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Nov 4-8, 2007 |
Bryan Mayhan will travel to New Orleans to attend the
2007 international annual
ASA-CSA-SSSA meetings, November 4-8. Bryan will present the
poster Enhancing the Web-Bases Soil Survey Management
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Oct 9, 2007 |
In recognition of his years of distinguished service to MU, Tony
Prato has been conferred the title of H.A. Cowden Professor in
the Department of Agricultural Economics. |
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Oct 4, 2007 |
Tony Prato presented a seminar on Evaluating Alternative Futures
and Land Use Change for Flathead County, Montana at California
State University-Chico. |
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Oct 2-6, 2007 |
Chris Barnett will attend and participate in a panel discussion
on Feature Class Names at the
2007 Annual Geographic Names Conference in Lexington, KY.
Chris is a member of the Missouri Board on Geographic Names. |
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Sep 19, 2007 |
Tony Prato, Anthony Clark, and Dan Fagre will be conducting a
landscape change workshop on September 19 in Kalispell, Montana.
The workshop will review progress to date on
Assessing
Ecological Economic Impacts of Landscape Change in Montana’s
Flathead County, a research project funded by the USDA
Cooperative Research, Education, and Extension Service. The
workshop will be attended by about 20 individuals representing
state and federal agencies, NGOs, and county and city planning
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Sep 18, 2007 |
Chris Fulcher, Chris Barnett and Bryan Mayhan will conduct a full
day workshop in Austin, TX. The purpose of the workshop is to
introduce participants to: (1) Internet GIS tools and
functionality; (2) unique decision support tools; and (3) a
national initiative that is currently underway called the
Community Issues Management Collaborative. This hands-on
workshop will enable users to conduct simple spatial analyses
with numerous data layers including health, human service,
environmental, natural resource, jurisdictional, and
socio-economic and demographic data. |
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Sep 9-12, 2007 |
Tony Prato and Dan Fagre will be presenting a poster at the
2007 Parks, Peace and
Partnerships Conference to be held September 9-12 in
Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. The poster,
entitled Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes: A Focus on the
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, will summarize a
two-year effort to assess the state of natural resources, human
impacts, and management approaches in the Crown of the Continent
Ecosystem (CCE) that is shared between Canada and the U.S.
At the core of the CCE is the Waterton-Glacier International
Peace Park where much of the effort was focused. As the world's
first peace park, the transboundary cooperation between the two
parks and their countries has provided a role model for other
peace parks and also has been critical to long-term
sustainability of the regional landscape. The recently published
book that summarizes the assessment has 39 authors from Canada
and the U.S., representing numerous perspectives and
disciplines.
The conference will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the
Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. |
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Aug 21, 2007 |
Chris Barnett and Bill Kurtz co-presented "Rapid Watershed
Assessment" project findings at Water Quality Control Commission
meeting in Columbia, Missouri.
Through the project, profiles of natural resource and other
conditions have been developed for four 8-digit watersheds in
Missouri based on known spatial data. Local landowner input
regarding crops, cropping practices, conservation practices and
natural resource issues have also been obtained for the
profiles. |
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Jul 1, 2007 |
 Bryan
Mayhan has been recognized for his outstanding contribution to
soil science with the "Soils Program Leader" title at CARES.
Bryan has been a key member for the Missouri Soil Map
Digitization project since he joined CARES in 1997. Through the
project, he has been involved in various soils groups and
committees in Missouri. Byran has also been instrumental in
expanding the soils pedon digitization project from Missouri to
Texas.
Congratulations, Byran! |
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Jun 18-21, 2007 |
Richard Charrier and Michelle Flenner will attend 27th Annual
ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, CA. Richard
will present a poster on Floodplain Mapping project. |
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May 21, 2007 |
Kevin Atherton joins CARES as a Programmer Analyst to work on
Spatial Nutrient Management Planner
project.
Prior to joining CARES, Kevin was a GIS Analyst at Protech
Solutions, Inc in Little Rock, Arkansas, and at Michael Baker,
Inc in Reno, Nevada. He has several years of experience in
ArcSDE data and ArcObject application development. Kevin holds a
Bachelors' degree in Geography from Minnesota State University -
Mankato, and an Associates degree in Computer Sciences from
University of Minnesota.
