Education Tidbits
Professor of Geosciences M. Scott Wilkerson at the DePauw University not only used Google Earth in his geology classes he and his wife, a GIS specialist, wrote the aGeotours workbook to accompany one of the intro textbooks.
A team of Colorado State University researchers, grads and undergrads and DigitalGlobe won a $1 million contract from the National Science Foundation to create computers better able to withstand lightning, floods and other natural disasters. The money comes from the stimulus bill.
Bucks County Community College (PA) will offer a new course in “GIS for land use planning and environmental technology.”
