Community-University Sustainability Partners
Community-university sustainability partnerships provide transformative learning opportunities for MGIS students who become the next cohort of sustainability managers, while at the same enable partners to explore topics making important contributions to society. A capstone project workshop culminates the curriculum. MGIS capstone project reports are available here.
For MGIS students, it is an opportunity to apply their refined skills to a sustainability-related project with a community partner in the Puget Sound region. The capstone workshop immerses students in the full range of tasks associated with the application of GIS. Working in small teams, students define project goals together with the community partner, perform database design, acquire and analyze data, model sustainable solutions and recommend a course of action. By working with community partners MGIS students extend their abilities as engaged professionals.
Below are narrative examples of selected projects. Visit our capstone page to view individual project reports.
Project Partners since 2012
- Audubon Washington
- Bainbridge Island Land Trust
- Commute Seattle
- Earth Economics
- Ecologists without Borders
- ERM
- Forterra, Seattle, WA
- Friends of the Farms, City of Bainbridge Island
- Hood River County, Oregon
- King County Archives
- King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks
- King County Noxious Weed Control Program
- Kitsap Conservation District, Kitsap County, WA
- Mangrove Action Project
- Mapillary
- Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
- The National Park Service
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
- The Natural Capital Project
- The Nature Conservancy
- Oregon State University
- Pronatura Noroeste A.C.
- Puget Sound Regional Council's Growth Management Department
- Regional Open Space Strategy (ROSS)
- River Management Society
- San Juan County, WA
- Seattle City Light
- Spokane Tribe of Indians, Spokane, WA
- Sustainable Fisheries Foundation
- Sustainable Seattle
- TOTAGO (Turn Off the App - Go Outside!)
- US Forest Service's Green Cities Research Alliance, Pacific NW Research Station King County, WA
- USDA Forest Service, Remote Sensing Applications Center
- Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife