1. Oran Weaver 395 – Summer Internship UAA Biology & USDA, Forest Services

2. UAA & 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

3. The 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

4. My 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

5. Web 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

8. Screen Shots

9. Deer 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

13. Conclusion 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