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April 25,
2008 - Carbon Offset Symposium, Jordan Hall, Room 1216, beginning at 8:30 AM, with a free catered lunch, and dismissing at 3:30 pm with a reception.
April 5,
2008 - Neuse River Spring Clean Up volunteers collected 9260 pounds of garbage. Clean-up Coordinator Ernie Hain organized a site clean up near Lockwood Playground. CEO members Kevin Bigsby, Christopher DeRolph, Damian Maddalena, and Laura Tateosian also participated in the clean up.
April 3,
2008 - Margaret Blanchard received the Outstanding Natural Resources Student Award
March 27, 2008
- Hugh Devine, Justin Shedd, and Laura Tateosian received $65,000 from the National Park Service, Southeast Region Fire and Fuels Program to develop Fire Program Analysis data and a Fire Geodatabase for the region. During the last two years, Shedd has been performing similar tasks for Fire Programs in the Northeast and National Capital Regions. According to Shedd, his job title has been expanded to Fire GIS Czar for the Eastern Seaboard.
February,
2008 - Dr. Hugh Devine nominated for the NCSU Graduate Faculty Award.
August 25, 2007 - Stacy Nelson received $66,330 for a two-year study to assess watershed conditions at George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Virginia and at Thomas Stone National Historic Site in Maryland. These landscape-scale watershed condition assessments are intended to provide detailed information for natural resource management and conservation. Ernie Hain has a lead role in compiling and analyzing data for the assessments.
April, 2007 - The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Water Quality awarded $80,000 to Hugh Devine to develop a GIS-based web map system for public access to basin-wide water quality plans and associated information. Damian Maddalena has developed a prototype system for the Yadkin and Broad River basins and, in February 2008, presented a paper, “Integrating Basinwide Water Quality Plans in Google Earth to Provide Efficient & Effective Document Distribution and Connect Water Quality Concepts to the Landscape in a Geographic Context,” at the USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service National Water Conference in Sparks, Nevada.
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