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Nov 9, 2004 |
Chris Barnett gave a half-day workshop on "Internet Mapping Tools for
Missouri: Information for the Farm" to extension field personnel and
farmers. The objectives of the workshop was to help the participants
understand the basic concepts of GIS and internet mapping, become
familiar with the resources available in the CARES Map Room, and use
internet mapping to understand potential environmental risks. The
workshop was sponsored by the University of Missouri Extension Office
in Henry County, Missouri. It was held in Clinton, Missouri. |
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Oct 7, 2004 |
 Chris
Barnett presented at the Missouri Environmental Health Association
Annual Education Conference on October 7, 2004. Chris demonstrated
utilizing CARES Map Room as a resource for addressing environmental
health related issues. He also presented the
Business and Environmental Risk Management (BERM) project.The
conference was held on October 6-8, 2004 at the Lake of the Ozarks,
Missouri. |
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Sep 7-11, 2004 |
Christopher Fulcher recently made a paper presentation at the Medinfo
conference in San Francisco. Medinfo is the premier triennial
international meeting for the medical informatics community. Held
every three years since 1974, the San Francisco meeting is the first
time that Medinfo has returned to the United States since 1986.
Fulcher, Christopher and Catherine Kaukinen. “Visualizing the
Infrastructure of US Healthcare Using Internet GIS: A Community Health
Informatics Approach for Reducing Health Disparities”. MedInfo 2004 –
International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA): 11th World
Congress on Medical Informatics, September 7-11, 2004. |
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Sep 2, 2004 |
 A group of
visitors from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan toured CARES facilities and attended project
presentations on September 2, 2004. The visitors were the participants
of the Central Asian Program, hosted by Dr. Jeanne Schwaller and her
company, International Consulting and Business Training.
The visitors' background ranged from
the head of Ministry of Agriculture department to private farmer. The
participants were here to learn about U.S. agriculture and related
research at the University of Missouri. They have a strong interest
in learning more about Geographic Information Systems (GIS). |
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Aug 16, 2004 |
Our Administrative Associate Julia Rodriguez moved on to the Grant
Specialist position at MU's Life Sciences Center. Julia started her
new position on 8/16/2004. We wish her the best. |
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Jun 9-10, 2004 |
Dr. Chris Fulcher, Co-Director of CARES, attended and presented at the
2004 National Library of Medicine (NLM) Informatics Training
Conference in Indianapolis, IN on June 9-10, 2004. Chris's
presentation is based on comparative analysis of national
Behavioral
Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data by Chris Fulcher,
Fungai Chanetsa, Yan Barnett and Chris Barnett. Chris is currently a
fellow of National Library of Medicine, housed at the Department of
Health Management and Informatics at the University of Missouri. |
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Jun 10, 2004 |
Mr. Alan Anderson, a technical representative for the Department of
Defense to the Upper and Middle Mississippi Valley Cooperative
Ecosystem Studies Unit (UMMV CESU), visited MU campus and gave a
presentation on research activities at the U.S. Army
Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). The University of
Missouri is the host for the UMMV CESU. The Department of Defense
recently joined the UMMV CESU as a federal partner. |
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Jun 10, 2004 |
Dr. Tony Prato, Co-Director of CARES, will taking a research leave for
the 2004-2005 academic year. Dr. Prato will spend majority of the
leave in Montana collaborating on a research project with
scientists at the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center and the
University of Montana. Tony will start his research leave on June 10,
2004. |
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Jun 8, 2004 |
Dr. Gamini Herath, a visiting scholar at SSU and CARES, completed
his stay here and returned to Australia on June 8, 2004.
Dr. Gamini Herath is a senior lecturer in Economics at the
Wodonga campus of La Trobe
University, Australia. He started his visit at MU in
March, 2004. |
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Jun 3-4, 2004 |
Erin Wilson helped with a workshop at the
America's Service Commissions (ASC)
Annual Conference on June 3-4 in Kansas City, MO. ASC is a nonprofit
organization representing state service commissions across the United
States. CARES staff has worked with
RUPRI's Community Information Resources Center (CIRC) to develop a
mapping tool for visualizing the spatial distribution of ASC's
AmeriCorps programs and participants. Erin assisted CIRC personnel
to demonstrate the functionalities of the mapping tool at the ASC
conference. |
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May 23-26, 2004 |
 Tony
Prato and Dan Zerr presented at the 8th Annual Missouri River
Natural Resources Conference. Tony presented on Potential for
REducing Nutrient Loading to Rivers with Nutrient Farming/Trading.
