UCGIS Webinars

UCGIS has two webinars remaining in our 2015-16 season, including a new one just recently added. Attending a UCGIS webinar is always free of charge for those affiliated with our member institutions, and anyone else can participate for a $20 fee.  

• Geographic Information: Organization, Access, and Use. Presented by Wade Bishop from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee and co-PI of the Geographic Information Librarianship (GIL) project.  Wednesday April 6, 1pm EDT.  Registration link here.

• Open Mapping for Resilience by Youth in Higher Education. Presented by the leaders of the USAID-funded MappersU organization, including the program’s leaders at Texas Tech University, West Virginia University, George Washington University, and the USAID GeoCenter. More information about MappersU and its YouthMappers activity can be learned here. Thursday April 21, 1pm EDT. Registration link here.  NOTE: There will be no charge for anyone to attend this particular webinar.

 Something for serious Rutgers students to consider.

The GIS&T Body of Knowledge

With efforts underway to update the Body of Knowledge for GIS&T, the original is now online as a downloadable PDF.  Take a look and think about what you would like to see changed. More remote sensing and aerial imagery? Add VGI? What else?