ASETS: Applied Spatial Ecology and Technical Services

ASETS, Michigan State University, MSU, Michigan, Midwest, Spatial Ecology, GIS, Geospatial, Invasive Species

Department

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The Applied Spatial Ecology and Technical Services group is within the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University. Here is the basic contact information for the Department of Entomology.

Contact the Department of Entomology

Department of Entomology
243 Natural Science Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1115

Main Phone: (517) 355-4663
Fax: (517) 353-4354

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People

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Amos Ziegler (Principle Investigator) has been in the Department of Entomology since the mid-1990’s. He is currently a Research Specialists at Michigan State University. Collaborations are always of interest, so please feel free to contact me if you are interested in exploring possible joint projects.

Profile: Available Here
Email: ziegler2@msu.edu
Ph: 517.355.0204
Steven Crisp has been working with Amos since 2002 as a GIS Developer and Systems Administrator.

Profile: Available Here
Email: crisp@msu.edu
Ph: 517.353.8522
Travis Perkins was hired into the Michigan State University Entomology Department August of 2009 as Information Technology Professional. He graduated from Michigan State University in June of 2008 with a BA in Geography and a specialization in Geographic Information Systems. His primary role in ASETS is to focus on the Slow the Spread of the Gypsy Mothproject.

Profile: Available Here
Email: perki116@msu.edu
Ph: 517.355.5952
Gabriel Carballo has been working in the Michigan State University Entomology Department since September 2009 as a GIS Developer.

Profile: Available Here
Email: carball1@msu.edu
Ph: 517.355.5965
Claire Peterson joined the Michigan State University Entomology Department in March of 2012 as an Information Technology Professional. She graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a B.S in Geography. Her main focus within ASETS is on the MISIN project.

Profile: Available Here
 Email: luckachi@msu.edu
Ph: 517.355.5965

ASETS Alums
Jay Strahan Graduate student / Department of Geography at Michigan State
Katherine Cole GIS Analyst at Entertainment Publications
Matt McKimmy GIS Analyst with U.S. Army
Radhika Iyer Senior Software Engineer at Motorola
Sharda Parthasarathy Infrastructure Solutions Senior Consultant at Dell Inc.

Partners

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ASETS currently collaborates with a wide range of agencies, departments and citizen groups through our active projects.

Technology

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We have a long history of being an early adaptor of leading edge computing technology. We have amassed considerable experience in defining appropriate technological solutions and the knowledge necessary to construct most of the computation systems we have employed in support of data management and analysis. ASETS has assembled the following general server infrastructure in support of current and future projects. Currently, we house 15 servers in support of daily life.

Workstations

  • 6 systems equipped with high-end Pentium4 or Xeon processors, 2+ GB memory, 500+ GB local storage. Suitable for intensive spatial modeling and analysis.

Servers

  • Backup-to-disk (multi-terabyte array services all servers and workstations)
  • Mail server (dedicated mail server supporting multiple mail domains)
  • Web hosting (dedicated web server supporting multiple domains)
  • Database hosting (standard RDBMS and Spatial Geo-databases)
  • Map server hosting
  • Data storage

Software

  • ESRI suite (ArcMap, Arc Workstation, ArcGIS Server, SDE, IMS)
  • Adobe suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Acrobat)
  • Visual Studio 2005 (VB, C#, ASP)
  • Macromedia Studio (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks)
  • RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL)