Dr. David Kramar from Geosciences was recently invited to collaborate on a bald eagle telemetry and banding project in Iowa with researchers from Conservation Science Global and the USFWS out of the Moline, IL office. The project required accessing the eagle nests and capturing the juvenile eagles so they could be outfitted with high-resolution GSM-GPS telemetry units. The purpose of […]
Dr. David Kramar and undergraduate Geosciences student Asami Minei attended the 2019 National Conference of the American Association of Geographers in Washington D.C. from April 3 – April 7. At the conference, they presented their research entitled “Application of Object-Oriented Classification and Non-NIR Vegetation Indices to Quantify Prairie Restoration Efforts at Two Sites in Western MN.” Co-authored by Dr. Valquiria […]
Dr. David Kramar and colleagues from Virginia recently had their manuscript entitled “Mercury concentrations in blood and feathers of nestling Bald Eagles in coastal and inland Virginia” accepted for publication in Avian Research. Dr. Kramar is a professor in Geosciences at MSUM.
Dr. David Kramar attended the 28th Annual Minnesota GIS/LIS conference in Duluth, Minnesota from Oct. 3-5, 2018. He presented a paper co-authored by Dr. Valquiria Quirino entitled “A Low Cost Alternative to Crop Assessment in Minnesota Using Object-Oriented Classification and a Visible Vegetation Index.” In addition, Asami Minei, a student in Geosciences, presented her ongoing facilities management work as the […]
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 […]