News and Events, 2006

At the meetings Bryan will present the poster presentation "Internet-Based Soil Survey Database Management System" developed in collaboration with Jennifer Goyne and Garry Gunder, both CARES associates. He will also orally present "Soil Map Unit Distribution and Landscape Analysis: Applications for Major Land Resource Area Soil Survey Moderization" which highlights work performed in support of the Cooperative Soil Survey in Missouri. Mr. Brenton Myers and Dr. Randall Miles offered major contributions to his presentation.

Bryan has preformed a supporting role in Mr. Brent Myers' presentation "A Quantitative Pedology Approach to Continuous Soil Landscape Models". Jennifer Goyne has provided GIS support to Ms. Crystal Frey and her poster presentation "Utilization of Pedological and Geomorphological Characteristics to Assess Planar Borrowing at a Mandan Indian Village, North Dakota".

The annual ASA-CSA-SSSA meetings bring together 3,500+ people from 50+ countries representing academia, government and private industry, including a large contingent of undergraduate and graduate students.

Michael participated in the Source Water Inventory Project. He was also one of the core staff members for the Missouri Hypsography Work-Share Agreement project, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Floodplain Mapping project. Michael will manage and coordinate the "Rapid Watershed Assessments for Four Missouri Watersheds" project.

Congratulations, Michael!

Jeff earned a Master's degree in Geography from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2004. He had been a project manager at the Economic Development Resources in St. Louis, MO since September 2005. Jeff also worked as a GIS student worker at Missouri Resources Assessment Partnership (MoRAP) from February to September, 2005.

Michelle comes to us from Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW). She was a GIS Specialist at Colorado Division of Wildlife for over 4 years. Prior to CDOW, Michelle worked as a Fish and Wildlife Biologist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Cheyenne, Wyoming from June 2001 to February 2002. Michelle holds a Master's degree in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Arizona, and a Bachelor's degree in Wildlife Management from the University of New Hampshire.

Jeff and Michelle will participate in the projects related to Community Information Resource Center (CIRC) initiative. Welcome, Jeff and Michelle!

Tony also presented on "Integrated Analysis of Weed Management Practices to Reduce Atrazine Contamination in a Missouri Watershed" at the October 10-12, 2006 conference in Kansas City, Missouri on Managing Landscapes for Environmental Quality: Strengthening the Science Base, sponsored by the Soil and Water Conservation Society.

For power point presentations of both conferences contact Tony at pratoa@missouri.edu.

The article concludes: “A pilot program to evaluate the pros and cons of the proposed adaptive management approach to managing adverse impacts of climate and landscape change would provide valuable information. It would develop and evaluate the adaptive management approach and decision support tool for a sample of managed ecosystems that encompasses a range of natural resource and environmental conditions, human uses and values, and availabilities of scientific information and technical expertise. Results of the pilot program could be used to identify conditions under which the approach is most likely to be feasible (that is, when expected benefits exceed expected costs).”
 

Chris Fulcher will present on "Bridging the Rural-Urban Differential using Internet GIS for Policy Analysis". Yan Barnett will present the dSpin website - "disAbility Spin: Disability Community Connection in Missouri".

URISA is a nonprofit association of professionals using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other information technologies. The URISA Annual Conference offers a unique multidisciplinary approach. The theme of this year's annual conference is "Challenge the Limits", in an attempt to go beyond basic technology and applications and contemplate issues related to designing, managing and applying information technology.

The visitors toured CARES facility. Co-Director Chris Barnett presented several on-going CARES projects on GIS applications and data dissemination for natural resource managment.

This roundtable event generated a one day discussion of Geospatial Web Services in the state of Missouri. The agenda addressed the topics areas of ArcSDE, ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server and other solutions.

The event was sponsored by Missouri Geographic Information Systems Advisory Committee (MGISAC), and co-sponsored by 20 other agencies including CARES.

