Spatially Connected

The GIS club at Portland State University (a student chapter of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) is sponsoring the...

Annual Geospatial Career Panel

When: May 20th, Noon - 2pm
Where: Cramer Hall, Room 413

Please join us for this year's career panel! Our panelists this year include representatives from the BLM, Metro, and Sanborn.

Each panelist will present on their company/agency and their personal experience. There will be a Q/A session after the presentations for the whole panel.

click here for flyer. 

Penn State offers excellent online courses and now has a program through the Open Educational Initiative (http://open.ems.psu.edu/) where you can access the online course material for free, but you do not get any instructor feedback/interaction or support or academic credit if you don't purchase the course, but can read through all the material.

For those of you interested in Python:  https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog485/node/93.

Elk Rock Island: Restoring Oak Woodland

April 19, 2011
Noon to 1 pm
Portland Building Auditorium
1120 SW Fifth Ave.

Presenters:

Mark G. Wilson (PP&R), Claire A. Puchy (BES),  Mary Bushman (BES),  and Marissa Dorais (PP&R) from the City of Portland Parks' City Nature and Environmental Services’  Willamette Watershed & TEES Program Elk Rock Island, a 14 acre Natural Area Park owned and managed by the City Nature Division of Portland Parks & Recreation, is located in the Willamette River just offshore from Milwaukie. The island’s Oregon white oak woodlands and short-grass prairies contain plants uncommon in Portland and provide habitat for wildlife including bald eagles and peregrines that nest nearby.
BES generously provided initial funding and PP&R│BES staffs are working together on long term site restoration and stewardship activities. The genesis of the project was PP&R’s Natural Area Ecosystem Management Plan and Portland’s Watershed Management Plan. The on-going work is a unique intra- bureau effort to achieve common goals of conserving and restoring special status habitats and associated wildlife and plant species.

Videos of River Brownbags are posted at: http://www.portlandonline.com/ohwr/index.cfm?c=52507

City of Portland
Office of Healthy Working Rivers
1120 SW 5th Ave., Rm. 1000
Portland, OR 97204
503.823.0275
www.portlandonline.com/river

The AAG has received funding from the National Science Foundation to defray the expenses of participation by U.S. scientists in the International Geographical Union Regional Conference in Santiago, Chile to be held from November 14-18, 2011.  The program will provide approximately twenty-five travel grants for this meeting: thirteen grants of $1,500 each junior scholars, including graduate students, and twelve awards of $1,000 each to senior scholars. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.  Details regarding the conference are available
at www.ugi2011.cl.

Applicants should note that the deadline for submitting abstracts for papers and posters for IGU is March 10, 2011.

Applications for IGU Travel Grants are due by June 1, 2011.  Submissions received after that date may be accepted as alternates.  Notifications will be made within approximately 2 to 3 weeks after the deadline.

For information on eligibility and to download the application form, please refer to www.aag.org/cs/grantsawards/igutravel. Digital submissions are required by email to grantsawards@aag.org.

PSU host a Spring Speaker SeriesMonday colloquia meet at Noon [URBN 311]

March 28
Dick Lycan
Population Research Center (PRC)
Applied Demographic Techniques for Private Club Membership

April 4
Hunter Shobe
Department of Geography
Geographies of Graffiti:  Barcelona, Portland, and San Francisco

April 18
Lisa Bates
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Assessing Equity in New Orleans Post-Katrina Recovery

April 25
Katie Meehan
University of Oregon, Department of Geography 
Greywater and the Grid:  Splintered Urbanism and the Diverse Economies of Water

May 16
Neba Noyan 
Institute for Metropolitan Studies (IMS)
Capturing Community Strengths in Urban Markets

May 23
Liza Mylott
Institute for Metropolitan Studies (IMS)
Public Policy and the Sexualization of Public Space

Only FOUR WEEKS from today! Register NOW!

Click here to register. 

Register now for the upcoming GIS in Action conference March 29 & 30, 2011.

Please mark your calendars for the NINETEENTH  Annual GIS In Action Conference, hosted by the Columbia River Region of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the Oregon-Southwest Washington Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA). Each year ASPRS and URISA collaborate to hold this informational conference on current issues in the Geospatial Information Community. Join us for what will surely be another successful opportunity to meet with colleagues in the geospatial industries and organizations, to learn about emerging topics and recent advances in GIS applications, and to discuss our problems and solutions together. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to meet andnetwork with GIS professionals from the region.  Find out who is doing what, and how.

Preliminary Conference Program available

Visit the GIS In Action Website for more information. To download the preliminary program, click here.  

Pre-registration is still available - don’t miss out.

Pre-register until March 21st

Click here to register.

Venue:

Portland State University  will graciously host this year’s conference for the second consecutive year! The raving positive feedback from the 2010 conference has led us to use the PSU facility once again. Holding the conference at Portland State creates exciting opportunities to include PSU students from other departments, members of the open source community and engineering, surveying and natural resources professionals who are all an important part of the GIS community. 

Call for posters!

Submit your entries for the poster session at the conference.  Open categories for posters are:
 -  Technically advanced application
 -  Collaborative GIS
 -  GIS for 'real-world' problem solving
 -  Innovative application of GIS
 
Information for poster submissions, please contact vshandas@pdx.edu

Technical Tracks: There will be at least three tracks each day consisting of panel discussions debating hot-topics, traditional sessions with two-to-three presentations per session, and technical workshops providing in-depth discussion of issues and training in applications most relevant to the geospatial community.

Guest speakers will present on both days.  On Tuesday morning, JIM GERINGER (Former Governor of Wyoming) will speak. Wednesday , Scott Nelson (Governor Kitzhaber’s Chief Aide on Jobs and Economy) will offer the closing keynote.

