Did You Know? GRI Offers GIS Mapping Services
June 22, 2005 - MSU's GeoResources Institute offers customized mapping services to the public using GIS on a cost recovery basis. Cost recovery implements an appropriate charge structure based on realistic estimates of ...
GRI Organizes Collaborative Workshop for Coastal Communities
June 22, 2005 - GRI researchers recently organized a collaborative workshop to introduce a pilot project to coastal communities entitled: Linking Coastal Watersheds: A Pilot Project on Collaboration Linking Inland and ...
GRI Research Associate Continues Service at "Woodie Camp" for Teens who Receive Environmental Education and Practical Skills Development
June 8, 2005 - Campers collect samples from one of the 28 surrounding wetlands. - Photo from the Minnesota Waterfowl Association Woodie Camp 2004.Ryan Wersal, GRI research associate, has a passion for teaching young ...
GRI's Change Detection and Feature Extraction Methods Support Census Bureau Map Updates
June 8, 2005 - Color views of rural neighborhood areas for early images (left) are contrasted by later images of the same areas (middle). The right column shows unchanged areas in yellow (black in shade), and areas of ...
Master Gardener University Event Provides Workshop on the Mississippi State University GeoResources Institute Cactus Moth Project
June 3, 2005 - Mississippi State University Extension Service Master Gardener Volunteers from throughout the state learned about the threat of the imported cactus moth to prickly pear cacti populations at the recent ...
GRI Participates in the 2nd Annual Xtreme Weather Fair
May 9, 2005 - Dr. Pat Fitzpatrick and Jim Corbin, of GRI-Stennis, again participated in he Coastal Mississippi Xtreme Weather Fair held at the Stennis International Airport in Bay St. Louis on April 30, 2005. The Weather ...
GRI Researchers Travel Abroad to Study Soybean Rust
May 5, 2005 - Wade Givens and Louis Wasson, research associates from MSU's GeoResources Institute, recently traveled to Encarnacion, Paraguay to conduct research at the Regional Agriculture Investigation Center (CRIA) ...
GRI Scientist Participates in Restoration of the Most Polluted US Lake - Onondaga Lake
March 28, 2005 - Since 1990, Dr. John Madsen has been involved in clean-up efforts for the most polluted lake in America - New York's Lake Onondaga. A century's worth of waste has been dumped into Lake Onondaga and a group ...GRI Researchers Focus on Threat of Biological Terrorism
March 4, 2005 - STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State scientists are helping federal homeland security officials develop a comprehensive plan for detecting potential threats of biological terrorism against U.S. agricultural ...