UTTC TRESTE Participation Highlights

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UTTC TRESTE Participation Highlights

• NASA-USRA-SGU GrantJune 7, 2007Blackfeet
  Community College
• Browning MT

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Presentation Outline

• Year 1 Recap
• Year 2 Highlights
• Year 3 Plans

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Year 1 Recap

• Identified existing courses
• GEO 125 - Fundamentals of GIS, GPS, RS
• SCI 102 - Physical science with Earth Science
  Emphasis
• Targeted additional courses for revision
• TES 095 - Peer Tutor
• BIO 124 - Environmental Science
• Deployed PBL/ solutions based learning and case
  studies resulting in
• enhanced student engagement and participation,
• more opportunities to gain project work and
  problem solving experience

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Year 1 Recap - continued

• Outreach
• Nakotas on the Prairie science day-camp
• 25 4th through 8th graders
• Earth Science, Intro to Meteorology, water
  quality and soils, GPS applications
• Summer Teacher Institute
• Earth science, rocketry, water and soils, Intro
  to GIS/GPS/RS

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Nokotas Science Camp

• Earth Science class
• 25 4-8th graders

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Nakotas - Linton outing

• Overnight camping
• Horse herd genetics
• Water and soil sampling/ measurement
• GPS applications
• Star Knowledge
• Smores

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Nokotas - Linton outing

• Bird/ Plant Identification
• Mixed grass prairie ecosystem
• Water analysis and soil sampling/analysis
• GPS applications

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Year 2 Highlights

• Additional courses targeted and revised
• TES 101 - Research I thru TES 250 Capstone
  Research IV 4 courses incorporating application
  of geospatial technology to study areas
• Additional degree plans added GEO 125 course to
  curricula
• Injury Prevention
• Computer Information Technology (CIT)
• Revised and expanded GEO 125 Fundamentals of
  GIS/GPS/RS
• Expanded use of Problem/Solutions Based Learning
  and case studies
• Began development of GEO 126 GIS/GPS/RS
  Applications course
• Planned for Spring 2008 rollout
• Faculty and student summer research utilizes
  GIS/GPS/RS

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Undergraduate Research Examples

• Keystone species ecological/ microclimate impact
  study
• Beaver activity in Oak Creek watershed, Standing
  Rock
• Hydrology, GIS/GPS/RS, Soil science, climate
  change, drought mitigation
• Dr, Carol Johnston SDSU faculty mentor

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Undergraduate Research Examples

• AIHEC Science Poster Competitors
• Marla Collins Beaver study
• Sheila Cain Phytochemicals in traditional
  plants
• Ron Campbell Pine Ridge rural sprawl geospatial
  analysis

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Year 2 Highlights - continued

• Acquired AeroCam data over campus
• Data and imagery used by
• faculty and students in coursework,
• Facilities staff for planning and maintenance,
• Green committee and SEEDS chapter for
  landscaping, nature trail planning, and habitat
  restoration
• Selected weather station site
• Pending Review and approval by Facilities Dept.
• Will be installed w/ security fence and
  operational by mid-August
• Fall 07 TES students and Jamerson Elementary
  teachers and pupils will collect and analyze data

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Weather Station

• Campus aerial photo with proposed weather station
  location (blue dot)
• NWS regional weather station with Doppler radar
  next door for comparison

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AEROCAM Imagery
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Landscaping Projects
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Landscaping Projects

• Tree and shrub planting
• Green Committee and SEEDS Chapter
• Employed infrared temperature guage
• Used RS imagery and GPS technology

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Landscaping Projects

• Windbreak and noise barrier plantings
• University Drive
• Employed infrared temperature guage
• Used RS imagery and GPS technology

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Landscaping Projects

• Native grasses
• Boxes placed at various locations selected using
  RS imagery and GPS technology
• Infrared temperature guage employed during
  planting

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Year 3 Plans

• Faculty and student team (3 or 4) to Goddard SFC
  for 6 8 weeks in Summer 2008
• Then 2 trips to EROS in Sioux Falls for data
  acquisition and training
• Goal is to acquire and format comprehensive data
  sets over 1851/1868 Treaty areas and NPNEON
  domain for loading into our GIS server at UTTC
• Geospatial technology will then be significantly
  expanded for teaching, research, and outreach

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Progress along the GIS Application Continuum
Data Compilation
Infrastructure Management
Descriptive
Predictive
Prescriptive
Data Entry Attribute Loading Digitizing Topologica
l Loading
Land Records Mgmt. Resource Inventories Systems
Integration
Thematic Mapping Harvest Mapping Integrated
Planning
Suitability Analysis Forest Fire
Modeling Wildlife Habitat Modeling
Ecosystem Simulation Atmospheric
Modeling Hydrologic Modeling
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Questions ??
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• United Tribes Technical College Contacts
• Jen Janecek-Hartman, jjanecek_at_uttc.edu
• Mike Collins, mcollins_at_uttc.edu