Within the United States, obesity accounts for over 300,000 deaths a year and prevalence rates have been increasing over the past decade (Maddock, 2004). For example, more than 22 percent of Latino children are considered Obese compared to 14 percent of Caucasian children. The reasons for this disparity is not clear. Recent work suggests that […]
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We built our project around how this road diet would affect a specific aspect of W. Alisal street, and we chose to focus on the MST bus system. Our simple hypothesis for the Salinas project was: when the road diet is implemented, the MST transit system will take longer to get from point A to […]
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To consolidate the two data sets (InletsByZone and swInlet) taken of Salinas’ stormwater inlet drains, data points were verified and validated through a series of steps; if the points on both data sets’ overlapped, the data point was considered verified, if the points differed slightly or only one layer was present, Google Earth’s “street-view” feature […]
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This project was conducted for the city of Salinas to assign geographic coordinates to a large set of public data, so that the city is able to obtain the locations of business licenses visibly by using ArcGIS. Our team was assigned approximately 8,252 total businesses and we had to verify the address location to ensure […]
This project is an experiment in deep listening. A group of California State University Monterey Bay students enrolled in the Media for Social Change class have engaged in one-to-one conversations with diverse Salinas residents exploring their experience of living and working in the city. Students used questions as civic tools to generate curiosity and conversations […]
This group’s analysis of the W. Alisal corridor was conducted under the context of the implementation of a road diet. For the study of the Salinas roadway we took several factors into consideration when conducting a road diet and mapped the plausible effects of the infrastructure improvement in a causal loop diagram. Then diagram was […]
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the Salinas roadway we took several factors into consideration when conducting a road diet and Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info University Faculty Contact Daniel Fernandez Natural Sciences Professor, School of Natural Sciences dfernandez@csumb.edu Local Government / Community Contact James Serrano […]
The primary objective of the data analysis was to identify statistically signicant predictors of the sidewalk conditions evaluated by the City of Salinas. In summary, we found that income and education are statistically signicant predictors. Because it was an observational study not an experimental study, the students and the instructor agreed that the data could […]
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The City of Salinas of has outdated vector and raster data. As a result of dated information, the City has not able to progress in terms of development. By allowing students at CSU Monterey Bay, the City of Salinas has been able to drastically update their data. The data that was edited in this case […]
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Reading to children can benefit their development because exposing them to books appears to have the most impact on their early language, literacy, and cognitive development. There is evidence to support that “children who xperience shared-book reading… also demonstrated improvements in word reading” (Pillinger & Wood, 2014). The Read to me Project is great at […]