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Nine-year-old Matthias Calis tries out the touch screen on the Cerro Grande Geographic Information System kiosk exhibit at the Bradbury Science Museum. Matthias and his family were visiting Los Alamos from Holland. Photo by James E. Rickman, Public Affairs

New Bradbury kiosks show Cerro Grande Fire information

The new exhibit features a kiosk with a computer touch screen that allows a visitor to view Cerro Grande Fire information and showcases a new Geographic Information System that was created last year by researchers in the GISLab, a Laboratory cartography facility. The Cerro Grande GIS was created with funding from the Cerro Grande Rehabilitation Project (FWO-CGRP) Office and provides a clearinghouse where important data about the fire can be stored and shared. The GIS includes visual information such as changes to vegetation and watersheds that occurred after the fire. Such information could be used by emergency managers or forest managers for long-term decision-making processes.

The information also is of great interest to the public, which has shown an active interest in the long-term effects of the fire during the past two years. Partially due to the intense public interest in Cerro Grande data, the new kiosk was moved from the lobby of the Laboratory Administration Building to the Bradbury Science Museum.

The Cerro Grande GIS has tremendous storage potential – 2.3 trillion bytes of information. In addition, included with the Cerro Grande GIS is an associated "data warehouse" that provides descriptive "metadata" – data about data – about information in the GIS. The Cerro Grande GIS and its associated information resources also can be found at http://www.cgrp-gis.lanl.gov online.

The Cerro Grande GIS will be updated continually as new information becomes available.

The Bradbury Science Museum is located at the corner of 15th Street and Central Ave. in downtown Los Alamos. Museum hours of operation are from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays; and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays through Fridays.

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		Wednesday, May 08, 2002 Nine-year-old Matthias Calis tries out the touch screen on the Cerro Grande Geographic Information System kiosk exhibit at the Bradbury Science Museum. Matthias and his family were visiting Los Alamos from Holland. Photo by James E. Rickman, Public Affairs New Bradbury kiosks show Cerro Grande Fire information The Bradbury Science Museum has installed a new interactive exhibit that shows how Geographic Information Systems are being used to understand the May 2000 Cerro Grande Fire. The new exhibit features a kiosk with a computer touch screen that allows a visitor to view Cerro Grande Fire information and showcases a new Geographic Information System that was created last year by researchers in the GISLab, a Laboratory cartography facility. The Cerro Grande GIS was created with funding from the Cerro Grande Rehabilitation Project (FWO-CGRP) Office and provides a clearinghouse where important data about the fire can be stored and shared. The GIS includes visual information such as changes to vegetation and watersheds that occurred after the fire. Such information could be used by emergency managers or forest managers for long-term decision-making processes. The information also is of great interest to the public, which has shown an active interest in the long-term effects of the fire during the past two years. Partially due to the intense public interest in Cerro Grande data, the new kiosk was moved from the lobby of the Laboratory Administration Building to the Bradbury Science Museum. The Cerro Grande GIS has tremendous storage potential – 2.3 trillion bytes of information. In addition, included with the Cerro Grande GIS is an associated "data warehouse" that provides descriptive "metadata" – data about data – about information in the GIS. The Cerro Grande GIS and its associated information resources also can be found at http://www.cgrp-gis.lanl.gov online. The Cerro Grande GIS will be updated continually as new information becomes available. The Bradbury Science Museum is located at the corner of 15th Street and Central Ave. in downtown Los Alamos. Museum hours of operation are from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays; and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays through Fridays. --James E. Rickman Other Headlines Lab publications garner Society for Technical Communication international awards more... DOE's genome institute to sequence infectious bacteria more... Consumer electronics and security briefing today more... UCOP's human resources, benefits department is reorganized more... New Bradbury kiosks show Cerro Grande Fire information more...