17th Annual GIS Day @ KU

Wednesday, November 14, 2018
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 David Mechem, Interim Chair & Adam Dohrenwend, Graduate Student and GIS Day Planning Committee KU Department of Geography & Atmospheric Science [Video of Opening Remarks - 5:29]
9:25 – 9:55		Standing Rock: Understanding Historical Patterns and Impacts of Land Allotment Steve Egbert Director and Senior Scientist, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Professor, Department of Geography & Atmospheric Science [Video of Presentation - 32:36]
10:00 – 10:30		1491 meets 2001: Comprehending past Native American impacts to forested landscapes using GIS and other 21st century tools Steve Tulowiecki Assistant Professor, Geography, SUNY-Geneseo [Video of Presentation - 32:53]
10:30 – 11:00	Networking Break with Information and Job Fair Participants
11:00 – 11:30		The use of Open-Source GIS Technologies at the National Weather Service - Central Region Headquarters Brian Walawender National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service [Video of Presentation - 34:39]
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 Application in Underground & Submarine Transmission Forest Rong Vice President, Underground & Submarine Transmission, Power Delivery, Kiewit Engineering Group [Video of Presentation - 25:23]
3:40 – 4:15		Rivers, Satellites, and Mass Conservation: Changing the way we think about ungauged basins Colin Gleason Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst [Video of Presentation - 28:24]
4:15 – 4:45	Concluding Remarks and Awards Presentation

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GIS Day 2018 @ KU is sponsored by:

Want to see your name below? Please register to sponsor and participate in the Information and Job Fair at: http://gis.ku.edu/gisday/2018/InfoFair/

Platinum Sponsors

• KU Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science

Gold Sponsors

• KU Libraries

Silver Sponsors

• Kansas Association of Mappers
• State of Kansas Data Access & Support Center (DASC)

Bronze Sponsors

• BHC Rhodes
• University of Kansas - Graduate Studies
• WaterOne