Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 15:00

Tue, February 25, 2014 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free. Please join us for this month’s GIS Users Group meeting, presented by Sean Kearney, PhD student in Land and Food Systems.

Sean will present his winning Esri 2014 Scholarship topic: Using Remote Sensing Imagery to Identify Calcium Deficiency in Soils of El Salvador.

The overarching goal of the Agroforestry for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services project is to evaluate the impact of a slash-and-mulch agroforestry system on ecosystem services. This system was developed as an alternative to slash-and-burn agriculture and is designed to allow long term production of maize and beans with reduced degradation of soil, air and water resources and more consistent yields.

Location: Koerner Library, Room 216