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Mary O'Neil Papers
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- 1971-2018 (Creation)
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8.0 linear feet [8 record boxes]
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Mary Elaine DeVries O’Neill was born in Armour, South Dakota, on June 13, 1950 to Ray and Ruby DeVries. She attended high school in Corsica, South Dakota, graduating in 1968. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Math in 1972 and Master’s in Geography in 1994, both from South Dakota State University. She married Douglas O’Neill in 1993.
Her professional career includes:
- SDView Coordinator (January 2014 to Present), Water Resources Institute, 2014-
- Program Manager, Remote Sensing, Water Resources Institute, SDSU, 2010-2013
- Manager, Office of Remote Sensing, Engineering Resource Center, SDSU, 1989-2010
- Adjunct Instructor, Geography Department, SDSU, 2003-2013
- Adjunct Instructor, Engineering Tech. and Management, SDSU, 2005-2006
- Adjunct Instructor, Mathematics Department, SDSU, 2005 Spring
- Visiting Scientist, EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD, 1993
- Adjunct Instructor, Computer Science Department, SDSU, 1980s various semesters
- Various Positions, Remote Sensing Institute, SDSU, 1972-1989
Projects and activities:
- Principal investigator of a USGS-funded AmericaView project entitled “Building Partnerships and Infrastructure in South Dakota to Facilitate the Availability, Timely Distribution and Utilization of Remote Sensing and Associated Geospatial Data and Technology.” September 1, 2002 – May 21, 2014.
- Geographic Information System Specialist in support of USAID/Uganda’s Feed the Future Program via Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement with USGS National Center for EROS, Sioux Falls, SD. May 1, 2011 to December 31, 2012
- Co-investigator of Remote Sensing for Water Quality Monitoring and Watershed Assessment on the Lake Traverse Reservation funded by NASA and the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium. May 2010 – May 2011
- Coordinator of South Dakota’s Education Public Access Resource Center (EdPARC), a subgroup of the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium (UMAC). 1998 – 2012
- Principal Investigator of Main Street Sioux Falls Geographic Information System Development and Maintenance project, January 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008
- Planned and team-taught several one- or two-week geospatial technology workshops for K-12 educators at various locations in SD including SDSU and the USGS National Center for EROS near Sioux Falls. 1999 – 2012
- Co-investigator of three geospatial technology projects for Science Applications International Corporation (contractor at National Center for EROS): Digitization of Historic Pollution Sources, Digitizing Las Vegas Transportation Features, and Analog to Digital Conversion of Spatial Data. April 2005 – September 2006
- Member of a five-person SDSU fact-finding team that traveled to Poland to discuss collaborative project possibilities. Activities during the 18 days in Poland included visits to universities and institutes in Lublin and Pulawy, meetings with scientists and planners, and presentations to university students and professionals. May 1998
- Member of the “Wildlife Rangeland and Monitoring by Remote Sensing of the Negev Desert” project team. Provided two weeks of image processing services on the Sde Boker campus of Ben Gurion University in Israel. Funding for the project was provided by the International Arid Lands Consortium. June 1997
International Workshop Participation:
- July 16-25, 1985: "Application of Remote Sensing in Agricultural Research" workshop, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- March 11-15, 1985: U.S. India Symposium Workshop on Remote Sensing, Ahmedabad, India
- July 13-August 1, 1983: Remote Sensing Workshop, Dakar, Senegal.
- March 31-April 10, 1980: Remote Sensing Workshop, Dakar, Senegal.
- October 1-11, 1979: Remote Sensing Workshop, Khartoum, Sudan.
- April 30-May 4, 1978: Remote Sensing Workshop, Kathmandu, Nepal.
She was also instrumental in the organization of the Professional Staff Advisory Council which establishes representation for non-faculty exempt staff members.
O’Neill retired in 2013.
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The Mary O’Neill Papers are composed of course material, college course notes, files related to her work with AmericaView, South DakotaView, Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium, and South Dakota State University. Also included is material related to the many research projects related to geospatial technologies, remote sensing, geographic information systems, and global positioning systems.
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South Dakota State University supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted as a result of their fragile condition or by contractual agreements with donors.
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- English
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Selected Publications/Reports:
O’Neill, M. and K. Dalsted. 2010. Chapter 2: Obtaining Spatial Data. In S. Clay (Ed.), GIS Applications in Agriculture, Volume 2, Invasive Species. CRC Press (submitted for publication).
Thanapura, P., D. Helder, S. Burckhard, E. Warmath, M. O’Neill, D.H. Galster, 2007. Mapping urban land cover using QuickBird NDVI image and GIS spatial modeling for runoff coefficient determination, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 73 (1):57-65.
O’ Neill, M, K. Dalsted, P. Thanapura, D. Clay, C. Reese, S. Shin, J. Lee, J. Kim, and H. Jeon. 2005. SDView: Remote Sensing Partnerships, Infrastructure, and Data for South Dakota, Proceedings of the ASPRS 2005 Fall Convention – Pecora 16 Symposium, 23-27 October, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing), unpaginated CD-ROM.
O’Neill, M. and V. Shelhamer. 2005. GIS Instruction: A Case Study in Precision Agriculture. Presented at the 2005 ESRI Education Users Conference, 23-26 July 2005, San Diego, CA.
O’Neill, M., C. Soeffing and R. Woodburn. 2003. K-12 Geospatial Education in South Dakota: Past, Present and Future. Presented at the 2003 ESRI Education Users Conference, 6-9 July 2003, San Diego, CA.
O’Neill, M.E. and H. Copeland. 1999. Prairie to Mountain Explorer: GIS and Remote Sensing Datasets for the Classroom. Presented at the National Association of Research in Science Teaching Annual Meeting, 28-31 March 1999, Boston, MA.
Chang, J., D. Clay, K. Dalsted, S. Clay and M. O’Neill. 2003. Use of Spectral Radiance at Multiple Sampling Dates to Estimate Corn (Zea mays) Yield Using Principal Component Analysis. Agronomy Journal.
Thanapura, P., S.A. Clay, D.E. Clay, C. Cole, K. Dalsted and M. O’Neill. 2000. Integrating Remote Sensing (Aerial Images), Geographic Information System (GIS), and Global Positioning System (GPS) Data: The Case of Mapping Weeds in a Moody County (South Dakota) Field.
O'Neill, M.E., K.J. Dalsted and R. Rykhus. 1995. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Economic Development at the Tribal Planning Level.
DeVries, M.E. and K.J. Dalsted. 1993. Use of GIS to Enhance the Analysis of SLAR Data.
DeVries, M.E. and M.L. Anthony. 1993. Agman - An Agricultural Database Manager. Software documentation prepared with funding from the US Agency for International Development, Project #698-0466.
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