Oran Weaver

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Oran Weaver

• 395 Summer Internship
• UAA Biology USDA, Forest Services

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UAA USDA

• UAA Biology Department
• Provides employment to students to work on
  biology related projects
• USDA, Forest Services
• Provides grants to companies to determine better
  conservation techniques of forest areas
• This summer project was funded by a USDA grant

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The Big Picture

• Determine carrying capacity for deer utilizing a
  complex system of nutritional constraints
• i.e. How many or how long can a deer survive in a
  location with a finite supply of food

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My Summer Work

• Add features and make changes to an existing web
  application to make a more robust tool
• Web application is a carrying capacity calculator
  for deer
• My CS470 Project
• Create a stand alone application to calculate
  carrying capacity using GIS text based maps

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Web Application

• Tasks
• Add a security feature to the password for web
  logins
• Add a winter sub model to the calculator
• winter nutritional data
• snow depth calculation
• Enhance the calculator to work with variation
  data
• Replace text buttons with image buttons

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Screen Shots
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Deer Model GIS Application

• Tasks
• Read a text based GIS map
• Provide a GUI for the Calculator
• Store nutritional plant data for quick access by
  the calculator
• Calculate carrying capacity for a large area
  efficiently
• Export the results into a text based GIS map

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Conclusion

• Diversity of tools and languages
• C, ASP.NET, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL
• Visual Studio, SQL Server 2000, IIS, Remote
  Login, CVS
• Various web browsers, Ethereal
• Lessons learned
• Visual Studios generic names for controls do not
  enhance readability of the code
• The more I learn, the more there is to learn