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…the scientific community. PGC Antarctic On-Ice Support Changes The Antarctic science season is now underway! For the past few months, PGC has been preparing Support Information Packages requests, satellite tasking and collection, and so on. We are excited to continue…
Paul Morin, the director of the National Science Foundation’s Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) at the University of Minnesota, stepped down from his position, effective September 22nd. For 13 years Morin led PGC, and its predecessor the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center….
Be sure to check out QGreenland, a new free GIS package of amazing datasets including PGC’s ArcticDEM. Find a press release with more info here, and grab the download at qgreenland.org…
…polar navigators, motivating the development of in situ and remotely-sensed datasets to monitor their movement in regions where they pose hazards to commercial shipping operations. Although icebergs have been tracked in the open ocean for decades, there was relatively little…
…in the University of Minnesota’s Masters of Geographic Information Science program and stayed on as a valued staff member for the past eleven years. He helped turn a small Antarctic mapping project into a successful science support organization helping scientists…
…topographic change over the highly dynamic Arctic land surface. The mass wasting inventory will become a baseline database for the geosciences community to improve the scientific understanding and monitoring of volcanic eruptions, to further investigate the triggers of mass wasting…
Thomas Juntunen, Geospatial Developer at the Polar Geospatial Center (PGC), passed away on Wednesday, Aug 26th. Thomas began working for PGC when he was a graduate student in the University’s Masters of Geographic Information Science program and stayed on as…
What I Do I provide science and logistics support, coordinate data requests, and provide geospatial expertise for PGC core users. Education M.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Iowa State University, 2010 Graduate Certificate, Geographic Information Systems, Iowa State University, 2009 B.S….