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November 21, 2008
GIS Day
A community Collaborative Approach for Developing GIS Applications: The Steep Slope Calculator and mapWNC.org
Jason Mann, GIS and Application Services Manager, City of Asheville
Dave Michelson, GIS Analyst, City of Asheville
Gene Hume, GIS Coordinator, Buncombe County
Vicki Magnis, GIS Developer/Analyst, Buncombe County
Greg Dobson, GIS Coordinator, UNC Asheville’s NEMAC
The City of Asheville, Buncombe County, and RENCI – UNC
GIS Technology and Its Applications: Bridging the Gap
Clay Tabor, UNC Asheville Student and NEMAC GIS Student Researcher
Multigraph: A New Tool for Viewing Historical Weather Records in a Geographic Context
Mark Phillips, Research Scientist, UNC Asheville’s NEMAC / NCDC
October 24, 2008
Forest Threats
Exotic Plants in the United States
Qinfeng (Qin) Guo, Research Ecologist, USDA Southern Research Station's Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center
CRAFT: An Integrated Approach to Decision Making
Karin Lichtenstein, Project Manager/Research Scientist at UNC Asheville’s National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center
Climate Change in Western North Carolina: An analysis for understanding, planning, and decision-making at the regional level
Matt Hutchins, Technician, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory
October 3, 2008
Climate Change
Planning for Climate Change: A Handbook for Urban and Rural Area Planners
Joan M. Walker, CERO Summer Intern, NEMAC/NCDC
Climate Change and the Local Economy
Scott Shuford, President, Shuford Planning Services; author of Planning for Climate Change: A Handbook for Urban and Rural Area Planners
The Climate Crisis: Turning Information into Action
Mary Lynn Manns, Associate Professor, Management and Accountancy, UNC Asheville
April 25, 2008
Land Use Planning
Beaches vs. Buildings: Coastal Management in North Carolina
Andy Coburn, Assoc. Director, Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, Western Carolina University
GIS in Support of Regional Planning
Tom Tribble, Manager, Asheville Field Office, NC Center for Geographic Information & Analysis (CGIA)
A Hedonic Valuation of Open Space in Buncombe County
Christie Gonzales, UNC Asheville Math Major and Farmland Values Project Undergraduate Research Student
April 4, 2008
Improving Science and Math Education
Civil Rights and the Algebra Project
Harry Harrison, Executive Director YMI Cultural Center, Former CEO, African American Museum of Philadelphia; VP Museum of African American History in Detroit
Improving STEM Education at UNC Asheville
Sam Kaplan, Associate Professor Mathematics,UNC Asheville
NSF REU Students at UNC Asheville Perform Original Research in Mathematics
Patrick Bahls, Assistant Professor Mathematics, UNC Asheville
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March 28, 2008
Water Resources
Water Quality Trends in Buncombe County Streams
Marilyn Westphal, Volunteer Water Information Network(VWIN) Coordinato, Environmental Quality Institute, UNC Asheville
Watershed Assessment and Restoration: An Overview of Typical State-Level Programs
Barry Evans, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment (PSIE)
Challenges of Water Resource Management: A Regulator's Perspective
G. Landon Davidson, NCDENR - Division of WAter Quality, Aquifer Protection Section
Models for Management, the Owasco Lake Watershed View
Bob Brower, CEO and Chair, Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology (IAGT), Cayuga Community College
February 22 , 2008
Urban Sustainability:
The Built Environment
Sustainability in Asheville Policy Making
Robin Cape, Asheville City Council
The Contribution of Eco-Neighborhoods to Urban Sustainability
Bill Fleming, Westwood Cohousing Community
Adding Up the Built Environment
Joe Minicozzi, Projects Director, Public Interest Projects
The Youth Climate Movement: Mobilizing for the 21st Century and Beyond
Ellie Johnston, Co-Chair of Active Students for a Healthy Environment (ASHE)
February 8, 2008
Climate: Asheville's Economic Development
A Vision for Asheville’s National Leadership in Climate for the Public Good
Ron Gordon Centers for Environmental & Climate Interaction (CECI) Program Manager;The North Carolina Arboretum Director of Economic Development
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center – Climate Services and Drought
Tim Owen, Educative Officer, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
Climate Change and Society Masters Program: An Asheville Graduate Center Update on the UNC Office of the President Planning Grant
Sandra Byrd, Assistant Provost for Graduate and Continuing Education and Associate Professor of Education, UNC Asheville
A Most Convenient Truth: As global attention focuses on climate change, Asheville continues its efforts to attract weather, climate,and environmental technology companies to the area.
