Summer Institute 2000 Program

Wednesday July 19 , 2000

Management of Scientific Programs

9:00 - 10:00 AM Managing Interdisciplinary Science Programs

Paul Filmer, US National Science Foundation

Link to lecture notes

10:00 - 10:30 AM Break
Methods II - Social Sciences
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Survey Approaches to Land Use Decisions

Charles Wood

Link to lecture notes: "Tenure security and resource use"

Link to reading: Tenure security and resource use in the Amazon (proposal)
[PDF File 92 K]

Link to reading: Uruará questionnaire codebook.
[PDF File 84 K]

12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch
Methods II - Natural Sciences
1:30 - 3:00 PM GIS Tutorial.
  • GIS: Data structures, sources, conversions
  • Spatial analysis: counting, measuring, query

Michael Binford

Link to lecture notes
[PDF File 3.6 Mb]

Link to M. Binford's Remote Sensing Resources WWW site

Link to M. Binford's GIS Resources WWW site

3:00 - 3:30 PM Break
3:30 - 4:30 PM Mini Symposium on Participants' Research and Activities - III

Jeff, Elizabeth, Jane, Jennifer, Carla

4:30 - 5:30 PM Unstructured time for discussion, reading, etc.
6:00 PM Bus departs RSMAS


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