MCC Daily Tribune

MCC Geospatial students conduct summer remote sensing & forestry research at the University of Maine

Casmir Brown and Bryon Carroll, students in MCC’s Geospatial Information Science & Technology (GIST) and Geography program, worked in Maine over the summer for an 8-week internship focused on geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and forestry-related fieldwork.

Casmir Brown and Bryon Carroll spent 8 weeks in Maine collecting and processing field data acquired from satellites and drones for remote sensing applications, particularly tree species composition and forest health. Under the mentorship of Jonathon Little (Associate Professor of Geography) and Wayne Howard (MCC GIS adjunct), as well as the Center for Advanced Forestry Systems researchers at the University of Maine, the students spent time acquiring and refining skills in the Wheatland Geospatial Lab on campus as well as in the field in Maine’s working forests and coastal ecosystems.

Partnering with UMaine’s Dr. Aaron Weiskittel, Director of NSF’s Center for Advanced Forestry Systems, Little successfully applied for supplementary funding from NSF’s Skills Training in Advanced Research & Technology (START) program for these two paid research experiences.  To build upon the summer work, Little and Howard plan to offer two virtual internships for geospatial Capstone student’s spring of 2023 (GEG 239). 

To learn more, please consider reading the article published by the University of Maine (https://crsf.umaine.edu/2022/09/21/umaine-cafs-hosts-gis-community-college-internship-experience/).

Jonathon Little
Chemistry and Geosciences
09/27/2022