Pamela McCown, Director of Marketing, Education and Research Services
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December 7, 2007
Biosphere
No more magic bullets? Try the magic shotgun! ... the Bent Creek Institute's unique approach to developing next-generation treatments for human disease
Jeffrey D. Schmitt, PhD, Bent Creek Institute
The NC Arboretum: Tapping Regional Uniqueness and Opportunity
George Briggs, Executive Director, The NC Arboretum
Monitoring invasive exotic plant species in the National Forests of the Southern Appalachians
Andy Brown, President of Equinox Environmental
Dissection of a Molecular Communication Pathway in Cancer Cells
Thomas E. Meigs Assistant Professor of Biology UNC Asheville
November 16, 2007
GIS Day
Mapping the Past: GIS Use by the Warren Wilson College Archaeology Crew
David Moore, Archaeology Faculty, Warren Wilson College
Andrea Glenn, Warren Wilson College student, Sociology and Anthropology Major
Geo 101, Is It GIS or Geospatial?
Greg Dobson, GIS Research Associate, NEMAC
Integrating GIS and Multimedia
Egg Davis, UNC-Asheville Student/NEMAC Research Student
Mashing Up GIS in the World of Web 2.0
Todd Pierce, Research Scientist, NEMAC
October 26, 2007
The Day After Yesterday: A Look at Different Aspects of Weather
Observing Hurricane Winds from Space
Christopher C. Hennon, Assistant Professor, UNCA Department of Atmospheric Sciences
If a raindrop falls in the middle of Haywood County, does it make a splash?
Douglas K. Miller, Associate Professor and Chairperson
UNCA Atmospheric Sciences Department
Impact of the Southern Appalachian Mountains on the SEMPE IOP-4 event
Christopher McCall Majoring in Atmospheric Science
September 28, 2007
Arts in Economic Development
A Dynamic Performance Center's Impact on the Regional Arts Scene
Carol A. McCollum, Active Community Volunteer
State of the arts in Asheville: arts as a local asset
Adrienne Crowther
Creation of UNCA's Interdisciplinary Craft Campus
Brent Skidmore and Jon Keenan
The Economic Impact of the Arts
Jenny Moore Associate Director of Handmade in America
September 14, 2007
Cutting Edge Visualization
Interactive Visualization Techniques
Mark Phillips, Research Scientist NEMAC and NCDC
Displaying the Brain's Fiber Tracts
David C. Banks, UT/ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Sciences
Radar Data Visualization and Interoperability Tools at NOAA's NCDC
Steve Del Greco Data Processing Branch Chief/ NEXRAD Program Manager NCDC
Sustainability at UNCA: Opportunities for synergies among education, finance, community, and improved campus environmental performance
Dee Eggers, UNCA Faculty, Environmental Studies
A Report Card on Sustainability
Susan Fox, US Forest Service, Southern Research Station
The Sustainability Tsunami
Steve Cochran, Sustainability Strategies
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April 27, 2007
A new paradigm for therapeutics discovery
Jeff Schmitt, Founding Director, Bent Creek Institute (the institute for natural biotechnology and integrative medicine)
The Management of Early Successional Habitat and the Spread of Autumn Olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) in Pisgah National Forest
April Pallette, UNCA Environmental Studies and NEMAC Internship Student
RFID in the Bonsai Exhibition Garden, and the Human Centrifuge in the Health AdventureSusan Reiser, Lecturer in UNCA Computer Science Dept and Associate Director Multimedia Arts & Sciences Dept
Rebecca Bruce and Susan Reiser co-developed and taught two of this year's new Computer Science courses: Radio Frequency IDentification and 3D Modeling. Projects like the design of a context sensitive tour and a museum exhibit allow UNCA students to use technology in service to the Asheville community.
