Dr. Kramar, students attend ND Geospatial Summit

Dr. David Kramar from the Department of Anthropology and Earth Sciences and six MSUM students attended the 2019 ND Geospatial Summit conference in Bismarck, ND on Oct 22-23. Dr. Kramar presented his research on using GIS and high-resolution imagery to model above-ground biomass at two Nutrient Network sites at the Regional Science Center. Geosciences undergraduate Asami Minei presented her research […]

Student places in ND Geospatial Summit paper competition

MSUM student Asami Minei won second place in the undergraduate student paper competition at the 2019 North Dakota Geospatial Summit. This award is a wonderful reminder of the quality of work that MSUM students in GIS are producing. Her talk was entitled ” Classification and Calculation of Non-NIR Vegetation Indices from High Resolution UAS Imagery.” Her talk generated significant interest […]

Geosciences faculty, students attend workshop

Karl Leonard, Professor of Geosciences, and two geoscience students (David Ahumada and Karissa Beierle) attended the 2019 Williston Basin Core Workshop. The event familiarized scientists from academia and industry with the 19 hydrocarbon producing horizons represented in rock core housed at the newly remodeled William M. Laird Core Library. The workshop took place October 7 through 10 in Grand Forks, […]