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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)
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