14th Annual GIS Day @ KU

Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Kansas Union 4th Floor, Alderson Auditorium

GIS Day @ KU is part of a nationwide event to promote awareness of geographic information systems (GIS), and how we use this evolving tool to analyze our world. We continue our tradition of bringing together a community of GIS users from academia, business and government. GIS Day will include talks, a student poster competition, and an information fair with vendors from academia and local business that will run throughout the day. GIS Day @ KU is FREE and open to the public. Participants can come for all or any part of the symposium.

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Talks will be in Alderson Auditorium on the 4th Floor of the Kansas Union. This year the student competition will be a discussion poster. Students will briefly present their methods beginning at 1:00pm, and posters will be available for viewing all day, adjacent to the Information and Job Fair (along the Jayhawk Walk, 4th Floor).
8:30 – 9:00		Registration and Coffee
9:00 – 9:20		Opening Remarks
9:25 – 9:55			Clearing your Desk! Software and Data Services for Collaborative Web Based GIS Analysis David Tarboton Professor, Utah State University
10:00 – 10:30			Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Using GIS to help manage and analyze riverine research at the VCU Rice Rivers Center, Charles City County, VA Jennifer Ciminelli Rice Rivers Center Research and Data Coordinator, Virginia Commonwealth University
10:30 – 11:00		Networking Break with Information and Job Fair Participants
11:00 – 11:30			GIS Applications in the Wireless Telecommunications Industry Tucker Hickey Network Planner, Sprint with Tom Jarnevic RF Manager for the Kansas Market, Sprint
11:30 – 1:00		Lunch at the Kansas Union (on your own)
1:00 – 2:45		Student Research Presentation Competition (poster session with brief presentation)
2:45 – 3:05		Networking Break with Information and Job Fair Participants
3:05 – 3:35			GIS Frameworks in the National Weather Service Eugene Derner Senior Hydrologist, NOAA/National Weather Service
3:40 – 4:15			Integrating GIS into Urban Food Access Daoqin Tong Associate Professor, University of Arizona
4:15 – 4:45		Concluding Remarks and Awards Presentation

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GIS Day 2015 @ KU is sponsored by:

Want to see your name below? Please register to sponsor and participate in the Information and Job Fair at: http://www.gis.ku.edu/gisday/2015/InfoFair/

Platinum Sponsors

• KU Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science
• KU School of Business

Gold Sponsors

• Bartlett & West
• Kansas Biological Survey
• KU Environmental Studies Program
• KU Institute for Policy & Social Research
• KU Libraries

Silver Sponsors

• State of Kansas Data Access and Support Center (DASC)

Bronze Sponsors

• KU Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
• TREKK Design Group, LLC
• Wilson & Company, Engineers and Architects