ADVANCING NEW JERSEY LANDSCAPE CHANGE RESEARCH

• Sponsoring Institution: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Project Status: TERMINATED
• Funding Source: HATCH
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 0208880
• Project No.: NJ84102
• Project Start Date: Oct 1, 2006
• Project End Date: Sep 30, 2016

Project Director
Tulloch, DA.

Recipient Organization
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
3 RUTGERS PLZA
NEW BRUNSWICK,NJ 08901-8559

Performing Department
Landscape Architecture

Non Technical Summary
The patterns of landscape change occurring within New Jersey and the metropolitan region remain a clear threat to "the viability, health, sustainability and overall quality of life in New Jersey ." This project continues to seek advancement of the tools and body of knowledge applied to landscape change with a direct impact on the these broad goals as they relate to "pressing problems relating to agriculture, food, natural resources, and the environment, and the well-being of people and communities. " In the past, this research supported the NJAES state and national goals for agriculture by promoting the potential to protect New Jerseys remaining farmland (as already demonstrated through the PIs previous USDA NRI CGP grant investigating roles for GIS in automating farmland preservation processes). The project also contributed to these national goals by promoting more efficient uses of community resources (particularly land) leading to an "enhanced economic opportunity and quality if life for Americans. " In the last few years, however, this project has shifted from rural patterns like farmland preservation to urban issues like Childhood obesity and mapped representations of the food environment. The most direct impacts of this research will accrue to primarily two audiences: 1) members of the geographic information science and professional communities; and 2) research and action groups working top understand and address spatial mismatches in the urban food environment. In accordance with CRSSAs long tradition of the production and broad dissemination of very useful data, this project will produce data, tools and information which will directly support the work being preformed by GI science professionals throughout New Jersey and the metropolitan region. Like much of the work performed at CRSSA, this research has the potential to impact the actual patterns of landscape change and related policies which in turn impacts broadly the lives of residents throughout the state. This project is designed with the expectation that it impact both the educational opportunities for applying landscape change research as well as laying a foundation for larger research projects that quantify change and provide analysis. As has been true with our past research, the educational materials we produce have potential to impact college students, working professionals, and the general public. The research impact, while initially more focused, has the potential to impact other research around the nation and beyond. While still a relatively small project, the expected impact should be both societal and scholarly.

Animal Health Component

(N/A)

Research Effort Categories

Basic

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Applied

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Developmental

(N/A)

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
724	7210	3111	50%
903	7410	2060	50%

Knowledge Area
724 - Healthy Lifestyle; 903 - Communication, Education, and Information Delivery;

Subject Of Investigation
7410 - General technology; 7210 - Remote sensing equipment and technology;

Field Of Science
3111 - Landscape architecture; 2060 - Geography;

Keywords

gis

environmental planning

landscape planning

land use

food environment

Goals / Objectives
The project seeks to explore the intersection between the ongoing phenomenon of landscape change, the policies shaping urban food and activity environments and the relevance of the emerging field of geodesign to both application areas. Through integration of these areas of study, we intend to highlight both the difficulties of the multidisciplinary approaches to these problems and the critical importance of integration to the success of future research and applications in these areas. As presently conceived this proposed research would have a variety of key objectives: 1. Advance the integration of land use and urban planning data into usable measures of the food environment 2. Advance theoretical framework of Geodesign for broader research and discussion 3. Encourage sound institutional GIS at the local, state and national level and to use these resources as a basis of land use change modeling capability to analyze future scenarios of landscape change 4. Develop publishable geodesign case studies from regional design studios 5. Communicate results and findings to a wide audience of stakeholders The most direct impacts of this research will accrue to primarily two audiences: 1) members of the geographic information science and professional communities; and 2) research and action groups working top understand and address spatial mismatches in the urban food environment. This project will produce data, tools and information which will directly support the work being preformed by GI science professionals throughout New Jersey and the metropolitan region. This research has the potential to impact the actual patterns of landscape change and related policies which in turn impacts broadly the lives of residents throughout the state. This project is designed with the expectation that it impact both the educational opportunities for applying landscape change research as well as laying a foundation for larger research projects that quantify change and provide analysis. As has been true with our past research, the educational materials we produce have potential to impact college students, working professionals, and the general public. The research impact, while initially more focused, has the potential to impact other research around the nation and beyond. While still a relatively small project, the expected impact should be both societal and scholarly.

