CGA Newsletter September 2015 PDF (Download)
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GIS Teaching Fellow Position A Teaching Fellow is needed for the class GOVT 1008: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The position requires a previous background using ArcGIS software, and offers the chance to practice those skills by aiding students who are currently learning to use the program. More information and to apply. | |
Mapping Your Life Workshop The Out of Eden Walk project is a 7-year storytelling walk across the world. In a new educational initiative funded by this project, the CGA will be offering two free mapping workshops this fall. Each full day workshop will teach students how to make basic reference and thematic maps, and an interactive online story map using geotagged photos and GPS locations. For more information and to register for the October 17th workshop in Cambridge, MA click here. For more information and to register for the November 20th workshop in Washington D.C. click here. | |
GIS for the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop This full-day workshop to be held December 4, 2015, offers hands on instruction on learning and applying several GIS and mapping techniques commonly used by those practicing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The workshop will include discussion and interactive exercises aimed to contextualize the usage of geography and maps for each participant’s individual research or teaching interests. For more information and to register. | |
CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations-come join the discussion
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HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS | |
Sea Atlas Explorer The Harvard Map Collection has launched a new web project, the Sea Atlas Explorer. It is a map based search tool for looking at some of the most influential early guides to navigation. The atlases included in this viewer date from the late 1500s to 1745 and span the globe. Users can view geo-referenced navigation charts on a modern base map as well as explore the text that helped guide mariners safe to port. | |
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT |
Call for Bike Riders for the Urban Emotions Project The Urban Emotions project investigates the use of emotion information in urban planning for the creation of more citizen-centred cities. We are seeking participants for a field test in Boston/Cambridge, in which we investigate the bike ability of the city. Participants just need to ride a bike wearing the emotions sensors for an hour, no track restrictions. For more information and to sign up. |
Annual Peter Gould Student Paper Award The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) of AAG invites current undergraduate and graduate students to submit their work to the specialty group’s annual Peter Gould Student Paper Competition. The competition is meant to promote written scholarship by students across the field, and awards the winner $250. Abstracts due October 23. For more details and to apply. |
Call for Papers: Provenance and Credibility in Spatial and Platial Data The Journal of Spatial Information Science (JoSIS) is publishing a Special Feature on “Provenance and Credibility in Spatial and Platial Data”, and is accepting paper submissions through November 15. For more information and to apply. |
Esri Health and Human Services GIS Conference This conference will be held September 14 - 16 in Atlanta, GA. Go to the conference website. |
NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES | |||
A Boston Winter 2015 Story Map and Article Locating the Tianjin Explosion Using Online Maps Inside the World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers Worldwide Map of Ashley Madison Users | |||
The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editor of this issue is Jeff Blossom. |
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