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Trainers
Trainers
Raleigh Seamster
Raleigh Seamster
As a member of the Google Earth Outreach team, I focus on supporting Indigenous communities to use maps. I was a member of the steering committee for the for the inaugural Indigenous Mapping Workshop in 2014 and I'm passionate about building the global network of Indigenous mappers. I've been at Google for 13 years now and was born and raised in Arlington, Virginia, right outside Washington, DC.
Cynthia Annett
Cynthia Annett
Dr. Cynthia Annett works with the Kansas State University Tribal Technical Assistance to Brownfields (Tribal-TAB) program to help build capacity for mapping, database management, and e-Tool implementation. She is also a Google Earth Outreach trainer, and in this capacity she works with tribes to develop the ability to map cultural resource inventories as well as environmental assessments. Her research background is in fisheries and river management.
Joseph Erb
Joseph Erb
Joseph Erb is a digital media artist working in 2D and 3D animation as well as other materials, and he teaches courses in digital storytelling and animation at the University of Missouri. He was the Digital Media and Language Technology Specialist for the Cherokee Nation, creating the first computer-animated film and the first planetarium show in a Native American language. He has worked with tech companies to embed the Cherokee syllabary on the iPhone, iPad, and social media sites as well as Gmail and the search engine Google.
Annie Taylor
As a PhD Candidate at University of California Berkeley, I’m partnering with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of California's Central Coast to study the ecological impacts of Indigenous stewardship practices with innovative geospatial tools. I’ve worked extensively in Google Earth Engine, a powerful remote sensing API, to study ecosystem change over time and space. I aim to apply my skills in remote sensing, ecology, and GIS to promote environmental justice and Indigenous sovereignty. I hope to learn with you in my Earth Engine workshops!
Tara Rush
Tara Rush is an Executive Business Partner @ Google Canada in Cloud AI. She is Mohawk and works on Indigenous efforts both internally and in community.
Peter Solodov
Peter Solodov is a Software Engineer at Google, working on Google Kubernetes Engine. Peter loves traveling and exploring remote places, meeting people and listening to their stories. He’s interested in geospatial storytelling and its role in connecting people and places throughout the world. Peter holds BCompSc degree from Concordia University.
Kristen Vellinger
Kristen graduated from Carleton College in 2012 where she studied International Relations. Following college, she worked in non-profits and social enterprises before joining the Peace Corps in Panama where she focused on health education. She currently works as a Retention and Progression Consultant at Google.
Pablo Listingart
Pablo Listingart
I'm a person who believes in giving first chances to others. As such, I've been providing free training in IT for people facing employment barriers
Jessica Hak Hepburn
I am a GIS researcher for the Firelight Group and one of the coordinators for the Indigenous Mapping Workshop. In my free time, you can find me in the ocean!
Nasbah Ben
Nasbah Ben is Navajo, from the Navajo Nation in Arizona. She currently works with the Tribal Community Coordinating Center in Northern California to provide culturally appropriate guidance and assistance to California Indian Tribes to access and implement tobacco-related programs. She is an advocate for developing tools for Tribal communities that establish Tribal sovereignty and cultural appropriate representation.
Day 1: November 1st
Day 1: November 1st
Day 1, 2:30PM EST: Technical Sessions 1
Day 1, 2:30PM EST: Technical Sessions 1
In this session we’ll give an overview of the different technologies in “the Google toolbox” and how Indigenous communities have been using Google mapping tools to map and tell stories about land and water.
This session will cover how to create quick and easy maps with My Maps, a simple tool for creating interactive and collaborative maps on the web. You’ll also learn how to continue working on your maps with your mobile device, both online and offline. You can choose to share your map with your field team only or to the public or even embed it on your website.
In this session we will use My Maps for community engagement. We will practice how to conduct an interview while adding locations and notes directly to a map, and how satellite imagery helps solicit and organize information during the interview. We will also learn how to use Google Forms to develop a survey that automatically populates a spreadsheet and can be visualized on a My Maps. These simple techniques will allow you to effectively communicate with your community about places that have meaning and importance to their lives.
How to build and display Google Maps on a website and include basic controls.
