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The Consortium's GIS research program is mostly in a data collection and analysis mode at present.  However, several reports have been written and various technical papers have been presented at national conferences. These are noted below:

  • Upper Susquehanna-Lackawana (US-L) American Heritage River: 
    GIS Watershed Atlas

  • Bruns, D.A.  2000.  News Articles on "The Watershed Master Plan" and "What is GIS." In Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed Master Plan Newsletter.  An American Heritage River.  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Baltimore District) and PA GIS Consortium,  Summer.

  • Bruns, D., R. Day, B. Niemann, L. Osborne, T. Graff, G. Aggett, V. Roberts and C. Elgin. 2000. FY 2000 Annual Report of the National Consortium for Rural Geospatial Innovations (RGIS) in America, Administrative Headquarters, Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 100 pp. 

  • Bruns, D.A.  2001.  News Articles on "Phase I of The Watershed Master Plan" and "Highlights of the GIS Tributary Analysis." In Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed Master Plan Newsletter.  An American Heritage River.  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Baltimore District) and PA GIS Consortium,  Winter.

  • Bruns, Dale and Tom Sweet. 2001. "Tackling Environmental Clean-up with GIS:  Regionally Coordinated Geographic Information Systems Provide Solutions to Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed Pollution Problems" RGIS Land Information Bulletin, Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility, University of Wisconsin-Madison. RGIS- Chesapeake Wilkes University site, 4 pp.

  • Bruns, D.A., T. Sweet, B. Toothill.  2001.  Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna River Watershed, Section 206, Ecosystem Restoration Report.  Phase I GIS Environmental Master Plan.  Final Report to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, MD.  January

  • Bruns, D.A. and T. Sweet.  2000. The Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed Community Demonstration Project of NSDI.  Invited presentation. ESRI GIS User's Conference.  San Diego, CA. June 

  • Bruns, D.A.  2000.  Benefits of GIS, GPS, Ortho-imagery, and Remote Sensing for Regional Mine Reclamation.  Invited poster session at the Congressional GPS Workshop-Conference sponsored by the Department of Transportation and the Interagency GPS Executive Board (IGEB).  Senate Dirksen Building, Washington, DC,  June 

  • Bruns, D.A. and T. Sweet.  2000. GIS Environmental Master Plan, Phase I, for the Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed. Invited presentation. EPA Web World 2000 Conference - Washington, DC, July. 

  • Bruns, D.A. and T. Sweet.  2000.  GIS for Community Watershed Assessments.  Invited Presentation for Satellite Training program conducted by the Rural Applications of GIS Consortium, U.S. Department of Agriculture Workshop, Albuquerque, NM.  November.

  • Bruns, D.A. and B. Toothill.  2000.  GIS in Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering degree programs and curriculum.  Invited Presentation. Rural Applications of GIS Consortium, U.S. Department of Agriculture Workshop, Albuquerque, NM.  November. 

  • Bruns, D.A. and T. Sweet.  2001. Use of Land Cover Data in GIS Watershed Assessment for an American Heritage River.  Invited Presentation at the Mid-Atlantic States Regional Land Use/Land Cover Workshop.  EPA and U.S. Geological Survey (Federal Sponsors).  The Courses at Fort Meade, Ft. Meade, MD.  March.

  • Bruns, D.A., B. Oram, R. Krehely, and J. Tomaine.  2001.  RiverNet:  an EPA EMPACT project for GIS Web integration of real-time water quality monitoring on the Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna River.  Invited presentation.  EPA EMPACT National Conference.  August, Philadelphia, PA. 

  • Bruns, D.A.  2001. Integrated ecosystem monitoring at remote sites and Biosphere Reserves:  problems and solutions.   Invited presentation.  EPA EMPACT National Conference.  August, Philadelphia, PA. 

  • Bruns, D.A.  2001.  RiverNet:  Community Water Quality Monitoring on an American Heritage River.  Invited Poster Session at EPA EMPACT National Conference.  August, Philadelphia, PA. 

  • Bruns, D.A., T. Sweet, and B.Toothill..  GIS Watershed Assessment of Regional Coal Mining Impacts for an American Heritage River.  Presentation at the National Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Session on GIS and Remote Sensing.  August, Madison, WI.

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