CARES staff and Dr. John Lory of MU's Commercial Agriculture Program met 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.

Tony authored four chapters in the book (i.e., Role of Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Natural Resource Management, Multiple Attribute Evaluation of Management Alternatives for the Missouri River System, Multiple Attribute Evaluation for National Park Management, and The Future of MCDA in Natural Resource Management: Some Generalizations). The book applies MCDA to the management of water, forestry, wetland, and other natural resources in several countries, demonstrates how MCDA can be used to substantially improve the design and implementation of natural resource and environmental policies, and gives in-depth analysis of the potential problems in applying these techniques.

For more information about the book, including placing an order, go to https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?key1=&key2=&orig=results&isbn=0 7546 4596 7.

Prior to joining CARES, Steven was a Research Assistant - Consultant at the U.S. Geological Survey Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit at MU. Steven brings with him a broad range of experiences on application development, fish and wildlife, flood mapping, and statistics. Welcome, Steve!

Richard was an integral part of the Missouri Hypsography Work-Share Agreement project, completed in 2005. He is currently a core staff member on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Floodplain Mapping project. In addition, Richard took on the responsibilities of helping CARES website users with their questions, maintaining Disability Spin website, and gathering GIS layers for other projects such as MO Food Bank and Flathead County, MT.

Congratulations, Richard!

Chris will hold hands-on sessions on "Internet Mapping Tools for Missouri". Tools for accessing information from the state level to the farm level will be discussed. Participants will learn how to access information on Missouri's natural resources, demographics and infrastructure. Example applications at the farm level will be highlighted. Chris held similar workshops at the clinic in July, 2003.

Dr. Goyne will be giving a presentation on “Antibiotic Sorption to Mesoporous and Nonporous Alumia and Silica”. Jennifer is hoping to attend one or two sessions as well as possibly giving a demonstration of the CARES soils website.

The class is offered through the Microcomputer Program at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.

Tony Prato is internationally recognized as a leader in natural resource economics research. He has co-authored three books and numerous journal articles on economics, policy issues and natural resources use and management. Dr. Prato's best-known research has dealt with agricultural production impacts water quality.

Prato, who has been at MU for 17 years, serves in many roles. He is professor of agricultural economics, co-director for the Center for Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Systems (CARES), Director of the Missouri River Institute, and Director of the Upper and Middle Mississippi Valley Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (UMMV CESU). He holds Doctorate in agricultural economics from the University of California-Berkeley.

Jennifer holds a B.S. degree in Agricultural Engineering and a Minor in Environmental Resources Management from the Pennsylvania State University. She is also a trainer for Personal and Multi-User Geodatabase.

Welcome, Jennifer!

The 2006 Ag Sciences Week and Show-Me Ag Classic activities are taken place during the week of January 30th in the Hearnes Center of MU campus. The events are sponsored by the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources; the Missouri Soybean Association; the Missouri Corn Growers Association; and the Missouri Ag Industries Council, Inc.

All data and functions from the previous version are available through the new interface. To easy the transition, the old version is still available to the users.

MU strengthened its international ties with South Korea as MU Chancellor Brady Deaton signed a memorandum of understanding with Myeong-Ho Song, mayor of Pyeongtaek City, South Korea, on September 28, 2005. The agreement established a framework for collaboration between Pyeongtaek City and MU.

Dr. Fulcher's visit is part of the collaboration between Pyeongtaek City and the CAFNR. During his visit, Dr. Fulcher will also meet with researchers at Korea Rural Development Administration (RDA) and Korea Economic Information Service (KEIS). CARES currently has a joint research project with RDA.

Pyeongtaek City is located in southwestern part of Gyeonggi Province, 70 kilometers (42 miles) south of Seoul. The city has about 380,000 population in 2005.

(Above photo: Dr. Chris Fulcher and Myeong-Ho Song, mayor of Pyeongtaek City, South Korea. Photo taken at MU on 9/28/2005).

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