About LOCATED lab
Led by Dr Lydia Gibson (Assistant Professor, Georgetown University), LOCATED lab brings together GIS, participatory approaches, 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:
- differentiated access stakeholders have to disaster, climate, and environmental data
- methods that support participatory and community-led data collection, analyses, and sovereignty,
- how remote, satellite, and fine-grained, in-situ, community-led data can work together
Our research centres projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. We have current and upcoming projects in Jamaica, The Bahamas, Brazil.
Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Impacts
LOCATED lab recently conducted GIS household surveys to better understand the impacts of Hurricane Melissa across the parish of St Elizabeth, Jamaica
Disaster Management
We use drone mapping to explore ways that remote sensing and satellite images can include community and local experiences to improve how areas of need are identified
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.