See below for a free webinar series of potential interest, offered by the Johns Hopkins University Energy and Environmental Programs Speaker Series, "Making Sense of COVID-19 Data through Geospatial Technology":
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-a-monster-part-1-tickets-104654504440?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
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About the Johns Hopkins webinar series: 

The novel COVID-19 pandemic has already profoundly impacted the world in ways that have not been seen for generations and the full effects have yet to be quantified. Geospatial Technology plays a critical role in understanding and combating the virus threat. Learn how Geographic information Systems Technology (GIS) is being leveraged as a powerful data visualization and analysis tool for making science-based spatial decisions that have real-world consequences. Explore how COVID-19 epidemiology data, location intelligence, and map visualization technology are used to support a variety of pandemic web maps, graphs and applications used to raise awareness, inform public decision-making, and guide policy decisions on a global scale. Through this speaker series, attendees will gain an understanding of: cutting-edge geospatial practices used in epidemiology (past and present), the use and application of GIS on a global scale, the biological nuance of the Coronavirus, and how COVID-19 data can be and is used by city, counties, states and government to make critical decisions.

In Part 1, industry experts will be sharing experiences and big picture workflows of using geospatial technology to display and analyze COVID-19 data. Speakers include:

Enhseng (Frank) Dong, PhD Candidate from Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard Team
Dr. Este Geraghty, Chief Medical Officer and Health Solutions Director at Esri.

This is the first of a four-part series. You can register for all parts using the links below:

Register for Part 1: June 3rd
Register for Part 2: June 17th  
Register forPart 3: July 1st
Register forPart 4: July 15th  

https://www.mapbox.com/webinars/storytelling-template-live-demo/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=blast&utm_campaign=email|blast|storytelling-template|livestream-demo-20-04&utm_term=storytelling-template&utm_content=livestream-demo

Live-coding demo: How to use the Mapbox Storytelling Template to create a story map
Maps make data understandable, powerful and memorable. Join this session to learn how to use our “Storytelling Template” to quickly build an interactive experience with high-quality map visuals. This storytelling format — sometimes called “scrollytelling” — lets you include as much context as you want, and define the locations your users look at. It’s a great way to bring stories to life.

​You’ll learn how to...

• Download the template and choose your style
• Add the places you want to include in your story
• Add photos and text content to enrich each chapter
• Publish your project to share it with the world!

Women in GIS ( https: // womeningis. Wildapricot.org/ )
Webinar: Mon, Mar 30, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Title: Social Justice featuring Ms. Sophia Garcia, GIS Analyst, https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiagarcia/

This talk explores how a young GIS professional, Ms. Sophia Garcia uses GIS to focus on achieving social justice during international women’s month. In this webinar, participants will:

• Learn about a real-world career that uses GIS
• Hear about real-world examples of how women use GIS
• Understand the career and education path of a young GIS professional
•  Develop clarify on the power of women in GIS especially during International Women’s Month

To register for this webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/526079336101984779?source=WomenInGIS

Sophia Garcia is Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst for the Dolores Huerta Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the pursuit of social justice in disadvantaged communities. She is part of a new team helping the foundation move towards the utilization of big data and maps to enhance the work of the foundation. Sophia knows that data is knowledge and believes that nonprofits can reach a greater audience with specific data and maps for their organizations.
 
Sophia’s experience with GIS began at Wellesley College, where she is recognized as being among the first students to utilize GIS in an academic setting. Since then she has further enhanced her experience with GIS in various industries including, agriculture, transportation planning, public works, and academics. Agencies she’s worked for include Kern Council of Governments (Kern COG), Kern County Department of Agriculture and Measurement Standards and Kern County Department of Public works. Each industry has allowed her to see the breath/reach that GIS has across diverse industries.
 
Sophia is a founding member of the URISA Equity and Social Justice (E&SJ) Committee that works to develop educational materials to help GIS professionals better address issues of equity into their work and to help decision-makers and social justice organizations utilize GIS technology. Sophia is the co-facilitator for the E&SJ GIS Special Interest Group at the ESRI UC, and she was awarded the 3rd place in the collegian student category at the 2016 ESRI UC, for her map highlighting student protests across the country in support of University of Missouri student’s #ConcernedStudent1950. Sophia has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Wellesley College and was in the inaugural graduating class of the GIS certificate at California State University Bakersfield.
 
During her free time, Sophia enjoys white water kayaking and rafting on the Kern River and hiking with her dog a labradoodle named Koda.

Brian Tomaszewski, Director, Center for Geographic Information Science & Technology, and also School of Interactive Games & Media. Rochester Institute of Technology.
 
Serious 3D GIS Games for Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking
 
This presentation will share lessons learned from a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF REU) Site at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) that investigated combining open geodata, Esri City Engine and the Unity game development environment to create immersive, serious 3D game environments to build disaster resilience spatial thinking skills. A case study of the research applied to Hurricane Harvey disaster response will be presented.
 
