1. Boulder Teen Science Café: Leave No (Digital) Trace

   Thu 24 September 2015

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   I am very excited to announce that I will be giving a talk at the Boulder Teen Science Cafe next Tuesday September 29th from 5:30-7pm at the CU Museum of Natural History‘s BioLounge. My talk is entitled “Leave No (Digital) Trace: The Geography of Social Media”, and here is the ‘snippet’ from the website announcing my talk:

   Our first Teen Café of the 2015-16 academic year features self-described “Geo Nerd” Dr. Carson Farmer, assistant professor in the CU Geography Department. When the average person thinks about geography, they might imagine a weathered, old map or a globe. When ...

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2. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Geospatial Computing

   Thu 30 October 2014

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   Hey all, I’ll be running a half-day workshop on Geospatial Computing with Python at the upcoming Interdisciplinary Workshop on Geospatial Computing (IWGC-2014) on November 20-21, 2014 at TheMuseum, Kitchener, Ontario. Its going to be a really great event, with lots of experts in the field of geospatial computing. It is particularly relevant to students who have an interest in geospatial computing.

   Organizers: Colin Robertson (Laurier), Graham Taylor (Guelph), Rob Feick (Waterloo)

   We invite participants to an Interdisciplinary Workshop on Geospatial Computing. The workshop is aimed broadly at bringing together disparate communities working with geospatial tools and data. We ...

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3. GEOS seminar series at the Graduate Center

   Tue 30 September 2014

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   The Geography, Earth Science and Oceanography Seminars (GEOS) is hosting myself and Prof Sean Ahearn this Thursday to give a talk on “Computational GIScience: Current Research at the CARSI Lab”.

   

   The talk will feature a bunch of the fun and exciting stuff we’re doing at CARSI, including our EnviroCar project and some of my recent work with spatial data flows. The talks will start around 5:30 PM on Thursday October 2nd 2014 in the Science Center, Room 4102 at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Avenue, NYC). I’m told that light snacks and refreshments will be served ...

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4. Stephen Flood Guest Speaker

   Tue 13 May 2014

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   Please join us Wednesday, May 21st from 4:00-6:00 pm in the Hunter College Geography Conference Room (Hunter North 1004) for a talk by guest speaker Stephen Flood, who will be talking about Communicating across disciplines in the climate change sphere.

   If you can’t make it in person, there will also be a live feed available here (the feed will also be recorded, so you can view it at a later date as well).

   Topic: This seminar will leverage the work carried out in the Climate Changes Impacts and Implications for New Zealand (CCII) project to demonstrate some ...

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5. Two Guest Speakers

   Mon 28 April 2014

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   Please join us Wednesday, April 30th from 3:30-5:00 pm in the Hunter College Geography Conference Room (Hunter North 1004) for a talk by guest speakers JD Godchaux and Lela Prashad, and Robert Buchanan, who will be talking about Free & Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications.

   If you can’t make it in person, there will also be a live feed available here (the feed will also be recorded, so you can view it at a later date as well).

   Announcement: We are excited to announce that the department will be hosting the second Free and Open Source for ...

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6. First GTECH Experiment Recording

   Wed 05 March 2014

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   In case you missed Eric Brelsford’s talk last Wednesday on Free & Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications, I’ve embedded the recording below for your viewing pleasure (Eric’s slides are also available). This is the first in a series of talks organized within the department of Geography at Hunter College, CUNY around GIS and Technology (we’re calling them GTECH Experiments). Each talk is organized by a student (thanks go to Mara Gittleman this time), and features a member of the wider geo-technology community. Check out the video below:

   Stay tuned for news and events around GTECH Experiments in the future!

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7. Eric Brelsford Guest Speaker

   Fri 21 February 2014

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   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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8. Nathan Storey Guest Lecture

   Thu 10 October 2013

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   Nathan Storey will be speaking to my spatial data analysis class later today, October 10th, 2013, and you are invited to attend! Nathan is a former Hunter Urban Affairs student and current Open Data Guru working with Ontodia doing GIS/open data projects for NYC. Check out PediaCities, their platform to curate, organize, and link data about cities.

   This will be a great opportunity to see GIS data applied to real-world problem sets here in NYC. The discussion will go approx 1 hour, beginning at 5:35 in the large lab of Hunter College, CUNY, North Building, Room 1090B. Due to the location, no refreshments will be served, but its a good opportunity to feed your brain :)

   Here is what Nathan (the speaker) has to say about this talk:

   I will be speaking to Carson Farmer’s spatial data analysis class next week about open data in NYC, data discovery, and PediaCities, a data encyclopedia project I’ve been working on for the past 6 months.

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