Volume 2. No 3 Information Technology News of the University of California, Davis Spring 1994

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Academic Training in Arc/Info and Other GIS Programs

Geographic Information System training on campus is not limited to the lab taught annually by Sandra Duncan of Facility Services. While some are learning GDS (Graphic Data System), the software for the campus UCD GIS System, others are earning academic credit this spring 1994 by mastering the Arc/Info package or several PC-based GIS and desktop mapping programs.

GIS training and spatial analysis instruction are being offered as part of the following academic courses:

• EBS/HYD 198 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, taught by Dr. Wes Wallender of Hydrologic Science & Paul Grant of IT/Advanced Networked & Scientific Applications

• EBS 298 - Spatial Data Analysis in Agriculture & Resource Management, taught by Dr. Richard Plant of Agronomy & Range Science

• GEO 107 - Color Map Production and Design, taught by Jon Barbour, Ph.D. student in Geography.

* In the summer 1994 issue, the IT Times editorial staff plan a follow-up report on this instructional collaboration between academic department and IT unit possibly through interviews with instructors and students.