CGA Newsletter September 2016

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A Monthly Publication of the CGA at Harvard University	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
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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.

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