Geography GIS Laboratories (UNI-014)
Summary 🟡 ~
- Owner Unit: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
- Sub-unit: Department of Geography
- Content Type: infrastructure
- Campus/Location: Lincoln Park
- Last Verified: May 30, 2026
Description & capabilities
GIS teaching and analysis labs supporting spatial data workflows. Primary Geography Department GIS lab plus satellite GIS-equipped computer labs across Lincoln Park campus buildings.
Access status
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: Geography department page is the public entry for GIS lab resources; course enrollment and department coordination govern lab use.
- Access URL: las.depaul.edu/academics/geography/Pages/default.aspx
- Verification date: 2026-05-30
- Source URLs:
- las.depaul.edu/academics/geography/Pages/default.aspx
Verification
- Status: likely (
~) - Confidence: 77/100
- Rationale: Geography department page active; GIS lab resources described in grant facilities mapping but limited public operational detail.
- Last verified: 2026-05-30
- Evidence:
- Official Geography department page (May 2026)
- GRANTED facilities grant referenced GIS labs in map pass
Equipment
Find this resource from the Equipment catalog or site search (e.g. “3D printers”, “laser cutter”, “NMR”).
| Category | Specific equipment |
|---|---|
| GIS and geospatial computing | Geography Department GIS Lab workstations (19); GIS-equipped computer lab — Schmitt Academic Center (Lincoln Park); GIS-equipped computer lab — Richardson Library (Lincoln Park); GIS-equipped computer lab — Arts and Letters building (Lincoln Park) |
Source: GRANTED Facilities DRAFT — Geography Department GIS labs (May 2026). Last verified: May 28, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: Geography (DePaul LAS)
Last verified: May 30, 2026.
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Alec Brownlow (Director) — Profile
- Anish Adhikari (Manager) — Profile
Source URL
data/GRANTED Facilities DRAFT.pdf (NSF GRANTED — DePaul CHI facilities).
Documented Relationships
Complements UNI-011 library computing and SPARK/data-science community work where geospatial analysis is needed.
Linked Relationship IDs
Related courses (documented)
GEO 345
- Catalog course page: CUR-279
- Relationship: uses_facility
- Rationale: Catalog mentions 'arcgis' (equipment category: GIS and geospatial computing).
- Source URLs:
- catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/geo
GEO 445
- Catalog course page: CUR-280
- Relationship: uses_facility
- Rationale: Catalog mentions 'arcgis' (equipment category: GIS and geospatial computing).
- Source URLs:
- catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/geo
Notes
19-workstation main GIS lab plus three additional campus GIS labs per grant facilities text.