1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. New York City Panel on Climate Change

    Wed 12 June 2013
    cfarmer

    This was recently announced on the Hunter Geography Department website:

    CISC Produced Map Spearhead of Mayor Bloomberg’s SIRR Announcement

    The New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC2) Climate Risk Information 2013 Report was released on June 11, 2013 in conjunction with the release of the NYC Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency’s (SIRR) report entitled “A Stronger, More Resilient New York.” The reports were released by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg during a press conference on Tuesday June 11 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Work by the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities (CISC) is heavily featured in the ...

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  7. New Journal: Spatial Demography

    Thu 06 June 2013
    cfarmer

    I have recently joined the editorial team at Spatial Demography — a new journal outlet for demographers and others who use spatial data, methods, and theory.

    A bit more about the journal:

    Spatial Demography [ISSN: 2164-7070 (online)] focuses on the spatial analysis of demographic processes. This cross-disciplinary work involves modern demographic data visualization, enhanced geo-referenced data availability, and spatial statistics, facilitated through full color graphics, motion video tools, and a quick time-to-publication. The journal publishes research articles, essays, research reports, data sources, computing software, teaching notes, and book reviews on a wide range of topics of interest to the social demographer.

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  8. Making the switch to Pelican

    Sun 12 May 2013
    cfarmer

    Welcome to the new and improved carsonfarmer.com! If you are reading this, then you are enjoying my new, responsive static website/blog. The new site is powered by Pelican — a static website generator written in Python — and is hosted on GitHub using GitHub Pages. Most of the content on the site is written in Markdown, which makes it really easy to add headings, anchors, and all sorts of goodies to simplify writing blog posts and web-pages.

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