S4 Institute » Agenda

Spatial Structures for the Social Sciences (S4) will be hosting a GIS Training Institute for Brown PhD students in January, 2009.

Acquire the Skills, and Learn the Tools, for Managing Spatial Data, Conducting Geographic Analysis, and Communicating Spatial Patterns.

Attendance is free and all graduate student participants are invited to become S4 Fellows; once registered all participants must complete the two week Institute and submit a research report for publication on the S4 website.

AGENDA

DATES: January 5th -- January 16th

This two week institute will immerse students in Geographic Information Systems as well as help each participant integrate spatial data and GIS software into his or her ongoing graduate research.

Expertise from across the university will be brought together to provide training and background in GIS and related tools and techniques; some of the topics that will be covered include:

• The Essential Elements of Geographic Information Systems
• Asking Spatial and Geographic Questions
• Accessing, Managing, Using, and Analyzing Spatial Data
• Sources of Spatial Data
• Spatial Analysis: An Introduction
• GPS: Recording the World, One Place at a Time (Creating Spatial Data)
• Mapping Data:
  • The Art and Science of Cartography Communication
  • Statistical Mapping
• Discipline Specific: Demography, Ecology, Social Cohesion/Capital, Community Health, Epidemiology
• Web-based GIS

Core Instructors

• John Logan: Spatial Analysis, Demography, Research with Spatial/Geography themes
• Seth Spielman: GIS, Spatial Analysis
• Crystal Linkletter: Spatial Analysis, Spatial Statistics
• Youshe Li: Web-based GIS, Geocoding,  Georeferencing and Digitizing
• Thomas Stieve: ArcGIS training
• Lynn Carlson: DEM and Field data

Locations: Rockefeller Library (Hecker Training Center), PSTC (Seminar Room and computer lab) SSRL (Maxcy Hall), CIT (tentatively), EarthLab