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Campus, community to celebrate GIS Day today
Kate Stickelmaier
Issue date: 11/14/07 Section: News
On campus and across the community, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day, as part of an international initiative, will be celebrated today, Wednesday the 14th, during National Geography Awareness Week.
GIS Day on campus will consist of a number of fun and interesting activities and will be held in Felmley Hall from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
One event will include a presentation by Tari Tweddale, assistant research scientist and the coordinator of the Illinois Gap Analysis Program at the Illinois Natural History Survey in the Division of Ecology and Conservation Science and the Section for Wildlife and Plant Ecology in Urbana, Ill.
Tweddale's presentation is entitled Modeling Vertebrate Species Destruction in the Illinois GAP Analysis and will take place in Schroeder Hall Room 201 at 11 a.m.
"Tweddale will be speaking on vertebrate modeling, which sounds complicated, but is an important methodology that uses geographic information systems to make a scientifically based estimate of where in Illinois we can find certain species of birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals," Gretchen Knapp, research associate at ISU's Institute for Geospatial Analysis and Mapping, said.
According to Knapp, the Illinois GAP Analysis Project is vitally important to Illinois as the state only has less than 1 percent of its original landscape such as prairie.
"As natural lands are developed into retail stores, subdivisions, etc., the animals [that] depend on those habitats for food and shelter either go somewhere else, or more commonly, die off," Knapp said.
The Illinois GAP Analysis Project is one of many state programs used to determine which land areas are the highest priority to protect so that their native species, such as birds, will continue to survive.
"A handful of organisms are able to adapt to urban life, but some of them, like the house sparrow, are not native to North America," Knapp said. "They out compete our native birds for food sources."
GIS Day on campus will consist of a number of fun and interesting activities and will be held in Felmley Hall from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
One event will include a presentation by Tari Tweddale, assistant research scientist and the coordinator of the Illinois Gap Analysis Program at the Illinois Natural History Survey in the Division of Ecology and Conservation Science and the Section for Wildlife and Plant Ecology in Urbana, Ill.
Tweddale's presentation is entitled Modeling Vertebrate Species Destruction in the Illinois GAP Analysis and will take place in Schroeder Hall Room 201 at 11 a.m.
"Tweddale will be speaking on vertebrate modeling, which sounds complicated, but is an important methodology that uses geographic information systems to make a scientifically based estimate of where in Illinois we can find certain species of birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals," Gretchen Knapp, research associate at ISU's Institute for Geospatial Analysis and Mapping, said.
According to Knapp, the Illinois GAP Analysis Project is vitally important to Illinois as the state only has less than 1 percent of its original landscape such as prairie.
"As natural lands are developed into retail stores, subdivisions, etc., the animals [that] depend on those habitats for food and shelter either go somewhere else, or more commonly, die off," Knapp said.
The Illinois GAP Analysis Project is one of many state programs used to determine which land areas are the highest priority to protect so that their native species, such as birds, will continue to survive.
"A handful of organisms are able to adapt to urban life, but some of them, like the house sparrow, are not native to North America," Knapp said. "They out compete our native birds for food sources."
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