2019 GIS Day Conference

GIS Day @ Purdue

Thursday, November 7th, 2019

Stewart Center, Room 206, 214, 278 & 279

Time	Activities
9:00 - 9:30 am	Coffee social (STEW 206) Poster setup (STEW 214)
9:30 – 10:00 am	Lightning talks (STEW 206) Distributional shifts of regional forest communities in the eastern U.S., Jonathan Knott Visualizing Religious Sites in China with ArcGIS, Guojun Han Using GIS to Plan UAS Missions, Alan Pecor
10:00 – 11:00 am	Keynote speaker: Dr. Carly Sakumura, Research and Development Scientist at Maxar Technologies Seeing a Better World from Space (STEW 206)
11:00am–12:15pm	Research Presentations (STEW 206) US Census Bureau: How the National Processing Center (NPC) Supports the 2020 Census. Ted Roesner, U.S. Census Bureau Quantifying Four Decades of Arid-Region Agricultural Development in Arequipa, Peru using Landsat Dr. Zachary Brecheisen,Agronomy The Value of Open GIS in Higher Education Dr. Christina Hupy, GitLab GeoEDF: An Extensible Geospatial Data Framework Towards FAIR Science Dr. Rajesh Kalyanam, ITaP Research Computing The IGIC Mentorship Program Kari Hicks,Duke Energy/IGIC
12:20 – 1:30 pm	Career Lunch (STEW 278/279) RSVP required Opening Remarks: Beth McNeil, Ph.D., Dean of Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies and Esther Ellis Norton Professor of Library Science Featured panelists include: Karen Arnold, GIS Specialist, Deckard Engineering & Surveying, P.C. Clair Bammann, Graduate Development Program Engineer, INDOT Kari Hicks, Sr. Data Analyst, Duke Energy Joe Mallory, Senior Scoping Engineer, INDOT Hamunyari Anxious Farukayi, Operations Analyst, INDOT Vanessa McCauley, Crawfordsville Pavement Asset Engineer Ted Roesner, Indiana Census Paul Turner-Smith, Chair, IGIC Education Committee Christina Hupy, Senior Education Program Manager, GitLab Chris Knochel, Newton County Surveyor
1:30 – 2:30 pm	Research Presentation (STEW 279) YouthMappers @ Purdue Prof. Peter Hirst, Horticulture & Landscape Architecture LIDAR Mapping of Dana Island, Turkey 2019 Prof. Nicholas K. Rauh, School of Languages and Cultures OPMAPS - A New Method for Mapping and Analyzing Military History Sadiq Ahmed A Albinalshaikh, Zhan Gao and Prof. Sorin Matei, College of Liberal Arts Growth, Sprawl, and the Contradictions of Capitalism: San Diego Suburbs and the Speculative Frenzy Prof. Richard Hogan, College of Liberal Arts
2:30 – 4pm	Round-Table Discussions/Poster Presentation (STEW 214) MyGeoHub and Geospatial Resources@ITaP The Purdue Libraries and School of Information: Mobile Making Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) projects showcase ArcGIS Online by Purdue Physical Facilities Indiana Census Indiana Geographic Information Council (IGIC) Youth Mapper Newton County: Reporting Regulated Drain Damage
3 – 4 pm	Workshop: Create Story Maps to Share Your Research Topics and Ideas with the World (STEW 279) Dr. Joseph Hupy, Assoc. Professor at School of Aviation and Forestry & Natural Resources
4 – 4:30 pm	Award (STEW 214)

* Student Poster Competition Guidelines and Rules

Who Can Enter
Purdue undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled at Purdue University (West Lafayette campus) are eligible to enter the contest. Students need to have a valid Purdue ID.
Prizes
The monetary award (first prize = $100; second prize = $75; and third prize = $50) will be given to an individual, or divided evenly among the group if the submission is a team project. All monetary awards will run through the division of financial aid and post to any outstanding balance first before payment is made to any winner. Please note International students will need to fill out GLACIER and payment will process the same way and in accordance with any VISA requirements.

The GIS Day Conference is co-sponsored by the Purdue by the Purdue College of Agriculture, Discovery Park, College of Education, College of Engineering, Honors College, College of Liberal Arts, Libraries and School of Information Studies, Krannert School of Management, Polytechnic Institute, Office of the Provost, College of Science, and College of Veterinary Medicine.