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Michal Migurski, partner, technical architect and researcher for the award-winning Stamen Design in San Francisco will come to talk to us about online cartography and the design process behind Stamen’s recent mapping projects.
Reserve your space! (write to cnc@stanford.edu) Lunch will be served.

The next GISSIG lunch meeting will be Monday, April 10 at the Humanities Center. Topic is Open Street Maps.

This is a reminder that t he Morrison Institute Winter Colloquium on Population Studies ( http://www.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/c.html ) continues on Wednesday, February 25 , 2009, when Marcia Castro of the Harvard University School of Public Health presents “Improving Malaria Understanding and Control with the Aid of Spatial Analytical Approaches.” Diverse types of malaria contexts can be observed based [...]

The next GISSIG lunch meeting will be Monday, March 9 at the Humanities Center: The Use and Abuse of Spatial Analysis in Historical Research

Peter Birch, Product Manager for Google Earth, will visit us for an informal talk and Q&A, on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 from 12:30-1:30pm.
Location TBD. Please RSVP Carlos Seligo (moth@stanford.edu) if you think you will come, so we can get some idea of the  space we will need for his visit.
Peter Birch joined Google in 2006.  [...]

Karin Tuxen-Bettman, GIS Specialist, Google Earth Outreach
(http://earth.google.com/outreach/)
Download Slide Presentation
Google Earth can improve your outreach and communication with the world, and can effectively impact policy and public understanding of science. But many wonder how to represent their data, and how to get started. Karin will show several compelling examples of visualizing different types of data and [...]

SAP Media X 2009 Winter Lecture Series
Wednesday, January 21. 9:00 - 10:00 AM
Y2E2 Room 292A Jerry Yang Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building
Communicating the Structure and Evolution of Science
Katy B ö rner
Indiana University
http://scimaps.org/
Cartographic maps of physical places have guided mankind’s explorations for centuries. They enabled the discovery of new worlds while also marking territories [...]

Thursday Dec 4, 2008 12-1pm
Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP (cengel at stanford)
Mike Dvorak
Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atmosphere/Energy Program

Thursday Nov 6, 2008 12-1pm
Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP (cengel at stanford)
Dan Contreras, Lecturer at the Dept. of Anthropology:
“Quantifying Looting - Hybrid Research Using Google Earth and ArcGIS”
International response to the problem of looting of archaeological sites has been hampered by the difficulty of reliably quantifying the damage done. [...]

For anyone interested in learning more about GIS, UC Berkeley’s Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) is offering a series of workshops about geospatial technologies.
An Introduction to GIS workshop is being offered Wednesday, Oct 29 from 9am-noon. The cost is $153 for non-UC affiliates. A course outline is listed below:
Intro to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
[...]

Our next two lunch meetings are scheduled for:
Thurs Nov 6, 2008 12-1pm - Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room

Dan Contreras, Lecturer at the Dept. of Anthropology, will report on an archaeological project which combines Google Earth and ArgGIS to detect looting.
Thurs Dec 4, 2008, 12-1pm - Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room
Mike Dvorak, Researcher at the Dept. [...]

“Spatial Reasoning at Sea and Ashore: Directions and Challenges in Ocean Informatics”
Dawn Wright, Professor of Geosciences, Oregon State University
Tuesday, May 27, 4-5:15pm
Y2E2 Room 299
Informatics is a term that has been used with increasing frequency to represent the growing collaboration between computer scientists, information scientists, and domain scientists to solve complex scientific questions. Earth system [...]

Thursday May 8, 12 noon
Stanford Humanities Center, Baker Room
Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP.
Julie Sweetkind-Singer: Improving GIS Services at Stanford
Branner Library has been offering GIS data and support to the campus for the last 10 years. The GIS staff has begun an investigation into revamping the services offered to support the diverse and changing [...]

David L. Carr, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
Thursday, April 24, 3pm
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (Woods Institute for the Environment)
Room 101
In explaining variability in tropical deforestation, land change scientists have focused almost exclusively on in situ (or “on-farm”) resource use, while population scholars have largely ignored [...]

Thursday April 3, 12 noon
Stanford Humanities Center, Baker Room
Lunch will be provided.
Claudia Engel
Academic Technology Specialist and Lecturer - Department of Anthropology
“Open Source GIS for Anthropological Research”
Open source software tools for GIS and spatial analysis are increasingly being adopted by the research community. This presentation will provide an overview of such tools currently available and provide [...]

Mark your calendars for the following events:
* April 3, 12 noon - Lunchtime meeting at the Stanford Humanities Center: Free and Open Source GIS Tools for Research
* April 24, 3pm - Invited Lecture at the Woods Institute for the Environment by Prof. David Carr, Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara
* May 8, 12 noon - [...]

It’s time for the 2nd annual Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA) Education award and mapping challenge.  The competition is designed to support students in higher education using GIS both as a major field of study and in support of their own research fields.  The top prize is $2,500 with a one-year membership in BAAMA, [...]

