The Geography Department has two computer labs located between the two elevator banks in the main corridor of the 10th floor North Building. The 1090-B1 lab contains 14 PCs and the 1090-B2 lab contains 24 PCs and there are lecturer PCs at the front of the lab rooms connected to permanently-mounted ceiling data projectors. All PCs in 1090-B1 are Optiplex 745, Intel Core(TM) 2 Processors, 2.13 GHz, 2-G Of RAM, and 19-inch flat panel displays. All PCs in 1090-B2 are Dell Optiplex GX270s with 1-GB RAM and 19-inch flat panel displays.

The two labs are part of the Department's gigabit network that includes a Sun Microsystems file server with more than 2-TB of disk storage.

Lab Management & Personnel

Computing in the Geography Department is managed separately from the College's ICIT computer facilities. A departmental lab committee creates and manages computing protocol and manages the Department's IT staff. The lab committee can be contacted by sending email to lab@geo.hunter.cuny.edu.

The IT staff includes Tom Walter (twalter@hunter.cuny.edu), the Department's Research Associate whose responsibilities include Unix/Linux/network systems administration; Nguyen Ngoc Nguyen (nngoc@hunter.cuny.edu), the Department's Windows Systems Administrator; and Amy Jeu (ajeu@hunter.cuny.edu), the Department's College Laboratory Technician (CLT).

Lab Usage

Only students, faculty, staff and researchers associated with Geography Department-related programs are permitted to use the facilities of the SPARS Laboratory. To obtain a computer account on the department's network, you must file a Computer Account Request Form. These forms are usually provided by faculty in classes requiring accounts. The form should be returned to either Nguyen Ngoc Nguyen or Tom Walter's mailbox in 1006 HN.