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MGIST New Student Orientation

AGENDA 9:15 am - 9:30 am | Arrival & Check-in | Jordan Hall 5th Floor Lobby 9:30 am - 10 am | Welcome & Introductions | 5103 Jordan Hall 10 am - 10:45 am | Icebreaker | 5103 Jordan Hall 10:50 am - 11 am | BREAK 11 am - 12 pm | Curriculum Overview | 5103…

Geospatial Studio – Intro to GRASS GIS

GRASS GIS is a powerful open-source tool for performing geospatial analyses across a range of disciplines. Take your first steps in GRASS GIS by attending the Geospatial Studio and learning how to use this free software. After the introduction, there will be time to try your own data in GRASS GIS. Attendees are encouraged to…

Geospatial Forum with Dr. Paul Byrne – The Geological Evolution of Mercury Determined with GIS

Dr. Paul Byrne | Assistant Professor | Dept. of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences | NC State University   Abstract: Until 2008 Mercury was a poorly understood planet, with less than half of it imaged by visiting spacecraft. NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury returned global image and topographic data and – together with gravity, spectral, and compositional…

Geospatial Forum with Dr. James Wickham – Those Hot, Hot Temperate Forests

Dr. James Wickham | Senior Research Biologist | US Environmental Protection Agency   Abstract: Preserving and restoring the world’s forests is regarded as having a positive (cooling) effect on a warming climate.  However, some have cautioned against reforestation and afforestation as a climate-warming-mitigation strategy outside of tropical regions, without considering the potentially counteracting biophysical effects (albedo, transpiration)…

Geospatial Forum with Nate Irwin – How Do We Save GIS?

Nate Irwin | Lead Developer | Trailhead Labs, San Francisco, CA   Abstract: For a number of reasons, the relevance of GIS, as we know it, is waning. Geography, on the other hand, is alive and well. In fact, it’s so pervasive that you’d be hard-pressed to find a tech company whose portfolio doesn’t include it in…