Congratulations to Dr. Helena Mitasova in NCSU’s MEAS Department who received the Sol Katz award at the 2010 FOSS4G* Conference in Barcelona, Spain!

(* FOSS4G = Free and Open Source Software For Geospatial)

For more about the award, see http://www.osgeo.org/node/1069. Her research using GRASS GIS is widely recognized and we are fortunate to have her at NCSU teaching a course with this open source software.

A new blog is up for posting local student internships and jobs that require GIS expertise.

http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/GISij

The GIS Internships and Jobs blog is now at http://ncsugisij.wordpress.com.

To submit an announcement or request one be removed, send an email to jeff_essic at ncsu.edu.

NCSU Libraries again hosted a campus-wide commemoration of GIS Day on November 18 in the DH Hill lobby area.  Many library patrons stopped by to find out more about GIS and discuss how they can use it in their studies.  We also had a poster contest and a Geography IQ game.

The following people and organizations participated:

• Brooke Boyle – NCSU Transportation
• David Wynne and Jenny Benedick – University Architects Office
• Greg Ferrara – Institute for Transportation Research and Education
• Charlynne Smith – Parks Recreation and Tourism Management: Center for Earth Observation and Recreation Resource Services
• Dr. Heather Cheshire and David Carr – NCSU Geospatial Information Science and Technology Program
• Dr. Jeffrey White – NCSU Department of Soil Science; Geographic Information Sciences
• Curtis Belyea – Southeast Gap Analysis Project
• Mary Samouelian – Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership (and she brought great cookies!)
• Jeff Essic and Matt Sumner – NCSU Libraries Geospatial Data Services

A special thanks to University Dining for providing gift certificates to Port City Java!!  Our poster contest was won by Justin Shedd with his poster titled, “Geographic Information Systems and Wildland Fire: Pre-Suppression, Active Incident, Post-Assessment.”  Six poster entries were submitted and we had about 50 patrons stop and vote.  Also, Joel Smith won the Geography IQ Challenge with a score of 134,465.  Congratulations to both winners!

And now for some photos:

The latest PRT 462 powerpoint presentation, titled “NCSU Libraries: Getting GIS Data” and given October 15, 2009, is online here. It is a 20 MB download.

Jeff

ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1 and ArcInfo Workstation 9.3 may be downloaded by any student, faculty, or staff for use on personal and university owned computers. There is no charge.

http://www.ncsu.edu/software/available-software/product.php?software=170

It’s highly recommended to follow the installation instructions, which include the path to the License Server.

Be sure to also install the Service Packs!

SimplyMap is a new online resource that’s available statewide through NC LIVE for online mapping and data download of Census, demographic, and business data.

I’ve put up a webpage about it with more details, links, and usage
tips at http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/gis/simplymap.html.

The direct NC LIVE link is http://www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=247

If you have any technical problems or feedback (especially positive),
please let the NC LIVE folks know – http://www.nclive.org/.

Jeff