Project Methods
Because of the limited funding associated with this proposal, the research described in this proposal is being treated broadly as building on and supporting a larger body of research supported at the Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (CRSSA) and NJAES. Thus, the specific research methods used to achieve the previously described objective will need to remain somewhat flexible in order to maximize opportunities for leveraging other funding and applications opportunities. Over the last five years ,a $1.5 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was essential to advancing our research agenda, but also altered the focus and timing of work. Over the next five years we are pursuing funding from sources like NIH and have tried to create a flexible workplan that can adjust to existing circumstances. Over the next several years we anticipate creating an updated set of landuse maps and studies for areas around Newark, New Brunswick, Trenton, Vineland and Camden. These will be compared with updated maps of parks and open space as well as food environment maps. This will be achieved with a mix of public data and commercially acquired information. While the specifics may change due to shifts in funding, we have multiple proposals under review than can help create a support network for Objective 1 while using this proposal to leverage it for impact on landscape change. Objectives 2 and 4 insure that geodesign will remain an application area that the other objectives relate to. As geodesign emerges, it raises new questions that reinforce concerns from the existing problems. Wrapping up institutional questions from Objective 3 creates building blocks for applying traditional GIS concepts and an existing framework to new research in both geodesign and food environments. Finally, Objective 5 will receive additional support from within CRSSA as it continues a long tradition of outreach to the public, the GIS community and the Rutgers research community.

Progress 10/01/06 to 09/30/16

Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience in the final year was quite diverse. Presentation targets included local communitity members (Rotary Club and public events), high school students (workshops), and college students. Research dissemination targets were focused on members of the planning, GIS, and health research communities. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The summer Geohealth Workshops (2015 and 2016) have been substantial opportunities for training. Additionally, the establishment of the Geohealth Lab has opened the door to training sessions with high school students at the Admiral William Halsey Leadership Academy, John Dwyer Technology Academy, and T. A. Edison Career Tech Academy. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Aside from the previously reported conference presetnations and journal publications, our Geohealth Lab has also presented regularly at public events including the NJ County Planners Association, a day long celebration of Estuary Day and the Rotary Club of Elizabeth, NJ. This dissemination is increasing the reach of the research conducted under the umbrella of this grant and impacting students not normally engaged by our School and professional far outside the land use and health communities. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Matching the accomplishments with the above objectives: 1. As evidenced with the papers published in the childhood obesity realm, we have made significant impact in the area of food environment inventory and mapping. Most recently we developed and led youth workshops (Summer of 2015 and Summer of 2016) teaching basic food environment mapping and analysis skills. 2. Throughout the period of the grant a series of papers and a conference poster established broad expectations in this area. The 2 geodesign theory papers in 2016 were of particular note because of their highly visible positioning in key journals. 3. Our connections with land-use are integrated into much of the work of our newly established Geohealth Lab which used GIS to link existing conditions with measures of health. Leadership workshops at area hig schools also have made a substantial impact. 4. In Tulloch (2013) student work was presented as a key piece of evidence to advance geodesign practice and theory. The impacts of our food environment mapping work (conducted in partnership with the Center for State Health policy) have included the use of our maps by local groups to advance their efforts in the cities we have studied (New Brunswick, Camden, Trenton and Newark). The work these groups are performing on the ground is informed directly by our mapping and analysis. Because we have shared our work freely online, I am unable to track who passes it on to whom, but I continue to meet people from groups who say they have used our results in their work (most recently The Isles, Inc. and the YMCA of Trenton). The summer workshops were very recent so the impacts are more on the student-participants than the public thus far. The mapped results have been shared freely with the mayor of Elizabeth and local groups (like the YMCA and Future City, Inc.). As a result of our open sharing, we are not easily able to link the results with outcomes in that community. We can say that some of the students from the summer workshops and our other geohealth training sessions are pursuing studies in areas of geohealth, health, GIS, or mapping.

Publications

• Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Tulloch, D. 2016. Relinquishing a bit of control: questions about the computers role in geodesign, Landscape and Urban Planning, Special Issue on Geodesign (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204616301852).
• Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Tulloch, D. 2016. Towards a working taxonomy of geodesign projects, Transactions in GIS, (DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12245).
• Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Cavanaugh, C. E., K. Mial, and D. Tulloch, 2016. Assessing and mapping the availability of the female condom in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, AIDS and Behavior, Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10461-016-1317-x.

