The Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council (HIGICC) awarded $1,000 scholarships to Mele Chillingworth from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who worked with the National Park Service to develop GIS maps of Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail, and with the Hawaii Agricultural Water Use Study on an irrigation database and mapping project. Scholarships were also given to Jessica Nalani Leonard from Windward Community College (WCC), who worked with the WCC Marine Option Program to create a GIS of the Waikalua Loko fishpond system.
Northwest Kansas Technical College’s Diesel Technology program in Goodland, Kan., received a $40,000 grant from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation in order to purchase “GPS management systems.” The GPS courses will sit alongside an electronic component curriculum and serve students moving into diesel tech jobs in agriculture, transportation, and the construction.
A new doctoral program in criminal justice at Texas State has been approved, with enrollment now open and classes beginning in fall 2009. The program draws upon Professor Kim Rossmo’s Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation. Graduate students in the doctoral program will be able to work on research project in the Center.
