GIS Day Celebration Events: Nov 13 and Nov 14 #200
Description
GIS Day is an annual worldwide celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and community. GeoAwareness Week is an annual event that focuses on the importance of geographic and spatial literacy and education. This year, UBC Library is partnering with UBC Faculty of Forestry and SFU Library to provide celebrations on two days during GeoAwareness Week:
Tuesday, November 13th, 2018:
Intro to Geospatial Data with R, Carpentries Workshop
This workshop will cover how to open, work with, and plot vector and raster-format spatial data in R.
Additional topics include: working with spatial metadata (extent and coordinate reference systems), reprojecting spatial data, and working with raster time series data. There are limited seats for this workshop, so register sooner than later.
Time: 9:00AM -- 5:00PM with a break in the middle
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1415
More info: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/find/other-materials/data-gis/gis/33690
Registration for non-SFU participants: https://websurvey.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WebSurvey.woa/wa/survey?325929460
COST: FREE
Wednesday, November 14th, 2018:
GIS Day Celebrations – full schedule and more info coming soon
(John) Speed Presentations call for proposals
Are you working on a project or research involving geographic information systems (GIS), geospatial data, cartography, or maps? Are you interested in sharing your knowledge and work with the larger SFU and UBC geospatial community? We want to hear about it and encourage you to present! This is an opportunity to share your work, network with local colleagues, and soak in a spectrum of geospatial activities. Each presentation will follow the same format – 7.5 minute presentation = 15 slides x 30 seconds each. This format allows presenters to focus on essential content and engaging slides while giving the audience a chance to see several presentations on a wide range of topics.
Submit your proposal to present: http://gis.ubc.ca/2018/09/john-speed-presentation-proposal-gis-day-2018/
Time: TBD
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1600