LouisianaView

08/10/2026

🔔 New AmericaView podcast on "Teaching GIS" features Courtney Poirier Chicola, PhD.

➡️ Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gWPbd-RM

This is Round Five of our special “Squared Circle” episodes, where a group of guests gets together to wrestle with a particular topic. For this episode, we're joined by Ms. Robbyn Abbitt from Miami University, Dr. Forrest Bowlick from University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Dr. Courtney Poirier Chicola from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and we’re discussing all things about teaching GIS today. We talk about approaches to teaching GIS, mixing fundamentals and application, students working on local projects, producing tangible products, incorporating topoquads and remote sensing, students taking on different roles in projects, relevancy of tasks, incorporating maps from current events, the challenges of online GIS courses, showing why things are happening, collaboration on GIS problems, fundamental changes in what’s been taught in GIS courses, data handling challenges, GeoAI, and much more. Show notes and photos are available at: https://lnkd.in/gkUbn5hw

LouisianaView

06/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us—both in person and virtually—for our Disaster Response/Geospatial Data Mining Workshop last week!

We were proud to bring together emergency management and GIS professionals to connect and strengthen disaster response. We hope you found the presentations, networking, and training valuable and supportive of your important work.

⭐ A special thank you to our sponsors for your generous support and for helping make this experience possible.

➡️Acadian Ambulance
➡️Andy Hollerman, PhD, Award-winning Barbecue Brisket
➡️Community Coffee
➡️Drone Institute
➡️Eagleview
➡️Esri
➡️Fenstermaker
➡️LouisianaView
➡️Seiler Geospatial
➡️Survey Equipment Services, Inc.
➡️University of Louisiana at Lafayette
➡️U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

We appreciate you being part of this community—together, we’re building a more prepared and resilient future.


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06/01/2026

Registration Announcements!

27th Annual Disaster Response Workshop + Geospatial Data Mining Training
June 4-5, 2026

In-person registration closes today, June 1, at 5:00 PM.

Virtual registration closes at 7:00 AM on Thursday, June 4.

Registration - https://arcg.is/0SyTHS1

For more information, contact Rodney Yantis ([email protected]) or Courtney Poirier Chicola
([email protected]).

05/13/2026

Register today!

04/27/2026

Rodney Yantis and Courtney Poirier Chicola from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette return to talk about a disheartening lack of raptors, the origin of the GEOSERVICE workshop series, rising water and its effects in south Louisiana, NASA Aerokats, the various geospatial technologies activities....

02/27/2026

New Tech Alert for Rising Waters 2027!

The Regional Application Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is thrilled to bring NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s updated (Science and Technology Education for Land / Life Assessment) 1.2 instrument to next year's Rising Waters Workshop, returning in Summer 2027!

🔍 What is STELLA?
STELLA is a real, hands-on NASA environmental sensing tool built for students, educators, and citizen scientists. The new STELLA‑1.2 measures light in the same way NASA’s Earth‑observing satellites do — giving learners a direct connection between field measurements and observations from space.

😀 What students will experience
Middle & high school participants will use STELLA to:
- Collect real environmental data
- Learn how NASA scientists use remote sensing
- Learn about urban heat islands
- Explore challenges like flooding, drought, land cover change, and plant health
- Understand how Earth science supports resilience here in Louisiana

The RAC team also uses STELLA year‑round for STEM outreach, helping spark curiosity and grow the next generation of scientists and problem‑solvers.

👉 Learn more about STELLA 1.2:
https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/stella/instruments/stella-1-2/

Want to support this free workshop?

We’re seeking sponsors to help empower the next wave of STEM leaders.
Visit our sponsorship link - https://rac.louisiana.edu/about-us/support-rac

Contact:
📧 Rodney Yantis — [email protected]
📧 Courtney Poirier Chicola — [email protected]



*Disclaimer* The high‐precision, high‐accuracy instruments in the NASA Earth Observing missions cannot be duplicated with inexpensive, off‐the‐shelf components.

12/16/2025

Wishing you a wonderful holiday season from the Regional Application Center at UL Lafayette and LouisianaView!

12/08/2025

New Publication Alert
🌎Urban Heat Island Disparities: A Geospatial Analysis of Household Income and Land Surface Temperatures in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Journal of Earth Observations and Geospatial Applications
🔎Joseph Kolb, Rodney B. Yantis, and Courtney A. Poirier Chicola
View article - https://journals.westga.edu/index.php/jeoga/article/view/10

12/08/2025

Call for Abstracts! Student poster competition at

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Gulf South Region will hold its 5th annual Geospatial Conference from April 8–10, 2026 at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. One of the objectives of the Gulf South Region is to advance knowledge in imaging and geos...