Skidmore GIS Conference scheduled Friday, Jan. 9

The Skidmore GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research will host a regional GIS Conference for educators this Friday, Jan. 9. This is the fourth year that this free intersession conference is being offered. Sessions will take place in Harder Hall and the Dana Science Center.

The goal of this conference is to encourage conversation and the sharing of knowledge between instructional technologists, faculty and staff, and local GIS practitioners. In the past, speakers have discussed such issues as urban sprawl, the operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) system, Google Earth across the disciplines, and using GIS to visualize local history.

This year, topics of interest include GIS and statistics, managing and supporting GIS on a college campus, the use of GIS for visualizing potential development, GIS and mercury in the Adirondack Park, Manifold internet mapping, using ESRI Modelbuilder for automating demographic analysis, and web based GIS systems. Click here to view the agenda.

Those interested in attending are asked to email gis@skidmore.edu by Wednesday, Jan. 7.