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Dec 19, 2003 |
Dr. Erlin Fu completed his 6-month visit at
CARES and returned to China. Dr. Erlin Fu is an associate professor
of economics at the Administration Institute of Guangdong Province,
China. During his visit, Dr. Fu worked with Dr. Tony Prato on
research projects related to sustainable development, regional
economics and agricultural economics. |
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Dec 19, 2003 |
Congratulations to Jim Meyer, who moved on to St. Louis to start his
new marriage and pursue a new career. Jim started working at CARES
in February 1997. |
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Dec 4-6, 2003 |
Tony Prato was invited to serve on a review team to review the
Rural Geospatial Innovations
(RGIS) research program on December 4-6, 2003 in Albuquerque,
NM.
The review was requested by the
Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES),
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). RGIS is a special
research grant authorized through the Federal Administration
Program. |
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Dec 1, 2003 |
Jim
Meyer has been promoted to Senior Geographic Information Systems
Specialist. His new title became effective on December 1, 2003.
Jim has been working at CARES since February 1997. He has managed
and participated in a number of research projects over the years. |
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Nov 24-25, 2003 |
Craig Callison,
Michael Hardy and Dan Zerr attended a two-day course "Introduction
to ArcGIS 8.2" on Nov 24-25, 2003. The course was offered by the
Spatial Data
Analysis Laboratory at the MU's
School of Natural Resources.
It was held at Room 109 of the Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources
Building, UMC campus. |
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Nov 2-6, 2003 |
 Bryan
Mayhan attended and presented at the
2003 Soil
Science Society of America (SSSA) Annual Meeting in Denver, CO
on 11/2/2003 - 11/6/2003. Bryan presented a paper titled "Soil Survey: Changing the
Mapping Paradigm" and a poster "An Internet Map Server Based Pedon
Data Entry, Storage and Retrieval System" at the conference.
It was a joint annual meeting with American Society of Agronomy and
Crop Science Society of America. This year's theme is: "Changing
Sciences for a Changing World: Building a Broader Vision." |
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Oct 28, 2003 |
Scott Burton and Arin Stark attended "Introduction
to ASP Using VBScript" training class on Oct 28, 2003. The class
is the first of the Active Server Pages (ASP) programming training
series offered by
the Microcomputer Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. |
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Oct 15, 2003 |
CARES hosted the Mid-Missouri GIS Users Group (MMGUG) meeting on
10/15/2003. A number of CARES staff will showcase their projects
during the meeting. The meeting was held in Room 217 at
Mumford Hall,
MU campus. The Mid
Missouri GIS User Group (MMGUG) is a non-for-profit group of GIS
professionals in the Mid-Missouri region. MMGUG holds bi-monthly
meetings that devote roughly an hour to discussions and an hour to
demonstrations by the hosting organization. |
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Oct 11-15,
2003 |
 Chris
Barnett and Yan Barnett attended the
41th Annual URISA
Conference held in Atlanta, GA on 10/11/2003 - 10/15/2003.
Chris and Yan gave an oral presentation on "Community Decision
Support Using Internet-Based GIS" and a project showcase
presentation on "Use Data Visualization to Illustrate Change of
Pattern in Missouri". |
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Oct 6-9, 2003 |
Erin Wilson attended the
18th Annual Conference of the Association of State Drinking Water
Administration held in Boston, MA on October 6-9, 2003. Erin and
Don Scott of Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR)
co-presented "Using Source Water Assessments to Encourage Protection".
The Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 required states to
complete source water assessment to better protect public drinking
water from contamination. CARES has assisted MoDNR in completing the
assessment in Missouri through the
Source Water
Inventory Project. This conference provided the opportunity
to learn about the implementation issues from other states, and
present our findings and results. |
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Sep 30,
2003 |
Erin Wilson received a Staff Development Award from the CAFNR Staff
Council. The award provides $800 in support of Erin's trip to the
18th Annual Conference of the Association of State Drinking Water
Administration held in Boston, MA on October 6-9, 2003. All
non-academic full-time staff are eligible to apply for
the Staff Development Award for up to $1,000. The Award is
intended principally to assist in personal and professional
development of individual(s) through funding for conferences,
workshops, short courses, or other appropriate short-term
experiences. |
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Sep 13,
2003 |
Chris Barnett and Bryan Mayhan were the presenters at the
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Seminar at the
Department of Civil and Engineering on 9/13/2003. Chris and Bryan
presented "The Missouri Map Room: Utilizing GIS through the
Internet". CARES's Missouri Map Room, Missouri's premier
Internet-based GIS, offers computer users with a web browser and
access to the Internet the opportunity to map, query, perform
analysis, link to other web sites, and print maps of any location in
Missouri using hundreds of Missouri's most current GIS layers. This
presentation demonstrated some of the many capabilities of the
Missouri Map Room. |
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August, 2003 |
 The
Upper and Middle Mississippi Valley Cooperative Ecosystem Studies
Unit (UMMV CESU) launches its website.
