Meet Our Speakers . . .

Bennett Hawley is a student at NC State University pursuing a degree in Ecosystem Assessment in the College of Natural Resources. His main interest is to learn more about the technical side to natural resources by using tools such as GIS. His past exposure to GIS has included work with Rita Hagevik, Kris Fowler, and Jessica Ball with projects involving SPACE and the Boys and Girls Club which forcused mainly on education others the applications of GIS. His first introduction to GIS was under his high school teacher, DeeDee Whitaker, by working on a web paged, technology centered MOSS project using his school grounds.