As in the last summer (2008), the graduate student Natlee Hernandez worked as part of the Eastern Geographic Science Center under the supervision of Dr. John Jones, a geographer of the U.S. Geological Survey. This was her second internship at the USGS and she worked as physical science tech. The project was about the fire ecology on the South Florida Everglades. A database was created to obtain a better understanding of the vegetation recovery rate. In order to create this database, Natlee used ENVI and ArcGIS. Unsupervised classifications were applied to the already delimited burned scars from 1986 to 2004. She obtained that the recovery rate varies from type of vegetation, water level, and date of the fire.