The website provides information about UMMV CESU mission, partners,
projects and links to related resources.The website is hosted and
maintained by CARES. Dr. Tony Prato, co-director of CARES, is the
director for UMMC CESU. |
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Aug 6, 2003 |
Six CARES staff - Chris Barnett, Yan Barnett, Ellen Ehrhardt, Jim
Meyer, Manoj Pavuluri, and Erin Wilson - attended a seminar "Dynamic
Visual Analysis for the Enterprise", held in St. Louis, MO on Aug 6.
The seminar was a complimentary briefing hosted jointly by
Information Builders
and ESRI. The representatives
from Information Builders introduced WebFocus 5, a software that
allows for integration with ESRI's ArcIMS environment to deliver
formatted reports, charts and etc. The representatives from ESRI
presented ArcGIS and ArcIMS capabilities. |
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July, 2003 |
Dr. Erlin Fu, associate professor of economics at the Administration
Institute of Guangdong Province, China is a visiting scholar at
CARES. Dr. Fu will be working with Dr. Tony Prato on research
projects related to sustainable development, regional economics and
agricultural economics. Dr. Fu's visit is sponsored by his home
institute in China, and he will be with us until January, 2004.
Dr. Fu earned his PhD in ecological economics from Southwest
Agricultural University in China. He has been an associate professor
at the Administration Institute of Guangdong Province, China since
1997. Prior to coming to CARES, Dr. Fu was a visiting scholar at the
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont. |
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Jul 27-30, 2003 |
Tony Prato attended the 2003 Soil and Water Conservation Society
(SWCS) Annual Conference in Spokane, WA on July 27-30. The conference's
theme was “The Columbia, Conserving a Legacy of Life”. It focused
on conserving natural resources locally and globally.
Click here for
more information about the conference... |
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Jul 22-25, 2003 |
Chris Barnett gave four workshops on "Internet Mapping Tools for
Missouri" at CAFNR Crop Injury Clinic on July 22-25. The clinic
was
two two-day sessions focusing on new technologies, weather
forecasting, soil mapping and alfalfa management. Chris taught
on how to utilize CARES map room for data and map needs. The Crop
Injury Clinic was sponsored by CAFNR Agricultural Experiment Station,
and was held at Bradford Research Farm, Columbia, MO. |
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Jul 7-11, 2003 |
 Michael Barbaro, Richard Charrier and Erin Wilson attended and
presented at the 23rd Annual ESRI International User Conference in San
Diego, CA on July 7-11. Michael and Richard presented 2 posters
on
Missouri Hypsography data development project, co-authored with
Michael Hardy and Scott Burton. Erin presented a poster on
Source
Water Inventory Project (SWIP). A poster on data visualization
prepared by Yan Barnet, Dave Connett and Dan Zerr was also taken
to the Map Gallery exhibition at the conference.
Click here for
more information about the conference... |
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Jun 24-25, 2003 |
Tony Prato and Dan Zerr attended the 2003 Cooperative Ecosystem
Studies Units (CESU) National Network
Meeting in Washington, D.C. on June 24-25. Over 160 university
members, federal agency personnel, and others registered to
attend the two-day event. Representatives from CESU-member
universities and other CESU partners spoke on a wide variety of
CESU-related issues, along with members of the CESU Council.
Click here for
more information about the meeting... |
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Jun 1-4, 2003 |
 Tony
Prato, Dan Zerr and Dave Connett attended 7th Annual Missouri River
Natural Resources Conference at Benedictine College in
Atchison, KS, June 1-4, 2003.
Tony participated in a panel
discussion on Adaptive Management for the Missouri River,
representing the Missouri River Institute at MU. Other panel members
were representatives from US Fish & Wildlife, US Army Corps of
Engineers, Missouri River Basin Association, Missouri River Natural
Resources Committee, and USGS. During the conference, Tony, Dan and
Dave took field trips to the Benedictine Bottoms and Ft.
Leavenworth's bottomland forest.
Click here for
more information about the conference... |
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May 29, 2003 |
Dr. Jim Coleman, the new vice provost for research at MU, visited
CARES on May 29. During the hour-long visit, Dr. Coleman met with
staff and toured facilities at CARES.
Dr. Coleman, the former vice president
for research and business development of the Desert Research
Institute in Nevada, was named vice provost for research at the
University of Missouri - Columbia in fall 2002. He began serving as
vice provost this spring.