April 13, 2007
Renaissance Computing Institute Engagement Site at UNC Asheville
Update and Overview by Jim Fox NEMAC
Introductions of newest members of NEMAC Mark Phillips and Todd Pierce.
Digital models of Asheville with GIS and SketchUp by Egg Davis and Lisa Schleicher UNCA/NEMAC Students
UNCA Campus Map
by Josh O'Connor UNCA/NEMAC Student
The Applied Visualization Lab
by Alison Watson The Media Arts Project
RENCI Outreach Van for Education and Research
by Bridget O'Hara NEMAC
March 16, 2007
The Farmland Values Project: A Report from the Field
Leah Greden Mathews, UNCA Associate Professor of Economics
Three-Dimensional Zoetropes
Stewart Dickson, Lecturer, UNCA Department of Computer Science; Research Associate, National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center
Leveraging geographic Internet growth as it relates to social networking, to increase awareness of local social fabric
Terry Riney, Owner and CEO, I Go Geo
February 23, 2007
Geographical Information Systems
GIS has become a critical and fully integrated tool for research at NEMAC. A variety of projects are currently underway within NEMAC involving various applications of GIS. While GIS has previously been viewed as primarily a method for spatial analysis research, NEMAC has fully embraced it as an integrated method for Geovisualization. Locally beyond NEMAC, GIS is a widely used and highly dynamic tool for a variety of applications.
mapAsheville - From Data Discovery to Service Delivery
Jason Mann, GIS Coordinator, City of Asheville
Integrating Bayesian Belief Networks into a GIS
Jeff Hicks, UNCA Environmental Studies and NEMAC Intern
GIS at NCDC
Steve Ansari, Physical Scientist, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
February 2, 2007
Technology Cluster of the HUB
Building & using AshevilleHub.com: an old dog & some new tricks
Sean McDonald, Business Development TopFloorStudio (UNCA 2004)
The Vision: Centers for Environmental and Climatic Interaction
Steve Doty, retired meteorologist (NCDC) and volunteer Executive Director, CECI
Bob Shepherd, retired community leader and volunteer Vice-Chairman, CECI and retired Executive director of Land-of-Sky Regional Council.
The state of the ERC Broadband Network
Hunter Goosman, Director of Network Operations ERC Broadband
December 1, 2006
A Short History of the Steel Pan
Susan Weatherford, Program Manager, NEMAC & Mary Hart, Attorney, Hart Law Offices
A Concept for Real-Time Sediment Prediction
Tom Burnet, Chief Hydrologist, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems
Educational Opportunities at NOAA
Carmella Davis Watkins, National Climatic Data Center Educational Outreach Team Leader
November 17, 2006
Integrating Techniques to Predict and Visualize Biodiversity Loss in a Protected Andean Landscape
Brandie L. Fariss, Instructor of Environmental Studies at UNC-Asheville
WRF-NMM MCS Sensitivity in Complex Terrain with Varying PBL Schemes
Jacob Carley, UNCA Atmospheric Science and NEMAC research student
The Climate of Citizenship Education: A longitudinal study
Sandra Byrd, UNCA Assistant Provost for Graduate and Continuing Education &
Associate Professor of Education
October 27, 2006
Assessing Engineering Related Hurricane Risks Along the Gulf Coast
Mike Squires Climatologist, National Climatic Data Center
Adopting a Daughter from China
Marvin Feinblatt, NEMAC Director of Finance/Project Manager
Transportation Planning: Health, Environment, and Equity and Financial savings
Yuri Koslen, UNCA Transportation Planner Harry Johnson, former Transportation Planning Intern, UNCA Environmental Studies student and SGA Senator
October 13, 2006
Historic sedimentation in the southern piedmont: A legacy for modern streams
Karin Lichtenstein, NEMAC Project Manager/ Research Associate
Atmospheric modeling supporting state implementation plans for regional haze, PM2.5, and ozone
Pat Brewer, VISTAS Technical Coordinator
Satellite Data Services from NCDC and CLASS
Axel Graumann, Meteorologist, NOAA National Climatic Data Center
September 22, 2006
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Archer Gravely, Director UNCA Office of Institutional Research
Flood Modeling in a Mountain Environment: A Case Study on the Watauga River in Western North Carlina
J. Greg Dobson, GIS Research Associate, NEMAC
A Cadastral-Based Change Analysis of the French Broad River Basin of Western North Carolina
Carolyn Fryberger, Environmental Studies Major
September 8, 2006
EFETAC Project – NEMAC Collaboration with the US Forest Service
James Fox, Director of Operations, NEMAC
The British are coming! The British are coming!
