CGA Newsletter February 2016 PDF Download
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Call for Registration - 2016 CGA Conference: Space, Place, and Geographic Thinking in the Humanities This year’s CGA conference is aimed at bringing humanists together with geospatial technologists and theorists, reviewing current status, achievements, lessons learned, unmet needs, challenges, potentials and perspectives of applying geographic analysis in the humanities. Invited speakers will present their on-going explorations, inspiring cases, and expert views across a range of domains and disciplines, and engage with each other and the audience in discussion and debate. Open to public. CGIS South Concourse level, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA. The conference preliminary program is available online. To register, please click here. | |
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Upcoming GIS Technical Training Workshops CGA offers several non-credit technical training workshops related to GIS (Free to Harvard affiliates but registration is required). The workshops are:
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CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations-come join the discussion
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Esri Demographic and Lifestyle Data 2015 Available (For Harvard Affiliates Only) Esri Data 2015 is now available in the HMDC computer lab. It contains Esri 2015-2020 updated demographic data, Esri 2015 consumer spending, Esri 2015 Tapestry data, 2009-2013 American community survey data, and 2010 census data. Read more. | |
NSF REU Fellow Opportunity The NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center is looking for six undergraduate research assistants to serve as NSF REU Summer Fellows in 2016. The Student interns will work in a team with graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at one of the three center sites (George Mason University, Harvard University, and University of California, Santa Barbara) and will conduct research related to spatiotemporal issues. The application deadline is February 29, 2016. For more information and apply | |
HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS | |
Special Event at Weatherhead Center - Why Geography Matters Have you ever wondered why there is geospatial analysis at Harvard and yet you can’t seem to find many geography classes on campus? Have you wondered why Americans don’t study much geography? This panel will explore why geography matters, to scholarship and intellectual debates, in politics, policy-making, culture, history, humanities, and higher education. Come to learn the history of what happened to geography at Harvard, current initiatives on campus and in the discipline more broadly. Panelists will discuss why and how geography matters, now more than ever. February 11, 2016 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm. Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA. Read more | |
Sanborn Maps GeoEdition The Harvard Library has set up a trial of the Sanborn Maps Geo Edition (1867-1970) from Proquest, available here . You will have to provide your HarvardKey/PIN to access the service. This product provides digital access to thousands of large-scale maps of American towns and cities, searchable by address and GPS coordinates. The images are georeferenced and can be downloaded as GeoTiffs. This is a selected subset of the Sanborn Digital Maps product that is already available from a library subscription. The trial runs until March 31, 2016. | |
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT | |
Hexagon Geospatial App Development Contest This competition is to create an innovative Hexagon Smart M.App that will solve real world issues in a smart, fresh way. You are invited to plan and build a dynamic information experience that provides an elegant solution to a mainstream, global issue. Read more. | |
Call for Papers: Special Issue “Web/Cloud Based Mapping and Geoinformation” You are invited to consider the submission of original and scientific research for this Special Issue (Web/cloud based mapping and geoinformation) of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-information. The challenge is how to discover, integrate, manipulate and present this geoinformation at the appropriate level to users/applications in an environment that comprises GIS, mobile mapping, digital virtual globes, volunteered geographic information, sensor networks, etc. Read more. | |
Third Call for Papers - GIScience 2016 GIScience 2016 continues a highly successful series of conferences started in 2000 that regularly brings together approximately 300 international participants from academia, industry, and government organizations to discuss and advance the state-of-the-art in Geographic Information Science. The conference consists of two refereed paper tracks: full papers and extended abstracts. Read more. | |
Esri Free MOOC: Do-It-Yourself Geo Apps This course will show you how to combine location and narrative in one application to better communicate and broadcast your story, create custom web applications that solve problems in your community, and build powerful native applications for iOS and Android devices without touching a piece of code. Read more. | |
NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES | |||
Esri Unveils ArcGIS Earth to the World - Free Interactive 3D Globe How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Ripples Across America | |||
The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editors of this issue are Fei Carnes and Jeff Blossom. |
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