Assistant Professor Stephen Brown shows John
Jay High School students a precision agriculture
vehicle he designed equipped with GIS/GPS
technology. Brown is one of the scheduled
presenters at the Oct. 26 GIS in Texas
Education meeting on the 1604 Campus.
UTSA hosts GIS in Texas education meeting Oct. 26
(Oct 11, 2002)--The University of Texas at San Antonio will host the Geographic Information Systems in Texas Education (GISTXED) meeting 8:30 a.m-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, in Science Building Room 2.01.12 on the 1604 Campus. The purpose of the meeting is to promote uniformity and high standards in GIS education across the state and to help educators more easily implement GIS programs now mandated in the state's high school geography curriculum.
GISTXED is an affiliation of Texas colleges and universities that promotes
the use of GIS in all academic fields and works to establish GIS educational
standards in Texas. Educators attending the meeting teach GIS courses from
grade school to the graduate level. Discussion topics will include, "GIS
over the Internet," "Precision Agriculture Education Utilizing GIS"
and "The Increasing Importance of Technology Education."
UTSA Assistant Professor Stephen Brown is currently using GIS technology
in a nine-month survey that will reveal how trees in urban San Antonio impact
the city's air quality, energy consumption and storm-water runoff. Brown and
his students recently helped the city of Hollywood Park map its white-tailed
deer population.
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