We recently launched the conference website for the upcoming Bucknell-hosted conference GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum. Basic info is shown below, but please check out the conference website for details and updates as they become available. About the Conference: When: November 16-18, 2012 Where: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. … [Read more...]
GIS Job Opportunities
Congratulations to rising senior and GIS Student Assistant Darin Rockwell, Geography/Geology '13, for landing a very competitive GIS internship for summer 2012 with Lockheed Martin. Currently ranked #58 on the Fortune 500 list, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 123,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, … [Read more...]
GIS Job Opportunities – Yale University
Last fall I wrote a post about the work that Stace Maples is doing as Yale University's GIS Specialist. The Yale Map Department recently posted a job listing for a GIS Specialist who would work with Stace and others in the map department on developing and maintaining GIS metadata. Full job description is pasted in below. Click here to submit an application on the Yale … [Read more...]
GIS Job Opportunities – Azavea
In previous posts, I've mentioned some of the cool projects that Azavea (a GIS consulting firm in Philly) is involved in. Things like... creating a mobile GIS app for cell phone users to find and map the locations of heart defibrillators across Philadelphia... launching a web map application for students, researchers and concerned citizens to map their watershed and … [Read more...]
Faculty GIS Profiles: Song Chen, Assistant Professor of Chinese History
The following is a guest post by Prof. Song Chen, Assistant Professor of Chinese History, who arrived on campus in fall 2011. Click here to read the profile of Prof. Chen that was posted on the Bucknell website. In addition to his use of GIS for research purposes, Prof. Chen is planning to integrate GIS into a Spring 2013 quantitative methods course for history majors. Below … [Read more...]