Specifically, the foundation gave $1.5 million to the Environmental Science and Policy Program at the College of William and Mary to establish a Center for Geospatial Analysis and a “teacher-scholar” postdoctoral program in the interdisciplinary environmental science program.
A geologist, associate professor Greg Hancock, will coordinate the establishment of the Center for Geospatial Analysis (CGA).
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school paper refers to GIS as "an emerging technology that uses computers to plot, layer and organize data." The center, it notes, is "one of the first in the nation at a liberal arts college of William and Mary’s size."
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