19 GIS and IT Advancements in the Geosciences II

Thursday, 25 March 2004
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Presentations

• 1:00 PM
  BUILDING A GEOSPATIAL/TEMPORAL DATABASE FOR ASSESSING SEDIMENT EROSION IN THE SUSQUEHANNA WATERSHED: CONTRIBUTIONS OF ASTER, LANDSAT-7 ETM AND ALI IMAGERY
  Bernard E. Hubbard, U. S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and Robert G. Clark, U. S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and Allen C. Gellis, U. S. Geol Survey, Baltimore, MD and Milan J. Pavich, USGS, Reston, VA and John C. Mars, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA
  69889 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 1:20 PM
  GEOSPATIAL METADATA IN THE GEOSCIENCES
  Peter N. Schweitzer, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA
  70102 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 1:40 PM
  IT TECHNOLOGY FOR THE NATIONAL GEOLOGIC MAP DATABASE
  David R. Soller, US Geol Survey, Reston, VA and Thomas M. Berg, Ohio Div of Geol Survey, Columbus, OH
  69270 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 2:00 PM
  THE TETHYS DATABASE: A WEB-BASED GIS
  M. Sultan, Univ at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and Eileen Ballerstein, Univ at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and Martin Flower, Univesity of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, IL and Eric Sandvol, Univ of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO and Shuhab Danishwar, Univ of Houston, Houston, TX and Richard Becker, Univ at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and C. Sandvol, Univ of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO and Adam Milewski, Univ at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and G. Sidhardhan, Univ at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and Nakul Manocha, Univ at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  70439 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 2:20 PM
  : MAPPING THE PUERTO RICO TRENCH; AN EXAMPLE OF DATA INTEGRATION INTO GIS WITH EXTRACTION TO NEW DISPLAYS, ANIMATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
  Chris Polloni, USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology, Woods Hole, MA and W.W. Danforth, USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology, Woods Hole, MA and D.S. Foster, USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology, Woods Hole, MA and U.S. ten Brink, USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology, Woods Hole, MA
  70126 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 3:00 PM
  PRECISE CONVERSION OF PAPER GEOLOGIC MAPS TO VALUE-ADDED DIGITAL PRODUCTS: THE MASSACHUSETTS METHOD FOR SURFICIAL GEOLOGY
  S.B. Mabee, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and Byron D. Stone, U.S. Geol Survey, Groton, CT and Janet R. Stone, U.S. Geol Survey, Groton, CT
  71011 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 3:20 PM
  THE NATIONAL MAP: OPEN STANDARDS FOUNDATION FOR THE NATION’S 21ST CENTURY TOPOGRAPHIC MAP
  Robin Fegeas, Reston, VA
  70363 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 3:40 PM
  GEO-IT IN ACTION: A WEB-BASED COURSE IN THE SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF GEOHAZARDS USING ARCGIS
  David Davis, ESRI, Redlands, CA and William Harbert, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  70347 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 4:00 PM
  GEOPHYSICAL MAPPING OF A ROCKY COASTAL EMBAYMENT: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM USGS SEA FLOOR MAPPING EFFORT IN NORTHERN MASSACHUSETTS
  Brian D. Andrews, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA and Ilya Buynevich, U.S. Geol Survey, Woods Hole, MA and Bradford Butman, U.S. Geol Survey, Woods Hole, MA and Bill Danforth, U.S. Geol Survey, Woods Hole, MA
  70925 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)