Massachusetts
gis day 2020
Wednesday, November 18
WElcome!
Join us on Wednesday, November 18, as we celebrate GIS across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The event is free and open to all!
Highlights:
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap mapathon
This event is hosted by organizations across Western Mass, including Clark University IDCE, the Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab, ValleyGIS, UMass Amherst Geosciences, UMass Amherst Libraries, and Westfield State University GIS Program.
Schedule
9am - 10am
Virtual Coffee Social
Start GIS Day with refreshments and socialize with the community.
Hosted by Amanda Suzzi (UMass Amherst)
10am - 12pm
#MAgisday2020 Mapathon
Mapping areas of the world that are stricken by disasters to provide aid.
Mapathon tutorial
Mapathon playlist
Leaderboard
Hosted by Amanda Suzzi (UMass Amherst)
12pm - 1pm
The Coolest GIS S*%& on the Internet
Join us for a fast and furious trip across the Internet to look at some of the coolest GIS tools, maps, apps, and more that we can think of. Plus: ‘bring along’ your favs and share with us in the Zoom Chat.
Handout with all the coolest links
Hosted by Carsten Braun and Tim LeDoux (Westfield State University)
1pm - 2pm / Cartography
Day 18 Landuse #30DayMapChallenge
Time and space for people to complete a map for Day 18 of the #30DayMapChallenge. We can exchange ideas, data, and carto-tique each other’s maps.
Hosted by Tracy Tien (Smith College)
1pm - 2pm / Remote Sensing
Processing Google Earth Imagery with R
Love R? Love playing around with satellite imagery? Get hands-on experience with a workshop that gives you the 101 into processing Google Earth Imagery in R, all using only a couple packages.
Requirements: Up-to-date R & RStudio installations and an active Google Earth Engine Account.
Hosted by Miles Van Denburg (Clark University)
2pm - 3pm
Grad Slam!
5-minute / 5-slide lightning talks by grad students highlighting their GIS-related research. Educational and entertaining!
Hosted by Anne Graham, Seda Şalap-Ayça, and Becky Seifried (UMass Amherst)
Break!
Need a late-afternoon coffee or a cat-nap? Take a quick stretch and join us again for the keynote talk.
5:30pm - Keynote Talk
Dr. Arzu Çöltekin: The 'science' in geographic information science: Fundamental and applied questions
Hosted by Seda Şalap-Ayça (UMass Amherst)
7pm - 8pm
Mappy Hour
Join us for a low-key virtual get-together to recap the day’s events and announce the winners of the Grad Slam and the Undergrad Poster Contests. BYOB!