layout of the Ephrata Cloister:
http://hacc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=e3dab6f01ed146deab7769bfbb3dc86f&webmap=b8a3493f8ae249e2bb47737d8bc8f321
