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GeoTREE Workshop

Posted June 26, 2017, 12:38 p.m.

The UNI GeoTREE Center (John DeGroote) provided a one day training workshop on the use of Python for GIS programming, specifically focusing on ArcGIS. The workshop was presented as a pre-conference workshop at the first Iowa Technology and Geospatial Conference on June 20, 2017. The workshop was attended by approximately 40 participants from universities, local/state/federal government, and private industry. John also presented a separate one hour presentation on the same subject during the main part of the conference.

GeoTREE students present poster

Posted June 26, 2017, 12:27 p.m.

GeoTREE students Brandon Lane and Ben Gavin each presented a poster at the first ever combined Iowa Technology and Geospatial (ITAG) Conference in West Des Moines (June 21-22, 2017). Ben presented a poster detailing GeoTREE efforts working on a GIS-urban stormwater modeling project funded by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Brandon's poster detailed work by GeoTREE Center on updating the National Hydrography Dataset in Iowa in collaboration with Iowa Department of Natural Resources.