Discover the World with GIS: GIS Day Is
Next Wednesday, November 15
Ball State
University Libraries and the Digital Scholarship Lab is hosting GIS Day next
Wednesday, November 15. GIS Day is an
international forum for users of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
technology. GIS Day celebrates and
showcases the real-world GIS applications that are improving society in
numerous ways.
On
Wednesday from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab in Bracken
Library, visitors can meet Patricia Carbajales-Dale for a coffee hour. Carbajales-Dale established and managed the
Stanford University Geospatial Center for four years and was a GIS lecturer in
the School of Earth Sciences. She
created and taught the first “GIS for Good” class, a service-learning program
where students from different disciplines partnered with the United Nations. Carbajales-Dale is currently the Co-Director
of the Center of Excellence and Center for Geospatial Technologies at Clemson
University.
Faculty
and graduate students are invited to join the GIS Day Digital Feed, “Geospatial
Support Services: A Tale of Two Campuses,” from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. in the
Digital Scholarship Lab. (Please RSVP or
contact Angela Gibson, University Libraries GIS Specialist, by 9:00 a.m. on
November 13 to request a box lunch).
The annual
GIS Day poster session is from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the Schwartz Digital
Complex. Attendees can vote for the best
poster and best Story Map, and prizes will be awarded. (Poster and Story Map entries are due by
Tuesday, November 14).
And
Carbajales-Dale will present “GIS for Good: Serving Communities through
Education” about her experience partnering with the United Nations. This presentation is free and open to the
public from 3:00 to 4:00 in Bracken Library room 104 across from the Schwartz
Digital Complex.
For more
information, please contact Angela Gibson in the GIS Research and Map
Collection (GRMC) at 765-285-1097.
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