CGA Newsletter October 2016

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A Monthly Publication of the CGA at Harvard University	OCTOBER 2016

HIGHLIGHTS

GIS Institute Call for Applications: Deadline October 21st
Open Position at CGA: GIS Specialist
Upcoming GIS Technical Training Workshops
GIS Site License Software Upgrade (For Harvard Affiliates Only)
CGA's Monthly GIS Presentations
Boundless Adopts Harvard Hypermap
Announcing the 2017 PGSG Preconference at Harvard
The International Year of Global Understanding Story Maps Competition
GIS Teaching Position at the College of William and Mary
Esri Conferences Call for Papers
Hurricane Matthew Geographic Resources
The Coffee Shops of Harvard Square
Retroscope Shows Tokyo Historical Maps Overlaid on Present-day Imagery
More ...

CGA NEWS

GIS Institute Call for Applications: 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.

Open Position at CGA: GIS Specialist

The CGA is currently seeking a GIS Specialist. Application deadline is October 31, 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:

Exploring Google's Mapping Products, by Jeff Blossom, 1:30-3:30pm, October 14^th, 2016

Worldmap Introduction, by Ben Lewis, 1:30-3:30pm, October 21^st, 2016

Introduction to Remote Sensing, by Fei Carnes, 1:30-3:30pm, October 28^th, 2016

Wrangling Data into Maps - Longwood, by Jeff Blossom, 1:30-3:30pm, October 28^th, 2016

Geoprocessing with ModelBuilder, by Giovanni Zambotti, 1:30-3:30pm, November 4^th, 2016

Making Sense out of Spatial Data - Longwood, by Jeff Blossom, 1:30-3:30pm, November 4^th, 2016

Three-Dimensional GIS, by Paul Cote, 1:30-3:30pm, November 10^th, 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
"The Relevance of Cartography" by Georg Gartner, Professor of Cartography at the Vienna University of Technology. Thursday, October 13^th, 2016, 12:00-1:30pm. Room K401, CGIS Knafel building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.

ABCD-GIS Presentation Series
"Using CARTO for Geospatial Data Visualization", by Jeff Ferzoco and Andy Eschbacher from the CARTO. Thursday, November 3^rd, 2016, 12:00-1:30pm. Room S154, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA.

Boundless Adopts Harvard Hypermap

The GIS company Boundless has integrated Harvard Hypermap (HHypermap) into their core mapping. Read more

Announcing the 2017 PGSG Preconference at Harvard

The AAG Political Geography Specialty Group is pleased to announce that the 30th Annual Preconference will be held at Harvard University on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, hosted and supported by the the Center for Geographic Analysis, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the Department of Government. More details can be found here.

CONFERENCES, CALLS, EVENTS & EMPLOYMENT
The International Year of Global Understanding Story Maps Competition This contest is inviting high school and college age students to share their perspectives and research on topics associated with global understanding by creating story maps that examine and address the ways in which we inhabit our increasingly globalized world. Read more
GIS Teaching Position at the College of William and Mary The Center for Geospatial Analysis at the College of William and Mary is recruiting an adjunct teaching position for the Spring 2017 semester. Read more
Esri Conferences Call for Papers The 2017 Esri UC and the Esri Education GIS Conference are calling for papers. The deadline for both are October 28, 2016.

NEWS ON GIS RESEARCH AND SERVICES


Hurricane Matthew Geographic Resources The Coffee Shops of Harvard Square [Harvard Gazette] Retroscope Shows Tokyo Historical Maps Overlaid on Present-day Imagery Meteor Showers 3D Visualization Creating the Ordinance Survey of Ireland Time Travel across the Iditarod with Turf US Electrical Grid Real Time Usage Map

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

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