May 2011

CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER

May 2011

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HIGHLIGHTS

•    Fisher Prize Winner

•    CGA Spring Conference Wrap-up and Online Material

•    2011 Summer GIS Institute

•    CGA Conference Reports

•    Updated Geographic Stories Page

•    UCGIS Summer Meeting 2011

•    2011 Spatial Epidemiology in Megacities Summer School

•    ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 2 Released

•    Geospatial Revolution Video Episode 4 Released

•    Using Phone Data to Map the World

•    ESRI Change Matters Viewer

•    Census 2010 Interactive Population Map

•    Census Data Availability Schedule

•    Open Heat Map

•    Open Paths

•    A Week on Foursquare

•    Gigwalk Mobile Workforce

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CGA NEWS

Fisher Prize Winner

The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science, Harvard University, is pleased to announce the recipient of the award for the academic year 2010-2011 as Mr. Dustin Duncan, PhD candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health for his poster presentation: “Spatial Analysis of the Neighborhood Crime on the Body Mass Index of Urban Adolescents”.  The poster is online on CGA’s Fisher Prize winners site:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page322287

CGA Spring Conference Wrap-up and Online Material

The annual CGA spring conference “Geospatial Collaboration: New Common Ground” co-sponsored by metaLAB@Harvard was held May 6-7 in Cambridge.  On Friday the conference featured 27 lightning style presentations on a variety of topics. A poster and video session was held Friday evening, featuring 17 poster and 7 video presentations.  Saturday involved 15 different topical sessions, 2 hands on training classes for conference attendees, and the Fisher Prize presentation.  Total attendance for the event was around 100 people.  Conference materials are now available online:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page420114

If you were a conference attendee, please fill the evaluation form at:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page148866

2011 Summer GIS Institute

The 2011 Summer GIS Institute will start on May 31st at the CGA. The class

is composed of 21 graduate students, 2 faculty members and 8 post doc researchers. The two-week training will conclude on June 10th when each student will present their project work to an open audience at the CGIS South Belfer Case Study Room. Registration is now open for the next Institute which is scheduled for January 2-13. For details, see:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page322426.

CGA Conference Reports

Several CGA members attended conferences this spring.  Their conference reports / write-ups can be found under the “Summaries of Previous GIS Events” topic on our Public Events page:

http://gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup126182

Updated Geographic Stories Page

This page has been updated recently with several additional stories:

http://gis.harvard.edu/stories

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CONFERENCES

UCGIS Summer Meeting 2011

This meeting will be held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado June 22-23, 2011. The location is chosen to reflect on how GIScience may contribute to the rapidly changing human environment with wide ranging issues related to climate change, urban communities, sustainable development, and many others.  All GIS-related scholars and practitioners, from either UCGIS or non-UCGIS institutions, are welcome to attend.  More information:  http://www.ucgis.org/summer2011/Default.aspx

2011 Spatial Epidemiology in Megacities Summer School
This summer school program: “Spatial Epidemiology in Megacities: Statistical and spatial analysis of Health under a changing climate” will be held in Bielefeld, Germany, September 12 – 16, 2011.  The course focuses on various dimensions of environment and health in megacities, such as megacity development, diseases burden, health determinants as well as climate change. The aim is to combine theoretical and lab work on statistical/epidemiological and geospatial analysis and modeling techniques in a trans-disciplinary approach.  For more information:

http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/gesundhw/ag2/summerschoolmc/

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NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

ArcGIS 10 Service Pack 2 Released

This service pack has been released by ESRI.  More information about what it contains, and to download:

http://resources.arcgis.com/content/patches-and-service-packs?fa=viewPatch&PID=17&MetaID=1752

Geospatial Revolution Video Episode 4 Released

http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/

Using Phone Data to Map the World

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/technology/26locate.html?_r=1&src=busln

ESRI Change Matters Viewer

http://www.esri.com/landsat-imagery/viewer.html

Census 2010 Interactive Population Map

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/popmap/

Census Data Availability Schedule

http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2010/glance/files/At_A_Glance.pdf

Open Heat Map

http://www.openheatmap.com/

Open Paths

https://openpaths.cc/

A Week on Foursquare

http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/FOURSQUAREWEEK1104/

Gigwalk Mobile Workforce

http://gigwalk.com

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