Bucknell will be hosting a GIS in higher education conference from Friday, Nov. 16th through Sunday, Nov. 18th. The conference will focus on sharing ideas and examples of integrating GIS into teaching and research in the higher ed curriculum as well as opportunities for sharing research datasets and web map apps. Target audience includes faculty, GIS specialists and students. … [Read more...]
GIS Job Opportunities – ESRI
If you are a second semester senior looking for a full-time job or a returning student considering summer internship options, check out the links below from the ESRI newsletter for students and recent graduates.If you don't already know, ESRI is more or less the Microsoft of the GIS world. Having an ESRI job or internship on your resume will open a lot of doors for you in the … [Read more...]
Free, GIS-ready historic maps from New York Public Library
Here's another treasure trove of data that's ready and waiting to be added to your ArcMap session. Over the last several years the New York Public Library has scanned more than 10,000 public domain historic maps and atlases of New York City and made digital copies of those maps available via its website. Recently NYPL took this project to the next level by creating a web … [Read more...]
GIS Job Opportunities – Smith College
In recent weeks I've talked to a number of second semester seniors about GIS job options. I'm hoping at some point to write a blog post with links to GIS job search sites and other resources, but for now I'm just going to pass along job listings as I see them. I just got an e-mail from Jon Caris, the GIS Specialist at Smith College in Northampton, MA saying that Smith is … [Read more...]
Coming soon to your ArcMap session – a GIANT JACKPOT OF DATA
ESRI just added Business Analyst and Community Analyst to Bucknell's site license. What that means for you is that you will soon have access to several thousand 'ready-to-map' data variables - all within ArcMap. You'll also be able to use tools from the Business Analyst extension to do site selection, customer profiling, market penetration and other types of business … [Read more...]