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2 Day GIS Training to be held

The Department of Education is excited to have Dr. Joseph Kerski from the US Geological Survey in Denver, CO conduct a 2-day GIS training in Pierre on February 6^th and 7^th.    This training is FREE to 30 teachers across the state of South Dakota.  The workshop is for teachers who have taken advantage of the TTL-GPS two-week training and also for schools that have requested the ArcView software from DOE.
 

Please join Joseph Kerski and teachers from across South Dakota for a hands-on investigation using GIS and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) that will engage you and your future students.  These investigations will include:

*analyzing population growth and decline of South Dakota's counties from 1900 to 2000;
*determining the best location for a fire tower in the Black Hills given criteria of slope;
*elevation, and roadways;
*analyzing neighborhood demographics in your own community;
*collecting field data and locations with GPS receivers and mapping them with a GIS;  
*studying the pattern of earthquakes and tornadoes across South Dakota;
*locating the best site for studying needle grass (stipa comata) given criteria of proximity to school, distance to streams, and soil and;
* studying the pattern of snowfall across the state over a 40-year period.

For more information on this workshop contact Gay Pickner at 280-3613 or Gay.Pickner@state.sd.us.  To register go to: http://www.state.sd.us/deca/DDN4Learning/statewide/GPS/.