Two GISCorps volunteers from Calgary assist in a project in Panama The Fuquay-Varina Rotary (FVR) club sought GISCorps volunteers’ assistance to develop an online questionnaire to conduct a survey in poor neighborhoods of Panama. The objective was to locate and…
Mission with South Luangwa Conservation Society - Zambia In March 2009, GISCorps received a request from South Luangwa Conservation Society (SLCS), an NGO in Mfuwe, Zambia. The SLCS is a non-profit community based organization committed to the conservation of the local…
Four GISCorps Volunteers Assist a 4-H Club in Grant County, Washington By Beth Carpenter, Crystal Murphy, JJ Bach, Kelly Stancel, GISCorps Volunteers Our GISCorps volunteer team assisted WSU Extension 4H Youth Development and Grant County Emergency Management in conducting several events…
K-12 Project: GISCorps Volunteer Helps Critique Maps Created by Youth in Ames, Iowa By Jane Runneals, Leader, Central Area 4-H Tech Team The Central Iowa Area 4-H Tech Team recently had their club Achievement Show on June 13th, 2009 in…
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…