DEVELOP Meeting
March 4, 2004 – A meeting was held in Reno Nevada for the kickoff of the DEVELOP invasive plant species project. DEVELOP is a student internship program that creates pilot application demonstration projects, using remote sensing and earth science information, to demonstrate to federal, tribal, state and local governments how high technology and other data can be used to assist communities as they seek solutions for local problems. DEVELOP is a student led, student run program sponsored by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise Applications Program. The DEVELOP National Program Office is located at NASA Langely Research Center in Virginia with a Western Regional Office at Ames Research Center in California. The Nevada invasive species project will be conducted from Ames.
During Spring and Summer 2004 DEVELOP two high school and three college students will work with Dr. John Schnase, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Dr. Tom Stohlgren to map, monitor and forecast Tamarisk, or Saltcedar in the state of Nevada. The purpose of the meeting convened on March 4 was to discuss the project with various federal, state and local government agencies involved with invasive plant management in the state. Participants included the Natural Resource Conservation Service, the Nevada Department of Agriculture, the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and representatives from various local weed management agencies. Preliminary results of the project will be presented at the Western Governor's Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2004.
For more information on the DEVELOP Invasive Species project at Ames Research Center, please contact:
Cindy Schmidt
or
Dr. Jay Skiles
For more information on the National DEVELOP program, please go to:
Dr. Jay Skiles discussing DEVELOP
Dr. Schnase and Dr. Stohlgren discussing the National Invasive Species Forecasting System
