Where in the World Is Gregory Felsen!

Meet CSU Extension 4-H Agent

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Time Required: Gregory Felsen Gregory Felsen! About 1 hour Hey 4-H’ers! The spotlight is http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/VIIRS_4Jan2012.jpg Materials: on me, so I am going to make it The 4-H National Youth Science Day Maps and Apps was written by shine. My name is Gregory Felsen Ruler and I am the 4-H Youth Develop- our very own Claire Dixon (Front Range STEM Specialist) and Christy Pencil ment Extension Agent in La Plata Fitzpatrick (former NE Counties STEM Specialist) in collaboration with Computer folks on the CSU Campus, ESRI, the company that makes ArcGIS Printer County. La Plata County is located in southwest Colorado and software, and US Geological Survey’s National Map Project. In honor of The Set-up: borders New Mexico State to the their work, we will focus the next several STEM Connections on Print map south. My office is located in mapping, starting with Mr. Felsen, world traveler! Durango, CO. It is my fourth Maps use Cartesian coordinate system that pinpoints a specific location The Clean-up: year working with CSU-Extension, Put away pencil and ruler on a plane. The first latitude/longitude system was proposed by and it was quite the journey to Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC. Ptolemy (90-186 AC) of Alexandria Power Words make it to where I am today. latitude: vertical imaginary It all started way back on Febru- was the first to use a grid system in his book Geographia. Al-Biruni (973- lines on the Earth that con- ary 15, 1979 when I came into the 1048 AC), considered one of the most brilliant medieval Islamic scholars, developed the latitude and longitude system we use today. verge at the poles and are world in Brooklyn, NY. However, widest at the equator the big city life didn’t last long. A When looking at a map, latitude lines run horizontally, are parallel few months after I was born, my and equal distance from each other. Degrees latitude are numbered family moved to my father’s from 0° at the equator to 90° at the North Pole and –90° at the South hometown of Wellsville, NY Pole (to indicate the Southern Hemisphere, they are written as a minus where I was raised. or indicated with S for south). Each degree of latitude is approximately My educational pursuits would 69 miles (111 km) apart. then take me to finish my High School at Georgetown Prep The vertical longitude lines are also known as meridians. They School in North Bethesda, MD. converge at the poles and are widest at the equator (about 69 miles or Then I started college at the Uni- 111 km apart). Zero degrees (0°) longitude is located at Greenwich, versity of San Diego before trans- England. The degrees continue 180° east and 180° west where they ferring to Northern Arizona Uni- meet and form the International Date Line in the Pacific Ocean. versity in Flagstaff, AZ, where I To precisely locate points on the earth's surface, degrees longitude received a B.S. Public Planning and latitude have been divided into minutes (') and seconds ("). There with a Land Use emphasis. are 60 minutes in each degree. Each minute is divided into 60 seconds. longitude: horizontal imagi- After undergraduate school, I For example, the U.S. Capitol is located at 38°53'23"N (latitude), 77° decided to get some wonderful nary lines on the Earth that life experiences. I moved to Seat- 00'27"W (longitude), You would read it: 38 degrees, 53 minutes, and run parallel north and south tle, WA for a year and worked 23 seconds north of the equator (almost 39°N) and 77 degrees, no of the equator with an organization called Earth- minutes and 27 seconds west of Greenwich UK (about 77°W). corps doing environmental resto- ration work. Next, I took a year EXPLORE IT - DESIGN IT - DO IT and travelled and worked in We are going to find all the locations that Gregory has lived and visited Golden Bay, New Zealand, Bris- and mark them on the world map (found in this month’s 4-H newsletter) bane, Australia, Bali, Indonesia, and track his travels by drawing a line between his start and end point. Bangkok, Thailand, Luang Prabang,  Use a pencil so that you can erase if you make a mistake. Laos, and Siem Reap, Cambodia. It was quite an adventure. I re-  Latitude is given first with N or S indication. Longitude is given second turned to the States to take a year with W or E indication (from Greenwich, England). (Cont. on map pg.) and work on a goat farm in Jack- orphaned and vulnerable children affected by the HIV/Aids epidemic. sonville, Oregon. While in Africa, I also got to travel to such countries as South Africa, Na- With all this great experience, I mibia, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya and Egypt. On my journey home decided to put it to good use and to the States, I also stopped at Frankfort, Germany to see my brother who is join the US Peace Corps. I served meridian: a latitude line in the US Air Force. as a Community Health and Eco- parallel: side by side and After getting back to America, I lived in Asheville, NC where I obtained my nomic Development volunteer in having the same distance Master’s Degree in Agriculture Education from North Carolina A&T State the Country of Lesotho, Africa. I continuously between them University. This opened my eyes to the work of Extension. I saw a job an- worked at a local high school nouncement for a position in Durango and just knew I needed to be back out http://geographyworldonline.com/tutorial/ developing sustainable agriculture latitudelongitude.jpg projects to raise money for to the Rocky Mountain West. Life is Journey…Enjoy the Ride! Colorado State University Extension 4-H programs are available to all without discrimination.

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