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ESRI President Jack Dangermond Awarded Henry Shaw Medal
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Redlands, California ESRI president Jack Dangermond was awarded the Henry Shaw Medal in a ceremony on September 13, 2006, at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri.
Presented since 1883, the medal recognizes those who have made significant contributions to the Missouri Botanical Garden, botanical research, horticulture, conservation, or the museum community. It is named in honor of Henry Shaw, a successful St. Louis businessman who founded the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1859.
Summarizes Scott Schnuck, chairman of the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Board of Trustees, “ESRI has not only developed technology that advances the garden’s mission but has also been very generous in helping the Missouri Botanical Garden acquire and implement this technology in many applications throughout the institution.”
ESRI’s ArcInfo and ArcView software allow the garden to integrate its vast resources of expert knowledge and herbarium data with climate, soil, and elevation data to analyze plant geographic ranges and patterns of diversity.
Using ESRI’s ArcIMS technology, the garden created a Web interface for sharing its plant data with the world. Not only does this allow it to provide global mapping capabilities for all the specimens in its database, but it can also customize interactive maps with various environmental data layers, giving the garden’s colleagues in other countries invaluable resources for prioritizing their collection strategies.
In addition, ESRI software has been used to create Missouri Botanical Garden maps for collection information as well as visitor assistance. It has also allowed the Records Department to streamline its database activities and provided invaluable resources to horticulture staff in maintaining the garden’s live plant collection.
Comments Dangermond, “This award holds significant personal meaning for me. Growing up, I worked in my family’s nursery business, which engendered in me a lifelong interest in botany and guided my educational pursuits to a degree in landscape architecture. In addition, I share with the Missouri Botanical Garden a strong commitment to conservation. I am very happy to know that the Missouri Botanical Garden has applied GIS in so many ways to advance its work in its St. Louis facility and throughout the world.”
About ESRI
Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit ESRI at www.esri.com.
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