“Lawrence R. Handley has been named Director of the U.S. Geological Survey Mid-Continent Geographic Science Center based in Rolla.  Handley, a geographer who has been a wetland and spatial analysis scientist for nearly 25 years, will direct geographic science programs and projects at the USGS Center. He will oversee 28 employees working on projects that employ remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and earth monitoring techniques.”

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