Information about the presentations at the GIS Day, hosted by the Texas Department of State Health Services in Austin, Texas on November 20, 2013. The presentations described the importance and utility of geographic information systems (GIS) analyses in public health. Topics discussed include the ...
This NASA DEVELOP project set out to examine the distribution of urban heat throughout the city of Austin, Texas. Using a series of NASA Earth observations (EO) combined with socioeconomic data, the team identified which communities are most vulnerable to heat hazards associated with the urban ...
Organizations and governments at all levels have set goals for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and have begun to work toward achieving these goals in an effort to mitigate global climate change. The City of Austin, in Travis County, Texas, has set the goal of reducing greenhou...
few people, needed system to manage its natural resources F 1990s: GIS emerged as a tool for researchers –As an example, I gave a talk in 1996 to researchers at Texas Instruments in Dallas –But you still needed a PhD to
Chief Truesdell said the fire spread to ICON, a 3D printing construction company. The Austin-based tech companypartnered with the Texas Military Department to build the largest 3D-printed barracksin the country at Camp Swift near Bastrop. It also worked with NASA todesign and construct a reusable...
Get a look Inside Kendra Scott’s Mediterranean-meets- Hill Country oasis With more than 130 storefronts and a non-profit emphasis that includes an eponymous leadership institute at the University of Texas, Kendra Scott has become a household name across the globe. But when she started her emp...
Ditto in Boise, Idaho, Wyoming to a lesser extent, rural Texas, and elsewhere. I really missed this trend and did not see it coming. Perhaps you could find someone able to analyze this global trend: Migration 2021: Back to the Country.. I predict if Senate Majority Leader Mich Michell ...
(GIS) Day hosted by Department of State Health Services (DSHS) in Texas on November 19, 2014 including "Epidemiology of Chagas Disease in Texas," "Using GIS in the Oral Rabies Vaccination of Wildlife in Texas," and "Economic Characteristics of School Districts with High Rates of Vaccine ...
“Our position at Equality Texas has been and will continue to be that we stand with every major credible medical association in support of this care because we know it to be life saving,” Martinez said. He’s worried that this kind of discourse will lead to more bullyi...
“There is definitely an equity lens in terms of this particular conference,” Saldana said. “We have seen an increase…in people who are experiencing mental illnesses, people who are needing service animals…folks who are also who are with disabilities, and have not been a...