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In January Tech Talk wrote, "Environmental researchers may soon
find that their field work is getting easier, thanks to a group
of students who dreamed up a software application that records environmental
data in the field, then transmits it wirelessly to a remote server
for display on the Internet."
This group is ENVIT, born last spring when Enrique Vivoni (S.B.
1996, S.M.), a hydrologist working toward his Ph.D. in the Parsons
Laboratory of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
asked Mario Rodriguez (S.B. 2000); Daniel Sheehan, a spatial data
specialist in Information Systems; and Richard Camilli, a graduate
student in civil and environmental engineering (CEE), to help him
develop the application.
The MIT/Microsoft ICampus Project ended up funding the project,
which they call Software Tools for Environmental Field Study (STEFS).
It's an integrated electronic journal for collecting environmental
data on mobile computers.
Interested in incorporating information technology into the environmental
engineering and earth science curriculum, ENVIT works on both products
and course development. The software was actually created out of
a course the ENVIT founders designed and taught. Students in the
course were later invited by Professor Sheila Frankel of CEE, a
member of the project's advisory board, to test their equipment
on her annual TREX (Traveling Research Environmental Xperience)
in New Zealand and Australia.
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