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January 2010: Dr Ian Greatbatch rows for charity
a name="irrnli"img src="images/ian_rnli.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="200"Dr Ian Greatbatch appeared as his alter ego, an RNLI crew member from the Chiswick lifeboat, on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th January at the Bentall Centre in Kingston upon Thames. The crews of the Chiswick and Teddington lifeboats rowed the equivalent of the length of the River Thames (215 miles) on Concept Tow rowing machines in the shopping centre for the 2010 RNLI SOS appeal day. They completed the row in just over 13 hours. Centre for GIS helped provide a range of maps for the event to show the teams progress along the 'river' (shown left with Ian). If you feel so inclined, to make a donation, visit their web site a href="http://www.justgiving.co.uk/ChiswickRNLISOSday2010"here/a.

January 2010: Kingston Centre for GIS supporting Cities Revealed event
a name="cr2010"GeoInformation Group, long-time collaborators with us at the Centre for GIS, are holding their annual Cities Revealed event in Cambridge in January. We're proud to be supporting the event which aims to explore geospatial innovation and has contributions from leading geospatial figures such as David Rhind and Ed Parsons. The event will provide a mix of keynotes, insights into products and data and practical workshops. Our own Prof. Nigel Walford will be delivering a workshop on geodemographics. Check out the details a href="http://www.citiesrevealed.com/events/crevent10/"here/a.

January 2010: Graduation success
a name="grad2010"img src="images/bee.gif" style="margin-left: 7px;" align="right" width="200"Congratulations to all our MSc graduates who received their awards at the January ceremony. It was good to see so many attend to take their awards and to congratulate our honorary award winner Ed Parsons. brbr Pictured is MSc Applied GIS graduate Bethel Smith (being congratulated by Dr Kenneth Field and Dr James O'Brien). Bee graduated with distinction and was also the recipient of the 2009 postgraduate award for the best dissertation for her work on analysing the impact of conservation policies on water vole habitats. Bee receives a monetary award and also the Ordnance Survey trophy which she is pictured with. many congratulations to Bee and all her fellow graduates!

January 2010: Congratulations...Dr Ed Parsons
a name="ed"img src="images/parsons1.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="150"Ed Parsons, former Kingston University Geography graduate and Senior Lecturer in GIS, is awarded an honorary doctorate on Friday 22nd at the postgraduate graduation awards ceremony. brbr Ed is the Geospatial Technologist for Google and has previously held key positions with Ordnance Survey (first Chief Technology Officer and youngest Director in its 200yr history) and Autodesk (EMEA applications manager for the GIS division). Prior to this, he was one of the original members of staff that helped establish Kingston's undergraduate degree programme. The award is in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the geospatial industry and the continued links he maintains with his former University. brbr The current GIS team are delighted that Ed's award marks not only his continued personal achievements in the geospatial industry but is a fitting celebration of 20 years of GIS education at Kingston. It also recognises the role that GIS and geospatial data plays in our society of which Ed is a key player. His work in previous posts and now with Google demonstrates an innovative, cutting-edge approach which has gone a long way to shaping the industry, not least in his support of current changes that are set to free up Ordnance Survey data. His enthusiasm in demonstrating and encouraging people to think geographically is exemplarary and he maintains one of the most widely read a href="http://www.edparsons.com"blogs/a in the geospatial industry. brbr Many congratulations Ed!

January 2010: Publications on the horizon
a name="pubs"Dr Kenneth Field's award winning 'geo-genealogy of Irish surnames' map (co-authored with Dr Linda Beale, Imperial College london) has been selected for inclusion in the 2010 ESRI Map Book. The Map Book is an annual publication that celebrates high quality cartography developed using ESRI products. It will be published in July to coincide with the conference. brbr Also at the ESRI User Conference in July, Dr Field and Dr James O'Brien have had a paper entitled 'Cartoblography: organising and visualising the spatial representation of micro-blogging' accepted for the GIScience track. The paper appear in a Special Issue of iTransactions in GIS/i to coincide with the conference.

