CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER
May 2014
HIGHLIGHTS
- CGA Conference 2014 Articles
- 2014 Fisher Prize Winners
- CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations
- New Map for the Out of Eden Walk Project – “Walking Jerusalem”
- Spatiotemporal Innovation Center Holds First Board Meeting
- HAPI Summer GIS Research Assistant
- Esri GeoDev Meetup in Boston
- Sunrise around the World
- Animation of Ming Exams in China 1371 -1610
- Access to Jobs Map
- More …
CGA NEWS
CGA Conference 2014 Articles
The year’s conference “Geospatial Technology and Online Education” was held on May 2, 2014. Over 50 people were in attendance, and 15 posters were featured in the poster session. Two articles were written about this event: Geo-enabled Education Online in Directions Magazine; and CGA Explores Online Education at Its Annual Conference, written by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Conference videos will be forthcoming.
2014 Fisher Prize Winners
This year’s Fisher Prize for Excellence in GIS winners are Leif Estrada (Graduate Category) for his entry: “Temporal Morphology: Synthetic Growth and Natural Decline of Alameda Island” and Jake Sobstyl (Undergraduate Category) for his entry: “Zero-touch scale-free and climate independent thermal energy audits”. Congratulations to the winners! View the posters and judges’ comments.
CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations – come join the discussion
“The Chinese Late Ming Dynasty Courier Route Application”, presented by Giovanni Zambotti and Lex Berman, CGA, and “China Air Quality Index” presented by Lex Berman, CGA. June 18th, 2014, 12:00-1:30pm.
New Map for the Out of Eden Walk Project – “Walking Jerusalem”
Jeff Blossom of the CGA continues to work with the Out of Eden Walk team on a variety of cartographic products. http://www.outofedenwalk.com/map-room/walking-jerusalem/
Spatiotemporal Innovation Center Holds First Board Meeting
The Spatiotemporal Innovation Center funded by the NSF I/UCRC program (http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/iucrc/) and member companies and agencies (http://stcenter.net/), held its first Industry Advisory Board meeting at George Mason University on May 12-13th. Researchers from three universities (George Mason, UC Santa Barbara and Harvard) met with more than twenty representatives from various industry companies and government agencies. Dr. Lynn Usery of the USGS was elected as the chair of the center’s Industry Advisory Board. In addition, about twenty research proposals were presented and evaluated. For more information, see http://stcenter.net/stc/2014_IAB_agenda.
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT
HAPI Summer GIS Research Assistant
The Center for Health and Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Health is seeking a qualified candidate for summer research assistance related to the Center’s Health and Places Initiative focused on China urban environments. This position runs ten weeks from May 30 to August 15, with some flexibility. More details can be found here.
Esri GeoDev Meetup in Boston
This GeoDev Meetup is a social gathering for developers to discuss geospatial technologies, complementary third-party tools, and development platforms (e.g., Silverlight, Java, Flex, JavaScript) that are supported by Esri. 5:30pm-9:00pm, June 4, 2014, The Bell In Hand Tavern, 45 Union Street, Boston, MA. To read more and to register, please click here.
URISA’s Student Competition for GIS-Pro 2014
Here is an opportunity for students to submit their digital GIS maps for a chance to win various awards at URISA’s 52nd Annual Conference. http://gis.harvard.edu/resources/opportunities/gis-pro-2014-student-competition-urisas-52nd-annual-conference
NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES
Animation of Ming Exams in China 1371 -1610
Editors of this issue are Fei Carnes and Jeff Blossom.
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