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As
one of sixty students awarded a student assistantship to attend the
ESRI’s International User Conference this August, The other students involved in the assistantship program came together from all across the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Although individual students came from vast distances, it did not take much time for us to connect with one another. We came from a variety of academic disciplines, this provided opportunities for us to exchange ideas and learn from one another. Each day, the organizers arranged for the students to be involved in a variety of work activities supporting the conference which included registration, the map gallery, and workshops. Equally as important, the organizers provided opportunities to attend sessions, network, explore San Diego, host a pool party, and even arranged for nights to dance the evening away. Cumulatively, these engagements produced a weeklong positive atmosphere and productive experience. Throughout my participation in the program and attendance at this conference, GIS became even more dynamic than previously understood. Conversations over the week with participating students, technicians, and professionals allowed for my knowledge of GIS capacity to develop and expand. This conference exhibits the ability of GIS to be applied to almost any activity and for this reason; it has much to offer anyone with a hint of curiosity.
Monique
I am working on a joint project between the National Park Service and the Ecological Forecasting Lab here at NASA. The Ecological Forecasting Lab uses MODIS sensor's LAI (Leaf Area Index) product as an input to their TOPS (Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System) Model. The TOPS model provides ecological fore-casts and now-casts for park managers. Even though there has been extensive validation on the MODIS sensor, by large teams of scientists with months of field work, the NPS wants to further increase their confidence in the MODIS LAI product over Yosemite's steep topography and heterogeneous landscape. Our
team conducted two weeks of field work in Yosemite. We are using a 2007 Landsat image to produce a Reduced Simple Ratio vegetation index map of Yosemite. That RSR image will be run through a regression analysis with LAI ground-measurements to produce a ground-truthed LAI map of Yosemite that will be re-sampled to 1km MODIS resolution. The ground-truthed LAI map and the MODIS LAI product map will be compared. We are still processing our data. In the next two weeks, I have to fly down to Langley, VA to give a presentation on this to the director of Earth Sciences at NASA. Little more intense than Geog 600… =) Dusty
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MUP and Certificate student Mike says his internship project "was a brownfield site in Milwaukee that needed to be excavated to be in compliance with residential soil standards. We used a GPS to collect topographic data on the site as well as manage the depths of the excavation. We used GIS to manage the GPS data collected on site, identify coordinates to stake-out the excavation areas, perform cut/fill's to calculate the soil excavation, and create high quality map documents." Link
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prospective students, faculty from many different disciplines, and
a number of outside public and private organizations. In that year,
two GIS courses were introduced to graduate and undergraduate students
from various academic programs at the University. As time went on
and more courses were added, more faculty and students became aware
of the vast potential that GIS technology offered in so many different
disciplines. 
At its annual User Conference in San Diego this past July (2005),
the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) named UWM’s
Department of Urban Planning as a recipient of its Special Achievement
in GIS (SAG) award. The SAG award ceremony was held on July 27 at
the San Diego convention center and presided over by Jack Dangermond,
the president and founder of ESRI. 
it was truly an
experience of a lifetime. Being part of a collective effort for an
event hosting 14,000+ attendees from all around the world, engaged
in an array of GIS endeavors was challenging, yet incredibly rewarding.
I am an anthropology student who is completing a GIS certificate.
It was
from another GIS certificate student who participated in the program
last year that I learned of this program and was encouraged
to apply. Partaking in this opportunity has lead to making new friends
and networking relationships within the GIS community that will,
I trust, continue long after the conference. 
We
laid out a sampling grids representative of 25, 28m resolution
Landsat pixels. We
sampled data using Digital Hemispheric Photography and the LAI-2000, both
corrected for vegetation clumping in coniferous tree stands with
a TRAC (Tracing Radiation and Architecture of Canopies) instrument.
Mike Kumbera's article in the Winter 2006/2007 issue of ARCNEWS,
Symbiont and the City of Milwaukee were recognized for innovative
use of geographic information system (GIS) and global positioning
system (GPS) technologies as part of a remedial excavation project
performed by Symbiont at a brownfields property located in Milwaukee.
ARCNEWS is published quarterly by the Environmental Systems Research
Institute (ESRI), and is the largest GIS publication in the world,
with an estimated global readership of more than 600,000 professionals.
