Penn State GIS Coalition

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Hello everyone! Tonight will be the first GIS Coalition Meeting of the Spring Semester!

Clio Andris will be our guest speaker. She will talk about her work on social capital and connectivity, and share any advice she might have going into the workforce, or continuing into graduate school.

To learn more about her work, click on the link below:
https://sites.google.com/site/clioandris/research

The meeting will be held in 229 Walker, at 6:30, our new meeting day and time.

We hope to see you there tonight!

clio

Due to the bad weather tonights info. session for HERE will be postponed to a later date. In the meantime, the GIS Coalition is working on getting a guest speaker for early February!

Hello everyone! There is a GIS related info. session event coming up this week! Representatives of HERE Maps will hold an info session at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, January 21 in 229 Walker Building. Please see session description below. For more information on HERE maps, see
https://www.here.com/abouthere

About HERE HERE has created the best map in the world for 30 years. We help people navigate their lives with ease and confidence every day and everywhere. Our maps can be found in 4 out of 5 in-car navigation systems in North America and Europe. We have powered mobile and web companies for more than 10 years.

Also... Happy GIS day!

Come learn all about GIS and see the exciting work related to GIS today in the Penn State Patee and Paterno Libraries. There are GIS events scheduled from 1 - 5 pm!

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/researchhub/gis-day.html

GIS Day "GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society."

Another GIS Coalition meeting will be held tonight at 715 pm in 229 Walker Building! Come out and hear guest speaker Josh Stevens talk about his cartography work! Pizza will be provided!

Meeting tonight at 715 pm in 229 Walker! Come out and hear about NACIS and Esri from student guest speakers as well as other news!

Hey Guys!

First meeting of the semester is tonight at 7:15 in 225 Walker. Come on out to hear about the plans for the semester and more!

Hey Geographers!

Today, we will be hosting Paulo Raposo, a PhD Candidate in our department, to the GIS Coaltion Meeting. It will be at 6:15 PM in 319 Walker. He is a cartographer and a heavy GIS user with a background in archaeology. For more information about Paulo, visit the link below.

http://pauloraposo.weebly.com/

See you guys tonight!

Tonight, Geography Graduate student Ryan Mullins will be speaking at the GIS Coalition
meeting at 7:00 in 101 Walker. He will be sharing about
cartographic representation and cognition and his research. Ryan will also be a
great resource regarding questions about attending grad school and the GeoVista
Center.

We hope to see you guys tonight! Hope studying and finals go well for everyone!

November 17-23 is Geography Awareness Week, and the GIS Coalition will celebrate with a guest speaker on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. in 101 Walker Building -- all are welcome!

Alumnus Jeff Tornatore (B.S. 1991) is a GIS Project Manager at Michael Baker Jr., Inc. In Thursday's meeting, he will share his career path as it has followed the changes in methodologies used to produce flood insurance rate maps for FEMA, as well as current projects, career development advice, and how he is continuing his own professional growth.

Hope to see you there!