"Geography Matters!" Wed., Nov. 14, 2001

["Carrie Johnson" <carriejohnson2@hotmail.com>]

The Community is invited to "Geography Matters!" - If you want to find out 
how geography and GIS (geographic information system) technology make a 
difference in your lives, please join us at the UI Commons Wednesday, 
November 14, 2001.



The activities for GIS Day are listed below:


The talks will be at Whitewater Room, UI Commons, First Floor:

Date: Wed., Nov. 14, 2001

12:30 to 1:20pm:

"Names-Places: Preserving Tribal Culture and Language Using GIS",
by John Hartman, Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe
         This project preserves tribal culture by visiting geographic sites 
and recording video, audio, and still photos of Elers describing the site in 
both English and Coeur d'Alene languages.

1:30 to 2:00pm:

"INSIDE Idaho; a digital geospatial and statistical data clearinghouse" by 
Lily Wai and Bruce Godfrey, UI Library.
         If you need Idaho geospatial and attribute data for your research  
or class projects, this website presentation is for you.

7:00 to 9:00pm:

"Climate change" by Drs. Von Walden and Vladimir Aizen

"Natural Resource GIS - What, How and Why?" by Eva Strand

"GAP Analysis Data" by Leona Svancara


The GIS demonstration booths will be located at the UI Commons, First
Floor, near the Whitewater Room from 9:00am to 4:00pm.  The groups
representated are:

1. UI Geography Club (Andrew Clark and others, Geography Dept.)

2. INSIDE Idaho (Lily Wai and Bruce Godfrey, UI Library)

3. GIS Projects at the College of Natural Resources (Eva Strand, RS/GIS
Lab Coordinator)

4. UI GIS Certificate Program (Karl Chang, Geography Dept.)

5. Digital Maps published by Idaho Geological Survey (Loudon Stanford)

6. Remote Sensing projects in Weed science (Larry Lass, UI Weed Scientist)

7. Lewis and Clark Rediscovery (Bob Kearney, NASA project manager, retired
Physics Professor)

8. Landscape Architecture GIS projects (Toru Otawa, Landscape
Architecture Dept.)

9. GAP Analysis Data (Leona Svancara, Landscape Dynamics Lab)


To celebrate the nationwide GIS Day, UI GIS Users Group and the Geography 
Club have arranged to have demonstration booths, and a series of talks at  
the Commons Wed., November 14th.  For further information please  contact: 
Andrew Clark (email: clar8345@uidaho.edu) or Lily Wai (email:  
lwai@uidaho.edu)
_____________________________________________________________________________
Lily Wai, INSIDE Idaho Project Director   Phone: 208-885-6344
Professor, Head of Government Documents   Fax:   208-885-6817
University of Idaho Library (0135)        E-Mail:lwai@uidaho.edu
Rayburn Street                            http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/govdoc
Moscow, Idaho 83844-2353                  http://inside.uidaho.edu



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