GIS Education Weekly: The future of the IAGT at Cayuga Community College

Resources

I like this several year old cartoon. I think it'd be interesting to use in class or in an evaluation. I'd ask: Does this pattern exist (to any degree) in the real world? Where? Why? It's by John Atkinson from Ottawa, ON under CC-NC-ND. Via @simongerman600.

Pacific Standard: What's Behind America's Inability to Create a Trustworthy Broadband Map - "Broadband-mapping efforts from both the federal government at large and the FCC have had critical flaws that disproportionately affect rural and minority communities."

GIS Education Weekly: Good News in Michigan, Minneapolis; Bad News in Nebraska, Montana

Events

MSU-GEO's Career Day and Job Fair is on Fri, Feb. 23 from 2:30-4:30p in Bessey Hall 108. All are welcome to attend! Want to brush up your resume before the event? Bring your resume to our resume critique session, Tu, Feb 20 at 10a in Geography 105. Via @onGEOatMSU. I love the idea of these events, but it seems online students can only attend in person.

The GeoTech Center provided more information about its regional workshops. There are stipends for teachers, and no registration fees, but travel and lodging are not covered.

Geo:Code is a hackathon at the Hennepin County Library (Minneapolis, MN) set for Saturday, March 24 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, March 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It's a place to "learn/brainstorm about using open data to solve civic challenges" and it's free. Via @geocodetc.

GIS Education Weekly: Faculty from Two Georgia Schools to Write OER GIS Text

Coronavirus Mapping

NPR (Shots Blog): Map: US States With Coronavirus Infections - How helpful is this map in the context of Ken Field's discussion from last week?

The Conversation: Coronavirus outbreak: a new mapping tool that lets you scroll through timeline - I only this week found this article and map from Edward Parker, Research Fellow in Systems Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Via Google Maps Mania.

GIS Education Weekly: Boundless Details Program, Ashcloud Apocalypse Results, ISIS Geography Assignment

Ashcloud Apocalypse Global Risk Results Map

Not too much data in Massachusetts.

Esri UK and others put together a GIS Day activity based on a volcano eruption. The sign up page explains it's "A hazard risk mapping activity for Geographers." Here's the AGOL map used to drive the activity. The final map created by participants is the Ashcloud Apocalypse Risk Map.

A tweet from Michael Gould (@0mgould) reports:

 >9000 entries and 6 million map views in 1 week!

Indiana State and PrecisionHawk Partner on Growing UAS Industry and Education

Indiana State University and Raleigh, N.C.-based PrecisionHawk have signed a research and development partnership that aims to advance the unmanned aerial systems industry from multidisciplinary perspectives. The university-business collaboration will focus on safety, education, training and algorithm development for PrecisionHawk's DataMapper aerial data software.

These Students Don't Need Any Help Finding a GIS Project

I see too many students (college and grad) asking for help finding a topic for their GIS projects. Two students at University of Pittsburgh at Bradford didn't have any trouble. They fish and hunt, so they gathered data about ice fishing holes and deer sightings. Now the hope is the data and maps are good enough to let one of the student's grandfathers bag a deer when he visits!