On July 12, 2018, there was a ribbon cutting ceremony for the official opening of the revamped M.B. Johnson Regional Park in Moorhead. The Anthropology and Earth Science department and University were publicly thanked by many speakers for our role in facilitating the cultural resource portion of the project. We have been involved in the expansion of the Moorhead Trail […]
Geoscience professors Karl Leonard and David Kramar attended the 2018 Drone Focus Conference in Fargo, ND on May 30 and 31. The conference included talks by government officials emphasizing the new opportunities for UAS technologies on the northern plains, and workshops on the applications of unmanned aviation systems. Kramar and Leonard are currently conducting student-directed research using UAS at the […]
Metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary are the three types of rocks that students in the third-grade book club at Dorothy Dodds Elementary School learned about last month from Dr. Russell Colson, a professor in the Anthropology and Earth Science Department at Minnesota State University Moorhead. The students read “Maybe a Fox” by Kathi Appelt and Allison McGhee for book club. Since […]
Dr. David Kramar (Anthropology and Earth Science) presented “Object-Oriented Classification and the Use of Non-NIR Vegetation Indices from a Standard UAS Platform,” to the Pine to Prairie GIS Users Group on April 25, 2018 in Fergus Falls, Minn. He offered suggestions for utilizing UAVs as a tool in GIS to this organization of GIS users from Minnesota, North Dakota, and […]
Kay Anderson, GISP, GIS Programs Manager at Cass County Government and Carol Wickenheiser, GISP, Lead GIS Specialist for AE2S, Inc. partnered with MSUM students Caroline Wirries and Alexander Johnson and Dr. David Kramar, Anthropology and Earth Sciences, to present the workshop, “Mapping Your World,” as part of the Expanding Your Horizons Conference on April 7. This conference invites young women […]