On Friday, February 15 and 22, John Mickleson, friend to
WildMetro and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) expert, taught a two-part
seminar on Introduction to GIS.
Attending the class were five young volunteers for WildMetro: Danny
Ulhar, Nudhbi Choudhury, Sogol Jafarzadeh, Richard Aracil, and Andrew Kaplan. John provided the attendees with the basics
of navigation in a graphic user interface (GUI) like Google Earth. He also taught how to store and create
information for a GIS program through the use of KML and KMZ files. WildMetro plans to use our new found GIS knowledge,
skills, and ability to digitalize our extensive plant, bird, and mammal data
studies throughout the New York
metropolitan region. Once we digitalize
the data, we will use image overlays on Google Earth to track changes in the
landscape and species’ population.
Sample Image Overlay of Bird Species' Location in Pelham Bay Park
If you want to learn the basics of GIS or are interested in
helping on this project, please contact David Burg at wildmetro@gmail.com.
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