Imagine... You’ve just begun a new job as a GIS specialist for the National Park Service. Your supervisor has asked you to analyze some wildlife data. She gives you a specific example to start with: One data table (Bird Species) contains a list of over 600 bird species known to be native to North Carolina. Another data table (Bird Inventory) contains over 5,000 records, each corresponding to …
Computer Science is a creative, challenging, and rewarding discipline. Computer programmers, sometimes called software engineers, solve problems involving data: computing, moving, and handling large quantities of data are all tasks made easier or possible by computer programs. Money magazine ranked software engineer as the number one job in America in terms of flexibility, creativity, low stres…
CLIMATE CHANGE IS ONE OF THE DEFINING ISSUES OF OUR TIME. It is now more certain than ever, based on many lines of evidence, that humans are changing Earth’s climate. The atmosphere and oceans have warmed, which has been accompanied by sea level rise, a strong decline in Arctic sea ice, and other climate-related changes. The impacts of climate change on people and nature are increasingly appa…
Agrometeorology is an interdisciplinary holistic science. It cuts across scientific disciplines and bridges physical and biological sciences. It has numerous applications in agricultural resource utilization and management and has progressed rapidly both in content and applications.
A holistic perspective of scientific agriculture