 Hi, welcome to Geography 160 Web, Mapping Our Changing World. My name is Jonathan Nelson. I'm a PhD student in geography here at Penn State. This semester we'll be learning all about mapping and geographic information science. We'll be using two different websites, Canvas, our course management site, and an external website that links to the e-textbook. To contact me, please use the Canvas email system. Generally, I'll try to respond within 24 hours on weekdays and within 48 hours on weekends. In addition, there are also two teaching assistants for this course. There are also graduate students at Penn State here in the Department of Geography. They'll be grading many of your assignments and may be in contact with you if you need help during the course. There are several different types of assignments in this course. There are eight chapter quizzes, there are five graded discussions, two big projects, one of which kicks off fairly early in the course, and the other is the final project. In addition, there are also three mini projects in which you'll actually be making some maps. I look forward to getting to know all of you and can't wait to see what types of maps you create.