CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
September 2006
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CGA NEWS
New GIS Preceptor
In September, Summeeta Srinivasan joined CGA and the Government Department as a GIS preceptor. She is teaching GIS courses at FAS, and working on adding GIS short courses at HMS and HSPH in January. Summeeta has been affiliated with the China Project at Harvard University. Her research interests include the integration of transportation and land use planning and the use of quantitative methods to study urban growth. She has worked on urban issues in India, China and the US. She has a PhD from MIT, Cambridge, MA., and has taught GIS and spatial analysis courses in DEAS Harvard, and Boston University.
Introduction of CGA Services & Relevance to Medicine
The Center for Geographic Analysis invites you to attend an Introduction of CGA Services & Relevance to Medicine on Wednesday, October 4, 2006 at Countway Library Minot Room, 5thFloor, at 4pm.
Followed by a Poster Session & Reception in the Lahey Room.
This event is sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and the CGA.
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic34492.files/cga_talk.pdf
Research Progress: Spatially Enabling HMDC ? requirements document
The CGA has an ongoing research project on spatially enabling the Harvard-MIT Data Center quantitative social science datasets. You can download an intermediate draft document from this project here (http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic34492.files/h_SVDC_URD.pdf). Please email your comments to Nicole Alexander (nalexander [at] cga.harvard.edu)
ArcGIS Extension: Data Interoperability Now Available
ArcGIS Extension: Data Interoperability is now available to Harvard GIS users through our GIS site license. To use this extension, you just need to activate it in ArcGIS 9.1. To learn more about what this extension can do, please visit ESRI website:
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/extensions/datainteroperability/index.html
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Harvard GIS COMMUNITY NEWS
The CGA has compiled a list of GIS related courses available at Harvard University for 2006-2007.
http://www.gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&pageid=icb.page23199
A resent article about Harvard and CGA on GeoWorld Magazine:
Harvard, Geography and GIS: A Race to the Top
http://www.geoplace.com/uploads/FeatureArticle/0609_EDGENODES.asp
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GIS INDUSTRY NEWS
Google Earth Has More Contents from New Partners
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6115177.html?part=rss&tag=6115177&subj=news
Denver Takes Lead in Accelerating Geospatial Industry Growth
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2006/sep/14/news3.html
ENVI 4.3 Now available
http://www.ittvis.com/edm/envi_43_0906/index.asp?s=2365&wid=10050059
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