News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, February 2012

News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, February 2012

News

• We’re working on GIS in high performance environments (parallel) as well as on the community cluster.  Here’s the first of many updates on that process.
• I have been talking to folks in New Jersey through the New Jersey Geospatial Forum, Education Outreach Task Force about opportunities for collaboration.  Please let me know if you’d like to be involved.

 

Software Updates

• FME 2012 is now available

 

New and Updated Esri Virtual Campus Courses (contact gis-info@udel.edu for free access)

• No new virtual campus courses

 

Other New Webinars

• 2/16/12 11a-12p Writing XML with FME
• 2/23/12 11a-12p ERDAS IMAGINE and Geomedia: The Power of GIS and Remote Sensing…Together in a Single Solution
• 2/23/12 2p-3p: Using the IDL GRIB Library
• 2/23/12 12p-1p, 2p-3p, 6p-7p: Using HTML5 with ArcGIS
• 3/8/12 11a-12p, 7p-8p: LiDAR and FME
• 3/29/12 11a-12p: Google Fusion Tables and FME

 

Events

• 2/20/12: Deadline for submission to Delaware GIS 2012
• 2/27/12 2p-4p (via telephone): 1^st Delaware HAZUS User Group (DEHUG) Meeting.  Register here.
• 2/29/12 2012 Delaware Wetlands Conference, Dover Downs Hotel, Dover, DE
• 3/19-3/20/12 Towson U Union, Towson, MD: 25th Annual Towson University Geographic Information Sciences Conference (TUgis 2012),
• 4/26/2012, Sheraton Conference Center, Dover, DE: Delaware GIS 2012 From the Ground Up
• 5/30/12-6/1: UCGIS 2012 Symposium  Doubletree Hotel, Washington, D.C. Abstract due 2/29/12

 

Past Events

•  2/10/12 10a-11a: GIS Tools and Resources for Location-based Questions in Business, powerpoint is posted here

 

Other Opportunities

• Esri News for Students and Recent Graduates (previously known as University Career Connections) is now available online
• 3/1/12 UCGIS Research Award nominations due
• USAID is now looking to expand upon its long tradition of engagement with universities, colleges, research institutes, and other institutes of higher education.  To that end they have created the Higher Education Solutions Network which helps connect faculty and students to grants, fellowships, and oppotunities in international development.
• 3/16/12 (deadline for submissions) GeoEducation Subcommittee of the Delaware Geographic Data Committee (DGDC) is currently seeking nominations for the Ninth Annual Delaware GIS in Education Award and invite you to suggest nominees for this honor
• Last year’s print manuals for FME are available.  I can send more information if you are interested.

 

Area/Forwarded Job Postings (if no link, email me mearns@udel.edu, and I’ll forward the email announcements)

• Environmental Manager (Wind Energy), Shoener Environmental, Inc., Dickson City, PA
• Sr Software Developer, geographIT®, Lancaster, PA
• ·  GIS Programmer, Marquette GIS, Inc., Harrisburg, PA
• GIS Director, Tioga County, Wellsboro, PA
• GIS Drafter, Aerotek Energy Services, Allentown, PA
• Training Solution Sales Representative, Esri, Philadelphia, PA
• ArcGIS Analyst with CAD experience, AppleOne, Aberdeen, MD

 

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or ideas that you’d like to discuss