Christopher is in his last week of an internship with Mairead de Roiste at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences. He was here on placement as part of his Cartography and Geomedia-technology degree at the University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany. The University of Applied Sciences requires students to undertake an 18 week internship in the fifth term.
Christopher at Silvretta, Austria
I completed my internship as a GIS
(Geographic Information Science) research assistant. During this time I was
supervised by Dr. Mairead de Roiste (Senior Lecturer in GIS and Programme
Director for the Masters in GIS at VUW) and Andrew Rae (GIS support technician).
New Zealand attracted me for a number of reasons. First, I wanted to improve my English. Second, I wanted to explore a different working environment. Additionally, New Zealand has a reputation for outdoor adventures and cultural experiences.
New Zealand attracted me for a number of reasons. First, I wanted to improve my English. Second, I wanted to explore a different working environment. Additionally, New Zealand has a reputation for outdoor adventures and cultural experiences.
I worked
on a number of different projects, for example, one project looked at the effect of rock type, rainfall,
slope gradient and aspect on landslide occurrence in two study areas on the
North Island of New Zealand; Hawke's Bay and Waitotara. Another project created a transport commuting model
for the Greater Wellington Region.
I also worked for four days in the
GIS Division of the Department of Conservation (DOC). My main task here was to
test two new DOC internal GIS applications before they were made ‘live’ the
following week. The applications should allow DOC employees to create maps
quickly and easily without any cartographic knowledge.
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