oran weaver 395 – summer internship uaa biology & usda, forest services
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UAA & USDAUAA & 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
The Big PictureThe 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
My Summer WorkMy 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
Web ApplicationWeb 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
Deer Model GIS ApplicationDeer 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
ConclusionConclusion
• 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 Studio’s generic names for controls do
not enhance readability of the code– The more I learn, the more there is to learn