 Conference Highlights:

• The Exhibit Hall will open on Tuesday at 8:00AM and remain open until Wednesday at 2:00PM. The hall will feature as many as 20 vendors in GIS related technology and services. This is an opportunity to see and discuss the latest advances in the industry.

• The Vendor Social will be held on Tuesday evening from 5:00PM to 7:00PM in the Exhibit Hall. Join your peers in a more relaxed atmosphere with food and beverages. Entertainment to be yet announced.

•  The Poster Session will be held during the Vender Social. Ballots for the People’s Choice are included in your registration packet. Please take it to the Exhibit Hall and vote.

 Following the Conference:

The Un-conference Thursday and Friday, March 31 & April 1 

Register now for the upcoming GIS in Action conference March 29 & 30, 2011.

Please mark your calendars for the NINETEENTH  Annual GIS In Action Conference, hosted by the Columbia River Region of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the Oregon-Southwest Washington Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA). Each year ASPRS and URISA collaborate to hold this informational conference on current issues in the Geospatial Information Community. Join us for what will surely be another successful opportunity to meet with colleagues in the geospatial industries and organizations, to learn about emerging topics and recent advances in GIS applications, and to discuss our problems and solutions together. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to meet and network with GIS professionals from the region.  Find out who is doing what, and how.

Preliminary Conference Program available
Conference program has been updated. Please visit the GIS In Action Website for more information. To download the preliminary program, click here.  

Venue
Portland State University  will graciously host this year’s conference for the second consecutive year! The raving positive feedback from the 2010 conference survey has led us to use the PSU facility once again. Holding the conference at Portland State creates exciting opportunities to include PSU students from other departments, members of the open source community and engineering, surveying and natural resources professionals who are all an important part of the GIS community. 

Call for posters!
Submit your entries for the poster session at the conference.  Open categories for posters are:
- Technically advanced applications
- Collaborative GIS
- GIS for 'real-world' problem solving
- Innovative application of GIS

Information for poster submissions, please contact vshandas@pdx.edu

Technical Tracks
There will be at least three tracks each day consisting of panel discussions debating hot-topics, traditional sessions with two-to-three presentations per session, and technical workshops providing in-depth discussion of issues and training in applications most relevant to the geospatial community.



Guest speakers will present on both days. 
 On Tuesday morning, JIM GERINGER (Former Governor of Wyoming) will speak. Wednesday guest speaker is yet to be announced.

Conference Highlights:
- The Exhibit Hall will open on Tuesday at 8:00AM and remain open until Wednesday at 2:00PM. The hall will feature as many as 20 vendors in GIS related technology and services. This is an opportunity to see and discuss the latest advances in the industry.

- The Vendor Social will be held on Tuesday evening from 5:00PM to 7:00PM in the Exhibit Hall. Join your peers in a more relaxed atmosphere with food and beverages. Entertainment to be yet announced.

- The Poster Session will be held during the Vender Social. Ballots for the People’s Choice are included in your registration packet. Please take it to the Exhibit Hall and vote.

2011 Washington GIS Conference
Mapping Washington's Future!
May 9th-11th, 2011 - Lynnwood Convention center

The planning committee for the 2011 Washington GIS Conference is busy developing another standout annual conference. At this time we are seeking workshop presenters and invite you to submit a proposal to conduct a workshop for WAURISA members and the Washington GIS community at large in 2011. For details go to http://www.waurisa.org/conferences/2011/Call_for_Workshop_Presenters_2011.pdf

Call for papers and vendor information will be broadcast shortly.

We'd love to hear your ideas! If you have suggestions please contact the planning committee at 2011WAGISConference@waurisa.org.

The 9th Annual URBAN ECOLOGY & CONSERVATION SYMPOSIUM will be held on Monday January 24, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at Portland State University, in the Smith Center Ballroom

The symposium will focus on urban environmental issues and the practical application of related ecological and social sciences in the greater Portland, Oregon / Vancouver, Washington region.  The focus will be on networking, building partnerships, and exchanging information.  Planned events include a series of oral presentations, a poster session, two keynote speakers, raffles, and a post-symposium social.

For more details about the symposium, including the program agenda, information about the keynote speakers and a link to  the registration page, visit www.uercportland.org.


Early Registration Deadline: January 7, 2011.  The fee includes lunch for those who pay by the early deadline.

     Registration standard rate: $30; 
     Student rate: $15.
     On-line Registration Deadline:  January 18, 2011.
     Registration at door: $35 (check or cash only, no credit cards) as
space is available, does not include lunch.

City of Portland's Office of Healthy Working Rivers presents -
River-in-Focus Brownbag: Reclaiming the Willamette: Designing A River City
 
Portland’s frequently called the “City of Roses,” but only sometimes “River City”—which is interesting, given our location at the confluence of the 13th and 3rd largest rivers in the continental U.S., and that there’s a “port” embedded in our name. Just what is our relationship with the river that runs through us? Is it something we embrace—or merely cope with by building bridges to cross it and sea-walls to keep it out?


A focal point of the Central City 2035 Plan – the update of the 1988 Central City Plan – will be the most urban portion of the Willamette River, the segment roughly bounded by the Broadway Bridge and Ross Island. Troy Doss, Sallie Edmunds and Mark Raggett from the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability take a look at how Portland and the Willamette fit together, examining the river threads in our historic fabric, offering observations on other cities and their rivers, and calling out opportunities for shaping a new river relationship over the next 20 years.


Monday, December 13, 2010
Noon to 1 pm
Portland Building Auditorium, 2nd Floor
City of Portland, 1120 SW 5th Ave
 
Free lunchtime presentation, open to the public, please bring your own lunch.
 
For information on Portland’s rivers, visit  www.portlandonline.com/river