By Kathleen Coverick, Urban Planning Fellow, Broadmoor Improvement Association In November 2008, GISCorps received a request for a GIS instructor from Broadmoor Improvement Association (BIA). They asked that the volunteer would go on-site (in New Orleans) and train three of…
GISCorps Volunteers train Students at NYU: Poly In February 2009, we received a request for volunteers from Lonna Gordon, a Project Manager at Polytechnic Institute of NYU (NYU: Poly). She asked if our volunteers could teach at their upcoming workshop…
Teaching GIS to Humanitarian Aid Workers in Thailand This mission was in partnership with Partners Relief Development (PRAD) and Free Burma Rangers (FBR). The request was for one GIS instructor to teach an introductory ArcGIS course and also assist PRAD/FBR with database…
Developing GIS Models for Rainwater Harvesting By Melinda Laituri & Joel Murray, Colorado State University In late 2008, GISCorps volunteer Melinda Laituri, a Colorado State University professor, and one of her students, Joel Murray, started working on a GISCorps mission. The…
GISCorps volunteer assists a non-profit organization in Guatemala On October 20, 2008, GISCorps received a request from a group of volunteers who were assisting a Guatemalan NGO, Pastoral Commission Peace and Ecology (COPAE) to monitor and diagnose damage to indigenous…
URISA GISCorps Volunteers Assist UNOSAT in Post Cyclone Nargis Relief Efforts By Einar Bjorgo, UNOSAT & Tom Ponte, Karl Tiller, GISCorps Volunteers Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Myanmar (Burma) on May 2, 2008. This cyclone was the deadliest natural disaster…
First Phase - UNOSAT Seeks Assistance of GISCorps Volunteers for Collecting Data in the Cyclone Nargis affected Areas of Myanmar (Burma) Second Phase - UNOSAT Requests Additional GISCorps Volunteers to Collect More Data in the Delta Region New York Times…
In Spring of 2008, Kabul Polytechnic University (KPU) requested an instructor to teach two ArcGIS courses (introductory and advanced) to their faculty. An email broadcast went out in early June and 11 volunteers expressed interest in the mission. Following the…
GISCorps Volunteer Geo-codes Healthcare Locations Around the World HealthCare Volunteers is a non-profit organization headquartered in California with the main goal of connecting any volunteers with a health-related volunteering opportunity. HCV asked if our volunteers could help them geo-code their…
GISCorps Volunteer Assists in the Aftermath of the Missouri Flood By Heather Milton, GIS Specialist at URS Corp, St Louis, MO Missouri was one of several Midwest states hit by severe storms this spring, causing flooding in parts of the…