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UTTC
TRESTE Participation
Highlights
7/20/2015
NASA-USRA-SGU Grant
June 7, 2007
Blackfeet Community College
Browning MT
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Presentation Outline
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Year 1 Recap
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Year 2 Highlights
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Year 3 Plans
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Year 1 Recap
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Identified existing courses
– GEO 125 - Fundamentals of GIS, GPS, RS
– SCI 102 - Physical science with Earth Science
Emphasis
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Targeted additional courses for revision
– TES 095 - Peer Tutor
– BIO 124 - Environmental Science
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Deployed PBL/ solutions based learning and case studies resulting in
– enhanced student engagement and participation,
– more opportunities to gain project work and problem solving experience
Year 1 Recap - continued
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Outreach
– “Nakotas on the Prairie” science day-camp
• 25 4th through 8th graders
• Earth Science, Intro to Meteorology, water quality
and soils, GPS applications
– Summer Teacher Institute
• Earth science, rocketry, water and soils, Intro to
GIS/GPS/RS
Nokotas Science Camp
Earth Science
class
25 4-8th graders
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Nakotas - Linton outing
Overnight camping
Horse herd – genetics
Water and soil
sampling/
measurement
GPS applications
Star Knowledge
S’mores
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Nokotas - Linton outing
Bird/ Plant
Identification
Mixed grass prairie
ecosystem
Water analysis and
soil
sampling/analysis
GPS applications
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Year 2 Highlights
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Additional courses targeted and revised
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TES 101 - Research I thru TES 250– Capstone Research IV: 4 courses incorporating
application of geospatial technology to study areas
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Additional degree plans added GEO 125 course to curricula
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Injury Prevention
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Computer Information Technology (CIT)
Revised and expanded GEO 125 – Fundamentals of GIS/GPS/RS
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Began development of GEO 126 GIS/GPS/RS Applications course
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Expanded use of Problem/Solutions Based Learning and case studies
Planned for Spring 2008 rollout
Faculty and student summer research utilizes GIS/GPS/RS
Undergraduate Research Examples
Keystone species
ecological/
microclimate impact
study
Beaver activity in Oak
Creek watershed,
Standing Rock
Hydrology, GIS/GPS/RS,
Soil science, climate
change, drought
mitigation
Dr, Carol Johnston SDSU
faculty mentor
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Undergraduate Research Examples
AIHEC Science Poster
Competitors
Marla Collins – Beaver
study
Sheila Cain –
Phytochemicals in
traditional plants
Ron Campbell – Pine
Ridge rural sprawl
geospatial analysis
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Year 2 Highlights - continued
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Acquired AeroCam data over campus
– Data and imagery used by
• faculty and students in coursework,
• Facilities staff for planning and maintenance,
• Green committee and SEEDS chapter for landscaping, nature trail planning,
and habitat restoration
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Selected weather station site
– Pending Review and approval by Facilities Dept.
– Will be installed w/ security fence and operational by mid-August
– Fall ’07 TES students and Jamerson Elementary teachers and pupils will
collect and analyze data
Weather Station
Campus aerial
photo with
proposed
weather station
location (blue
dot)
NWS regional
weather station
with Doppler
radar next door
for comparison
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AEROCAM Imagery
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Landscaping Projects
United Tribes Technical College
Medicine Wheel
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Landscaping Projects
Tree and shrub
planting
Green Committee
and SEEDS
Chapter
Employed
infrared
temperature
guage
Used RS imagery
and GPS
technology
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Landscaping Projects
Windbreak and
noise barrier
plantings
University Drive
Employed infrared
temperature
guage
Used RS imagery
and GPS
technology
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Landscaping Projects
Native grasses
Boxes placed at
various
locations
selected
using RS
imagery and
GPS
technology
Infrared
temperature
guage
employed
during
planting
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Year 3 Plans
Faculty and student team (3 or
4) to Goddard SFC for 6 – 8
weeks in Summer 2008
Then 2 trips to EROS in Sioux
Falls for data acquisition and
training
Goal is to acquire and format
comprehensive data sets
over 1851/1868 Treaty areas
and NPNEON domain for
loading into our GIS server
at UTTC
Geospatial technology will then
be significantly expanded for
teaching, research, and
outreach
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Progress along the GIS Application Continuum
Data
Compilation
Infrastructure
Management
Descriptive
Predictive
Prescriptive
Data Entry
Attribute
Loading
Digitizing
Topological
Loading
Land
Records
Mgmt.
Resource
Inventories
Systems
Integration
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Thematic
Mapping
Harvest
Mapping
Integrated
Planning
Suitability
Analysis
Forest
Fire
Modeling
Wildlife
Habitat
Modeling
Ecosystem
Simulation
Atmospheric
Modeling
Hydrologic
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Modeling
Questions ??
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United Tribes Technical College
Contacts:
Jen Janecek-Hartman, [email protected]
Mike Collins, [email protected]
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