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Highlights of the 2004 - 2005 report:
Education - THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SPATIAL
TECHNOLOGIES INITIATIVE (EAST).
EAST is a project-based, student-centered,
community-oriented learning initiative that
incorporates technology as tools for problem
solving. Starting out at one rural Arkansas
high school in 1996, EAST is now found in
140 schools in Arkansas, 45 in California, 13
in Illinois, 7 in Hawaii, and 3 in Alabama,
Louisiana, and Mississippi (as of spring
2005). This year CAST staff visited 26
schools in Arkansas.
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NSF RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR
UNDERGRADUATES (REU) AND
THE COMMUNITY ASSET AND
DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION
SYSTEM (CADIS).
CADIS represents a ongoing
community partnership where EAST
high school and recently graduated
high school students participate in a
intensive summer research effort
addressing a critical community
problem using the full range of
technologies available at the Center.
The NSF REU Program supports
undergraduates on the U of A campus
from campuses around the U.S.
directly exposing them to research.
This year these programs have been
combined.
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EDUCATIONAL TALENT SEARCH.
Educational Talent Search is an early
intervention project. Serving 1,200 students
in grades 6-12. The program promotes the
skills and motivation necessary for
successfully completing a baccalaureate
degree. Summer enrichment of each and
campus-based events provide ongoing
opportunities for institutional and faculty
involvement.
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Research - RESEARCH FUNDING.
A total of 20 new research proposals were
funded in Fiscal Year 2005 with a total award
amount of $1,866,665.
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COMPUTING & RETRIEVING 3D
ARCHEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES FROM
SUBSURFACE SURVEY.
In this project, funded by the National
Science Foundation, CAST staff and
collaborating archeologists from
Universidad Mayor des San Andres,
University of Pennsylvania, University of
Denver, and Harvard University will collect
very large detailed, three-dimensional
geophysical datasets from approximately
60 subterranean acres of Tiwanaku.
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DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE
TRACKING AND MAPPING
SYSTEM OF MALLARD DUCKS.
During the spring of 2004, Arkansas
Game and Fish Commission
biologists placed radio transmitters
on 28 mallards. With the locations of
each transmitter equipped mallard,
they can be measured to within 300
hundred meters on a weekly or even
daily basis and stored in a groundbased
computer.
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Public Service - BOARD MEMBERSHIP. Cast members serve on numerous
national, state, and local boards.
Jack Cothren serves on the
Editorial Board of Earth Imaging
Journal and the Board of the
American Society of Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing.
Fred Limp serves on the Boards of
the Open Geospatial
Interoperability Institute, the Oracle
North America Spatial Interest
Group, the EAST Board, the
Arkansas State Land Board
Information Board, and the UA
Information Technology Research
Institute.
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STATE SERVICE. The Center provides a range of public service throughout the state. In the last fiscal years, an important arena of assistance was to support the legislature in a variety of initiatives. Special demonstration efforts were offered to legislators such as Shane Broadway, Jim Argue, Sue Madison, and Jan Judy, to the Legislative Research Bureau as well as help provided to the Arkansas Geographic Information Office in a number of areas. CAST staff are actively supporting Arkansas’ (and other state’s) schools and communities through the EAST Project and AmericaView programs, described in detail in the Research section. Among the Arkansas schools visited by EAST were: Little Rock, Fayetteville, Farmington, Gravette, Lincoln, Perryville, Clinton, Southside, Dumas, Cave, Henderson, Morrilton, Camden, Lake Village, McGehee, Smackover, Augusta, Brinkley, Vilonia, and Greenbrier. Outside the state, schools were visited or school workshops were offered in Chicago IL, Eureka CA, Berkeley CA, and Sacramento CA. Gorham provided a wide range of assistance to groups around the state in the selection of image product and data, al well as in acquiring and using GPS data. Page 47
LOCAL SERVICE. Cristina Scarlat, Jack Cothren, and Brian Culpepper provided an extensive amount of technical assistance to many groups in Northwest Arkansas, particularly to the Northwest Arkansas Planning Commission and to the Northwest Arkansas Image Acquisition Task Force in their very successful region-wide image and LIDAR data acquisition effort. As part of that effort, Culpepper also completed a horizontal accuracy assessment of the 2004 Washington County orthoimagery. Scarlat also aided the Planning Commission in their regional transportation planning efforts. Cothren served as a Northwest Arkansas Science Fair Judge. Page 47
CAMPUS SERVICE.
The Center has active service efforts with a wide range of campus units. John Wilson
provides dozens of units on the campus with ESRI software technical support. The
Center works closely with the UA Center for Economic Development, Facilities
Management, UA Extension, and many other departments.
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The remainder of the document is divided into sections that are viewable in Adobe PDF
Highlights of FY 2004 - 2005: Education | Research | Public Service
Research and Externally Funded Projects
Appendix A: Publications
Appendix B: Public Service
Appendix C: Staff Listing
Appendix D: Award Report from RSSP
Appendix E: Selected Articles
- Donation of Software to aid mapping at UA
- Teen tech whizzes finding state no job haven after high school
- New Maps Debut Online
- Key Earth Imagery Technology Developments
- Track the Ducks Here
- 'Ambassador' Unites Diverse Disciplines, Unique Research Capabilities
- ArcGIS 9.0 A User's Guide to Changes and Added Functionality
- Quicktake Review Keyhole Pro
- Quicktake Review Express Server 5.0
