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Speaker tells students of Wemberley flood recovery efforts
Students in the GIS technology program heard firsthand on Aug. 27 the importance of their work as Devon Humphrey, geospatial intelligence officer, visited Del Mar College to share lessons learned during the search for several Corpus Christi residents after severe flooding in May in Wimberley. Humphrey, an instructor with the National Spill Control School at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, helped to create the search maps used after the disaster. “The majority of my job is to focus on training people to use GIS maps for the case of an emergency,” Humphrey said. “We try and focus on practicing as much…
Climate change seen as increasing threat
Lexy Garcia / Reporter An increasingly politicized issue, climate change and the rate of global warming, is thought to be caused by human activity, according to many scientists. The percentage of Americans who view climate change as a “serious threat” has been increasing since 1998, according to a recent Gallup poll. While 97 percent of researchers agree that humans are the cause of global warming, Vernon Kramer, an assistant professor of geology at Del Mar College, said there is nothing humans can do or stop doing to affect the environment. “Locally we can affect our climate, we can recycle and conserve,…
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