Arctic GIS Workshop Poster Abstract

22-24 January 2001
Bell Harbor International Conference Center
Seattle, Washington

GIS, Remote Sensing, and the Intranet in the US Army Corps of Engineers: ENGLink Interactive for Emergency Management

Debra Meese
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 72 Lyme Road Hanover, NH 03755-1290, Phone: 603/646-4594, Fax: 603/646-4644, dmeese@crrel.usace.army.mil

The US Army Corps of Engineers makes extensive use of imagery and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in managing emergency response and recovery. As part of a new initiative, the Corps is developing an integrated system for communications, command and control: ENGLink Interactive (EI). This poster illustrates EI's Intraneted mapping and database components, which enable rapid access to baseline and event-specific data.

Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic - TEA Bringing Research Into Classrooms

Debra Meese¹, Stephanie Shipp², Clarice Yentsch^3
1 Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 72 Lyme Road Hanover, NH 03755-1290, Phone: 603/646-4594, Fax: 603/646-4644, dmeese@crrel.usace.army.mil
² Rice University, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77005, shippst@ruf.rice.edu
³American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, claricey@amnh.org

The centerpiece of the Teachers Expereincing Antarctica and the Arctic (TEA) Program is a research experience in which a K-12 teacher participates in a polar expedition. The TEA teacher works closely with scientists, participates in cutting-edge research, and is immersed in the process of science. Enveloping this field experience is a diversity of professional development opportunities through which TEA teachers increase content knowledge, enhance teaching skills, transfer the experience to the classroom, assume leadership roles, and collaborate with a network of researchers and education colleagues. TEA is a partnership between teachers, researchers, students, the school district, and the community.