California Community and Regional Mapping Laboratory

Center for Regional Change

152 Hunt Hall, UC Davis

The California Community and Regional Mapping Lab was established in 2009 with funding from the Agricultural Experiment Station Hatch Act, the California Endowment, and the California Council for the Humanities.  The goal was to provide spatial analysis capacity to enhance projects focused on landscape change in Central California.

Resources

  • A six terabyte file server. 
  • Four computer workstations set up for geospatial and social-spatial analysis with ArcGIS 10 and SPSS 20 software installed.
  • State-of-the-art large document plotter/printer for producing high quality maps and posters.
  • A large document scanner.
  • Mobile equipment that can be reserved and/or checked out.  Includes 7 Juno ST handheld GIS data collection receivers, GPS–enabled and standard digital cameras, Flip video cameras, digital voice recorder, transcription equipment. 
  • The Ted Bradshaw Community Resource library of books and journals related to regional change.
  • A collection of maps donated by the California Institute for Rural Studies.
  • A collection of historical regional maps in digital format donated by Professor Stephen Wheeler, available by request.
  • A growing repository of regional shape files, available by request.
  • Completed maps, reports, shape files and other resources are continually being added to our mapping website.
  • The lab also encourages group discussion and collaboration with a meeting area, equipped with a projector, screen and white board.

Your questions and requests can be directed to Teri Greenfield, CRC Informatics Coordinator tgreenfield@ucdavis.edu

About the UC Davis Center for Regional Change

The University of California, Davis, Center for Regional Change is dedicated to producing “research that matters for the region.” To accomplish this, the center builds two kinds of bridges. One is on campus among faculty and students from different disciplines and departments; the other is between the campus and its surrounding regions. These bridges allow the Center for Regional Change to bring communities together with UC Davis faculty and students to collaborate on innovative research to create just, sustainable and healthy regions in California’s Central Valley, the Sierra Nevada and beyond.