CGA Newsletter October 2015 PDF (Download)
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Harvard Receives Airbus Imagery Grant Airbus Defence and Space, a satellite imagery company that controls the Pleiades, SPOT, and other satellites, has granted Harvard University $30,000 to use toward imagery purchases. For more information and to request Airbus imagery. | |
Mapping Your Life Workshop - October 17th 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. there is still space available for the October 17th workshop in Cambridge, MA click here to register. For more information and to register for the November 20th workshop in Washington D.C. click here. | |
GIS Institute Application Deadline October 23rd This two-week program of intensive training in geographic information systems (GIS) will next be offered in January of 2016. Click here for more information, and here to register. | |
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. | |
Tutorial: Creating an Interactive Story Map This recently published tutorial walks one through the steps to create a story map that contains narrated, geotagged photos, and a GPS track. To make your own story map all you need is a iPhone or Android smartphone and a computer connected to the internet. Check out the tutorial. | |
GIS Site License Software Upgrade (For Harvard Affiliates Only) | |
CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations-come join the discussion
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CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT |
Call for Papers: Esri User Conference 2016 This conference will be held June 27 - July 1, 2016 in San Diego, CA. The submission deadline is October 30, 2015. Read more. |
2016 Federal GIS Conference Student Assistantship ESRI is seeking student assistants for this conference, to be held Feb. 23 - 26 in Washington, D.C. Hotel accomodation and meal allowance provided to successful applicants. The submission deadline is December 18, 2015. Read more, and apply. |
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