Facility

CARES is a College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources center at the University of Missouri - Columbia. CARES is located in Mumford Hall in the Memorial Union area of the Columbia campus. For location and driving directions, see location.

While we are housed in the east wing of historic Mumford Hall, constructed in 1922, our facilities have been renovated to incorporate modern office standards, including climate control, network access, lighting and energy-efficient windows. CARES proudly occupies the offices originally constructed for the Dean of Agriculture and his support staff.

Hardware includes more than fifty Windows-based PCs and servers. All workstations are Ethernet networked and have full Internet access. CARES has 14 terabytes (14,000 gigabytes) of combined disk storage, a 2.4TB capacity tape archive and backup system, and the ability to print E-size documents. More details on hardware...

Software includes Microsoft SQL Server 2005, ArcGIS 9.3, ArcIMS 9.3, ArcGIS Server 9.3 as well as several other economic and environmental modeling packages. Operating systems include Windows XP Pro and Windows Server 2003. More details on software...

CARES Internet capacity includes five servers, four development servers, web hosting for other campus centers, and Internet mapping capacity. We serve a large number of geographic databases on the web, including Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQs) for the entire state of Missouri. More details on our web servers...