1. Eric Brelsford Guest Speaker

    Fri 21 February 2014
    cfarmer

    Please join us Wednesday, February 26th from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in the Hunter College Geography Conference Room (Hunter North 1004) for a talk by guest speaker Eric Brelsford, who will be talking about Free & Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications.

    UPDATE: If you can’t make it in person, check out a live feed of the talk here.

    Topic: Eric will give us an overview of the Free & Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications (FOSS4G) terrain, followed by a few examples of workflow. What tools are out there for making useful and interesting online maps? What is ...

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  2. Call for Abstracts: 2nd International Conference UREC 2014

    Fri 07 February 2014
    cfarmer

    The Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project is pleased to announce that we will begin accepting abstracts for our 2nd International Conference on February 7th.

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    We invite abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations. We particularly encourage contributions that exhibit an innovative set of conceptual and methodological approaches. Abstracts should be focused on synthesizing UGEC research, lessons learned, key ways forward, and should fall under one of the four conference themes:

    1. Urbanization Patterns and Processes
    2. Urban Responses to Climate Change: Adaptation, Mitigation and Transformation
    3. Global Environmental Change, Urban Health and Well-Being
    4. Equity and Environmental Justice in Urban Areas

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  3. Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Conference 2014

    Mon 03 February 2014
    cfarmer

    The Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) 2nd International Conference on “Urban Transitions and Transformations: Science, Synthesis and Policy” is scheduled to take place in Taipei, Taiwan from November 6th-8th, 2014. I am organizing a special session entitled “Forecasting Urbanization: Population and Land Dimensions” which promises to be very exciting.

    This is the ‘final wrap-up’ for UGEC, so the main purpose of the conference is tp provide a synthesis of UGEC research and practice. Sessions are supposed to be reflective (i.e., not solely presentations on ‘new research’), so the talks should have a ‘lessons learned’ focus. Hopefully there will ...

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  4. One year in New York City

    Fri 03 January 2014
    cfarmer

    One year ago today, January 3rd 2014, my wife and I officially moved to New York City. It has flown by extremely fast for both of us, but we’ve managed to enjoy the city and all of the benefits that come with it. Some highlights (in no particular order) include:

    • Starting my own research agenda
    • Skating at Rockefeller Center
    • Seeing Chicago on Broadway
    • Wondering through Manhattan at Christmas time
    • Road-trip to Boston
    • Living in North America again (Europe was wonderful, but its nice to be closer to family)
    • Trip up to Montreal
    • Seeing The Nance on Broadway
    • Staff passes ...

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  5. Lectureships (x2) in GeoInformatics at the University of St Andrews

    Tue 03 December 2013
    cfarmer

    Researchers in the Centre for GeoInformatics (CGI) in the School of Geography and Geosciences at the University of St Andrews have been selected for a prestigious award under the Q-Step Quantitative Methods Programme funded by a combination of the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC. This programme will employ two new lecturers to add substantial new courses to the school of Geography and Geosciences’ existing undergraduate curriculum and help deliver a new MSc in GeoInformatics. They are looking for candidates with research interests in each of:

    1. Remote sensing
    2. Spatio-temporal analysis, specialization spatial statistics

    For more information on these two positions please ...

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  6. MSc Positions at University of Victoria

    Mon 11 November 2013
    cfarmer

    Two MSc positions are available at the University of Victoria in the Department of Geography‘s Spatial Pattern Analysis and Research (SPAR) Lab. Students will be involved in the development of the thesis topic with potential research areas including web mapping (e.g., bike accidents), mining and mapping social media (people’s hunting activities), spatial environmental modelling, and spatial ecological research.

    Preference will be given to students with experience in GIS, spatial analysis, spatial statistics, programming, and/or statistics. Funding includes a graduate student stipend, as well as, support through teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and internal fellowships. Students can anticipate ...

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  7. ftools is dead… long live ftools!

    Tue 15 October 2013
    cfarmer

    I recently decided to drop ftools.ca, since I hadn’t updated it in a very long time, and it was really just costing me money to keep a ‘dead’ website up and running. Additionally, with the new QGIS plugin infrastructure, hosting my own plugins (the website’s primary purpose) was no longer needed. The site has served me well for many years, and really helped get fTools (the plugin) into the QGIS core codebase. The website has served its purpose, and now that I have very little involvement with fTools and the QGIS Processing Toolbox that is poised to replace it, I’m moving on: ftools.ca is dead, long live ftools.ca!

    However, now that QGIS 2.0 has rolled out, it seems that at least one part of ftools.ca is missed: my old cartogram plugin. If I have some spare time, I’ll try to update the plugin to the latest and greatest QGIS 2.0 standards and upload it to the new QGIS plugins system. In the mean time, for those out there who would like to use it right away, you can get the original code from here or grab it from github. In fact, if someone is able and willing, they can grab the code from github, update it for QGIS 2.0, and submit a pull request which I will (more than likely) happily accept.

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  8. Early Stage Researcher Position in GeoInformatics

    Mon 23 September 2013
    cfarmer

    This is just a quick note about a great opportunity for early career researchers interested in the field of geoinformatics. The Centre for GeoInformatics at the University of St Andrews in Scotland has two new early career researcher positions available to start right away. These are really great opportunities for someone in the first 4-years (full-time equivalent) of their research careers who has not yet have been awarded a doctoral degree. This is also especially good for foreign students, as the Marie Curie regulations require that candidates must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity in the ...

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