December 2015

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CGA Newsletter December 2015 PDF (Download)

 

CGA NEWS

GIS for Disaster Recovery

Harvard student Heidi Hurst, an intern at the CGA, used ESRI’s ArcPy and Network Analyst to develop a model to help FEMA provide resources for survivors. Read the article.

 

Fisher Prize and EDC Award

Submissions are now being accepted for two Harvard student awards for GIS excellence. Click the links below for more information and to apply: Fisher Prize| ESRI Development Center Student of the Year

Mapping Your Life Webinar now Online

This free webinar introducing mapping concepts and techniques hosted by the CGA’s Jeff Blossom from the Out of Eden Walk project is now online. View the webinar recording, and links to materials. See pictures from an elementary school classroom that followed the webinar, making their own maps.

CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations-come join the discussion

  • ABCD-GIS Presentation Series
    “Finch for Text: A Unique Approach to Geographic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Textual Data Environments”, presented by Erin-Michael Gill, December 17th, 2015, 12:00pm-1:00pm. This will be a remote presentation via Google Hangouts, held in Room S050 of the CGIS South building.
  • GIS Colloquium
    Next presentation coming Feb. of 2016
 

 

CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT

Data Analyst Position at HSPH

The Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) is seeking a part-time data analyst for a new study of predictors of spatial location patterns and density of businesses offering cosmetic surgery and cosmetic procedures. For more information and to apply.

Boston Awarded Hosting of FOSS4G 2017

The OSGeo Foundation has announced that the hosting of the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) 2017 event has been awarded by the OSGeo Conference Committee to Boston. See the full announcement.

Geographic Information Forum: July, 2016

Next year’s GI Forum, one of the major scientific exchange hubs in the GIS community, will take place in Salzburg, Austria, 05-08 July, 2016. For more details and to register.

UCGIS Research Challenge Call for Proposals

The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) invites proposals for research problems that could be solved by Geographic Information Science theory, method, or technology. Proposals are due January 18, 2016. For more information, and to submit.

Free UCGIS Webinars

The UCGIS is offering free webinars to anyone at a member instution, such as Harvard. View the list of webinars.

ASONAM 2016 Conference

The 2016 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining will be held at UC Davis, August 18 - 21, 2016. For more information, and to submit a paper.

Map Making Workshop in Portland, ME

Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education is offering a three-day manuscript map workshop June 24-26, 2016. The workshop will be held in the Sam E. Cohen Center, on the University of Southern Maine Portland campus. For more information and to register.

 

 

The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editor of this issue is Jeff Blossom.

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