Locations

Remote:

Remote options will be available for all events except the Mapathon Social. Please register to receive the zoom link via email, which will be sent to all registrants the day before the symposium.

In-Person:

For those who would like to attend fully or partially in-person, please register and let us know which sections you plan to attend. In-person locations are listed below.

Auraria Campus (CU Denver, MSU, CCD) in-person Locations:

• For all events except the Mapathon: Auraria Library Discovery Wall

• Mapathon Social will take place at the Tivoli Taproom

CU Boulder in-person Locations:

• For all events except the Mapathon: Earth Sciences & Map Library

• Mapathon Social: Meet at Earth Sciences & Map Library

CU Colorado Springs in-person Location:

• Department of Geography and Environmental Studies GIS Lab, Columbine Hall Room 329

We honor and acknowledge that the University of Colorado’s four campuses are on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute, Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Lakota, Pueblo and Shoshone Nations. Further, we acknowledge the 48 contemporary tribal nations historically tied to the lands that comprise what is now called Colorado.

Schedule

10:00 am - Keynote Address

Sele Yang, co-founder, Geochicas

A journey into becoming a feminist mapmaker

In 2016, Geochicas was created by a small group of women in OpenStreetMap who noticed a structural issue in data communities due to the lack of female participation and project leadership. By promoting work that analyzes how women are represented in geospatial and technological spaces, they are helping to improve the overall diversity and quality of the data that goes into OpenStreetMap.

Source: https://blog.mapillary.com/update/2019/05/28/putting-women-on-the-map-with-geochicas.html

11:00 am - Open Source Showcase

Matthew Baker, Spatial Information Manager at Denver Public Schools

Connecting Systems with PostGIS

12:00 pm - Career Panel

Get career advice from GIS professionals in local and federal government, private companies, and nonprofits.

Panelists include:

William Mast, GIS Admin & Modeling Lead, Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments

Minh Nguyen, Software Developer, Mapbox + Board Member, OpenStreetMap US

Alison Ollivierre, Cartographer, National Geographic + Freelance Cartographer, Tombolo Maps & Design

Taylor Willow, GIS Specialist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Regional Office

1:30 pm - ESRI Tech Demos

Choose one of two technology demonstrations to learn more about using these ESRI tools:

People love a good story, and it has long been recognized that maps can be powerful and effective tools in storytelling. ArcGIS StoryMaps is a product that provides a way to combine the communicative power of dynamic maps with other media, such as images, video, and text, to create interactive web applications that tell our stories better than ever. In this presentation, Esri Account Manager Mark Stewart will provide an overview of ArcGIS StoryMaps and demonstrate how easy it is to start creating your own narrative with this easy-to-use tool.

ArcGIS Business Analyst Web is a powerful software as a service tool for mapping and communicating. Join geographer Joseph Kerski for a lively tour through creating choropleth and bivariate maps, infographics, walk and drive time analysis, and other maps showing population and consumer behavior at multiple scales using Business Analyst Web.

3:00 pm - Lightning Talks

• Sarah Posner, CU Boulder PhD student in Geography

Evaluating the Accuracy of Local Perceptions of Climate Change Across Livelihoods in Kenya

• Huilin Han, CU Boulder undergraduate student in Mathematics & Computer Science

Classifying Spatial Narcotrafficking Event Documents in Online News Media with Transformers

• Trey Stafford, CU Boulder Software Developer at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

QGreenland: A Curated GIS Package for Greenland-focused Research and Education

• Jonathan Burton, CU Denver PhD student in Geography, Planning, and Design

Inundated Landscape and the Production of Flooding Disasters in eastern Indonesia

• Adison Quinn Petti, CU Denver graduate student in Urban and Regional Planning

Planning to Decriminalize Sex Work: what zoning and code have to do with it

• Rodrick Schubert, CU Denver graduate student in Humanities

Encouraging Voter Turnout through GIS-Organized Neighborhood Canvassing

5:00 pm - Mapathon Social

Join us at a local meeting spot for mappy hour! See Locations above for details.