November 2016

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CGA NEWS

Senior Geospatial Developer at Harvard CGA

The CGA is currently seeking a Senior Geospatial Developer. Application deadline is November 16, 2016. For more information and to apply, click 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:

  • GPS Data Collection, by Jeff Blossom, 1:30-4:30pm, November 18th, 2016
  • Database Design for GPS/GIS Applications, by Nicole Alexander, 1:30-3:30pm, December 2nd, 2016

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

GIS Site License Software Upgrade (For Harvard Affiliates Only)

 

CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations-come join the discussion

  • GIS Colloquium
    “From Text to Map: Arabic Biographical Collections and Geospatial Analysis”, presented by Maxim Romanov, Research Fellow in the Digital Humanities team at Leipzig University. Thursday, November 17th, 2016, 12:00-1:30pm. Room S050, CGIS South building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.
  • ABCD-GIS Presentation Series
    Presentation (topic to be announced) by Thomas Ballatore, the director of the Lake Basin Action Network and a faculty aide at the CGA. Wednesday, December 7th, 2016, 12:00-1:30pm. Room K450, CGIS Knafel building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.
 

HARVARD GIS COMMUNITY NEWS

2015 LandScan Data Available from the Map Collection

The Harvard Map Collection has received the 2015 LandScan global population raster dataset. The data can be downloaded from here. The LandScan 2000- 2014 datasets can be accessed using the same link form but change the year.

CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT

The Fifth Annual Graduate History Association Conference

The Graduate History Association at Washington University in St. Louis invites graduate and post-doctoral students engaged in research across disciplines to submit proposals for this year’s conference theme: The Spatial Turn. The Conference will explore questions pertaining to the social, political, economic and cultural relations between people and landscapes. Read more

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

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.

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