 
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
11:30am – 1:00pm
 
Please register for Serious 3D GIS Games for Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking  on Dec 10, 2019 11:30 AM EST at:
 
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1419871236259065355
 
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

There’s still time to register for Build your own 3D map with LIDAR point clouds.

If you’ve seen a semi-autonomous car before, you’ve probably seen a LIDAR (Light detection and ranging) sensor. LIDAR enables a semi-autonomous car to detect surroundings with lasers; it can be used to create 3D elevation maps to help farmers to increase efficiency and it can be used to visualize buildings on a map in really high detail to showcase your real estate portfolio.

We’ll have some fun using a very familiar landmark in Florida as an example.

Be entertained while learning how to:

• Add the color from orthoimagery rasters using gdal2xyz
• Source LIDAR from open data
• Visualize LIDAR with Mapbox GL JS and Deck.gl

Build your own 3D map with LIDAR point clouds
Thursday, October 17, 2019
11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

To Register: ​https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&partnerref=email-2&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpSalpUbGtNMkptTkRjMSIsInQiOiIwa0o1S1wvTHhiSnhTQnlyRDY4NnVGYktcL21GNGV3V3YxQVJ2OEhLWlNqS1wvdDkrTFBGdWVrNzlxZHZaY1h4UnVUbTZxMXVkY2tDNXJ5ZEt6bW54YjlYclNBNWFZdmx2YVJiekpLSmM3RndWZ3ZFZWk2MHBKRWVEWDNsM3ZieTJQTyJ9&eventid=2050226&sessionid=1&key=1E2D917BF6CEA4B5327F2104141D0EAE&regTag=&sourcepage=register

A webinar that may be of interest, should you wish to learn about Esri’s Python data science tools, leveraging ArcGIS API for Python, ArcPy, and ArcGIS Notebooks.
 
Date: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
Time: 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Registration and additional information: https://www.esri.com/en-us/landing-page/product/2019/arcgis-notebooks-pycon-2019
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Event: "SCGIS: Earth’s vital signs: Planetary-scale monitoring with Google Earth Engine".
When: May 15, 2019 @ 11AM PT
Where: Online Webinar
 
Satellites have been systematically collecting imagery and scientific measurements of our changing planet for more than 40 years, yet until recently this treasure trove of “big data” has not been online and readily available for high-performance data mining. The Google Earth Engine platform (earthengine.google.com) was developed to facilitate “turning pixels to knowledge” at global scale for societal benefit. Earth Engine hosts online a multi-petapixel public data catalog, updating daily, together with tools that support massively-parallel geospatial analysis on datasets such as satellite and aerial imagery, weather and climate.
 
As initiator and leader of Google Earth Engine, Rebecca Moore will describe the experiences of applying Google's mapping tools to the world's pressing problems in areas such as environmental conservation, human rights and creating a sustainable society.
 
The Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) presents this webinar in partnership with the Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS).
 
Read more and register at:
https://consbio.org/newsroom/events/scgis-webinar-earths-vital-signs-planetary-scale-monitoring-google-earth-engine-2
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Shoreline Mapping Data and Products
April 11, 2019, 2:00 - 3:00 pm, Eastern Time 
Presenter: Tim Blackford, NGS


Webinar Description:
The NGS Coastal Mapping Program produces the national shoreline and other critical data used to update the NOAA nautical charts. The data is also used by coastal resource managers and others for GIS analysis, coastal modeling, and as the baseline for defining U.S. territorial limits. This webinar will provide an overview of how the NGS Remote Sensing Division collects, processes, and delivers shoreline mapping data and products.
   
Technical Content Rating: Intermediate - Some prior knowledge of the topic is helpful.

Learn more about the NGS Shoreline Mapping Program: 

• The National Shoreline (.pdf)
• NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer

As a reminder, the NGS Webinar Series hosts presentations on various topics related to NGS programs, projects, products and services to educate constituents about NGS activities. 

• View our upcoming schedule.
• View recordings of previous webinars.
• Have a question?  View our webinar FAQs or email the NGS Info Center

Telling your Geoscience Story with Story Maps
1pm Eastern/Noon Central/11am Mountain/10am Pacific Time Thu 14 Mar 2019
 
Communicating results of geoscience investigations to a diverse set of audiences will grow in importance in our 21st Century World. Communicating science is and will remain important to the entire community. GIS will continue to expand as an important tool for spatial analysis and visualization.  Story maps are web mapping applications that provide geoscientists with the ability to combine 2D and 3D maps, audio, video, photographs, and narrative that can be shared with research colleagues, or the general public, and embedded in web pages and online presentation tools. This webinar will quickly give you the knowledge, skills, and confidence to make your own maps for telling your own story.
 
Speaker: Joseph Kerski, PhD, GISP, Education Manager, Esri

Free registration here:
https://crm.americangeosciences.org/civicrm/event/info?id=175&reset=1
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