Dynamic Mapping of Secondary Cities Symposium II Harvard CGA is co-hosting with the Secondary Cities Initiative a one-day event titled Dynamic Mapping of Secondary Cities Symposium II. This symposium is focused on exploring strategies for driving innovation and creating lasting global urban projects that emphasize data generation and mapping. It will be on Monday, June 17th 2019, from 9 AM - 5 PM at CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138. The event is free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP.Past symposium topics are here, and for additional information about the Secondary Cities Initiative, please visit the Secondary Cities Website.
Geographic Perspectives on Infectious Diseases in Humans, Animals, and the Environment Symposium Please join the World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group and the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University for the Geographic Perspectives on Infectious Diseases in Humans, Animals, and the Environment Symposium on Tuesday, 18 June 2019, at the Harvard University Campus in Cambridge, MA. Throughout the event we plan to discuss the intersection between infectious diseases and Human Geography data. The primary goal of the symposium is to bring together social scientists, geographers, public health professionals, and others to discuss the importance of using and sharing global, freely/openly-available geospatial data related to infectious diseases as one method to potentially overcome challenges and provide opportunities for future collaboration. More information, poster session criteria, and registration is available at https://wwhgd.org
NSF I/UCRC Renewed Spatiotemporal Innovation Center for Phase II The NSF I/UCRC Spatiotemporal Innovation Center has been recently renewed for the next five years, entering its Phase II from March 2019 to 2024. See more information here. The Center’s Industry Advisory Board will hold its next meeting at Harvard CGA June 19th – 20th 2019. At this meeting researchers will report on-going projects’ status, and present new proposals. Board members will give comments, and vote on which project(s) their membership fund will support for the next year. Perspective members are welcome to attend too, though they will need to sign a NDA, and can’t participate in voting. Click here for more information.
China Data LabThe CGA and the China Data Institute, a Michigan based not-for-profit organization, are collaborating on the development of China Data Lab, a cloud-based geospatial data analysis platform for geospatial data gathering, management, analysis, visualization, and sharing. The initiative is sponsored through the Spatiotemporal Innovation Center of the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) Program. George Mason University, and Wuhan University are also partners in this collaboration. Click here for more information.
Redistricting Conference Summary On May 2nd and 3rd the Center for Geographic Analysis hosted “The Geography of Redistricting” a conference which brought together leading scholars, activists, legal experts, software developers, and political consultants to examine the redistricting process in the United States, and its evil twin gerrymandering. In this new era of friendly redistricting tools, in which anyone with a better idea can (in theory) put it forward, what combination of public education, best practices, regulation, and analytics can be brought to bear to improve transparency and ensure the fairness of this process so critical to democracy? Keynotes speeches were given by:
• Stephen Ansolabehere, professor of government at Harvard – Mapping Politics
• Samuel Wang, professor of molecular biology at Princeton – Debugging Democracy: Using Law and Data to Help Bring about Fair Redistricting
• Moon Duchin, associate professor of mathematics at Tufts -- Geography Meets Geometry in Redistricting
• David Wasserman, editor for The Cook Political Report -- Mapping the Future of Congress: What’s at Stake in 2021
See conference presentations slides here.
Recent Publications by the CGA
Near Eastern Landscapes and Declassified U2 Aerial Imagery by Emily Hammer and Jason Ur.
Evaluating the Geographic in GIS by Wendy Guan, et. al.
Walking Kolkata by Paul Salopek and Jeff Blossom.
Understanding the Ecosystem of Geospatial Research and Service in Universities by Wendy Guan and Liz Hess.
Robust Parliamentary Constituency Estimates: Geographic Data Science Approaches by Jeff Blossom, et. al.
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HARVARD GIS NEWS
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Harvard Map Collection New Data The Map Collection has acquired GIS ready census data for Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana , Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, Uruguay, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. These are from various years and levels of geography. The data can be accessed by Harvard affiliates in the Map Collection in Pusey Library, or email: maps@harvard.edu. Additionally there are now 50 new historic maps from around the world available for viewing and download from the Harvard Geospatial Library (hgl.harvard.edu)
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CONFERENCES, CALLS, AND JOBS
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Boston GIS Internship Opportunity The Normal B Leventhal Map Education Center at the Boston Public Library is seeking a paid intern beginning late June 2019. Read more and apply.
Remote Sensing and UAV Workshops for Humanitarian Programs This is a five-day training conducted by the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. The goal of the course is to equip participants with the necessary expertise to manage, design, and utilize remote sensing programs during both natural disasters and conflict-related emergencies. The course faculty is experienced in remote sensing for humanitarian response, and has extensive expertise in analyzing data from both satellites and from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in real-world-situations. For more details and to register.
PLATIAL '19 Symposium The PLATIAL'19 Symposium on Platial Information Science is an international forum for discussing the latest place-based research. Topics include (but are not limited to) place representation, place-based GIS and place visualisation. Under the motto "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Place" two very interesting keynote speakers will speak this year: Nigel Thrift and Thora Tenbrink. The event will take place on 5 and 6 September at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK. Submissions are open and further information can be found on the symposium homepage
Spatial and Digital Epidemiology Summer School The 11th International Summer School Spatial and digital epidemiology: Leveraging geo-referenced social media in the context of urban health course will be held August 5-9, 2019, at the University of Zurich. The course addresses spatial and digital epidemiological approaches to social media data with a focus on urban health. Students will focus on state-of-the-art multivariable statistical and spatial statistics to model mental health outcomes as identified in geo-referenced Twitter data and associations with socio-ecological factors of urban contexts. Students will combine theoretical and lab work on statistical analysis and spatial-epidemiological modelling techniques in an interdisciplinary approach. Read more at the conference website.
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