May 2017

HIGHLIGHTS

• 2017 Fisher Prize Award Winners
• CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations
• Call for Registration - 2nd International Symposium on Spatiotemporal Computing
• Tufts Annual GIS Poster Expo
• Visualizing Global Trade
• Changing Racial Diversity of America
• Esri’s New Landsat Explorer Web App
• More … …

CGA NEWS

2017 Fisher Prize Award Winners

The 2017 Howard T Fisher Prizes for excellence in GIS have been awarded to Harvard students Melissa Balding (undergraduate category) for “ Vision Zero Boston: Using Crowd Sourced Safety Concerns to Identify Local Street Projects“ and Oliver Curtis and Brian Ho (graduate category) for “Building a Complex Surface to Simulate America’s Dry West“. Congratulations to the winners!

CGA’s Monthly GIS Presentations - come join the discussion

• Geography Colloquium
  “Boston Area Research Initiative”, presented by Robert Sampson and Christopher Winship from Harvard University. Thursday, May 18^th, 2017. 12:00-1:30pm. Room S354, CGIS South building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.
• ABCD-GIS Presentation Series
  Next presentation will be in June, to be announced.

CONFERENCES, CALLS & EVENTS

Call for Registration - 2nd International Symposium on Spatiotemporal Computing

The 2nd International Symposium on Spatiotemporal Computing will be held August 7-9, 2017 at Harvard University. Early-bird registration deadline is May 7th, 2017.

To register please click here.

Tufts Annual GIS Poster Expo

Over 200 students and researchers will present their work at Tufts Eleventh Annual GIS Poster Exposition. Wednesday May 10th, 3:30-5pm. Read more

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Visualizing Global Trade

Changing Racial Diversity of America

Esri’s New Landsat Explorer Web App

The Places in America Most Exposed to a Trade War

New API for Mapping the Geography of Global News Coverage

Data Visualization Framework for WebGL Javascript Applications

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