Report by Patrick R. Hall Background The Los Angeles Fire Department's Community Emergency Response Team (LAFD CERT) volunteer program is taught by our local Fire Department in Los Angeles, California. Over time, members hone their skills through additional training, drills,…
My primary goal a year ago was to create a GIS server that can help the Tanzania Development Trust’s local representatives and community mappers in their job in Tanzania. This GIS data server would be a kind of collection point…
Report by Dave Hansen, GISP The Esri software provided to me through the GIS Service Pledge program for 2018 was largely used in the support of the American Red Cross for a variety of programs. The American Red Cross had…
Report by Svetla Borovska Tsavo Volunteers is a conservation and humanitarian organization that operates out of the Lumo Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Tsavo West Ecosystem, Kenya. In March of 2014, I traveled there to volunteer with the community, developing websites…
Report by Luis Ricardo Rodriguez The understanding of interactions and behaviors between humans and dogs are of long-standing scientific interest. Traditionally, collecting purposeful data on the interactions and behaviors of humans and dogs was difficult and time consuming with limited…
Report by Jim Kyle I have opted to create a story map detailing how I put my GIS skills and the donated ESRI license to work supporting the nonprofit Kootenay Emergency Response Physicians Organization in the Canadian province of British…
Report by Ali Rehmat Musofer My GIS Service Pledge was related to the study of glacial lake formation and glacial lake outburst flooding (GLOF) in Khurdupin-Shimshal. Glacial lakes form when glaciers surge and then retreat, forming lakes dammed by the…
Report by Alexis Handelman The Conservation Lands Foundation (CLF) is a nonprofit umbrella organization comprised of over 60 grassroots “Friends” groups who work to protect public lands. The mission of CLF is to protect, restore and expand the National Conservation…
Report by Daniel Specht The DRC Mapathon was launched in response to a polio outbreak to give the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention an idea of where the population was located within the Democratic…