Progress 10/01/14 to 09/30/15

Outputs
Target Audience:This year the project reached a relatively new audience: community members in Elizabeth, NJ. Through a summer GeoHealth Workshop, students from Elizabeth (and other parts of New Jersey) a group of students worked with land information to explore their comunity. Then, using GIS, the mapped different dimensions of the health of their community. The results also reached a larger audience through reporting by the college news outlet: http://sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu/2015/09/rutgers-geohealth-workshop-offers-mapping-tools-to-promote-health/ Changes/Problems:While not a major change, it is worth noting that an increased amount of the work under this grant is focused on Geohealth in ways that promote the proposals Goal #1. This has been a response to clear indications of support from both the communities in New Jersey where we are working and leaders in the research community, This responsive change in focus sterenghens our response to the fastest changing research in this area. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The work conducted in past years led to the successful completion of a summer workshop on Geohealth with students of various backgrounds. The results of the workshop were presented publicly in Elizabeth NJ and have led to new proposals that should allow this work to continue in spring/summer 2016. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Through community presentations and campus media (http://sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu/2015/09/rutgers-geohealth-workshop-offers-mapping-tools-to-promote-health/), initial results have been shared. The 2016 workshops (if funding is granted) will provide a broader opportunity to share results.more widely. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Early in this period I have submitted a funding proposal to the NJ Department of Health to support another year's workshops. I am also investigating potential funding through other USDA programs that link food and health with information about the landscape. We are also working with the Center for Remote sensing and Spatial Analysis to create a focued research unit within the Center called the GeoHealth Lab.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Working with students in the GeoHealth Workshop, we tested new tools to advance the mapping of the food environment and raised commmunity awareness of this important research area. We also used a GeoDesign Studio to examine food environment issues in Central New jersey. The results of this should support a new level of work in the next year and have already generated community responses advancing these goals.

Publications

Progress 10/01/13 to 09/30/14

Outputs
Target Audience: The last year has focused on a combination of public and scientific communities. Our publication of scientific papers on obesity are already being cited regularly. Our community maps of the changing food environment and physical activity environment are both in demand. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Nothing Reported How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Ideas from the project were presnted at the CyberGIS meeting in August in Redlands, CA and as part of a panel at the NYC German Consulate in October. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? We are currently developing a robust data set in support of the research that will complete the childhood obesity study for New Jersey. We are also developing 2 scientific geodesgn papers to broaden dissemination within the research community. Finally, we intend to build a research team investigating healthy landscapes in ways that would apply the earlier results to specific urban settings throughout New Jersey and provide a useful guide for lay audiences.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Over the course the past year, the project has advanced the use of parametric design tools as part of a potential technique for landscape analysis and design. The example that we explored used rural landscapes, using GIS, for least cost path analysis. The results are currently under review by the journal, Landscape and Urban Planning.

Publications

• Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Brenner, C., K. Leach, and D. Tulloch. 2014. Plyler Children: 21st century challenges with judicial-policy implementation affecting immigrant children in New Jersey, Journal of Public Management & Social Policy. 20: 1, 98-116.

