CGA Newsletter April 2015 PDF (Download)
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Call for Registration - 2015 CGA Conference: The Lab for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis (1965-1991) and Its Legacy This year’s CGA conference is aimed at celebrating the 50th anniversary in the history of GIS, along with the 10th birthday of the CGA itself. It features some special presentations from original participants from those heady days, from the Graduate School of Design and other parts of Harvard, as well as GIS scholars and researchers from around the world, looking back to those early days of “the Lab”, and tracing its legacy of seminal developments into the present and on into the future. Open to public. April 30th - May 1st, 2015 . CGIS South Concourse level, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA. To register, please click here. | |
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CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations-come join the discussion
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2015 GPS Workshop Revised Date: April 23rd The GPS Workshop date is changed to April 23rd, 2015 due to the weather condition. Please sign up here. | |
EDC Student Award Winner Announced Harvard’s Esri Developer Center Award for 2015 is Longfeng Wu of the Graduate School of Design, for “Mapping the Urban Farming in Chinese Cities: Depicting a social phenomenon via on-line news”. View the judges’ comments and award winning poster here. | |
Google Earth Pro is Free As of January 20, 2015, Google Earth Pro is free for anyone to download and install. read more | |
HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS | |
Harvard 3D Campus Map Harvard Planning & Project Management published its first version of GIS 3D models online. The users can review the buildings in Cambridge/Allston, and Longwood Medical Area(LMA). Take a look at Harvard 3D Campus Map. | |
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT | |
Open Senior Geospatial Developer Position The Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) seeks applications for a Senior Geospatial Developer. This position is primarily responsible for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of GIS software platforms at CGA. Other duties include providing technical consultation and support to faculty and staff across the university on GIS software development; guiding researchers in the correct way to select and use appropriate GIS software platforms and technologies; exploring new technologies and introducing them to the Harvard GIS community; maintaining local and cloud-based infrastructure (apply updates, troubleshoot performance issues, improve backup procedures, examine various alternatives to current virtual server setup); establishing and implementing software development standards and best practice protocols for CGA, developing code documentation and testing templates. read more | |
Workshop: Cutting-Edge Methods for Exploring the Connection between Air Pollution and Health Disparities Disparities in health and health care are pervasive and persistent. Differences in environmental exposures in general, and air pollution in particular, have been suggested as a source of such disparities in the U.S. and elsewhere. This workshop will provide an introduction to measuring outdoor and indoor air pollution exposures and to incorporating these measures into epidemiologic studies. Application is required and due by April 10, 2015. read more | |
Open GIS Symposium and Summer School 2015, Crete island, Greece This summer school is opening with a one day symposium on open source software, open data and coastal environment-driven Open innovation research. The summer school offers an introduction to the concepts behind GIS, the types of data used, the manner in which they are structured and analyzed, projection and geographic coordinate systems and data representation, as well as basic data analysis. read more | |
The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editors of this issue are Fei Carnes and Jeff Blossom. |
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