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GeoTREE Students win poster competition
Posted April 24, 2013, 2:07 p.m.
GeoTREE students Dan Murphy and Rebecca Gronewold won first place in the student poster competition at the 2013 Iowa Biannual Iowa Geographic Information Council Meeting in Cedar Rapids on April 4, 2013.
The poster was entitled 'Urban Stormwater Planning Utilizing LiDAR, the WinSLAMM Model, and GIS'.
GeoTREE win second place in poster competition at 2013 Iowa Water Center Conference
Posted March 25, 2013, 3 p.m.
GeoTREE students Dan Murphy and Rebecca Gronewold won second place in the student poster competition at the 2013 Iowa Water Conference in Ames, IA in March 2013.
The GeoTREE Center continues research on the use of GIS and LiDAR data in concert with an urban stormwater modeling software as part of an Iowa Water Center/USGS funded project. This project focuses on more effective use of geospatial data and technologies in urban stormwater management and planning. Study sites in this research include Dry Run Creek watershed in Black Hawk County and the Catfish Creek watershed in Dubuque County. John DeGroote also presented results from this ongoing project at the conference.
IGIC 2013
Posted March 25, 2013, 3 p.m.
John DeGroote and students Daniel Murphy and Rebecca Gronewold will attend the biannual Iowa Geographic Information Council (IGIC) meeting in Cedar Rapids in April 2013 to present various research results from GeoTREE work. John will also participate in a forum dealing with Python programming and ArcGIS automation.
Iowa STEM Hub Spatial Data System
Posted Feb. 25, 2013, 3 p.m.
The GeoTREE Center has recently supported efforts of the Northeast Iowa Science Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Hub housed at UNI. The GeoTREE Center has developed spatial databases and developed a web mapping application to support STEM activities throughout the state of Iowa.
GeoTREE Receives grant to study Lyme
Posted Feb. 25, 2013, 3 p.m.
John DeGroote and the GeoTREE Center were awarded a Small Scale Project Grant from UNI through the Iowa NSF EPSCoR program for a project entitled ‘Spatio-temporal investigation of socio-ecological drivers of Lyme disease in Iowa’. The project will run from February – July 2013.
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