December 2009: ESRI's ArcNews leads with history of Kingston's Centre for GIS
a name="arcnews" img src="images/arcnews.gif" align=rightAs part of the 20th Anniversay celebrations of our undergraduate GIS degree course, current GIS Course Director Dr Kenneth Field has written an article on the history of GIS at Kingston University. Written in close collaboration with past and current colleagues, the article is published in the Winter 2009 edition of ESRI's ArcNews magazine. brbr ArcNews is published quarterly and is designed for the ESRI User Community to share knowledge, understanding, news and ideas to those in business, planning, forestry, science, cartography, academia, geography and for anyone who uses spatial information . We are delighted that ESRI have published the Kingston article as the lead piece in the magazine which has a print distribution of 800,000 worldwide as well as being online. a href="http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews"Click here to read the online version of the article/a. An accompanying article that chronicles the various people, technological changes and awards a href="images/changing_faces.pdf"can also be read here/a. brbr We'd like to thank ESRI President Jack Dangermond for inviting us to write an article for ArcNews and extend our thanks to ArcNews Editor Tom Miller for all his help and encouragement in getting the article to print. We hope it provides people with a taste of the 'world leading' GIS education that we've developed over the last 20 years at Kingston University.

December 2009: Happy Christmas from Centre for GIS
a name="crimble_09"Centre for GIS wishes all students, alumni, colleagues and friends in the GI industry worldwide a very Merry Christmas. We are looking forward to 2010 which kicks off with the postgraduate graduation ceremony (Jan 22nd) and a very special honorary graduate - keep your eyes on this site for details of who will receive an honorary doctorate. Clue - it's a well-known geospatial person! brbr Other 2010 activities to note briefly: Dr Kenneth Field will be on sabbatical for the first half of the year with Dr James O'Brien taking on Course Directorship duties. We are planning on a 20th Anniversay alumni event at some stage and will be contacting alumni in the new year to explore possible dates. We will also be re-designing our web site and updatng the course pages in the new year. brbr Happy Christmas!

December 2009: Compensated Pass hit the highs again
a name="CP_2009"img src="images/CP_2009.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="280"The GIS staff-student GIS 5-a-side football team, Compensated Pass have finished the Autumn Semester's intra-mural competition in fine style. Defending their title from the last academic year, and after losing 3 key players to graduation success, the Pass welcomed Jordan Jackson and Peter Slater (GIS Year 1), Fernando Moriera (GIS Year 2) and Joe Coulson (GIS Year 3) into the squad. brbr After a 12 game league, the Pass finished 2nd and entered Finals night with confidence. They won their semi-final convincingly and met the league winners in a 'winner-takes-it-all' final. Unfortunately, the GIS boys lost 4:3 despite a tremendous performance but form bodes well for the Spring Semester competition. brbr The 2009/10 squad are from left to right (back row) Michael Graves, Harry Tull, Jordan Jackson, Peter Slater, Fred Fabbri, James O'Brien (front row) Ken Field, Joe Coulson, Fernando Moriera

November 2009: BBC and Google collaborations
a name="tern"Dr Kenneth Field is involved in two new ventures that draw upon Centre for GIS reputation as GI experts. Ken is a consultant on a forthcoming BBC TV series exploring the relationship between art and cartography. He is also involved with colleagues at Google to develop training materials for Google Map Maker to support educational uses of the tool, particularly in developing countries.

November 2009: Centre for GIS become ESRI beta testers
a name="beta"On top of Kingston's ESRI Development Center status, we've been accepted to become ESRI beta testers. We have already received beta copies of ArcGIS v9.4 which we are testing. This not only contributes to developing the software with colleagues at ESRI, but enables us to be ahead in terms of preparing changes to course materials so we can roll-out the new version as soon as it is released in 2010. This gives our students a significant advantage!

