CAPSE Projects
"Center for the Applied Studies of the Environment"; A Higher Education Applied Technology Economic Development Proposal from CUNY to NYS (1993-96) - $4.8 million for 22 investigators, including $880,000 for GIS computer equipment for Hunter (PI)
Funded by The National Institute of Justice, in conjunction with NYPD (and with Professors John Mollenkopf, GSUC, and Keith Clarke), the three-fold purpose is to improve the NYPD's ability to understand and analyze crime patterns in the context of other community conditions in its use of GIS techniques, to evaluate the state of the art among researchers and other police departments in alternative techniques for measuring and analyzing changing crime patterns as displayed by GIS, and to compare the NYPD's use of GIS in allocating resources in ways that seek to reduce crime with practices and outcomes in other cities.
Dr. Victor Goldsmith has been appointed by the Police Commissioner, NYPD, to head a GIS Technology Committee composed of NYPD and CUNY professionals. As part of this cooperative effort, members of the New York City Police Department are being trained in a variety of software packages at two computer centers at CUNY: the Academic Computing Center at Hunter College and at the Graduate School Unversity Computer Center. The software titles include MapInfo, MapBasic and Visual Foxpro. Altogether, approximately 300-400 officers are being trained.
Funded by Magnavox Electronic Systems, the project will have CAPSE preparing electronic files consisting of digital NOAA charts that are georeferenced and in a suitable format for use in Magnavox's Oil Spill Automated Response Management System.
This project resulted in the development of a modular water purification unit to be used for the treatment of drinking water in the Ukraine. The unit was originally developed at the School of Engineering in Kiev, but was adapted for use at a local hospital, also in Kiev.
Partnership between the United States and Israel which resulted in the successful fish farming of black carp and striped bass at the Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Laboratory at Brooklyn College. Under the Direction of Distinguished Professor Martin Schreibman, this CAPSE-funded facility is being used to help develop a prototype mariculture facility for New York City fish industry.
Funded by NYNEX Science and Technology, the purpose is
to develope a GIS for Manhattan in order to assist NYNEX
in determining customer base, as well as optimum locations
and configurations for fiberoptic cables and microwave
antennas.
Development and Data Accumulation Within A DEP Upstate Watershed
GIS, NYC Department of Environmental Protection, 1993.
Technology Transfer and System Development of the DEP Natural Resources GIS, NYC Department of Environmental Protection, 1993-94.
Modular Water Purification System for Ukraine, US Agency for
International Development, 1994-95 (with Dr. Ahmed and Dr. Khanbilvardi).
Environmental Assessment of Chinatown: Plan Development, 1994-95, Chinatown Business Community.
CUNY-NYNEX Professional Development, NYNEX, 1994.
PERC Source Identification and Pollution Prevention Project, NYC DEP, 1995 (with C. Yapijakis, CU; M.Harran, CAPSE; N. Assaf-Anid, MC).
Extraction of Residential Information in NYC, NYNEX Entertainment and Information, INC., 1995.
Providing GIS Guidance, Hudson River Foundation and NYC DEP, 1995-96.
Energy Conservation Through Watershed Management for the NYC Drinking Water Supply, NYS Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), 1995-96 (with Drs. Khanbilvardi (CCNY) and Janus (DEP).
Mapping the Social Geography of Housing for NYC, 1995-1997, CUNY Collaborative Incentive Grant (with Professors Mollenkopf, Saegert (GSUC), and Clarke (Hunter).
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