Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS)

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The Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS) is administered by the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). It is a campus-wide initiative that harnesses the expertise of UMD faculty and the energy and ingenuity of UMD students to help Maryland communities become more environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable. PALS is designed to provide innovative, low-cost assistance to local governments while creating real-world problem-solving experiences for University of Maryland graduate and undergraduate students.

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    Developing a Bicycle Network Map for Prince George's County
    (Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS), 2022) Abban, John; Luna, Alondra; Gaunaurd, Pierre; Bardsley, Jesse; DelMonico, Jeffrey; Franklin, Kristen; Johnson, Nicholas; Mitchell, Caitlyn; Woldu, Marta; Spaniol, Matthew; Bernish, Andrew
    A class of Urban Planning and Geography students use county data to categorize every road in Prince George's county and assign it a stress value for bikers. Working with PG Planning and the local Vision Zero team, the GIS application depicts every county road color-coated with bike difficulty.
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    Prince George’s County Park Facility Energy Data Analysis
    (Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS), 2022) Cathcart, Dylan; Solomon, Dagwami; Lou, Iskander; Kim, Do; Yin, Zhaojie; Gruga, Thitna; Rainsford, TJ
    The PG Parks and Recreation department is responsible for operating and maintaining facilities at local and regional parks providing recreational services and programs. Providing recreational services requires capital investments into building facilities and maintaining parks throughout the Prince George’s County area resulting in the use of vast amounts of energy and resources to accomplish these goals. It is our job to help the department manage its expenditures and energy usage while still enabling them to fulfill their mission and commitment to the County. We will accomplish this by analyzing their energy dataset and providing information driven guidance on the future sustainability of facilities.
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    Story Map for Stormwater Management Projects at the University of Maryland
    (Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS), 2020) Dietrich, Amber; Kadariya, Gyan; Loredo, Andrew; McCarthy, Ryan; Petitt, Andy; Shaker, Nadine; Rainsford, Timothy
    Our group was tasked with retrieving and consolidating datasets/databases and primary accounts of enhanced stormwater management projects. These facilities have been installed across campus over time, so we needed to visualize that data through an ArcGIS StoryMap. We included information about individuals, project descriptions including size and/or area impacted, deliverables, projected impact, geographic locations, and organizations. The Story Map will be used as part of an informational website that displays why these stormwater facilities are important and how similar facilities are necessary elsewhere on campus.
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    Analyzing the Economic Impacts of Events within Prince George’s County
    (Partnership in Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS), 2020) Aguirre-Mori, Jose; Akinkuade, Ayomide Valentine; Campos, Martin; Muhie, Musab; Romney, Ariana; Wondwossen, Ammanuel; Panzer, Rich
    This collaborative project between PALS students, and representatives from M-NCPPC, Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), Prince George’s County began as a data analysis effort. We were to analyze existing data from M-NCPPC, Department of Parks and Recreation for insights into how hosted events and rental facilities impact the economics of Prince George’s County as a whole. For example, one task would consist of analyzing the amount of money spent within Prince George’s County by out-of-County tourists during their attendance at a M-NCPPC, Department of Parks and Recreation service or event. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, many changes have been instituted by state and local governments. Restrictions on group activities and indoor facility use have impacted DPR operations and limited the scope of the services that they can provide during the outbreak. We can expect that the scope will return to its usual size as restrictions are lifted, but in the meantime, there is a new opportunity to capture data about Parks and Recreation users in Prince George’s County. We hope that this data capture will ultimately help the Department of Parks and Recreation in formulating new insights as COVID-19 continues to impact organizations and people. This shift of scope altered our data analysis project into one of data capture. The task is to create a data collection method that will help capture economic losses endured by Prince George’s County due to the service cancellations caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. This method will also capture user interest in online-formatted services hosted by M-NCPPC, Department of Parks and Recreation. We also aim to capture current user behavior of remaining assets (parks and trails). The chosen data collection will be two surveys.