Please help us celebrate
Geography Awareness Week and
International GIS Day 2014
November 19th, 6-8pm
Science on a Sphere 6-6:30pm
Presentations 6:40 - 7:40
Celebratory Cake/Networking 7:40 - 8pm
GANS invites you to come celebrate Geography Awareness Week /GIS Day 2014 with a series of presentations and celebratory cake at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History (1747 Summer Street, Halifax).
This is a free event but we would like you to Register for this event ahead of time. The registration Code Is GISDAY2014
Presenters:
Chris Turner (Bio)
Title: Everyone likes Sausage, but no one wants to know how it’s Made
delivering a presentation aimed to help students be successful in the Nova Scotia job market. This presentation will talk a bit to the growth of SEG as well as how students can develop their own entrepreneurial endeavors and be successful upon graduation.
Jeff McKenna (Bio)
Title: The Open Geospatial Community
Jeff operates a local geo business, Gateway Geomatics, and is also an internationally regarded leader in Open Source geo, as the current President of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
Shiju Mathew B Sc, Dip. Cartography, GISP (Bio)
Title: Stormwater Billing – Impervious Area Connecting GIS and Finance.
Shiju gave this presentation at the International ESRI User Conference in California - summer 2014.
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