{"id":22,"date":"2015-07-31T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2019-08-20T17:18:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:18:50","slug":"faculty-profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/faculty-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAPPING FOOD ACCESS IN WATERVILLE, MAINE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/files\/2019\/08\/Katie-and-Julia-get-ice-cream-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-65\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/files\/2019\/08\/Katie-and-Julia-get-ice-cream-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"1015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/files\/2019\/08\/Katie-and-Julia-get-ice-cream-1.jpg 865w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/files\/2019\/08\/Katie-and-Julia-get-ice-cream-1-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/files\/2019\/08\/Katie-and-Julia-get-ice-cream-1-768x901.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>From left: Colby summer research students Duncan Coles, Julia Nelson, Katie Senechal, Amya Bhalla, Anna Yu and Erica Lei enjoy ice cream at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giffordsicecream.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gifford&#8217;s<\/a> in Waterville, Summer 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Colby students Katie Senechal &#8217;19 and Julia Nelson &#8217;19 mapped the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/arcg.is\/0jLXGP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">food environment of Waterville, Maine<\/a>.\u00a0 For her senior honors thesis, Katie used GIS to map areas of low income and low proximity to grocery stores and other food sites in Waterville, and surveyed residents about their food shopping behaviors.\u00a0 Her research upends myths about certain neighborhoods in Waterville being so-called &#8216;food deserts&#8217; that simply need more grocery stores to solve food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/files\/2019\/08\/Waterville-food-environment-STORY-MAP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-57\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/files\/2019\/08\/Waterville-food-environment-STORY-MAP-1024x581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/files\/2019\/08\/Waterville-food-environment-STORY-MAP-1024x581.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/files\/2019\/08\/Waterville-food-environment-STORY-MAP-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/files\/2019\/08\/Waterville-food-environment-STORY-MAP-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/files\/2019\/08\/Waterville-food-environment-STORY-MAP.jpg 1385w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAPPING FOOD ACCESS IN WATERVILLE, MAINE From left: Colby summer research students Duncan Coles, Julia Nelson, Katie Senechal, Amya Bhalla, Anna Yu and Erica Lei enjoy ice cream at Gifford&#8217;s in Waterville, Summer 2017 Colby students Katie Senechal &#8217;19 and Julia Nelson &#8217;19 mapped the entire food environment of Waterville, Maine.\u00a0 For her senior honors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6849,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/gcarlson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}