Information Office Program
Michael J. Liszewski
Information Office Program Manager
Phone: 928.556.7458
E-mail: mjliszew@usgs.gov
Web and FTP Services
The GCMRC web site and FTP site serve to make the mission and findings of GCMRC accessible to the public. During the last year the GCMRC website has been accessed over 1.5 million times. This illustrates the importance of the website as a highly visible interface to our constituency.
The web server is located inside a firewall. The firewall restricts enterprise level intrusion attempts while allowing the public access to our publicly available web and FTP servers. GCMRC hosts and maintains the web and FTP sites on a Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Internet Information Services. The web content is served utilizing Active Server Pages (ASP) and .NET. The content is designed and maintained using the Macromedia Studio software suite and Visual Studio.net. Content is checked for compliance with USGS, DOI and federal standards.
The sites offer our updated work plan, descriptions of our program areas, and various interactive stores of data including our Internet Map Server, our online library and discussion forums for GCMRC, AMP, and USGS LiDAR discussion group.
Currently we are working with the information providers to incorporate information from the FTP site (over 500 GB) into the web site. The goal in doing this is to provide the information in a user friendly format that is easier to locate.
The continuing duties involved in maintaining the web and FTP servers include: adding new content and updating existing content, ensuring that hardware and software is secure and up to date, and maintaining section 508 compliance. The web site serves a range of content, both static pages as HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and dynamic pages by means of ASP.NET and PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP). PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.)
This site is continually monitored for intrusion attempts, security updates and adjustments are applied as necessary.