[Freegis-list] Followup: The Dangermond Fellowship

[Jack Varga]

I asked for clarification from LAF regarding the three $10,000.00 grants 
for LA grad students pertaining to the use of GIS.  Any tool the 
recipient desires to use is ok, (i.e., can be open source and doesn't 
need to include ESRI software), so long as the Fellowship's objectives...

> promote and facilitate the integration of art, science, method, and technology in the study and profession of landscape architecture, and encourage the use of geographic information systems (GIS) as a framework for exploring integrated approaches to landscape assessment and intervention.

...are met.

Official response below.

-jv

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [LARCH-L] The Dangermond Fellowship
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:50:29 -0500
From: James F. Palmer <zooey at MAILBOX.SYR.EDU>
Reply-To: Landscape Architecture Electronic Forum <LARCH-L at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
To: LARCH-L at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU

I asked for a clarification to Jack Varga's question from LAF and
ESRI.  Here is the official response.

Jim Palmer


The answer to Jack Varga's question is that students are free to use
whatever GIS technology they wish. The important thing is to show how GIS
can be used in both landscape analysis and intervention (design). I think
all of us ... at ESRI and in the associations ... would like the students to
explore the power and potential of GIS and other spatial technologies as
applied to the field of landscape architecture.


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                    James F. Palmer, Ph.D., FASLA
                 Professor of Landscape Architecture
        SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
                        Syracuse, NY 13210
     voice: 315 470-6548      internet: zooey at mailbox.syr.edu

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