Harvard Geographical Information Systems
 

GIS Colloquium Lecture Series
2002-2004

The speakers in this series will present special lectures stressing GIS/Remote Sensing applications, data acquisition and manipulation, as well as possible research and collaborations. Lectures are usually held on Fridays at 2 pm at Haller Hall (Room 102) of the Geological Museum Building, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, unless indicated otherwise. For past speakers, view the archive. For Information and suggestions, please contact Lucia Lovison-Golob.

For list of lectures, please see archive available since 1998.

 

Peter P. Rogers, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering, Harvard University
"Environmental Management Using GIS Tools"

Friday, March 19, 2004 Haller Hall

Vincent Pito, Geographer, U.S. Census Bureau, Boston

"Issues with the Census Geography and Census Data"

......all what you'd like to know but never dared to ask!..

Friday, February 20, 2004 3 - 4pm

Harvard University, Taubman Center for State and Local Government-- Taubman Building on the Kennedy School of Government Campus -- Room 275

(second floor -- turn left when you enter through the glass doors on the 2nd floor) Cambridge --

Coffee and Cookies wil be served (Thank you to Professor Jane Fountain)

Dai Hozumi

Visiting Lecturer at Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University

"Ensuring availability of Health Services: Health Facility Inventory and Health Infrastructure Development Planning in Malawi"

Friday, January 9, 2004 2-3pm

Harvard School of Public Health, SPH1-1112, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard University.

Zhong-Ren Peng

Visiting Professor at MIT, Associate Professor Department of Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

A Framework for Feature-Level Geospatial Data Sharing Systems -- A Case Study for Transportation Networks -- Summary

Friday, December 5, 2003 2-3pm

GIS DAY 2003 at Harvard University

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Presentations from Lucia Lovison-Golob: "Web Mapping and Location Based Services: examples from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education," Harmut Tschauner:"GIS in Anthropology - Archaeology," Sumeeta Srinivasan: "GIS and Urban Systems," Nathan J. Heard "GIS and Public Health,"Guido Stein: "Hands On Session,"What GIS education can do for your career ?-- Discussion -- Poster sessions at the Science Center throughout the day --

Jeff Amero
GIS Manager, City of Cambridge

" City of Cambridge, Enterprise GIS"

Friday, October 3, 2003 2-3pm

 

Humphrey Southall
University of Portsmouth, U.K.
Redefining the National Memory: the
Great Britain Historical GIS Project

Friday, May 23, 2003, 3:30- 4:30 pm

Presentation of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in
Geographic Information Science

Harvard University
Thursday, 5th June

Joseph Jr. Ferreira

Professor of Urban Studies and Operations Research, MIT
MIT
Urban Information Systems in a Digital World
Friday, May 2, 2003, 3:30-4:30pm, M-D G125

Feng Yang
GIS Manager, Town of Brookline, Massachusetts
A Municipal GIS: Brookline, Massachusetts
Friday, April 25, 2003

Ron Eastman
Clark University
GIS Software Development: The Critical Role of Academic Institutions
Friday, March 21, 2003

Doug Johnston
Director of Research and GIS
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
High Resolution GIS for Floodplain Restoration along the Illinois River
Friday, February 28, 2003

Josh Liebermann
Syncline
What is interoperability in GIS and (like crime) does it pay?
Friday, January 31, 2003

GIS Day at Harvard
Harvard University
GIS at Harvard and Beyond
Wednesday, 20 November 2002

Patricia Seed
University of Texas
Doing GIS Backwards
Friday, October 18, 2002

Harvard GIS User Group Mtg
Planning GIS Day
Friday, September 20, 2002