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SCHEDULEMonday, March 29, 2004 Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Parthenon Foyer
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Welcome to ArcGIS®. Here begins the foundation for becoming a successful ArcView®, ArcEditor™, or ArcInfo™ user lead by an ESRI authorized instructor. This course covers fundamental GIS concepts as well as how to query a GIS database, manipulate tabular data, edit spatial and attribute data, and present data clearly and efficiently using maps and charts. Participants learn through hands-on practice how to use ArcMap™, ArcCatalog™, and ArcToolbox™ and explore how these applications work together to provide a complete GIS software solution. This course is for those who are new to ArcGIS and new to geographic information systems in general. Student will be able to keep classroom text.
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Apollo Room 7
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:00 PM - 5:00 PMBoardroom C All student volunteers must attend this afternoon meeting, during which the volunteers will be instructed on the audio-visual equipment, learn their room and tasks assignments, and assist in pre-meeting preparation.
Executive Committee Members Only
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Ecological complexity has become a newly emerging frontier of the 21st century ecological study, which our landscape ecologists have contributed significantly from a very beginning of its development. This half-day (3 hrs) short course is designed to introduce landscape ecologists on fundamental concepts and principles of ecological complexity and newest methodology developed in complex systems study. All materials will be presented in the context of landscape ecology with case studies in various landscapes such as Sevilleta LTER site, southern Texas, and northern Germany. We will emphasize a basic paradigm shift of systems thinking in complex ecology, emergent properties of nonlinear adaptive landscape system, spatio-temporal complexity and chaos, scale (scale invariance and covariance), hierarchy, cross-scale dynamics, and a statistical and nonlinear physics based holistic landscape ecology. New methods such as coupled map lattice, fractal kinetics of spatiotemporal dynamics, stochastic resonance, nonlinear thermodynamics-based Markovian model, multiscale entropy analysis, small-world, self-assembling of networks, and detecting noise-induced structures in spatiotemporal data will be introduced; we will focus on basic ideas and principles that underpin these methods and applications or potential applications in landscape ecology, not abstract mathematics.
Start the US-IALE Annual Symposium with style at the Welcome Reception at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada Las Vegas. Catch up with friends and colleagues. Enjoy a delightful display of hors d'oeuvres and a Cash bar. Let the music of the Yucca Mountain Boys Band surround you as you peruse the colorful and informative displays of Nevada natural history and memorabilia. The Yucca Mountain Boys Band is a bluegrass band based in Boulder City, Nevada. The members are George Rhee (guitar, vocals), Tom Flagg (bass), Marty Warburton (banjo, vocals) and Myron Stewart (violin). The perform bluegrass(songs and instrumentals) as well as original compositions. Individually and as a band they have won several awards. In 1996, the Yucca Mountain Boys performed and won the band contest at the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass festival. This is one of the most prominent festivals in the western United States. They have released a CD entitled Sundance on the Earth Orbit label, that was produced with a grant from the Nevada State Council on the Arts and an award from ASCAP. Marty Warburton has won contests on banjo guitar and mandolin and is the recipient of the Governor's arts award. Myron Stewart has played professionally all his life including an appearance on the Tonight Show. Shuttle bus service will be available to and from the Alexis Park and the Museum. [CLICK TO EXPAND] Thursday, April 1, 2004 [CLICK TO EXPAND] Friday, April 2, 2004 [CLICK TO EXPAND] Saturday, April 3, 2004 [CLICK TO EXPAND] Sunday, April 4, 2004 [CLICK TO EXPAND]
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