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GeoTREE working with the city of Dubuque and Dubuque Soil and Water Conservation District
Posted Dec. 10, 2013, 4:29 p.m.
The GeoTREE Center is developing a custom GIS database for the city of Dubuque and Dubuque Soil and Water Conservation District. The database created will allow WinSLAMM modeling to be easily carried out for the Catfish Creek Watershed utilizing the ArcSLAMM toolbox developed by the GeoTREE Center. This will aid in urban stormwater management programs in the watershed. Two students are working on the project in the GeoTREE Center (Alex Newkirk and Jonathan Beavers). This project will provide relevant real world GIS experience to the students.
Buy Fresh Buy Local
Posted Dec. 10, 2013, 4:29 p.m.
GeoTREE and Graduate Student Matt Cooney have developed a Buy Fresh Buy Local web story map for the Northeast Iowa area. See http://geotree.geog.uni.edu/temp/bfbl/. This was done in conjunction with local businesses and organizations and the UNI Center for Energy and Environmental Education.
GeoTREE provides ArcSLAMM Training
Posted Aug. 27, 2013, 3:36 p.m.
John DeGroote and GeoTREE student research assistants Dan Murphy and Rebecca Gronewold provided three free training sessions for a new set of ArcGIS tools that will work with the urban stormwater planning model WinSLAMM. The new tools, called ArcSLAMM, are developed to provide a much more efficient workflow for using GIS and WinSLAMM for urban stormwater planning in urban areas.
Three training sessions were provided at the Dubuque City Hall, on the UNI campus, and at the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship in Des Moines on August 23, 28, and 29th. Attendees included state agency personnel, city engineering employees from Dubuque, Cedar Falls, and Waterloo, County Soil and Water Conservation District employees from Black Hawk, Dubuque, and Polk Counties, and several enviornmental/engineering consulting firms.
The ArcSLAMM tools will be made freely available on the GeoTREE website at the end of September.
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.
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.
UNI Day at Capital
Posted Feb. 25, 2013, 3 p.m.
John DeGroote and student Brian Swedberg attended the the UNI Day at the Iowa Capital on February 11, 2013 in order to highlight important work of the GeoTREE Center.
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.