To promote information on this project and to disseminate data and information to the scientific community and our international collaborators, we have established a web-site at http://beira.geo.wvu.edu/ . This site details the project, including a descriptive overview, a project outline, a data distribution page, the training modules, and institutional profiles. Nested within the site are the training module exercises and the shell of the internet map service (IMS). The site includes several clickable images and downloadable powerpoint presentations of findings as shown in the New York City Symposium in January 2002.

Web Based Training Modules

Web based training with partners in Beira at the Catholic University is a core component of this project. Finding on-site training prohibitively expensive, we set forth to develop web-based training. Each step in data collection, management, and analysis has been developed into training modules (http://beira.geo.wvu.edu/module_intro.html ).

There are two stages to the training modules, a basic and introductory stage, and an advanced stage. The introductory stage modules include training sessions on

1. Data management

2. Digital Mapping, and

3. Introduction to GIS