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Five
College GIS Day
November
2, 2007 UMass-Amherst
Join us
for an illuminating day of academic applications of
Geographic Information Systems!
GIS (Geographic
Information Systems or Geographic Information Science) is an interdisciplinary field
to view and manage information about geographic places, analyze spatial
relationships and model spatial processes based on an integrated collection of
computer software and data use. With software packages such as ESRI ArcGIS and
Google Earth, GIS technology is pervasively used for scientific investigations,
resource management, asset management, environmental impact assessment, urban
planning, cartography, criminology, history, economics, marketing, logistics,
etc. The real-world applications of GIS make a tremendous difference in our
society.
Visit UMass Campus
Parking
in Campus Center Garage Flyer
Simplified flyer
All day event:
Aerial Photography of Massachusetts 1950s-2000,
Map Collection in Du Bois Library (the 2nd floor).
Morning,
noon, and poster sessions are in
W.E.B. Du Bois Library Learning Commons
(Ground Floor).
9:30 Refreshments
Open Standards at MassGIS: A
Success Story
Making an On-Line Map Using
Your Data along with the MassGIS Web Services
Saul Farber, Aleda Freeman
Massachusetts Office of Geographic
and Environmental Information (MassGIS)
In this two-part presentation, the
speakers will begin with a general non-technical overview of their
open-source web services platform, including their strategic decisions,
system design, and costs. They will then demonstrate a production
well-drilling application, and follow with a more technical how-to of
serving some data and building a web mapping application with it.
Corporate Toxics
Information Project
Michael Ash, Ph.D,
Associate Professor,
Economics and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Affiliate, Political Economy
Research Institute and Labor Relations Research Center
Prof. Ash's research
interests include environmental justice, civil rights and health, healthcare
workers, and empirical microeconomics.
Remarks from Anne C.
Moore, the Associate Library Director for User Services
Lunch Panel: Involving GIS in teaching at
Five College
How GIS skills help students learn across multiple disciplines;
Pedagogy of integrating GIS in
classes.
Light lunch provided
Thomas Millette
– Mt
Holyoke College, Associate Professor of Earth and Environment and Director Geoprocessing
Laboratory
Mark Lindhult –
UMass, Professor of Landscape Architecture and co-director of the Campus
Planning Group
Peter Crowley
- Amherst College, Professor of Geology
Denise Lello - Smith College, Professor of Plant Ecology
Steve Roof - Hampshire
College, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Science
The best poster will win a GPS receiver!
Submit a poster.
All attendees have a chance
to get an ESRI T-shirt through raffle.
Submitted posters list
Keynote
session is in
Isenberg School of Management Room 137.
3:15 Refreshments
Mei-Po Kwan, Ph.D,
Distinguished Professor of
Social and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Geography, Ohio State
University.
Editor of Annals of
Association of American Geographers
Prof. Kwan's research focuses
on urban, transportation, and economic geography, applying GIS methods to
study the impact of recent social, economic, and political changes on
people's everyday lives, as manifested through the geographies of their
daily activities.
All events
are free and open to the public. For more information visit
http://www.geo.umass.edu/gisday/.
Comments and requests should be
sent to Qian Yu.
Five College GIS
Day is supported by contributions from Geosciences, Library and Earth Science
Information Office at the University
of Massachusetts; the Spatial Analysis Lab and the Environmental Science and
Policy Program at Smith College, the Department of Geology and Geography at Mt.
Holyoke College, Five Colleges, Inc., Information Technology at Amherst College,
and Massachusetts Geographic Information Council.
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