USD Magazine, Spring 2004

hi-Yong Yin is

researching rainfalJ

on Asia's Tibetan

plateau. Thanks to the science

center's geographic information

systems technology, the marine

Yin says students in a variety

of academic disciplines - from

political science and sociology to

business - find GIS valuable.

"T his is amazingly powerful

technology," he says. "We're still

learning how useful it is. I chin k

we've just scratched che surface. "

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