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Jeremy Hobson has been selected as the fire GIS specialist for the National Park Service (NPS) Information Management and Technology Branch under the Division of Fire and Aviation Management (DFAM). He entered on duty on June 7, 2020.

Abby Childs and Katie Hansen are two new GIS specialists for the National Park Service (NPS) Information Management and Technology Branch under the Division of Fire and Aviation Management (DFAM) in Boise, Idaho.

In the early 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led an ambitious expedition across the western United States. Lewis and Clark greatly expanded our knowledge of the country’s geography and biological diversity through their specimen collection, mapping of the landscape and detailed journal entries. This year NASA and the National Park Service encourage the public to follow in these explorers’ footsteps through a new citizen science challenge from June 1 to Sept. 2. Use your smart phone and the NASA GLOBE Observer (GO) app to map land cover along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail and elsewhere to assist scientists studying environmental changes.