September is National Preparedness Month, and given the September we have been having with back-to-back hurricanes and raging wildfires, this designation is especially timely. Although hurricane ...

BB&T’s CEO, Kelly King, wants to step up the pace of branch consolidations this year, even closing some branches that are profitable. The Winston-Salem, N.C., company will need fine levels of detail ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apalachicola Bay in Florida was once famous for its oysters, producing 90% of Florida’s supply and 10% of the entire U.S. market.

The city of Boston’s digital twin is being used for both quantitative and qualitative analysis, to see proposed buildings and their impacts, such as shadows cast on the city through the seasons. As ...

Clinton Johnson's presentation on using GIS to convey systemic inequities. Redlining and other efforts to negatively affect Black people’s prosperity can be tracked and better understood by using ...

As parts of the Western and Southwestern United States prepare for wildfire season, which experts predict again will be severe, researchers at UB and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are developing ...

Geographic information system (GIS) volunteers provided mapping and other crucial services for Mississippi in response to Hurricane Katrina. Similar to volunteer efforts in Louisiana and Alabama, GIS ...

Gannon University students partnered with local organizations to map safe walking routes and community challenges in Erie, Pennsylvania. The project highlighted the use of Geographic Information ...

Small towns and cities face tight budgets for operating and maintaining public utilities. By sharing resources for common activities, a city can improve cost efficiency in its gas, electric, water and ...

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AUSTIN – For Le Roy Torres, he is reminded of his wartime service with every breath he takes. As a captain in the Army Reserves, the Robstown resident in 2007-08 was a logistics officer at the largest ...