Locations

Remote:

Remote options will be available for all events. 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 Location:

• Auraria Library Discovery Wall

CU Boulder in-person Location:

• 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

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Rafael Moreno, Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Denver

The Importance of Openness in the Context of Geographic Information Science and Technology and Sustainable Development

Dr. Rafael Moreno received his B.S. in Forestry from the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Mexico in 1982 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Natural Resources Management from Colorado State University in 1987 and1992 respectively. He worked as a researcher for the National Institute for Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock Research (Mexico) and served as the Director of the National Center for Forest Ecosystems Conservation and Management (Mexico). He was Post Doctoral Fellow with the Organization of American States—SEMARNAP in collaboration with the University of Western Ontario (Canada) for a year in 1995. In 1996 he returned to Colorado as an Assistant Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Subsequently, he was the Director of the Master of Science in GIScience program at the University of Denver for two years, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at UCD. Since 1996, he has taught courses in GISscience and technology, environmental science, land use planning and sustainability in natural resources management. His current research concentrates on the analysis of fragmentation and anthropogenic pressure on the forest areas, Decision Support Systems for forest management, and the use of Geospatial Open Source Software for creating local and Web-based spatial information systems.

11:00 am - Open Source Showcase

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Kurt Menke, QGIS authority and author

The State of QGIS

After running a successful consulting business in the USA, Kurt recently moved to Denmark, where he works for Septima. He is a spatial analyst, cartographer, educator, author and OsGeo Charter Member. Kurt is a leading international QGIS author, recently authoring the Second Editions of both Discover QGIS 3.x and QGIS for Hydrological Applications with Locate Press.

12:00 pm - Career Panel

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

• Teal Wyckoff Associate Director of Geospatial Services, The Nature Conservancy

• Ariel Winters GIS Analyst, Denver International Airport

• Nico Dattels GIS Technician, Boulder County Parks and Open Space

• Greg Matthews UE Published Maps Products and Services Focus Area Coordinator, USGS

1:30 pm - ESRI Tech Demo: ArcGIS Insights

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Brianna Widdick Principal GIS Instructor, ESRI

Melissa Thompson Senior GIS Instructor, ESRI

3:00 pm - Lightning Talks

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Seann Smith: Pedestrian-Oriented GIS

Amanda Rees: Mapping History: Using StoryMapping to Visualize the Past

Drew Horton and Nick Crawford: Fire Evacuation Routes through the Lens of Combinatorial Optimization

Rodrick Schubert: Reclaiming Maps as Living Historical Texts