The Geospatial Imaging and Informatics Facility at UC Berkeley offers a series of workshops on geospatial tools and applications, including GPS, GIS, remote sensing, webGIS, and more. See here: http://giif.cnr.berkeley.edu/workshops.html

Friday, November 9, 2007, 3:15 – 5:05 PM
Bldg. 50 – 51A, Main Quad
Claudia A. Engel, Department of Anthropology
and Mindy M. Syfert, Branner Earth Sciences Library
High computer processing power increasingly allow us to integrate large sets of spatial information into social science research. Mobile global positioning system devices raise the prospect of collecting location-specific information quickly [...]

Mapping the Du Bois Philadelphia Negro (http://www.mappingdubois.com/) is a research, teaching, and outreach project aimed at recreating the survey W.E.B. Du Bois conducted in 1896 that served as the basis for his 1899 classic, The Philadelphia Negro.
Prof. Hillier is the project director for Mapping the Du Bois Philadelphia Negro. She is an Assistant Professor in [...]

October 4th, 3:30-5
Stanford Humanities Center
Alan M. MacEachren, Director, GeoVISTA Center Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
Dr. MacEachren’s presentation will provide an overview of geovisualization as a method of knowledge construction. Examples of methods and tools applied to multiple analytical questions [...]

The organizing committee for the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium and the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative invite your participation at their next meeting at UC Berkeley, October 18-20th. The conference’s topic is “Area Studies: Then and Now.” Session topics will include Cultural Atlases, Area Informatics, Digital Archives and e-Libraries, Map Collection - Then and [...]

 
Thursday June 7, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
at the Stanford Humanities Center
Jean-Luc Pinol, a visiting historian from University of Lyon, will present his current work on an electronic atlas of Paris. Pinol makes extensive use of GIS, employing rare materials gathered from archives and urban planning institutions in his atlas project. He will discuss the effects of [...]

Our next GISSIG event will be May 31, 12:00-1:00 p.m. at the Stanford Humanities Center. Historian Libra Hilde (San Jose State University) and Anthropologist James Holland Jones (Stanford University) will co-present on a cross-disciplinary analysis of The Impact of the American Civil War on Post-War Marriage and Subsequent Widowhood, with a focus on spatial methodologies, [...]

A day and a half of programs have been planned at the ESRI User Conference on different topics related to GIS and archaeology. The User Conference happens once a year in San Diego. This year the dates are June 18-22nd with the archaeology talks featured on Tuesday, June 19th and the morning of [...]

SPACE workshops are intended for instructors of undergraduate students in the social sciences. They offer content knowledge in methods of spatial analysis, instructional resources, and professional development support for curriculum planning and learning assessment.

GIS and Spatial Modeling for the Undergraduate Social Science Curriculum
18—23 June 2007, Columbus OH
Spatial analysis in the Social Science Curriculum: Enhancing [...]

London-based artist Christian Nold will be leading three weekly Saturday workshops in April as part of his project Bio-Mapping. Bio-Mapping is a social project exploring an individual’s uninhibited response to place by inviting people to go for a walk or bicycle ride using a “bio-mapping” device. This device measures the participants Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), [...]

Our next GISSIG event will be April 18, 3:00-5:00 p.m. at the Stanford Humanities Center. Our guests, Ruth Mostern (University of California, Merced), Paul S. Ell (Queen’s University, Belfast) and Ian Gregory (Lancaster University), will present exemplary GIS research agendas.

For those interested in attending the genral ESRI User conference and EDUC conference: Tele Atlas and ESRI will offer 5 scholarships to educators wishing to attend the ESRI Education User Conference (EdUC), June 16-19 in San Deigo, CA. The scholarships consist of $400 to defray travel costs and free registration to the [...]

At our first GISSIG meeting, Christian Henriot gave us an overview of his Virtual Shanghai project. The project, which is only about 18 months old, grew out of Christian’s approach to, as he puts it, “writing history differently” by seeking out alternative sources. He began by combining historical photographs with visual narratives. Later, out of [...]

There will be a workshop on: “Analyzing Spatial Data with R” at the 2007 meeting of the AAG (Association of American Geographers), April 17, 1p-4p, San Francisco, CA (USA). Details are to be found on the meeting website.
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We have scheduled the first GIS Special Interest Group meeting for next Thursday at the Humanities Center. This meeting is to plan and discuss the formation of the group to focus on GIS technologies and their uses for teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences.

Thursday, March 1 at 12:00 p.m.
Baker Room, Stanford Humanities [...]

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 4:30pm, the Sawyer Seminar on Visualizing Knowledge: From Alberti’s Window to Digital Arrays presents a panel discussion between David Rumsey and Kären Wigen on “Visible Knowledge Systems.”

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign held a workshop last December 2006. From their site:
The objective is to reflect on how spatial thinking affects substantive
findings and changes the way research questions are approached, and to
assess the role of computation. The goal is to end up with useful
insights and [...]