Progress 10/01/12 to 09/30/13

Outputs
Target Audience: During this reporting period my work has had 2 primary audiences: 1) Public and officials in areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy, particularly in Southern Ocean County, NJ and 2) Scientists and activitists working in public health in urban areas impacted by childhood obesity, particularly those interested in spatial patterns of both the food environment and the physical activity environment. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Nothing Reported How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? The results have already been disseminated through peer review journal papers, online reports and an online video. More will be posted in the coming weeks as part of the winter break wrap-up for the year. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Production of childhood obesity papers should continue throughout the next year. We are also expanding the scope of the project to make it a multi-year longitudinal project. We are also working on a comprehensive post-Sandy video.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? 1. Our 2 papers this past year contributed to the understanding of the different ways that spatial landscape factors, like density of convenience stores or distance to large parks, impact childhood obesity in densely populated urban landscapes. The papers presented comparisons of the BMI of children (geolocated based on home addresses) with the proximity of different categories of food outlets and physical activity centers. As a result of the spatial analysis that we conducted at the Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis, the findings stressed the importance of 2 particular spatial factors: “proximity to convenience stores in the 1/4 mile radius (OR = 1.9) and with presence of a large park in the 1/2 mile radius (OR = 0.41).” 2. The obesity research results were communicated to a broad scientific audience and have already been read by a number of colleagues around the nation. The papers were both published in prominent, reputable journals read by other scholars in the field of childhood obesity. We are continuing to develop new materials reporting on that earlier research while moving ahead with new surveys, mapping and analysis. 3. The geodesign studio work is being disseminated through Internet postings that serve as a creative stimulant for continued discussions in Sandy-impacted communities. Design studios are a landscape architectural education format that requires students to work in an office-like environment. This studio developed worked with Rutgers’ scientists and staff at the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JC NERR) to develop different future planning and design strategies that could lead Southern Ocean County communities towards more sustainable patterns of development in the future. The final results were presented publicly along with similar designs for LBI, Union Beach, and Monmouth County.

Publications

• Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: Ohri-Vachaspati, P., K. Lloyd, D. DeLeia, D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia. 2013. A Closer Examination of Measures of Food and Physical Activity Environments as They Relate to Childhood Obesity, Preventive Medicine, 57: 162167.
• Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: DeWeese, R., M, J. Yedidia, D. L. Tulloch, P. Ohri-Vachaspati, 2013. "Neighborhood Perceptions and Active School Commuting in Low-Income Cities," American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 45(4): 393400.

Progress 10/01/11 to 09/30/12

Outputs
OUTPUTS: Dr. Tulloch's continued efforts to explore and promote the nascent field of Geodesign produced notable outputs during the last year. As has been explained elsewhere, the emerging field of geodesign is comprised of a growing number of landscape architects and planners working at the intersection of design, technology, and environment. The past year has included an active participation in the development and dissemination of this information. He was an invited participant in the Geodesign Summit and joined the Geodesign Consortium as an avenue for increased opportunities to share outcomes from Rutgers' work. In December 2011, his regional design studio made a public group presentation of alternative scenarios for greenways for Middlesex County, New Jersey. As a result he gave several invited lectures on geodesign in the US and beyond. Related to the geodesign effort is the continued work that Dr. Tulloch undertook chairing a Universities Consortium for Geographic Information Sciences (UCGIS) workgroup developing a national proposal for a geospatial extension network. This resulted in three trips to Washington DC, including one that featured a panel that Dr. Tulloch assembled and lead discussing different strategies for developing such a program. PARTICIPANTS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
After several years of developing geodesign studio projects (jrstudio.rutgers.edu), the work has been recognized nationally with invitations to geodesign meetings which are creating expanded opportunities for impact. A change in knowledge has occurred in the students in the studios, which have become more aware of geodesign principles and more facile with the latest tools and techniques. A substantial dissemination threshold appears to have been crossed with a series invited lectures that Dr. Tulloch delivered in March 2012. He visited several Korean universities (University of Seoul, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Hanyang University, SangMyung University [Seoul], SangMyung University[Cheonan]) and government offices (SeonBok-Gu, Seoul, South Korea; Seoul, South Korea; Nam Yang Ju, South Korea, March 2012) speaking about geodesign, VGI and PPGIS.

Publications

• Tulloch, D. 2012. Learning from Students: Geodesign lessons from the Regional Design Studio, Journal of Urbanism (Forthcoming).
• Tulloch, D. 2012. Geographic information systems and landscape architectural design and scholarship. A source of heritage and tension, Revue Internationale de Geomatique Special Issue: Geodesign: From Theory to Practice, 22:2, 169-184.
• Tulloch, D. 2012. Book Review of Spatial Data Infrastructures in Context, North and South, edited by Nedovic-Budic, Crompvoets, Georgiadou in Environment and Planning B.

