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The Emerging LiDAR Landscape: Clearcutting with Lasers

Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register The presentation will provide an introduction to LiDAR technology and how it works, provide numerous examples of applications with plenty of examples of LiDAR images and an emphasis on glacial landforms, and conclude with a segment on stone walls as landforms, their [...]

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Indigenous Mapping, Descriptive Geography & Place Names

Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register Learn how Indigenous people explored, navigated, and traveled. Explore how and why Indigenous people graphically described their world, geology, and geography, and the place name locations, rivers, lakes, and other geographic features that were important to Indigenous people in New [...]

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The Map is not the Territory: The Limitations and Power of Mapping 

Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register Between our experience of the world and our knowledge of the world lies the map. Whether the purpose of a map is to locate a source of food to gather, to display a territory ripe for exploitation to a faraway [...]

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Raised Relief: Three Dimensional Maps of the White Mountains

Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register This program features the story of Raised Relief maps, which are three-dimensional representations of a portion of the Earth’s surface. These maps have a long history of use, dating back over 2,000-years to the Qin and Han dynasties. We will [...]

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Topography, 3D Art, and the N.H. 4000 Foot Club: A Lecture with Demonstration

Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register Climbing all the 4000 foot mountains in NH is a goal for many hikers in the Granite State. Learn how an interest in hiking, orienteering, map making, and teaching topography culminated in a collection of painted 3D models of all the 48 [...]

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Hidden Stories: Looking into the Lives of our Wild Neighbors

Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register What do wild animals do every day? Many of us have no idea. There are stories hidden in the natural communities around us waiting to be discovered. Squam Lakes Natural Science Center developed the Hidden Stories project to reveal these stories on its 200 acre campus. [...]

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Mapping a Mid-19th Century Surveying Conflict

Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register In the 19th century, the land mass today known as the White Mountain National Forest was owned by an ever-changing cast of characters. In the 1850s, two different surveyors were hired to resolve contention over land ownership boundaries in the [...]

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Mapping the Ice Age Geology of the White Mountains, New Hampshire

Museum of the White Mountains 34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH

Presented in person at the Museum of the White Mountains. In person attendance is limited to 40 people. Pre-registration is required. Spaces are limited and on a first come first served basis. Masks are required. Please email Rebecca at rrenman@plymouth.edu to register (please list names and emails of any guests who will be attending with [...]

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