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Fall 2023

Homecoming Greetings!

As the air carries the crisp scent of autumn, we extend our warmest greetings to all of you, in this year's Homecoming newsletter. Homecoming is a time for us to come together as a community and celebrate our shared achievements. It's been a remarkable year, and we are excited to share our progress and updates with you.  Our team has been hard at work, putting our expertise to use and harnessing the power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to solve real-world challenges. We're thrilled to share a snapshot of what we've been working on and offer a glimpse into the exciting projects we have in store for the coming months.

ESRGC News 

SU Alumni Distribution Map

As we prepare to reunite with fellow alumni for Homecoming 2023, we at the ESRGC want to share the Salisbury University Alumni Map we created and maintain.  The ESRGC designed the Salisbury University Alumni Map to visualize the distribution of alumni across the United States. The SU Alumni Map includes zip code data for alumni based on the graduation date range of 1929 through 2018.  This web map allows users to view overall alumni across the United States.  In addition, the SU Alumni Map highlights the location of alumni for each of the five schools within Salisbury University: Perdue School of Business, Henson School of Science and Technology, Seidel School of Education and Professional Studies, College of Health and Human Services and Fulton School of Liberal Arts.  Our SU Alumni Distribution Map not only showcases the national reach of SU but also encourages networking among alumni nationwide.

Intern Placements

Since launching in 2004, the ESRGC has provided valuable paid internships to over 200 SU students, allowing them to learn real-world skills and prepare for a direct transition to the workforce. ESRGC internships range from analyzing databases for local governments to field verifying broadband access in rural areas, and everything in between. 

For the Fall 2023 semester the ESRGC has placed five SU students in paid GIS internships.  Of these, two interns are supported with Rural Maryland Prosperity Investment Funds (RMPIF) through the ESRGC GIS Circuit Rider Program.  The RMPIF funded GIS Circuit Rider Program allows the ESRGC to respond to GIS needs by providing specialized solutions - for two of our partners this means a GIS intern.  One intern is working with the Town of Ocean City and has been tasked with updating the Town of Ocean City's building footprint data.  A second RMPIF supported intern will be working with Caroline County's GIS & Data Coordinator, Megan Gallagher.  Ms. Gallagher states, "This is a rare opportunity for an up and coming GIS professional to see the nuts and bolts behind normal day-to-day GIS related activities and get experience in the management and building side of a GIS."  We couldn't agree more!

YCC Visit

Every summer students ages 15 to 18 participate in Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge's (NWR) Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program. The YCC program at Blackwater NWR lasts 8 weeks, running mid-June through mid-August. YCC recruits work 40 hours a week and are paid minimum wage. Throughout the program the students will work on various projects at Blackwater NWR but also attend several field trips. The YCC recruits visited the ESRGC office to learn about various projects, participate in a hands-on data collection exercise and a lesson on drones.

ESRGC Spotlight

Intern Spotlight: Nick Dent

Our Fall 2023 Spotlight is current SU student and ESRGC intern, Nick Dent. 

The Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative (ESRGC) at Salisbury University regularly features a current or former intern for our Intern Spotlight.

Adjunct Faculty Offerings

This semester, our own Anastassiya Suprunova is teaching GEOG 320: Cartographic Visualization GIS. This course covers design principles and techniques for creating maps with modern mapping tools, including ArcGIS Pro. Anastassiya hopes that with this the students will be introduced to interactive geo-visualization and (geo)visual analytics.

SU is an Equal Opportunity/AA/Title IX university and provides reasonable accommodation given sufficient notice to the University office or staff sponsoring the event or program. For more information regarding SU’s policies and procedures, please visit www.salisbury.edu/equity.

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