GIS Day

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GIS Day is held each November during Geography Awareness Week, with events in more than 80 countries. Wellesley's second annual GIS Day is sponsored by the Quantitative Reasoning Program. We hope that you will join us on Friday, November 18th to learn more about how faculty, staff, and students are using GIS!

About GIS

Geographic Information Systems are the tools used to store, view, and analyze spatial information. Geographic Information Science deals with the underlying conceptual issues of representing data and processes in space and time. GIS is used in numerous courses and research projects at Wellesley and in the community.

2011 Schedule

11:30-12:15	GIS Lightning Talks Science Library in the Science Center
12:15-12:30	Break
12:30-1:30	GIS Lightning Talks & Closing Remarks Science Library
1:30-2:00	Cake Social Science Library
All Day	Student Posters on Display in Science Library

Photos from GIS Day 2011*

*The slideshow is currently only visible to Wellesley College affiliates with a domain name and password.

2011 Speaker Schedule

11:30-12:15

Carolin Ferwerda, Library & Technology Services, "DIY Aerial Photography"
Wesley Watters, Astronomy, "OpenGIS Tools for Planetary Geology"
Marcy Thomas, Biological Sciences, "Taking Technology To The Field: Mobile Devices Track Purple Loosestrife"
Jim Doyle, Grounds, "Keeping Track Of Our Trees"

12:30-1:30

Dan Brabander, Geosciences, & Alden Griffith, Environmental Studies, "Using GIS and Spatially Linked Multivariable Statistics as a Hypotheses Generating Tool in Forensic Geochemistry"
Jay Turner, Environmental Studies, "Mapping the History of Federal Land Protection"
Katrin Monecke, Geosciences, "Coastal Progradation Patterns in Northern Sumatra as a Potential Tool in Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard Assessment"
Meg Thompson, Geosciences, "Geologic Map-making via ArcGIS: An Example from the Boston Area"
Patrick McEwan, Economics, "Using GIS to Estimate the Impact of a Welfare Program in Honduras"

Last year's (2010) speakers:

Britt Argow, Geosciences, "Quantitative Geomorphology using LiDAR along the New England Coast: Exploring the Process Implications of the Spatial Distribution of Features in 3D"

Adrienne Lucas, Economics, "Defining Local School Markets Using Geocoded School Data: The First Step in Studying the Effects of Primary School Competition in Kenya"

Brian DuPont, Town of Wellesley, "The 6 Ws...How GIS Informs the Who, What, Where, When, and Why for Wellesley"

Jim Besancon, Geosciences, "Water, Water Everwhere"

Kristina Jones & Tricia Diggins, Botanic Gardens & Environmental Studies, TBA

Eni Mustafaraj, Computer Science, "The Google Maps API for Web Mashups"

Patrick McEwan, Economics, "Using GIS to Improve Social Policy Research in Rural Areas of Honduras"

Jessica Hunter, Environmental Studies, "Modeling the Effect of Greenways on Water Quality in Urbanizing Watersheds: Case Studies from the Woonasquatucket River Watershed, Rhode Island, and the Barigui River Watershed, Curitiba, Brazil"

Marianne Moore, Biology, "Hot Spot Analysis of the Distribution of Species in Lake Baikal"

Ann Borowik Parker, Town of Wellesley, "The Town of Wellesley's Wetland Viewer: Our First Public Internet Mapping Application"

Rebecca Mattinson, Geosciences, "GPS-GIS Property Mapping"

Marcy Thomas, Biology, "Visualizing the Environment: GIS for ES"

Introduction to GIS 1 Workshops

As a part of GIS Day 2011, a series of introductory GIS workshops will be offered to faculty, staff, and students.

Tuesday, November 8, 6-8:30pm, Clapp Computing Classroom (rm 131)

Wednesday, November 9, 12:30-3pm, Clapp Computing Classroom (rm 131)

REGISTER NOW!

Note: The same workshop is being offered twice. It is only necessary to register for one day. Workshop is open only to Wellesley faculty, staff, and students. The rest of the event is open to the public.

Questions

Contact Carolin Ferwerda