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Additional GIS faculty workshop added – register now for funded seats

Three GIS workshops for faculty will be offered during Summer 2011.

Introductory GIS workshop (3 days) – NEW
Wednesday, June 1st through Friday, June 3rd from 9am-2pm
(lunch provided)

Introductory GIS workshop (4 days)
Monday, August 8th through Thursday, August 11th from 9am-1pm
(lunch provided)

Advanced GIS workshop (2 days)
Monday, August 15th through Tuesday, August 16th
(lunch provided)

These grant supported workshops ($400 for each participant) will enable 12 faculty to engage in a hands-on GIS experience designed to be broadly useful to faculty, regardless of their specific disciplines and areas of research. To make the workshop experience more meaningful and relevant, both the introductory and advanced workshops will feature local data and topics of interest

If you are interested in participating, please click the link below to complete the GIS workshop interest form. Please note – there is a limit of 12 funded seats for the Summer 2011 GIS Workshops. Additional Mellon funded GIS workshop opportunities will be announced prior to summer 2012 and 2013 sessions.

Click here to access GIS workshop interest form.

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Bucknell/Local Interest Events/Calendar Marcellus Shale Slideshow

Presentation Monday, May 2nd, 8pm – “Guinea Pigs Atop the Marcellus Shale”

From a press release from the Bucknell Environmental Center:

Presentation – “Guinea Pigs Atop the Marcellus Shale”
8 – 9:30 pm on Monday, May 2nd at the Union County Government Center, 155 North 15th Street in Lewisburg.

The event is free and open to the public.

Barbara Jarmoska, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Responsible Drilling Alliance (RDA), a grassroots organization based in Williamsport, will be the speaker. RDA is an education and advocacy coalition seeking to educate the public about the truth and consequences of deep shale gas drilling. (www.responsibledrillingalliance.org).   Jarmoska states, “After receiving numerous requests from colleges,
civic groups and organizations asking for someone to come and speak on the topic of gas drilling, I sought the help of local photographers tocreate this slide presentation. It is my hope that this talk will help
people to realize the gravity and scope of what is happening to Pennsylvania as our farm and forest lands are transformed intoindustrial landscapes by multinational energy companies who have moved
in to stake their claim to the gas that lies a mile below the land on which we live, work and play.”

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2011 Student Paper Competition – URISA

June 6th is the deadline for submitting papers to the 2011 URISA Student Paper Competition.  The competition is open to all grad students and any undergraduates with 12 or more credit hours. Read below for some general information and guidelines. Click here for details:

The objective of the Competition is to challenge students to demonstrate the development and effective use of Geographic Information Systems in both their field of study and in the community.  The following types of papers are encouraged:

  • Comprehensive literature review on a geographic information science, spatial technologies and their application.
  • Application of spatial statistics.
  • Application of an implemented geographic information system or other spatial technology and its demonstrable impact on a public or private sector organization.
  • Treatment and development of geographic information systems, spatial technologies and theory.

Theses will not be accepted. A summary paper based on a thesis or research performed while completing a thesis, is acceptable.

 

 

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Where 2.0

The 2011 Where 2.0 conference is wrapping up today in Santa Clara, CA.  Over the course of the week, many of the presentations have been streamed live over the conference website. I’m including a few YouTube videos for some of noteworthy presentations.

Jack Dangermond – CEO and founder of Esri: “Living Maps – Making Collective Geographic Information a Reality”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbGwY3aG0g&p=0B2FEB8AACD826BE

 

Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Architect of Bing Maps and MSN at Microsoft:  “Read/Write World”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X9u4JG9H6E&p=0B2FEB8AACD826BE

 

Ben Fry – principal of Fathom: “Mapping: From Interesting to Insightful to Irrelevant” (coming soon)

 

Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping & New Media for Ushahidi: “May the Crowd Be With You: The Future of Crisis Mapping for Disaster Response”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_NguESRZ4g&p=0B2FEB8AACD826BE

 

Dennis Crowley, Co-founder, foursquare; and Robert Scoble, Managing Director, Rackspace: “Future Location: Scoble & Dens”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpTDGeLiFnc&p=0B2FEB8AACD826BE

 

John Barratt, self-described “Geo, twitter & weather web hacker”:  “Who, What, Where, When: Creating New Maps from Geo-tweets”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey_m0F_b-Vw&p=0B2FEB8AACD826BE

 

Sylvain Carle, CEO & co-founder @ Needium: “Locking Yourself Out in London (and Tweeting about it)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvcs4H_A0Wc&feature=autoplay&list=PL0B2FEB8AACD826BE&index=16&playnext=1

 

 

 

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Details on $520K Mellon grant for environmental studies, GIS integration

I posted a few weeks ago about the $520K grant awarded to Bucknell by the Mellon Foundation. Here are some additional details on how the grant money will be used to strengthen environmental studies and GIS integration across the university. From the Library & IT Matters newsletter:

  • Up to twelve faculty members will receive $400 to participate in either a 4-day (intro) or 2-day (advanced) summer GIS workshop. Click here for more details on the intro and advanced workshops.
  • Faculty members may submit requests to receive up to $1,000 to revise a course to include GIS ($5,000 total)
  • Four student researchers will be provided with summer research funding to conduct research projects involving GIS technology
  • Funds will be available to support consultants and student workers to create new maps or to develop new datasets for use by faculty in integrating GIS for their curriculum and courses
  • Additionally we have support to help with the acquisition of data which can only be obtained through purchasing data sets or through membership in consortia which provide access to proprietary datasets

Contact me by e-mail at janine.glathar@bucknell.edu or by phone at x. 1990 if you are interested in any of the options listed above.