Day 2: November 2nd
Day 2: November 2nd
This session will focus on creating data visualizations with My Maps, a simple tool for creating interactive web maps. You’ll learn how to import and style geographic data from spreadsheets in My Maps, and how to handle different types of map files that you download from the web including from GIS applications. You will style your map to give it the maximum impact.
On this 4th technical session, we'll continue building a simple website while building a custom map with code.
In this session we’ll introduce you to Google Earth and cover the basics of how to create a simple 3D map with all the feature types - points, lines, and polygons - for mapping Indigenous knowledge and traditional land use. You’ll also learn how to add further detail to mapped sites using text and images. Finally, we’ll discuss methods of sharing your map with others.
In this session participants will learn how to bring different types of datasets into Google Earth Pro which will help in understanding your community and facilitating Direct to Digital interviews, such as historical maps, GIS shapefiles, and GPS data.
Day 3: November 3rd
Day 3: November 3rd
In this session we’ll focus on the methodology and best practices of mapping Indigenous knowledge and traditional land use with Google Earth using the Direct-to-Digital method. You’ll learn how to plan your interview, what questions you might ask, what equipment you’ll need to bring and more.
This session will share presentation & animation techniques to explore lands and maps in an engaging way. You will learn how to use Google Earth Pro to build virtual flyovers and tours to guide your audience through the landscape you’re discussing. We’ll also look at Google Earth Studio as an alternative video animation tool to Google Earth Pro.
Timelapse builds on Earth Engine to show three decades of planetary change, both man-made and natural. In this session, you'll be able to explore changes in areas you care about, use the animations in presentations, learn how to embed Timelapse into websites. We’ll review other useful datasets built through Earth Engine, such as global forest change, global water loss and gain and the new https://earthmap.org/
Day 4: November 4th
Day 4: November 4th
Day 4, 2:30PM EST: Technical Sessions 10
Welcome to Google Earth Engine! In this session, you will be introduced to the Earth Engine Playground and get familiar with the interface. We will learn basic JavaScript commands, commonly used functions (or tools), and how to work off of the many example scripts provided by the EE team. You’ll be writing your first script in no time! No previous coding or programming experience is needed.
Day 4, 3:15PM EST: Technical Sessions 11
Now that we’re comfortable in Earth Engine, we will visualize recent satellite imagery (Sentinel-2) along California’s Central Coast, the homelands of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. You will learn how to import satellite imagery, filter it to certain places and dates, and filter out cloudy pixels. In the next session of this workshop, we’ll utilize this imagery to study changes on the Earth’s surface over time. Part 1 of this workshop or a working knowledge of GEE is highly recommended to enjoy this session.
Day 4, 4:15PM EST: Technical Sessions 12
In our final session together, we will calculate and analyze changes in a vegetation index (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, or NDVI) from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. We’ll compare changes in different vegetation types over time including the seasonal signatures of grasses and forests and the impacts of a recent wildfire within Amah Mutsun homelands. Part 2 of this workshop is necessary for this session.
Day 5: November 5th
Day 5: November 5th
Day 5, 2:30PM EST: Technical Sessions 13
Indigenous Storytelling with Google Earth Web Pt 1
This session will cover how to tell map-based stories about places of cultural and environmental importance that you can easily share online. Indigenous narrative structure will be used to organize your data into a story that engages an audience. The focus of this session will be on how to build a story that is geolocated and contextualized on a map, going beyond the usual focus of map building techniques to the creation of meaningful place-based storytelling.
Day 5, 3:15PM EST: Technical Sessions 14
Indigenous Storytelling with Google Earth Web Pt 2
In this session we will share techniques for presenting Indigenous narratives in a 3D landscape, allowing you to virtually walk the land to guide your listeners through the narrative arc of your story. Google Earth Web in 3D mode will be used to create an immersive environment for storytelling, including photographs, videos, and full screen slides. The experience of Indigenous storytelling in Google Earth Web can be used to meaningfully engage your audience, whether the setting is within your community or an official meeting with people who are from outside your community.
Day 5, 4:00PM EST: Technical Sessions 15
Virtual Office Hours with Google
The Mighty Networks channel will remain open for Office Hours, for participants who have questions related to Google mapping tools.
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