TITLE:     Accelerated Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
           and Databases for GIS applications in limnology and oceanography

AUTHOR:    Karen Baker, Jordan Hastings, Scott Mensing, Tim Minor

MEETING:   American Society of Limnology & Oceanography (ASLO)
	   1995 PRE Meeting, 10th and 11th June 1995, p.9

PLACE:     University of Nevada, Reno

DATE:      11-15 June 1995


ABSTRACT: June 10th - Survey materials which are presented regularly in Univ. 
Nevada at Reno (UNR) Geography's introductory GIS course.  This course, which
focuses on the ARC/INFO software, provides first-semester graduate
students in various disciplines with the basic skills to apply GIS in
their subsequent studies.  In the compressed one-day format, ARC/INFO
and its submodules ARC/EDIT and ARC/PLOT will be demonstrated, 
utilizing pre-built datasets. Also ARC/View2 will be introduced,
allowing attendees to perform various displays and analyses
independently.
 June 11th - Discussion on how datasets should be designed and prepared for 
use with GIS, based on ARC/INFO's geo-relational model.  The general topic
of relational database management systems (RDBMS) will be surveyed. 
Non-relational datasets such as grids, lattices, and tins(triangular
irregular networks) will be discussed.  In many instances, "legacy"
datasets in more prosaic formats must be accommodated as well.  The
ARC/View2 software will again be utilized for its ability to integrate
the different data types.  Examples will be drawn primarily from the
McMurdo Dry Valleys (lacustrine) and Palmer Peninsula (marine) Long
Term Ecological Research sites in Antarctica.