About LOCATED lab
Led by Dr Lydia Gibson (Assistant Professor, Georgetown University), LOCATED lab merges GIS, local and traditional knowledge, and ethnographic methods to understand how data about climate and the environment themselves become part of climates and environments. Working across Geography, Anthropology, STS, and Environmental and Earth Sciences, LOCATED lab explores:
- the material, social, and ecological effects of data structures and technologies installed to collect and store environmental data
- differentiated access stakeholders have to disaster, climate, and environmental data
- methods that support participatory and community-led data collection, analyses, and sovereignty,
- what we can learn from the intersection of environmental and data justice
- how remote, satellite, and fine-grained, in-situ, community-led data and TEK can be made interoperable
Our research centres projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, and includes community mapping, participatory GIS, drone mapping, traditional econolical knowledge (TEK), surveys, ethnographies, and other interdisciplinary methods.
Areas of research
Community and Participatory GIS
Community and Participatory GIS
Working closely with local communities and organisation, we create geolocated, in-situ data of remote, dense, uncharted regions in the Caribbean to understand changes in land use and land cover. Read the article here
Hurricanes and Communities
Community and Participatory GIS
Using in-situ GIS, remote, and satellite data, we seek to understand how increasingly slow hurricanes impact vulnerable, inland communities in southeast US and the Caribbean
TEK
TEK
Traditional Ecological Knowledge is both an important and embedded knowledge system and a set of entangled relationships that form part of the environment. We work with knowledge holders to document their environment and also to build interoperable systems to best leverage and disseminate this knowledge.