Dan gave a poster presentation on Upper and Middle Mississippi
Valley Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit.The
Missouri
River Natural Resources Conference is the annual basin-wide
conference dedicated to the environment of the Missouri River. CARES
is one of the conference organizers. This
year's conference will be held on May 23-26, 2004 in Columbia, MO. |
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Apr 18-22, 2004 |
 Chris
Barnett and Richard Charrier attended the 2004 Mid-America GIS
Consortium (MAGIC) on Apr 19-22, 2004. Richard gave a poster
presentation on the
Hypsography
project.The consortium is a biennial Mid-America GIS Symposium. The
2004 consortium was held in Kansas City, Missouri. |
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Apr 9, 2004 |
Dr. Gamini Herath, a visiting scholar at SSU and CARES, presented
in a seminar on "Reconciling Value Conflicts in Regional Forest
Planning: A Multi-criteria decision support analysis approach” on
April 9, 2004 at 2:30 PM in Room 217, Mumford Hall, University of
Missouri - Columbia. Dr. Herath also took the opportunity to meet SSU faculty and staff. |
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Apr 1-3, 2004 |
Chris Fulcher attended the
2004 Population
Association of America Annual Meeting in Boston, MA on April 1-3,
2004. Chris and
his co-author, Katie Kaukinen from Bowling Green State University, received an award for Best Poster. The
title of their poster is: “Visualizing the Accessibility and Spatial
Equity of HIV-Related Services: A Geographic Analysis of Chicago
Neighborhoods.” |
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Mar 24-25, 2004 |
Chris Barnett and Bryan Mayhan presented several CARES projects at
the "Resource
Tools & Techniques Supporting Successful Watersheds: A Workshop"
meeting that was held at the Capital City Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City,
Missouri on March 24-25, 2004. Chris presented on Missouri
Watershed Inventory and Assessment Project (MOWIAP) and other resource
tools, services and products from CARES. Bryan presented on the
Missouri Cooperative Soil Survey Program at the workshop. |
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Mar 14-19, 2004 |
 Tony
Prato attended and presented at the Centennial Meeting of
American Association of Geographers
in Philadelphia, March 14-19, 2004. Tony's presentation was titled "Modeling
Ecological Economic Impacts of Landscape Change in Mountain Ecosystems".
He presented an ecosystem landscape modeling system that evaluates
the ecological and economic impacts of landscape change in mountain
ecosystems.The Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers is a professional and scholarly meeting of over 4000
attendees. Nearly 3000 attendees present their research in over 700
sessions scheduled throughout the meeting. |
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Mar 1, 2004 |
Dr. Gamini Herath, a senior lecturer in Economics at the
Wodonga campus of La Trobe
University, Australia, will be visiting CARES and SSU from March
to June. Dr Herath teaches micro and macro economics, market research,
and finance. He also coordinates seminars, is a member of the research
committee, and is acting deputy head. His areas of research are:
natural resource economics, liberalization and infrastructure in
developing countries, role of institutions, MCDA. While he is here,
Dr. Herath will be located in Room 213D Mumford Hall. He can be
reached by phone at 882-9062 or email at herathg@misssouri.edu. |
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Feb 18, 2004 |
Dan Zerr gave a introductory lecture on GIS and remote sensing, their
various applications, how they may be used in a classroom, and a tour
of the CARES map room on Feb 18, 2004. The presentation was given at
Dalton Science Teachers Symposium, and open to all science teachers in
the Columbia school district. |
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Feb, 2004 |
Tony Prato has been appointed as a Faculty Affiliate in the
College of Forestry and
Conservation at The University of Montana (UM). He is working with
a limnology professor from UM and other scientists on a project
entitled Assessing Ecological
Economic Impacts of Landscape Change in Montana's Flathead County. |
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Feb 9-12, 2004 |
 Chris Fulcher and Yan Barnett attended the
21st Annual Behavioral
Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Conference in Scottsdale,
Arizona on Feb 9-12, 2004. The conference is organized by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).BRFSS is a telephone
survey that tracks health risks in the United States. It was
established by CDC in 1984. The
Division of Behavioral &
Minority Research at the
Center for Health Care Quality, School of Medicine, University of
Missouri - Columbia is responsible for conducting the telephone survey
for Missouri. The Division also conducts research using the BRFSS
data.
CARES has been in collaboration with the Division of Behavioral &
Minority Research in integrating the demographic and health service
indicators with national BRFSS data. Chris and Yan presented the
analysis results through an exhibition booth at the conference. |
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Jan 28, 2004 |
Bryan Mayhan presented Web-based Soils at the 2004 Annual Missouri
Association of Professional Soil Scientists (MAPSS) meeting at the
Tan-tar-A Resort, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, January 28, 2004. The
presentation was part of the informational agenda that coincides with
MAPSS annual business meeting. |
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Jan 21, 2004 |
Bryan Mayhan presented "Using Web-based GIS: the Missouri Map Room"
at the Missouri Small Outflows Conference in Columbia, MO, on
Wednesday, January 21, in two breakout sessions.
The attendance was estimated at approximately 200 people from
government and private sectors. Engineers, soil scientists,
contractors and installers with widely varying spatial analysis skills
were all represented in the audience. |
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January, 2004 |
As part of the
Source
Water Inventory Project (SWIP), CARES has completed the
creation, printing and delivery of over 50,000 maps and data sheets
for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR).CARES
was charged with creating four hard copies of maps and data sheets
for each of the public water supply systems in the state. These maps
and data sheets can also be viewed online at the
SWIP Maps
website. Although the bulk of the SWIP project is now complete,
CARES will continue to work with MoDNR to update the data and make
it available on the internet. |
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Jan 15, 2004 |
Chris Barnett presented on "Using the Web to Learn About Your
Farm and Watershed" at the Nutrient Management Planning Workshop on
January 15, 2004. The workshop was held from 1/13/2004 to 1/15/2004
at the Parkade Center, Columbia, MO. |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
 Chris
Fulcher resumed CARES co-director role starting on January 1,
2004. Chris will co-direct CARES together with Tony Prato and Chris
Barnett. Three directors will focus on different aspects of
management and research areas.Chris Fulcher was a co-director of
CARES prior to January 1, 2003. He took a leave from CARES last
year to focus on the responsibilities as director of
RUPRI Community
Informatics Resource Center (CIRC), an Assistant Professor in
Truman School of Public
Administration and a National Library of Medicine (NLM) Fellow
at the Department of Health
Management and Informatics.
In addition to the CARES Co-Director role, Chris will continue to
complete his NLM fellowship and fulfill his teaching
responsibilities at Truman School. |
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