Progress 01/01/11 to 12/31/11

Outputs
OUTPUTS: The emerging field of geodesign is comprised of a growing number of landscape architects and planners working at the intersection of design, technology, and environment. The past year has included a heightened participation in meetings disseminating this information. Dr. Tulloch gave an invited presentation and participated in a geodesign panel at the annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society. He also attended the Geodesign Summit and joined the Geodesign Consortium as an avenue for increased opportunities to share outcomes from Rutgers' work. In December we made a public group presentation of alternative scenarios for greenways for Middlesex County, New Jersey. Tulloch, D., 2011. "The Evolving Relationship between Landscape Architecture and GIScience," North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), Madison, WI. Related to the geodesign effort is work that Dr. Tulloch has undertaken chairing a Universities Consortium for Geographic Information Sciences (UCGIS) workgroup developing a national proposal for a geospatial extension network. This resulted in three trips to Washington DC, including one that featured a panel that Dr. Tulloch assembled and lead discussing different strategies for developing such a program. PARTICIPANTS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
After several years of developing geodesign studio projects (jrstudio.rutgers.edu), the work has been recognized nationally with invitations to geodesign meetings which are creating expanded opportunities for impact. A change in knowledge has occurred in the students in the studios, which have become more aware of geodesign principles and more facile with the latest tools and techniques.

Publications

• No publications reported this period

Progress 01/01/10 to 12/31/10

Outputs
OUTPUTS: Fundamentally the outcomes that have made this project a success have been about communicating the results of our research to the professional environmental and GIS communities. This has included an increased number of invited lectures to the community including talks at the NJ ASLA annual meeting and the NJ Land Trust Rally. The last year has provided a series of opportunities for dissemination of the research related to this project through a variety of venues: * Tulloch, D., 2010. "Mapping Land Use Change," Shaping the "City" of New Jersey: 2010 Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability Workshop, April 2010, New Brunswick, NJ. (Invited) * Tulloch, D., and R. Lathrop, 2010. "Climate Change, Impacts and Interventions for Coastal Landscapes," 2010 Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Atlantic City, NJ (Invited). * Tulloch, D., B. Heller and E. Krafcik, 2010. "Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed: A Case Study in State of the Art ," 2010 Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Atlantic City, NJ (Invited). * Tulloch, D., 2010. "In Fits and Starts: Historic and future relationships between GIS and LA," Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture/ISOMUL 2010, May 2010, Maastricht, The Netherlands. * Tulloch, D., 2010. "Fast, Cheap, and Online," Land Trust Rally, New Jersey Conservation Foundation, Montclair, NJ. * Tulloch, D., and R. Lathrop, 2010. " Addressing the vulnerability of the New Jersey coast to climate change and sea level rise," Invited Lecture at Temple University-Ambler, Ambler, PA (Invited). * 4-H Science Saturday workshop, "How GIS can change your world," March 2010. The explorations of the relationships between design questions about the landscape and the science about it have been recognized with some awards in the past year: * 2010 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Award for Research and Creative Work, 2010. * 2011 Merit Award in Analysis and Planning, NJASLA, "Design Interventions for Cape May County " given to 11:550:331 Intermediate Landscape Architecture I. * 1st Place Software Integration, 2nd Place Best Newbie, 2010 New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Annual Mapping Contest, 14 Student team from 11:550:331 Intermediate Landscape Architecture (http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis/mapcon23.htm) * 2010 Merit Award in Analysis and Planning, NJASLA, "Vision Plan for the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed" given to 11:550:331 Intermediate Landscape Architecture I. PARTICIPANTS: Not relevant to this project. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
As our work is being integrated by the professional communities, it is beginning to have a more direct impact on how GIS data is being used in NJ. However, as a relatively young effort, the easiest measures of success come in the continued invitations for keynotes or other public presentations. Recently we have had a renewed increase in the interest coming from environmental non-profits seeking presentations and explanations.

Publications

• Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia, 2010. Food Environment Maps Chart Book, Camden: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8400.pdf)
• Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, J. Chou, M. Yedidia, 2010. Physical Activity Environment Maps Chart Book, Camden: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8540.pdf)
• Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia, 2010. Food Environment Maps Chart Book, Newark: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8420.pdf)
• Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia, 2010. Food Environment Maps Chart Book, Vineland: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8480.pdf)
• Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, J. Chou, M. Yedidia, 2010. Physical Activity Environment Maps Chart Book, Vineland: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8580.pdf)
• Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, J. Chou, M. Yedidia, 2010. Physical Activity Environment Maps Chart Book, Newark: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8550.pdf)
• Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia, 2010. Food Environment Maps Chart Book, New Brunswick: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8440.pdf)
• Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, J. Chou, M. Yedidia, 2010. Physical Activity Environment Maps Chart Book, New Brunswick: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8560.pdf)
• Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, D. Martinez, M. Yedidia, 2010. Food Environment Maps Chart Book, Trenton: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8460.pdf)
• Ohri-Vachaspati, P., D. Tulloch, N. Petlick, J. Chou, M. Yedidia, 2010. Physical Activity Environment Maps Chart Book, Trenton: The New Jersey Childhood Obesity Study. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. (http://www.cshp.rutgers.edu/Downloads/8570.pdf)

