The Train Campaign team contacted GISCorps in the spring of 2018 and requested help with online map creation. Two volunteers, Ellen Phillips and Linda Colin, were selected. The following story was written by Ellen Phillips. Karen Christensen of the Barrington Institute…
The following post was authored by Volunteer Adam Hufnagel with contributions from Humanity Road's Cat Graham and photos provided for use by USCG Petty Officer 3rd Class Shannon Kearney. When a powerful storm hits, it takes the urgent and thoughtful…
Hurricane Florence made landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on the morning of September 14, 2018. Although it had been downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane by that time, Florence’s extremely slow progress and broad circulation resulted in historic flooding,…
Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a Category 4 hurricane on September 10, 2018, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph and life-threatening storm surges. The hurricane tore through the Florida Panhandle into Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia,…
Using the ESRI software from the GIS Service Pledge Award, I was able contribute to the work of two non-profits in the South Park area of Colorado. Beaver Ponds Environmental Education Center (BPEEC) http://beaverponds.org/ BPEEC is located in Fairplay, Colorado along…
I have been a GISCorps volunteer since 2009 and have used my own software to support GISCorps missions over the years. When Esri offered the GIS Service Pledge to GISCorps volunteers I was very excited since for the first time…
Volunteers Ajinkya Jadhav, Alexis Handelman, Amanda Nunley, David Axelson, Elizabeth Robinson, Ellen Nodwell, Gergely Puskas, Holly Torpey, Jessica Beres, Karen Chadwick, Maria Barabas, Michael Ruppel, Richard Kotapish, Richard Cornell, Sofia Stouki, Tarig Ahmed and Wendi French Summary On August 24-28,…
From June 15th until July 29th 2018, William Ouellette, Senior GIS Engineer at TomTom BV in Gent, Belgium, was deployed to an on site mission in the Central African Republic (CAR). The request for a volunteer came from WWF (World…
In early July, parts of Western Japan were devastated by a series of disasters caused by torrential rain, including landslides and severe flooding. One area hit particularly hard was the town of Mabi in Okayama prefecture, where flood waters as…
On August 9-12, 2018, 218 volunteers from 46 countries participated in a Mapathon to map structures in a focused area within 15 kilometers of the Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia borders. This Cross Border area has been identified as being at…