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New Opportunities with ESRI

October 01, 2009
Julie Duval, a GIS specialist at Foothills Research Institute, gave a presentation at the 2009 ESRI User Conference in San Diego in June of this year. Julie's talk focused on the tools that the GIS Program has built for the Grizzly Bear Program. ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.), the world's leading GIS software provider, develops the GIS software that we use here at Foothills Research Institute.

After her presentation Julie talked with an ESRI Product Engineer for Geoprocessing. He is interested in getting more details of the various GIS tools that have been built for the Grizzly Bear Program. He is working on a project that takes user tools and scripts into in house tests at ESRI, ensuring that the tools and scripts (he calls them workflows) continue to work from release to release of ArcGIS.

This is a great opportunity for Foothills Research Institute as it helps to ensure the tools (workflows) we build will work on future ArcGIS releases. The GIS specialists will not have to spend hours and hours trying to test and debug their tools with each new release. Stay tuned for more information on this opportunity.
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