Texas A&M GIS Day Promotes Geospatial Skills And Careers Nov. 11-13
If you’ve ever used an app for lunch to be delivered to your office, called 911, or used GPS navigation for driving directions, then you’ve benefited from geographic information science — or GIS — technologies.
Today’s world is tied together with GIS technology. Nearly every public and private sector of society, including banking, health care, tech, and law enforcement, use geospatial tools to make location-based data and services possible. An interdisciplinary event at Texas A&M University is helping Aggies get trained in GIS skills and network with leading employers.
GIS Day at Texas A&M is a three-day annual event held on campus from Nov. 11-13 and the largest GIS Day event in the world, according to organizers. The local community, industry, and Texas A&M students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend free GIS technology workshops, interactive events, and lunches. A GIS career fair, industry panel and networking events are also open to students.
The event features three competitions awarding over $1,000 in prizes and awards to Texas A&M students for best poster and research paper presentations, along with a volunteered geographic information (VGI) citizen scientist contest to collect data about campus. Abstracts for the poster and paper competitions are due by Nov. 8.
Attendees are encouraged to register for workshops, events and competitions using the Texas A&M GIS Day website. All workshops are open to the public; registration is encouraged but not required.
“Geographic information science and technology affect nearly every aspect of our lives,” said Dr. Daniel Goldberg, the chair of the GIS Day organizing committee, and associate professor in the Department of Geography and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M. “From how we shop, to how we work, to where we live, to how we play, mapping and GIS approaches provide critical services, many of which we do not even realize, that allow us to make better decisions and improve our health and happiness.”
Workshops include:
- ArcGIS Online and ArcCollector
- Video Game Engines + Visualization + GIS
- FME Basics and Advanced Techniques
- QGIS
GeoAI, and Geospatial Data Science Frontiers, and Campus Data Initiatives and Operations
Media contact: Leslie Lee, College of Geosciences, (979) 845-0910, leslielee@tamu.edu.