Then there are Shane Bergman, a geographic information systems specialist, and Nathan McIntyre, a software developer, roommates who are both 30.
Mr. Spinelli, 24, is a geographic information systems specialist in the Reston, Va., office of Wireless Facilities, a telecommunications consulting company.
Brian Gertler, an information systems specialist at Leslie Digital Imaging's office in Hauppauge, said the anthrax scare had heightened interest in his scanners.
Kelly Johnston, a geographic information systems specialist at the lab who created the maps, explained that he tried to convert the qualities of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness into quantities that could be visualized in a map.
Janet Fredericks is an information systems specialist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where she has been responsible for systems programming, data management and operational oversight of meteorological and oceanographic observatories.
Health system honorees are Barry Meyer, a facilities director at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Swanzeta Nciwenii, a transplant information systems specialist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital Sammi Turnerr, a special needs coordinator with Johns Hopkins Health Care; and Ann Marie Lee-Wilkins, a patient care manager at Bayview.
"We now process a bunch of statistics that most growers want," Morris said, and noted that it would usually take an in-house geographic information systems specialist to process this data, but for now, TerrAvion is offering this new service, which it calls Digest, for free.
Coming from a predominately male-saturated workforce of engineers and geographic information system specialists, it was refreshing to work with more women — especially women who were driven, smart, and fun to be around.
This support was provided by a crew of young doctors and computer information system specialists based at the hospital "Mere -Enfant", and that has been working in the field of telemedicine in Mali for 9 years.
MEG STEWART Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Aug. 15, 2000 The writer is a geographic information system specialist at Vassar College.
