Other Activities
BIPOC, first generation and foreign Ph.D. mentoring
Mentoring for BIPOC, First generation and foreign Ph.D. students in Geospatial Sciences in the US.
Professional and career development of women in the geospatial sciences starts seeding from graduate education. As women faculty, we help to mold minds to advance spatial solutions and improve student understanding of the environment, but we should also think about ways how we can better support them in this bumpy journey. Continuing the ideas of our productive TRELIS workshop, we propose a workshop for women graduate students in geospatial sciences (GIS, remote sensing, cartography, and related mapping sciences) to support them in two areas where we believe they struggle most: (1) pressure of graduate life as a woman, an international, a minority, or a first-generation student, (2) career opportunities. Following our theme, we will be targeting applications from women of foreign-born, minorities, or first-generation students.
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Central MA Chapter SCGIS
Our aim is to bring together the regional community of conservation GIS professionals. We welcome anyone interested in the conservation of Natural Resources and cultural heritage and anyone interested in knowing how Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing can help to solve conservation problems.
MA-SCGIS is an affiliated chapter of the Society for Conservation GIS. The Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) assists conservationists worldwide in using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) through communication, networking, scholarships, and training. Membership is open to anyone looking to engage in a GIS community to help them achieve their personal or organizational conservation goals.
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Training and capacity building
Capacity building involves providing individuals or organizations with the necessary resources, tools, and training to improve their ability to perform specific tasks or functions. This can include training programs, mentoring, coaching, and access to specialized knowledge or expertise.
Over the years, the Lab PI has provided multiple capacity building workshops and training in Spanish and English.
Remote Sensing for Risk Mapping. May 18- 22, 2015. Organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and University of Cordoba, Argentina.(In Spanish)
Land Cover Change and Biodiversity Modeling. Full-day workshop. US-IALE, Anchorage AK, 16-21 May, 2014.
Land Change Modeler and MARXAN: Spatial tools for conservation planning and land change monitoring in important conservation areas. Professional training workshop for government officials from Ecuador. Organized by: The Nature Conservancy. May 7-8 2013, Lago Agrio, Ecuador(In Spanish)
Land Change Modeling and its implications for biodiversity. Half-day workshop. US-IALE, Austin TX, 14-18. April, 2013.
Trend analysis in Forest Environments using GIS. 22-26 October 2012. Córdoba, Argentina. Organized by: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, and Comisión Nacional de Aeronáutica Espacial, Argentina. (In Spanish)
New vertical applications in GIS: land change modeling, spatio-temporal analysis and REDD. (“Nuevos desarrollos verticales en geomática: modelación de cambios de uso de suelo, análisis espacio-temporal y herramientas REDD”). October 24-27. Universidad Nacional de Loja, Ecuador. (In Spanish)
Modeling REDD-Baselines Using IDRISI’s Land Change Modeler. AAG Workshop. April, 2010. Washington DC. With Stefano Crema (Clark Labs) and Marc Steininger (Conservation International).
Deforestation modeling for the Seima Protection Forest REDD in Cambodia – Wildlife Conservation Society, Worcester, 2009.
Spatial Planning: Applications of Multi-Criteria Evaluation for Land Use Planning in Suriname”. November 16-24, 2009. Paramaribo, Suriname. With Grace Wong and Daniel Juhn (Conservation International)
Applications of GIS for environmental conservation (Aplicaciones de SIG en la conservación del medio ambiente’). Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. December 20-21, 2007. (In Spanish)
GIS Workshop on Ecological Sustainability: The Land Change Modeler for Ecological Sustainability. 1st European Congress of Conservation Biology. Eger Hungary August 22-26, 2006.
Applications of Idrisi for environmental conservation and planning (“Aplicaciones de Idrisi en la planificación de la conservación del medio ambiente”). Heredia, Costa Rica May 22- 26, 2006. (In Spanish)
Introduction to GIS. 1st IDRISI Iberoamerican Users Conference. Toluca, Mexico, June 16- 18, 2004. (In Spanish)