Upcoming GIS Events:

• Southwest Users Group Conference
  October 14 -18, Flagstaff, AZ.
  

• ESRI Homeland Security Summit
  Octover 23 - 26, Denver, CO.

• ESRI Health GIS Conference
  Octover 23 - 26, Denver, CO. (concurrent with the HSC)

Recent GIS Events:

• 2004 SWUG Conference. October 20–22, 2004. Telluride, Colorado

GIS in the News:

"Computer models to help prepare for natural disasters". LANL GIS modeling of utility grids. News article in USA Today, Nov. 21, 2004.

"A Creative Approach for Representing Temporal Data". GISLab's innovative graphic technique featured in ESRI's ArcUser Online, Oct.-Dec. 2004.

Past GIS Events and News:

"Enterprise GIS Design", keynote address by Marc Witkowski (GISLab, EES-9). New Mexico Geographic Information Council (NMGIC) Fall Meeting at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 20 November 2003.

Training class: "Geospatial Metadata", taught by Thomas Riggs and Marc Witkowski (GISLab, EES-9). Sponsored by LANL CIO Office. 9/18/03.

Seminar by Keith Clarke, chair of Geography Dept. at UC Santa Barbara: "Modeling Land Use Change with Cellular Automata: Issues and Challenges". EES Frontiers in Geoscience Symposium. Sponsored by GISLab. 5/15/03.

Seminar by Keith Clarke, chair of Geography Dept. at UC Santa Barbara: "CORONA: The Missing Decade in the History of Remote Sensing". NIS/EES joint seminar. 5/15/03.

New Mexico Geographic Information Council (NMGIC) Spring Meeting: "Where's the Water". Co-sponsored by NMGIC and GISLab/EES, Los Alamos National Laboratory. 4/24-25/03.

Training class: "Geospatial Metadata", taught by Amy Budge (Manager of Clearinghouse Services, UNM Earth Data Analysis Center), and Rich Friedman (McKinley County GIS Center). Sponsored by GISLab. 8/28/02.

Special Achievement in GIS Award (news release), Los Alamos Monitor. 7/9/02.

Laboratory works on Romanian environmental site (news release), Los Alamos Newsbulletin. 7/18/02.

CGRP-GIS kiosk. LANL Newsbulletin article. 5/8/02.

Lecture by Michael Goodchild, Univ. of Calif. at Santa Barbara: "Augmenting geographic reality: origins and evolution of geographic information systems (GIS)". Associated presentations and discussion. EES Frontiers in Geoscience Symposium. Sponsored by GISLab. 4/18/02.

Visit and colloquium by Daniel Djocik: "GIS and hydrologic modeling". One-day workshop in Los Alamos, NM, panelists: D. Djokic (ESRI); E. Keating (USGS); S. McLin, B. Robinson, and E. Springer (LANL). Sponsored by GISLab. 3/26/02.

Lecture by Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI: "GIS for Homeland Security". Associated presentations, GIS poster session, and discussions. EES Frontiers in Geoscience Symposium. Sponsored by GISLab. 2/28/02.

Lecture by Alex Glazer (Director, UC-NRS), "The University of California Natural Reserve System (UC-NRS): land stewardship, science, education, information management". Associated presentations and discussions. EES Frontiers in Geoscience Symposium. Sponsored by GISLab. 10/18/01.