Thank you so much to everyone that attended Northeastern's GIS Day 2024!
It was amazing to see so many applications of GIS across so many fields and with such a large turnout.
Linked here are the presentations from the event.
We also want to recognize all the StoryMaps Competition winners:
1st place - Eliana Hornbuckle
2nd place - Angela Tamayo
3rd place - Katelyn McCreedy
Popular Vote - Michel-Ange Siaba
We also want to recognize our honorable mention of Shemilore Daniels' Coulibistrie, Dominica Story Map. The Story Map, although missing some mapping components, had a wide-ranging community impact that really impressed the judges.
Thanks to all that presented, competed in the StoryMaps competition, or even just attended!
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Northeastern GIS Day 2022 1:15 am to 11:30 am (ET): Northeastern University- London, Dr. Oliver Ayres and ISL Team |
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Ignatius Sancho's London: Recovering Black Communities in the 18th Century London Metropolitan Archives and the 'Rediscovering Londoners' Exhibition 2023-2 |
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Oliver Ayers |
Northeastern University London, Associate Professor in History. |
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Nicole Aljoe |
Professor of English and Africana Studies |
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Odile Jordan Libby Collard Ellen Valente Amouraé Bhola-Chin |
Undergraduate ISL Team working with the London Metropolitan Archives on their upcoming exhibition on Londonors of ethnic minorities
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oj2122@students.nchlondon.ac.uk ev2079@students.nchlondon.ac.uk ab2105@students.nchlondon.ac.uk
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11:30am to 11:45am (ET): NU Marine Science Center, Dr. David Sittenfeld |
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Wicked Hot Boston: Community Science-to-Civics for Assessing Extreme Heat Inequities and Building Resilience |
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David Sittenfeld |
Museum of Science Director, Current Science Communication & NU Alumni |
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Sara Winslow |
Museum of Science |
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Francis Choi Sophia Ly |
Northeastern University Helmuth Lab |
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11:45am to 12:00pm (ET): Boston Area Research Initiative. Dr. Daniel T. O'Brien |
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BARI GIS Hub (I think) |
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Daniel O’Brien |
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Boston Area Research Initiative; Director, PhD in Public Policy Program |
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12: 00pm to 12:15pm (ET): Cornell University, Dr. Timothy Fraser |
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Mapping Data for Community Resilience in Boston. Related articles: Science Direct & Scientific Reports |
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Dr. Timothy Fraser |
Computational social scientist, studying how social networks help communities adapt to climate change and crisis. Starting Fall 2022, he works as an Ezra Systems Postdoctoral Associate in the Systems Engineering Program at Cornell University. |
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12:15pm to 12:30pm (ET): Planning, Real Estate & Facilities, Campus Map and Northeastern University Open Data Hub, Negar Pourshadi |
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Northeastern University GIS Hub Open Data Portal and Campus interactive map |
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Negar Pourshadi |
Space & Planning Systems Manager Planning, Real Estate & Facilities at Northeastern University Her team developed the campus interactive map and Northeastern University GIS Hub Open Data Portal |
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Please register to receive event details at https://northeastern.libcal.com/calendar/snell/gisday2021
“Recovering Erased Communities with GIS: The Japanese American Incarceration Use Case”
During World War II, the US government forcibly removed approximately 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry—two thirds of them American-born citizens—from the West coast and detained them for the duration of the war simply because of their race. The unconstitutional imprisonment not only destroyed the lives of the incarcerees, but also decimated the vibrant pre-war West coast Japanese American communities, most of which were not reconstituted after the war. Using GIS and visualizations of locational data in survivor oral recollections, researchers have reconstructed information about the pre-WWII Japanese American community in Tacoma, Washington. This methodology that can be used to create awareness about and address inequities in other communities that have been similarly erased by wrongful government policies and practices.
SUSAN H. KAMEI
SUSAN H. KAMEI is the managing director of the Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California and serves on the board of directors of URISA, the leading organization of GIS professionals. Her family members were among the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II, and she was a volunteer leader in the legislative campaign resulting in the successful passage of federal legislation that provided redress to Japanese Americans for their wartime imprisonment. Her book, When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during World War II recently published by Simon & Schuster has been hailed by Kirkus Reviews as a “riveting and indispensable work” and as a “landmark historical account [that] shines a light on a part of American history that must be remembered.” She created and teaches a course on this subject at USC.
NU GIS Day 2021 Recording (please ignore the scan message to download).
NU GIS Day 2021 Poster Winners
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | 10:00 am to 3pm Eastern Time
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Opening by Dan Cohen Dean of Libraries; Vice Provost for Information Collaboration; Professor of History |
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10:00 am to 11:00 am | ET Keynote by Susan H. Kamei: The Japanese American incarceration during World War II |
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11:15 am to 11:45 am | ET Poster/ SoryMaps Competition |
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12:00 am to 1:00 am | ET Crowdsourcing, Boston Housing price |
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1:30 pm to 3:00 pm | ET Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) Mapathon |
Northeastern University GIS Day 2021 Poster Competition
Visualizing Disparities and Social Equity in Boston
The NU Library and SPPUA are pleased to announce a call for posters for GIS Day 2021 @ NU, November 17th, 2021. The poster session is an integral part of the GIS Day. We welcome posters about studying disparities and social equity in Boston with the applications of spatial analysis and visualization across all disciplines. The call for posters is open to all professionals and academics (students, faculty, and researchers) from NU and other institutions who use and develop these techniques. The posters can be created in the form of ArcGIS StoryMaps, or alternatively use our poster template which will be provided. This event will be sponsored by NULab for Texts, Maps and Networks and Spatial-Relationships LLC. The judges will be announced at a later date.
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Posters must be submitted either as a link to an ArcGIS StoryMap or as PDF created using our poster template (link to be added soon). All posters must be original work, and include the following:
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| Prize | The winners will be awarded Amazon gift cards. |
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Need help with your poster?
Have other questions? Please contact b.sanaiemovahed@northeastern.edu. Thank you in advance on behalf of NU Library and SPPUA for making GIS Day 2021 @ NU a success! |