138 · Representative Documents: Workshops and Tutorials
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
Environmental Information Management Institute
http://elibrary.unm.edu/services/instruction/eimi.php
Register for these courses if you are a student or professional with
a BS in biology, geology, ecology, or other environmental sciences,
environmental engineering, geography or science librarianship. Non-
UNM students are also welcome but need to register.
Scientists, engineers, and data librarians are working in an increasingly
data-intensive research environment. The Environmental Information
Management (EIM) Institute provides MS and PhD students and
professionals with the conceptual and practical hands-on training that
allows them to effectively design, manage, analyze, visualize, and
preserve data and information.
Participants will:
work with nationally known experts in the field
gain a significant competitive advantage in the job market
become familiar with all aspects of the data life cycle
learn how to manage data files, create databases and design
web portals
explore state-of-the-art analysis and visualization techniques
learn techniques for managing, analyzing, and visualizing
geospatial data
Week 1
INFO 530 Environmental
Information Management
Lectures and exercises
focus on data and metadata
acquisition and management,
quality assurance/quality
control, data preservation,
and database creation and
management.
Week 2
INFO 532 Environmental
Data Analysis and
Visualization
Lectures and exercises
cover techniques for data
exploration, data analysis
and scientific workflows, and
creation of effective visual
representations of analytical
results.
Week 3
INFO 533 Spatial
Data Management in
Environmental Science
This hands-on course
focuses on how geospatial
data are effectively managed,
analyzed, visualized and
preserved in Geographic
Information Systems.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Space is limited.
Registration opens April 22.
The Institute is comprised of three one-week courses for two
credits each.
Open to non-UNM students.
For more information email Teresa Neely at (neely@unm.edu).
W alter e. Dean
Environmental Information
Management Institute
library.unm.edu/services/instruction/eimi.php
The Institute is made possible by generous funding from Walter E. Dean. Dr.
Dean, a UNM alumnus, has worked for the U.S. Geological Survey since 1975
on a variety of projects and is currently a research geologist in the Geology
and Environmental Change Science Center in Colorado.
June 3 June 21, 2013
library.unm.edu/services/
instruction/eimi.php
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