Paul Revere, noted silversmith (a.k.a. Douglas Miller, Associate Professor, Atmospheric Sciences Department)
ENC Intranet - A MediaWiki Based Intranet
Kenneth Roberts, Jr., Computer Science major and NEMAC research student
April 21, 2006
The Fox and the Duck: Planning the CEDAR archive
Joe Brownsmith
Tsunami Visualization: Challenging General Misconceptions
Matthew C. Brown and J. Gabriel Clapper
Orographically Driven Snowfall and the Northwest Flow in the Southern Appalachians
Jake Crouch
March 31, 2006
Sensitivity of WRF forecasts for South Florida to initial conditions
Brian Etherton
Technology Trends and Curriculum Changes
Marlene Roden
Progress Report- Investigating False-Positive Tornado Warnings in South-east Storm Systems?
R. Chad Hutchins
March 17, 2006
NEMAC -- What Happened, What's Happening, and What Might Happen
John Stevens
NEXRAD - A 10-Year Look
Dr. Brian R. Nelson
Expanding the Capabilities of Traditional Audio Visualization to Aid Researchers
Andrea Fey
February 17, 2006
Sustainability of Our Natural Resources: Efforts of the U.S. Forest Service to Keep Our Forests in Forests
Susan Fox
Leadership, Ethics and Weather Forecasting
Gerry Goertz
Multiple Computing: From Labs to Parallel Processing
Steven Anthony
February 3, 2006
Biotechnology: Its Role in North Carolina and the Western Region
Cheryl S. McMurry
Why Bother? Consumers’ Varying Commitment to Community Supported Agriculture.
Daniel O'Leary
Wind Energy Potential Modeling for the Fort Dauphin Region of Madagascar: Description of a Work in Progress.
Harris W Stewart III
January 20th, 2006
The Renaissance Computing Institute
Dr. Daniel A. Reed
Visualization in the DARPA Virtual Soldier Project
Stewart Dickson
Progress Update: The Integration of WRF Model Forecasts for Mesoscale Convective Systems Interacting with the Mountains of Western North Carolina
Jacob Carley
December 2, 2005
The North Carolina Wine Industry: History, Status and Issues
Gerard Voos
The Historic 2005 Hurricane Season
Dr. Christopher Hennon
Flooding in Romania and the DESWAT Project
Marius Matreata
November 11, 2005
Lead Where You'd Least Expect It - Protecting Children and Adults
Linda Block
A Retrospective of the Project Retrospective
Mary Lynn Manns and Heather Nelson
Sheep and Wool Industry: WNC and Beyond
Steve Birkhofer
October 28, 2005
Strategic Outlook for NCDC Research in an Integrated Observing Environment
Marjorie McGuirk
Dealing with Non-Ideal Data
Brian May
Climate Change in the Geologic Record: What is Man's True Impact?
Jim Fox
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October 14, 2005
Estimating Uncertainty in GIS Applications
Mike Squires
Modeling a Market for Uranium Mine Tailing Disposal with Externalities
David O'Brien-Gamble and Kate Fuller
Building a Vision for the Eastern Forest Environmental Threats Assessment Center (EFETAC)
Danny C. Lee
September 23, 2005
Hurricane Katrina, A Perspective
Grant W. Goodge
NOAA Operational Model Archive & Distribution System Live Access Server
Andrea Fey
Vedic Differential Geometry
Stewart Dickson