November 2009: ICC conference, Santiago Chile
a name="santiago"Dr Kenneth Field attended the international Cartographic Association's conference in Santiago, Chile where he presented an invited session on publishing for young scientists. ICC2009 was a large conference with 1000 attendees and was notable for a scheduled keynote by CEO and DG of Ordnance Survey (and Fellow of Kingston University) Vanessa Lawrence CB. Notable due to the massive bombshell dropped by PM Gordon Brown concerning Ordnance Survey data freedom policies which necessitated a modified keynote. brbr The international map exhibition and Barbara Petchenik children's map competition were notable successes and the range of cartographic, GIS and Geospatial research is good to see.

November 2009: Undergraduate degree ceremony success
a name="ug_degree"img src="images/pete_award.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="120"Early November saw a day of celebration for our GIS undergraduates as we honoured their success at the 2009 graduation ceremony. In addition to their degree awards, Peter Buchanan (pictured) and Pavel Sharma carried off a range of awards for their various successes. Congratulations to all our graduates. brbr Update: most of our GIS graduates have already found good positions with a range of companies in the GI Industry proving that geotechnology is a growth industry despite the global recession. We are particularly pleased to note Pavel Sharma's acceptance on an MSc programme at University College London and Fred Fabbri's appointment as a research assistant at Imperial College London.

October 2009: BCS Better Mapping
a name="BCS_bettermapping"Dr Kenneth Field was a keynote speaker at the annual British Cartographic Society Better Mapping series. The four day series travelled from Bristol, to Glasgow, Birmingham and to London and presented to over 100 people. The series is designed to encourage map makers and GIS users to engage with cartography and to ensure their work communicates their analysis and results effectively.

October 2009: Isle of Wight
a name="IoW"First year GIS students had an opportunity to see GIS research fist-hand on their recent fieldtrip to the Isle of Wight. Drs Kenneth Field and James O'Brien were on Isle of Wight testing a range of mobile GIS technologies as part of a SPLINT CETL project. They were joined by new MRes student Howard Macey who used the trip to gain experience in using our GPS1200 RTKGPS and our Leica ScanStation 2.

September 2009: New GIS students arrive
a name="new_students"img src="images/new_students.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="200"The new academic year has started brightly at Kingston's Centre for GIS with no fewer than 52 new GIS students joining us across our BSc and two MSc courses. Welcome to each and every one; we're looking forward to working with you over the coming years as GIS continues to become a fundamental part of everyday life...and a GIS qualification becomes ever more valuable. brbr As is becomming a tradition, induction week for our undergraduates was rounded off with a geocache exercise in Kingston. This introduced the use of GPS technology for navigation, the issues of data quality and location as well as introducing students to their local environment and developing observatory and interpretative skills. We use txtools as part of our mobile learning environment which means we can communicate with students from our SMS console; responding to queries, receiving geocache 'finds' and sending extra locations and navigable points to orient to. brbr The afternoon ends with a final 'find' at a local pub where the Course Director dips into his wallet to buy the new students a well deserved drink. With increasing numbers of students this is becomming more expensive every year! The evening social event kicked off with a short discussion on route choice, the realisation that a shortest path algorithm would have reduced their walk by several miles and that they could have calculated the answers using Google Earth and zero leg-work!

September 2009: Graduate success
a name="grad_graham"Graham Glanfield, a GIS graduate (1st class) from 2009, recently presented results from his dissertation research at the Remote Sensing Society's Annual Meeting, an international conference targeted at all aspects of remote sensing. His work, entitled 'Assessment of automated and semi-automated methods of coastline extraction' looked at methods of generating vector coastline data from a variety of widely available satellite imagery and received a great deal of interest from conference participants. A 2000 extended abstract was also accepted for publication in the proceedings of the conference.

