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Oran Weaver. 395 – Summer Internship UAA Biology & USDA, Forest Services. UAA & 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
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Oran Weaver 395 – Summer Internship UAA Biology & USDA, Forest Services
UAA & 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 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 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 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 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
Conclusion • 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