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November 2007 - Posts

Teacher Recognized for Incorporating GIS in the Classroom

Kathleen Galau teaches middle school at Floyd Dryden MS in Juneau, Alaska . This month, she was honored as a Featured Teacher by WIRED Science Education for using GIS as part of her curriculum. Recently, she took her students into the field to track a Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:40 AM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments
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GIS Helps Resource Managers Swim through a Sea of Legislation

Ocean and coastal management is a complex and multi-layered system of laws, organizations, and strategies. Authorities are fragmented among a variety of federal, state, and local agencies which can result in redundant efforts, inefficiency, and confusion. Read More...
Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 11:21 AM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments
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GIS Day Events in the News

GIS Day 2007 marked the ninth annual GIS Day celebration. Participants from more than 80 countries joined the global celebration of educating the world about GIS technology, highlighting why geography matters to all of us. Read how GIS Day participants Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:17 PM by GIS-Day-Team | 0 Comments
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Geography Awareness Week Update

Bring Asia to life in the classroom. Take a virtual journey to Asia and see how GIS technology opens doors of understanding to the vast and complicated Asian continent by watching Layers of Asia - A GIS Journey Through Our World . Visit India to see how Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:04 AM by GIS-Day-Team | 0 Comments
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International GIS Day Celebration Nepal 2007

It is our pleasure to inform you that the celebration of Internatonal GIS Day 2007 has been sucessfully attempted. There were seminar, GIS exhibition for students, Arc GIS Training for Beginners for one week and so many other activities like pamphleting, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:40 AM by GIS-Day-Team | 0 Comments
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Happy GIS Day 2007!

On behalf of the GIS Day Committee, ESRI, and the GIS Day sponsors , we thank you for your continued support and dedication to the mission of GIS Day. The hundreds of events being held all over the world will most definitely further our goal of spreading Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 7:00 AM by GIS-Day-Team | 0 Comments
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Welcome to Geography Awareness Week 2007

Since 1888, National Geographic has worked to build and spread geographic knowledge. Geography Awareness Week began in 1987 as celebration of the importance of geography in our lives. This year, the focus is Asia . The My Wonderful World team will launch Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:19 AM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments
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GIS Day Art for Halloween

The Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science (SIAST) (Woodland Campus, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan) GIS class carved a beautiful pumpkin on October 31 as a class project to tie in with GIS Day 2007. The outlines for the land formations were drawn freehand Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:48 PM by GIS-Day-Team | 0 Comments
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World Development Report Recognizes GIS as a Tool to Aid Agriculture and Economic Development

How has agriculture changed in the past two decades? What are the important new challenges and opportunities for agriculture? How can agriculture be made more effective for poverty reduction? According to the 2008 World Development Report (WDR), these Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:50 AM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments
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In the Middle of a Firestorm – Literally ... The Southern California Fires, and Support from ESRI

Joe Francica, Editor-in-Chief and Vice Publisher, Directions Magazine, writes about the role ESRI's GIS technology played in supporting firefighting efforts. Russ Johnson, the public safety industry manager for ESRI and a former 30-year member of the Read More...
Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 2:26 PM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments
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