Click here for more information about Dr. Coleman... |
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May 29, 2003 |
Bryan
Mayhan attended the 2003 Missouri Cooperative Soil Survey Work
Planning Conference on May 29, hosted by MU's Bradford Farm. Bryan
and Dr. Fred Young co-presented “Data for the Future: The Missouri
Soil Characterization Laboratory On-line Database” at the
conference.
The Missouri Soil Characterization
Laboratory On-line Database is part of the
Soil
Map Digitization Project that has been ongoing at CARES since
1995. It is accessible through the
Missouri Cooperative Soil Survey
Website, housed and maintained by CARES. |
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May 28, 2003 |
 Randy Asbury presented a seminar on
"The Missouri River: Balancing the Equation", co-sponsored by CARES
and MRI. The seminar was held at 3:00pm on May 28 in Memorial
Union N201 – Mark Twain Room.
Randy Asbury, Executive Director of
the Coalition to Protect the Missouri River, presented
information representing the diverse interests of agricultural,
navigational, industrial, utility, and business-related entities
relating to management of the Missouri River. Mr. Asbury previously
held the position of Deputy Director of the Missouri Department of
Agriculture and was state party nominee for the 19th District
Missouri Senate, home renovator, and farmer. |
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May 7, 2003 |
Ray Massey and Chris Barnett presented
Business Environmental
Risk Management project to EPA Region 7 on May 7, 2003. |
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Apr 28, 2003 |
 The Upper and Middle Mississippi
Valley Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (UMMV CESU) has been approved by the
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Council. For more
information about CESU, contact Tony Prato
or visit the CESU website.
The University of Missouri-Columbia will serve as host institution
for UMMV CESU. University partners include University of Minnesota,
Iowa State University, University of Iowa, Drake University (Iowa),
University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Indiana
University, University of Kansas, Lincoln University (Missouri),
Southwest Missouri State University and University of
Missouri-Columbia. Non-university partners include Audubon-Upper
Mississippi River Campaign, Audubon Missouri, Conservation
Federation of Missouri, Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri
Department of Natural Resources and the National Mississippi River
Museum and Aquarium. Federal participating agencies are the Bureau
of Land Management, National Park Service, and United States
Geological Survey-Biological Resources Division.
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Apr 23, 2003 |
Chris Barnett presented Missouri
Unified
Watershed Assessment project methodology and findings to
Missouri Clean Water Commission on April 23, 2003. The project
prioritized Missouri's 8-digit hydrologic units. Currently, CARES is
completing the prioritization of the 14-digit hydrologic units
through
The Missouri Watershed Inventory and Assessment Project. |
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Apr 18, 2003 |
Chris Barnett presented CARES/CESU
activities to EPA Region 7 Administrator on April 18, 2003. The
presentation was part of the CAFNR's Luncheon with EPA Region 7
Administrator program. A number of CAFNR researchers presented their
research projects on environmental related issues. |
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Apr 9, 2003 |
17 CARES staff members participated a
Microsoft Outlook workshop on 4/9/2003. IATS instructor Lisa
demonstrated Outlook features and answered questions from CARES staff
in an hour-long workshop. |
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Apr 1, 2003 |
 Arin
Stark is our newest Geographic Information Systems Specialist starting
from April 1, 2003. Arin
currently manages the Spatial Nutrient
Management Planner project. |
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Mar 26, 2003 |
CARES staff made strong presence at the
8th Annual
Missouri GIS Conference that was held on March 24-26 in
Columbia, Missouri. Sixteen staff members attended the
conference, with 4 presentations by Chris Barnett, Jim Meyer and Arin
Stark, and 2 posters by Yan Barnett, Craig Callison, Dave Connett, Erin
Wilson and Dan Zerr. |
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Mar 26, 2003 |
 CARES
won the "Outstanding GIS Related Website" award at the Missouri GIS
Conference. Specifically, the award was given to the
Source Water Inventory
Project (SWIP) website. |
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Feb 21, 2003 |
Yan Barnett completed a training
course on "ArcIMS Administration". The course was offered through ESRI
at the St. Charles regional office in February 20-21, 2003. |
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Feb 21, 2003 |
Michael Barbaro, Michael Hardy and
Erin Wilson completed a training course on "Introduction to Programming
Concepts". The course was offered through University of Missouri - St.
Louis computing facility in February 20-21, 2003. |
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Jan 1, 2003 |
 Chris
Barnett became a Co-Director of CARES on January 1, 2003. Chris
Barnett was the Associate Director of CARES from 1999 to 2002, and
Assistant Director from 1997 to 1999. He
will be sharing the leadership and management responsibilities with
Tony Prato.Former Co-Director Chris Fulcher resigned from the
position to focus on his other involvements. |
