April 2016

HIGHLIGHTS

• 2016 CGA Conference: Space, Place, and Geographic Thinking in the Humanities
• Call for Applications:
  2016 Fisher Prize and Davis Center Award Competitions
  Cartography Workshop Spring 2016
• Upcoming GIS Technical Training Workshops
• CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations
• 2016 EDC Student Award Winner Announced
• Review of No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control, by Mark Monmonier
• The Long Walk
• 2016 ESRI Dev Summit Conference Notes
• I/UCRC STC Activities at AAG
• Harvard Map Collection
• 2016 Esri Education GIS Conference
• Geospatial Data Technical Assistant Position at Harvard Library
• GIS Internship opportunity with HIP Consult
• Flowing City Maps
• US Primary Elections Map
• A Fresh Look at Cuban Trade
• More…

CGA NEWS

Last 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.

Call for Applications:

• 2016 Fisher Prize and Davis Center Award Competitions
  The 2016 Fisher Prize for excellence in GIS will be given to one graduate and one undergraduate student who must be enrolled in the academic year 2015-2016 and in good standing to be considered for the award. Group projects are allowed. The Prize is a cash award of $500 given to each student. The Davis Center Prize for GIS Projects in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies is also a $500 cash reward, and is being offered in conjunction with the Fisher Prize. For more on the Davis Center Prize, click here. The deadline for both prizes is 11:59 p.m. Monday, April 25th, 2016. To submit your work, follow the guidelines listed on the Fisher Prize page.
• Cartography Workshop Spring 2016
  This full-day hands-on workshop focuses on the visual representation of geographic information. Cartographic fundamentals will also be introduced. May 4^th, 2016. Room B129, Northwest Building. More information about this workshop can be found here.

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:

• Advanced Remote Sensing for Land Use Change Analysis, by Stacy Bogan, 1:00-3:00pm, April 8^th, 2016
• GPS Workshop, by Jeff Blossom, 1:00-4:30pm, April 13^th, 2016
• Wrangling Data into Maps - Longwood, by Jeff Blossom, 1:00-3:00pm, April 15^th, 2016
• Geoprocessing with ModelBuilder, by Giovanni Zambotti, 1:00-3:00pm, April 15^th, 2016
• Making Sense out of Spatial Data - Longwood, by Jeff Blossom, 1:00-3:00pm, April 22^nd, 2016
• Database Design for GPS/GIS Applications, by Nicole Alexander, 1:00-3:00pm, April 22^nd, 2016

More information about technical training workshops and registrations can be found here.

CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations-come join the discussion

• GIS Colloquium
  “From Metropolitan Area to Megalopolis: How to Delineate China’s Functional Urban Areas with Geographical Open Data”, presented by Kang Wu, visiting scholar at CGA and associate professor at Capital University of Economics and Business in China. April 7^th, 2016, 12:00-1:00pm. Room S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA.
• ABCD-GIS Presentation Series
  “Coding Efficient Disaster Recovery”, presented by Heidi Hurst, a senior at Harvard College studying applied math with a focus in navigation and geospatial analysis. April 21^st, 2016, 12:00-1:30pm. Room S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA.

2016 EDC Student Award Winner Announced

Congratulations to Heidi Hurst, a bachelor’s degree candidate for 2016 at Harvard College who has won the Esri Development Center Student of the Year Award for her submission: “A Geospatial Framework For Allocating Disaster Recovery Centers”. View the project abstract, technical report, project presentation, and judges’ comments here.

Review of No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control, by Mark Monmonier

Peter K. Bol wrote a review of this book to express his opinions from a historian’s perspective. This article can be accessed online through Harvard University’s DASH repository.

The Long Walk

An article in Esri’s Spring 2016 issue ArcUser publication on the CGA’s involvement in mapping the Out of Eden Walk.

2016 ESRI Dev Summit Conference Notes

Giovanni Zambotti of the CGA wrote these conference notes after attending the 2016 Esri Dev Summit.

I/UCRC STC Activities at AAG

The NSF funded Spatiotemporal Innovation Center successfully organized a Spatiotemporal Symposium in the American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2016 Annual Meeting at San Francisco. Read more

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Flowing City Maps

US Primary Elections Map

A Fresh Look at Cuban Trade

Zika Virus: Past, Present, and Future

The Hidden Histories of Maps Made By Women: Early North America

A Peek Into Netflix Queues

Google maps help illegal immigrants locate border checkpoints

Learn to Add Tweets to Your Web Maps using ArcGIS Online

Pinball Map of North America

UK Hipstamap

The CGA Newsletter is published monthly. Editors of this issue are Fei Carnes and Jeff Blossom.