Tuesday, October 20. 2009

Podcast: Attracting Students to be the Next GEOINT Workforce

The opening sessions of this year's GEOINT Conference had a running theme: the need for new, well trained workers to fill open jobs within the industry. The need was echoed by all the morning speakers in particular, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md, who wants to make a "local push" for geo-education. Editor in Chief Joe Francica attended the sessions and swaps ideas with Adena Schutzberg about how to get young people involved in science, technology and geospatial technologies for GEOINT.

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Wednesday, October 7. 2009

Education Tidbits

A guest column in the University of Montana paper touts the reasons to study geography. GIS is mentioned, but in passing.

The Department of Geography at The University of Montana is developing and adding new courses that reflect the status of the world on all levels. And an understanding of international topics is not the only realm of learning. Analysis of environmental and social issues as well as studies in geographic information systems (GIS) an important tool in many jobs, cartography, community and environmental planning, water issues, human impact on landscapes, mountains and climate are among the department’s many offerings.

Montana Kaimin

The Idaho State University history department received a $1,290,704 “Understanding Social Networks within Complex, Nonlinear Systems: Geographically-Integrated History and Dynamics GIS”

- press release

"With regards to his curiosity regarding my job title, I can confirm that we (GIS technicians) are a relatively new “species” that first came about just over 10 years ago." That's from a letter to the editor in response to a letter that questioned the title. Nice to see a proud GIS technician educating others.

- Press and Journal, North Scotland

Thursday, September 24. 2009

Quote of the Week II

"GIS is our preferred mapping tool. It can take so many layers from many of different sources. This is very important, not only in the planning phase, but also in the engineering and construction phases. It’s crucial to have one base tool to put all the pieces in and that’s GIS."

Diane Reinebach, Senior Energy Specialist for RMT Inc. on GIS specialist as a key job in Wind Farm Development; there are six other jobs noted in the article in Renewable Energy World

Tuesday, July 21. 2009

Podcast: First Half of 2009: State of the Industry

We are halfway through 2009. Directions Media editors have been to about a dozen user and specialty conferences in the U.S. and around the world, including ESRI's huge event last week. What themes are emerging? What can we tease out about the future? Our editors try to make sense of five key themes they've identified.


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Wednesday, July 15. 2009

The Role of GIS in Enhancing Education/GeoCareers #ESRIUC #ERSIEDUC

A combined ESRI UC and ESRI EDUC panel session was officially titled The Role of GIS in Enhancing Education. It got redefined a bit to examine geocareers. No matter the panel had plenty to say, as did the audience, a mix of educators and industry GIS users. ESRI’s Governor Jim Geringer moderated.

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Tuesday, April 28. 2009

Podcast: Should Geospatial Education Create Subject Matter Experts or Geospatial Thinkers?

Do we encourage the next generation of young geospatial professionals to get degrees in specific disciplines such as geology, forestry, urban planning, etc. or do we train them to be “geospatial thinker" with a degree in GIS? This was the question posed at a panel at last week's Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference. This week we review the panelists' thoughts and offer up our opinions.


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