Oran WeaverOran Weaver

395 – Summer Internship

UAA Biology & USDA, Forest Services

UAA & USDAUAA & 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 PictureThe 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 WorkMy 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 ApplicationWeb 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

Screen ShotsScreen Shots

Deer Model GIS ApplicationDeer 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

ConclusionConclusion

• 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