September 2016

HIGHLIGHTS

• Upcoming GIS Technical Training Workshops
• CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations
• GIS Institute Application Deadline October 21st
• Esri’s New Training Website
• Post Doctoral Position at NC State Center for Geospatial Analytics
• Part Time GIS Position with the City of Cambridge
• Travel Funding Available for the 2017 ICA in Washington, DC
• Visualizing Sovereignty: Cartographic Queries for the Digital Age
• Where Americans Are Sent to Prison Most
• Global Oil Data Visualization of Top Oil Importers Over 20 Years
• More …

CGA NEWS

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 for September are:

• Basic Introduction to GIS - Cambridge, by Jeff Blossom, 1:30-3:30pm, September 9^th, 2016
• Wrangling Data into Maps - Cambridge, by Jeff Blossom, 1:30-3:30pm, September 16^th, 2016
• Making Sense out of Spatial Data - Cambridge, by Wendy Guan, 1:30-3:30pm, September 23^rd, 2016
• Open Source QGIS 2.0, by Merrick Lex Berman, 1:30-3:30pm, September 30^th, 2016
• ArcGIS Online & ArcGIS Maps for Office, by Giovanni Zambotti, 1:30-3:30pm, October 7^th, 2016
• Exploring Google’s Mapping Products, by Jeff Blossom, 1:30-3:30pm, October 14^th, 2016

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

CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations-come join the discussion

• ABCD-GIS Presentation Series
  “Research Frontiers in Analysing Social Media Data”, by Bernd Resch, Assistant Professor at University of Salzburg’s Department of Geoinformatics. Thursday, September 22^nd, 2016, 12:00-1:30pm. Room S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA.
• GIS Colloquium
  “Seeking Space and Place in Holocaust Testimony” by Anne Knowles, Professor of History at the University of Maine. Friday, October 7^th, 2016, 12:00-1:30pm. Room 107, Robinson Hall (Harvard Yard), Cambridge, MA.

GIS Institute Application Deadline October 21st

This two-week program of intensive training in geographic information systems (GIS) will next be offered in January of 2017. Click here for more information and here to register.

Esri’s New Training Website

Esri’s new e-learning site includes self-paced courses, seminars, videos, and other resources covering a wide variety of GIS and ArcGIS topics. Harvard affiliates have unlimited access to these sources. Click here for more information.

CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT

Post Doctoral Position at NC State Center for Geospatial Analytics

The Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State invites applications for an innovative and highly motivated Postdoctoral Scientist to join its Landscape Dynamics Group, led by Ross K. Meentemeyer. Review of applications will begin September 19, 2016 and continue until the position is filled. Read more

Part Time GIS Position with the City of Cambridge

The City of Cambridge is looking for a part-time GIS Technician. A major theme of this position is the use of 3D within GIS. Read more

Travel Funding Available for the 2017 ICA in Washington, DC

The U.S. National Committee (USNC) to the International Cartographic Association (ICA) is pleased to announce the availability of travel funding to attend the 28th International Cartographic Conference (ICC) in Washington, DC, July 2-7, 2017. The deadline for applications is October 26. Read more

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Visualizing Sovereignty: Cartographic Queries for the Digital Age

Where Americans Are Sent to Prison Most

Global Oil Data Visualization of Top Oil Importers Over 20 Years

Surveillance under Surveillance

Migrations in Motion

The Opioid Epidemic

Free Satellite Imageries from SpaceNet

Generating Fantasy Maps

From Stats to Map in R: Mortgages in the USA

27 Differences Between ArcGIS and QGIS

Mapping Supply Chains - Nike (USA), and Marks and Spencer (UK)

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

This newsletter passes on news items and information about new web maps or uses of GIS that come to the CGA’s attention from various sources. These are provided for informational purposes only. The CGA does not endorse these items and makes no representations about their accuracy, completeness or quality. © Present & Fellows Harvard University. All Rights Reserved.