Partnerships

WyGISC maintains a number of formal and informal partnerships with other institutes and programs on campus as well as state and federal agencies and the private sector.

University of Wyoming Partners

Experimental Program for the Stimulation of Competitive Research

• NSF EPSCoR Program in Ecology: collaboration on ecoinformatics support for ecological research

Geography, Department of

• Participation in geographic information science curriculum development

William D. Ruckelshaus Institute and Helga Otto Haub
School of Environment and Natural Resources

• Collaboration a wide range of place-based decision-making projects

Science and Mathematics Teaching Center

• Assistance with Web-based map delivery
   

Wyoming Natural Diversity Database

• Support for species distribution modeling and Web-based map delivery
   

Wyoming SpaceGrant Program

• Collaboration on a wide range of projects associated with remote sensing education and technology transfer

WyGISC is also currently exploring collaborative opportunities with UW’s Center for Rural Health Research and Education, Water Resources Data System, and Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center.

Wyoming State Government Partners

State Lands and Investment, Office of

• Development of agency mapping service technologies

Homeland Security, Office of

• Assistance with flood plain mapping initiative

Game and Fish, Department of

• Development of spatial decision support system applications for agency-wide resource management.
• Remote Sensing
   

State Engineer's Office

• Assistance in creating a statewide and seamless, color-infrared aerial photo mosaic for use in WyMAP for viewing by the general public.
   
• Partners in creating a customized toolbar which facilitates SEO ArcGIS users in locating an area of interest, adding data from their enterprise geodatabase and creating maps.

Department of Transportation

• Partnerships with WyDOT have produced big game critical habitat and corridor spatial data which were included WyMAP.
   
• WyDOT funding supports development of species distribution maps produced by the WYNDD which are also viewable via WyMAP.

Quasi-Government

Plan-IT Wyoming

• Multi-participant partnership to advance the use of information technologies in local land use planning processes

Wyoming Geographic Information Advisory Council

• WyGISC is an active participant in the state’s GIS coordinating body, including the state’s I-Team digital orthoimagery initiatives

Regional / Federal

AmericaView Consortium

• WyGISC and the University of Wyoming have been a member of the AmericaView Consortium (http://www.americaview.org) since 2002.  This USGS-sponsored consortium is composed of State-based consortia sharing the goal of promoting the beneficial use of satellite remote sensing.  To view Wyoming's AmericaView program see http://www.wygisc.uwyo.edu/wyview. 

Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium

• The University of Wyoming and WyGISC are active members of UMAC (http://www.umac.org). UMAC includes 5 states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming) that work together to bring the benefits of remote sensing and geospatial technology to end users. UMAC and WyGISC work together on a variety of activities including education, research, and outreach.

U.S. Geological Survey

• MOU established for work on development of national watershed boundary dataset and high-density hydrography data layers

Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Wyoming State Office Office

• Partners in working toward creating desktop and internet tools to assist with compliance of the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act and Historic and Preservation Act.

Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of Interior, Wyoming State Office

• Partners in development of Web-based energy resource information clearinghouse
• Major contributor for creation of statewide 1:24, 000 scale Watershed Boundary Dataset and National Hydrography Dataset
• WYGISC and Renewable Resources developing assistance tools and hydrologic models for CBM APD NEPA assessment

Forest Service, U.S. Department of Interior, Region II – Rocky Mountain Region

• WyGISC is a member of a federal-university project team conducting broad-scale ecosystem assessment analyses
• Partners in working on Lynx Modeling and assessing broad scale aquatic, riparian, and wetland ecological assessments

WyGISC has also been actively involved in the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the National States Geographic Information Council and the National Geospatial Programs Office in the U.S. Geological Survey.

Private

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)

• ESRI provides UW with a state higher educational site license. A
• WyGISC is an ESRI Authorized Partner Education Center (APEC). We teach and offer ESRI professional short courses.
• WyGISC is an ESRI Off-Site Training Facility, we host ESRI instructor taught courses at WYGISC and remotely throughout the region with our mobile lab.

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Geographic Information and Technology Association, Rocky Mountain Chapter

• Sponsor of student scholarship at UW

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Rocky Mountain Chapter

• Sponsor of local student chapter at UW