Progress 01/01/09 to 12/31/09

Outputs
OUTPUTS: The last year has included active development of new urban mapping data for both a project on childhood obesity and immigration. We have also been actively dissemination this research in presentations in a variety of venues including invited lectures at the Annual NJ ASLA Conference, Annual Conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, and the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. PARTICIPANTS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
One impact has been through its applied integration into our curriculum which has clearly impacted outcomes in student work though professional awards: 1st Place Newbie of the Year, 1st Place Software Integration, 1st Place Best Overall Non-DEP, 2009 New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Annual Mapping Contest, 16 Student team from 11:550:331 Intermediate Landscape Architecture (http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis/mapcon22.htm) 1st Place Most Unique, 2009 New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Annual Mapping Contest, Ed Krafcik, April Maly, Diana Marino, Drew Siglin, Student team from 11:550:331 Intermediate Landscape Architecture (http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis/mapcon22.htm)

Publications

• Tulloch, D. 2009. Book Review of D. Steiner, The Living Landscape, Journal of American Planning Association.
• Tulloch, D. 2009. A Valuable Teaching Tool, Landscape Architecture Magazine 99 (June) 6: 48.

Progress 01/01/08 to 12/31/08

Outputs
OUTPUTS: We have released the first public product from our Landscape Architectural Sites of New Jersey project with the ASLA and NJASLA. This is an effort to find different ways to help more people find interesting landscapes and sites throughout New Jersey and beyond. As a first draft we have posted both a Zoomify image and a KMZ file for Google Earth. http://www.crssa.rutgers.edu/people/dtulloch/LA/NJSites/ PARTICIPANTS: Not relevant to this project. TARGET AUDIENCES: Not relevant to this project. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
One of the more important advancements that these research has made possible is the advancement of landscape change data and information in the educational setting. We have also been more active in disseminating our landscape change work through the easily accessible Places and Spaces blog: http://epd372.blogspot.com/

Publications

• Tulloch, D. 2008. Is VGI participation From vernal pools to video games, GeoJournal 72: 161-171.
• Tulloch, D., 2008. Public Participation GIS (PPGIS), Entry in K. Kemp (Eds.) Encyclopedia of GIS: Sage Publications, p. 351-353. (invited)
• Tulloch, D., 2008, Institutional GIS, Chapter 25 in J. Wilson and S. Fotheringham (Eds.) Handbook of Geographic Information Science pp. 449-465 (invited).

Progress 01/01/07 to 12/31/07

Outputs
The new project got off to a good start and is starting with the initiation of a supporting database for further research. Since it is a new project there is little to disseminate yet, but we have begun a discussion at CRSSA to add a link to their website for sharing findings with broader audiences.

Impacts
As a new project, there is little to report yet. However, the act of developing the project has resulted in a new network of contacts that benefits both the School and larger community.

Publications

• Tulloch, D., and E. Graff, 2007. 'Green Map exercises as an avenue for problem-based learning in a data-rich environment,' Journal of Geography Special Issue on Geographic Data and Education (Accepted).
• Tulloch, D., and F. Harvey, 2007, 'When Data Sharing Becomes Institutionalized: Best Practices in Local Government GI Relationships,' URISA Journal, (Accepted).
• Tulloch, D., 2007. 'Many, many maps: Empowerment and the rapid growth of online participatory mapping," First Monday 12:2 (online at: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_2/tulloch/index.html).
• Lathrop, R.G., D. L. Tulloch, C. Hatfield, 2007. 'Consequences of Land Use Change in the New York-New Jersey Highlands, USA: Landscape Indicators of Forest and Watershed Integrity,' Landscape and Urban Planning 79: 2, 150-159.