CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
January
201
2
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HIGHLIGHTS
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Harvard Geography Colloquium
•
Davis Center Prize for GIS Projects in Russian, East European, and Central
Asian
Studies
•
2012 Fisher Prize for Excellence in GIS
•
ChicagoMap Launched
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WorldMap Update
•
Student Internship Opportunity: GITA New England Chapter
•
National Geographic Award in Mapping
•
Government Geo
spatial P
latform
•
GeoTime Blog
Visualizations
•
GIS: From Spa
ce to Place
Article
•
Map Tales: Easily Create and Share Map
-
Based Stories
•
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Maps
•
New York City Energy Use Map
•
Free 1m Satellite Imagery
•
Mexican Drug War Map
•
A Building Block for GPS: The Atomic Clock
•
Washington D.C. Transit
Study
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CGA NEWS
Th
is
new colloquium series will
feature
speakers from diverse disciplines to present their
geographic work in an academic setting
.
T
he Colloquium is co
-
organized by Dr. Kirk
Goldsberry of the CGA (
Harvard Geography Colloquium
) and Dr. S. V. Subra
manian,
Professor of Population Health and Geography at the Harvard School of Public Health
(
). The
series begins Tuesday, February 7th
at noon
in
the
CGIS South building at 1730 Cambridge St., Room 153
. This inaugural meeting wi
ll
feature
the
presentation “
History of Food and Weight Gain in the Framingham Heart Study
Offspring Cohort”
by Jason Block, M.D.
More on the Colloquium will to follow in the
February newsletter.
Beginning in spring 2012, to support innovative applications of technology in advancing
regional studies, the Davis Center will award a prize for the best geographic information
systems (GIS) project relevant to Russian, Ea
st European, and Central Asian studies.
The
best submission by a Harvard student and the best submission by a Harvard faculty
member will each receive an award of $500.
This prize is offered in conjunction with the
Davis Center Prize for GIS Projects in Russian, East Euro
pean, and Central Asian
Studies
Howard T. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Geographic Information Science
to be held during
the
annual CGA
Conference
, whic
h will take place at Harvard University March 29
–
30,
2012. For details and to apply for the prize:
no links