The 2010
-11 Nati
onal GIS
/GPS
Leadersh
ip Team
Service
Project
Back Row: Melissa Marquez(California), Paula Dawydiak(New York), Christy Dawydiak(New York),Chip Malone(New York), Beth Hecht(Kansas), Stephen Horn(Connecticut), Frank Wideman(Missouri), Jim Hooper (New York), Esther Worker(ESRI)
Front row: Tracy Schmitz(Kansas), Jim Kahler(USDA), Andy Kittleson(New York), Tim Prather(Tennessee)Not pictured: Jose Crummett (California) and Tom Tate (USDA)
The 2010-11 National 4-H GIS/GPS Leadership Team
Mission
• Service Project‒ Our job was mapping invasive weeds
• Where‒ Tijuana Slough Wildlife Reserve, San Diego, CA
• Why/Purpose‒ To help the reserve by mapping invasive weeds so
that they could come in and get rid of the weeds themselves.
Reserve Guide
• Showed us what we would be mapping
• Showed us a map of the reserve
• Showed us where we would be mapping
First we had to reset our GPS units to metric units
We did this so that everyone's GPS units would be the same and because metric units are universal.
Rumex• Rumex– Andy and Christina
mapped the Rumex– It is a reddish brown
color – It looks like small
milo or sorghum plants
Fennel• Fennel – Steven and Tracy
mapped the Fennel– It is a light green color– Smells like black
licorice– The flowers were
white and yellow and looked like cauliflower
Mapping
• Landscape – Dry – It was like a desert with dry weeds everywhere.– There were Jumping Cactuses that somehow got all over
you and your clothes.
• It took about two hours to map all the weeds on the reserve.
• From the reserve you could see Mexico and the border which was about a mile away.
Assembling and Analyzing Data
• There were four groups. We each put our information on different computers.
• We each put the points and polygons on an aerial photo of the site.
.
• We then merged all of our maps together to make one complete map of the weeds.
Preparing Data for Presentation
Finished Map
The Rumex is in yellow. The Fennel is in blue.
International GIS Conferences
• We also went to the International ESRI Education and Users Conferences.
• This is Jack Dangermond– He is the creator of ESRI. – His company designs the
GIS software we used to make our maps.
Map Gallery
Our group worked the 4-H booth during the Map Gallery at the ESRI Users Conference.
We informed people about our service project and what we did.
It was fun because we got to meet a lot of new people while informing them about 4-H and GIS.
Presentation created by Tracy Schmitz, 2010-11 National 4-H GIS Leadership Team Member,Kansas 4-H Youth Representative