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A Monthly Publication of the CGA at Harvard University AUGUST 2016
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2016 CGA Conference Videos Available

The 2016 CGA Conference: Space, Place, and Geographic Thinking in the Humanities videos are now available online here. Whether you want to revisit one of these inspiring talks or were unable to attend this year's conference, you can access these videos at any time.

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 - Longwood, by Giovanni Zambotti, 1:30-3:30pm, September 2nd, 2016
  • Basic Introduction to GIS - Cambridge, by Jeff Blossom, 1:30-3:30pm, September 9th, 2016
  • Wrangling Data into Maps - Cambridge, by Jeff Blossom, 1:30-3:30pm, September 16th, 2016
  • Making Sense out of Spatial Data - Cambridge, by Wendy Guan, 1:30-3:30pm, September 23rd, 2016
  • Open Source QGIS 2.0, by Merrick Lex Berman, 1:30-3:30pm, September 30th, 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

  • ABCD-GIS Presentation Series
    "Mapping Amman's Public Transportation System" by Peter Damrosch. August 18th, 2016, 12:00-1:00pm. Room S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA.
  • GIS Colloquium
    "Historical GIS and Digital Humanities based on Virtual Kyoto" by Keiji Yano, Professor of Geography and GIS Science at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Japan. September 1st, 2016, 12:00-1:30pm. Room S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA. This event is co-sponsored by Reischauer Center for Japanese Studies.
CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT

Esri's New Imagery MOOC

Earth Imagery at Work is Esri's newest massive open online course (MOOC). It introduces applications of imagery that provide solutions to challenges faced in agriculture, disaster management, electric utilities, and many other industries To know more about this course and to register, please click here.

Esri New Global Content Challenge

Esri is challenging students all over the world to unleash the power of Esri content by way of their own geographic analyses, visualizations, predictive models and more to tell a compelling scientific story. The story must be presented using the Esri map journal app. Read more, and enter the challenge.

NEURISA Day 2016 GIS Competition

The New England Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information System Association (NEURISA) is looking for GIS related posters and web applications from students and young professionals. The topics can include anything from climate change to drones to strategic planning. Read more

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES

AAG Guide to Geography Programs in the Americas Webmap (it is also available in PDF)

Water Risk Maps

A Vanishing Aquifer

History of All the Empires and States in the World

Unsafe levels of toxic chemicals found in drinking water for six million Americans

Introducing the R-ArcGIS Bridge

How to Create Maps in R in 10 Easy Steps

Syria Situation Maps

Advanced Geospatial Analysis for Browser and Node using Turf.js

2016 Terrorist Attacks

How to Visualize Urban Accessibility and Walkability

Esri Offers Free Self-Paced E-Learning to Customers through New Training Site Starting August 15, 2016

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

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