Research Mentor Information
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Primary Research Mentor Name: Spencer McCloy
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Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated): smccloy@fsu.edu
Position Title: Graduate Student
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FSU College (if applicable): Social Sciences and Public Policy
FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation: Economics
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Additional Research Mentor(s)
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Overall Project Details
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Title of the Project: Historical Map Georeferencing
Project Keywords: Economics, GIS, Georeferencing
Are you currently looking for research assistants?: No
Number of Research Assistants Needed : 2
Relevant Research Assistant Major(s):
Economics, Geography, Open to others if they have necessary skills. 

Project Location:: On FSU Main Campus
If the project location is off campus, does the research assistant(s) need to provide their own transportation?: Yes
Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s):: Partially Remote
Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work?: 5-10
Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work?: Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Overall Research Project Description:
I am working on digitizing maps from 1948-1971 depicting hospital service areas (HSA). Once these historical HSA maps are digitized, I will overlay them onto current county maps. The goal in digitization is to provide a framework through which I can analyze how expanding health care facilities to rural areas affects real health and economic outcomes in those areas. The RA for this project would focus on georeferencing images of historical maps in a GIS software (e.g., ArcGIS).

Research Tasks:
Georeferencing in ArcGIS Pro or QGIS; entering data into ArcGIS or QGIS

Skills that research assistant(s) may need::
"Recommended" - Familiarity with a GIS software

Mentoring Philosophy:
I have been blessed with mentors in my career who have been instrumental in my academic and personal growth. As a mentor, I try to pay this kindness forward.

I consider the mentor-mentee venture successful if the mentee can look back and identify personal and professional growth from the start to the end of the project. Challenges and failure are part of growth. I stive to support my mentees as they work through these obstacles, offering a safe environment to try, fail, and learn. While I value the acquisition of technical skills like learning new software, I place higher value on learning “soft skills” like time management, goal setting, and communication.  

As a mentor, I am not a taskmaster handing projects down the chain. Instead, I help provide the environment and tools for the mentee to become a fellow researcher. This creates a two-way dynamic where both parties grow as they cooperate toward a shared goal. While I share my experience with my mentees, I learn from their perspective and experience. This requires and engenders mutual respect. 

Because each mentee is different, I treat my mentees as individuals who have different needs for support as they grow into a researcher themselves. I welcome mentee feedback on how to create a mentoring relationship that best meets their needs. I seek to be a peer mentor by practicing the same traits I find admirable in my own mentors: clear communication, empathy, flexibility, forgiveness, honesty, kindness, self-reflection, and understanding.

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UROP Program Elements
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Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication: Yes
UROP Performance Evaluation: Yes
Materials Grant: Yes
UROP Poster Presentation: Yes
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Are you interested in attending in a UROP Research Mentor Workshop Series?: No
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Year: 2023
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