Student Originated Software 1997-1998 Fall Quarter
		A Software Engineering Course at The Evergreen State College

Student Originated Software - Proposed Project Profile Project Name or current Identifier: Canopy Database User Community: Canopy Scientists Nalini Nadkarni Betsy Lyons Mark Sumera Project Collaborators: Computer Scientists Dave Maier Lois Delcambre Judy Cushing Others @ U of Oregon Ecology Database Admins Wind River LTER (Oregeon State) Contact Person: Sylys Knackstedt Contact Person E-mail: knacks@evergreen.edu Web Site: wind river web site.... Customer organization (or user base): Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility, and Global Environmental Change project researchers, and Nalini Nadkarni and canopy scientist colleagues across the U.S. and Costa Rica. Purpose of System: To build computer tools that help canopy scientists do their research better! Brief Description of System Functionality: connect interesting applicatoin packages that visualize, model and analyze ecological data (carbon budgets, trees, etc.) to the data. make those packages interoperable. Hardware and Software Platform: PC and SGI. Informix, GIS, Java!!! Other Information (user interface, etc.):