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Apr 23, 2007 |
Tony Prato and Dan Fagre have edited a new book entitled
"Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes: Science, Policy, and
Management for the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem". The book,
published by RFF Press, offers the first systematic,
multi-disciplinary assessment of the challenges involved in
managing the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (CCE), an area of
the Rocky Mountains that includes northwestern Montana,
southwestern Alberta, and southeastern British Columbia.
Click here for more details about the book, including ordering
information. |
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Apr 1, 2007 |
 Michelle
Flenner moves to a regular Geographic Information System
(GIS) Specialist position at CARES. Michelle joined CARES as
GIS Specialist with a full-time temporary status on October
16, 2006. Michelle has been working with projects related to
Community Information
Resource Center (CIRC) for the past 6 months.
Michelle will continue her involvement in CIRC projects,
and take on some data management responsibilities for the
soils survey projects. Congratulations, Michelle! |
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Apr 1, 2007 |
James Cutts joins the soils survey project team at CARES.
James has been a computer project manager at the
Contracting and
Organizations Research Institute (CORI) at the
University of Missouri - Columbia. James brings with him
over 20-years of programming experience.
James will be working with the soils survey project team
on the
Missouri Soils Survey and "TXPED Implementation and
Development of Web Tool" projects. He will still be involved
in CORI projects on limited bases. Welcome, James! |
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Mar 7-9, 2007 |
CARES/CIRC staff, Erin Barbaro, Michael Barbaro, Yan Barnett
and Chris Fulcher, will attend the
Fifth International Conference on Community Indicators
in Jacksonville, FL. Chris Fulcher will co-chair a
workshop on "Knowledge Integration for Community
Mobilization: A United Way Framework for Addressing
Efficiency, Equity, Impact and Community Sustainability".
The workshop topic is related to the Trident United Way
mapping project at the
Community Information Resource Center (CIRC), an
initiative of the Rural
Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) and CARES. |
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Feb 20-21, 2007 |
Chris Barnett will attend the 11th annual
Missouri
GIS Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach, MO. The annual
conference is sponsored by Missouri Geographic Information
Systems Advisory Committee. |
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Jan 31-Feb 2, 2007 |
Bryan Mayhan will attend the 2007 Missouri Natural Resources
Conference (MNRC) at Tan-tar-A, Missouri. Bryan is a speaker
in the "GIS Applications for Natural Resources Management
Workshop" on Thursday, February 1st at 1pm. Please visit the
MNRC website
for more details. |
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Jan 31, 2007 |
 Bryan
Mayhan becomes president of the
Missouri Association of
Professional Soil Scientists (MAPSS). MAPSS is an
association of soil scientists working both in private and
public sectors with the mission "to advance the knowledge
and wise use of our soil resources."Bryan will serve the
term for one administrative year. |
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Jan 27-June 30, 2007 |
Bryan Mayhan has been honored with the inclusion of his
Missouri Soil Survey in the thirty-plus maps exhibited in
The Stories They Tell: Understanding Missouri History
Through Maps, by exhibit curator Emeritus Professor of
Geography Walter Schroeder, Ph. D. The exhibit is open to
the public at the State Historical Society located in Ellis
Library on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. For
more information, please visit the
State
Historical Society website. |
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Jan 16-19, 2007 |
Chris Barnett will travel to Ft. Collins, Colorado to attend
the Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan Connectivity
Meeting in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Chris will meet with a development team from the US
Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation
Services (NRCS) to discuss the Comprehensive Nutrient
Management Planner (CNMP) streamlining and Manure Management
Planner (MMP) connectivity.
CARES has worked with MU's Commercial Agriculture Program to
develop a Spatial
Nutrient Management Planner (SNMP) and a Comprehensive
Nutrient Management Planner for Missouri. SNMP will integrate
MMP, a non-spatial program developed by Purdue University, into
a GIS interface. |
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