Surveying, Mapping and GIS

Toward the end of this week I had the pleasure of spending two days with the folks at Research Triangle Institute. RTI is a 501(c) operated by Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and North Carolina Central University and was formed in 1958 as one of the charter members of North Carolina's Research Triangle.

I had been bumping into a number of their people over the last couple of years, and it always seemed that we had many mutual interests. At any rate, we may well be forming some more solid alliances with RTI moving forward, to pursue geospatial applications development and environmental science. I was impressed with their capabilities, their ethic and many other aspects of how they operate.

They have many interesting things going on, such as a bioinformatics division, which is doing such things as modeling avian influenza on synthetic populations using a Linux supercomputing cluster, as well as much work for USEPA Office of Research and Development. Excellent breadth and depth in environmental and life sciences.

I could do a lot with an organization like this behind me - May this be a long and happy relationship...