September 2009: More awards for Kingston GIS staff
a name="james_award"In a summer that has already seen Dr Kenneth Field pick up three awards, Dr James O'Brien has recently received a prestigious award as part of the team that delivers the Penn State GIS Masters and Certificate Program. brbr The online Professional Masters Degree in Geographic Information Systems at Pennsylvania State University, which is offered through their World Campus, has been selected to be the recipient of the 2009 Sloan-C Award for the Most Outstanding Online Teaching Learning Program. The citation on the award will read: 'For creating and sustaining the foremost online graduate program for current and aspiring geospatial professionals.' I'm sure Kingston might have one or two quibbles about the use of the word 'foremost' but, in all seriousness, we'd like to extend our warmest congratulations to James and our friends David DiBiase and his colleagues at Penn. Well done from the GIS team at Kingston!

September 2009: James' new book published
a name="health"img src="images/JOB_book.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="100"Dr James O'Brien has a new book published by Cambridge University Press. Entitled 'Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable planet', along with co-editors Brent Yarnal (Penn State) and Colin Polisky (Clark University), James reports the results of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO). Further details of the book can be found a href="http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521895699"here/a brbr The goal of the HERO project was to develop the infrastructure necessary to monitor and understand the local dimensions of global change. This book presents the philosophy behind HERO, the methods used to put that philosophy into action, its results, and the lessons learned from the project. Congratulations on the publication James!

September 2009: GIS makes the health and fitness brochure!
a name="health"img src="images/CP_winners_2.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="150"In one of the more bizarre places that GIS crops up in the University, the GIS staff-student 5-a-side football team, Compensated Pass, are large as life in the new university Health and Fitness brochure. Courtesy of winning last year's intra-mural competition, check out the photo (and the new health and fitness opportunities) a href="http://tinyurl.com/ycl4zdr"here/a brbr With the new season about to start, graduate Italian maestro Fred Fabbri has agreed to play in the coming season and we're joined by two new first year students Jordan Jackson and Peter Slater who replace the outgoing graduates Pavel Sharma and Dave Lampshire.

September 2009: Centre for GIS at AGI GeoCommunity
a name="agi_geo09"img src="images/AGI_fancy_dress.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="250"Drs Kenneth Field, Mike Smith and James O'Brien were on hand at the AGI GeoCommunity 09 event in Stratford-upon-Avon delivering their annual technical workshops on a wide range of topics. Ken's session on 'taking the fear out of spatial statistics' set the tone with standing room only in the packed workshop room. We delivered 8 sessions across the two days and received some great feedback. We're delighted to maintain our relationship with AGI and it really was a terrific conference. For those that weren't there, you missed a great event and you should make a note to look at attending in 2010. brbr A new initiative this year saw a soapbox style set of presentations that required delegates to speak for 5 minutes on a subject of their choice (a georant!) with an automated set of slides - 5 minutes, 15 slides. Have a look at the georant by a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5IcyFFA1zg"Ian Paintera/ of Snowflake software: funny, pithy and entertaining. Great idea as well - we'll be using timed, automated presentations this year in the GIS course. brbr The picture is of Drs Kenneth Field and James O'Brien at the 'black and white' fancy dress conference party. In geogeek style, they went as license agreements: Ordnance Survey and Creative Commons...the Evil Empire and Rebel Alliance to continue Ian Painter's analogy! In the meantime you can check out the presentations on the a href="http://www.geocommunitylive.com/"GeoCommunityLive bloga/

September 2009: EDC plaque arrives
a name="edc_plaque"img src="images/pete_edc.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="250"Our ESRI Development Center plaque arrived recently and we wasted no time getting it engraved with our inaugural 'Outstanding Student of the Year', Pete Buchanan (GIS 1st Class Hons 2009). Pete is pictured here alongside the plaque which will take 25 years to fill...plenty of space for GIS students to aspire to the same levels of excellence Pete displayed during his course. Congratulations Pete!

August 2009: KU GIS in the news
a name="GIS_inthenews"August is renowned as a slow news month in the media, so what better time than to get an article about KU GIS out! In fact, news of our terrestrial laser scanner acquisition seems to have suddenly become big news. It's not only highlighted on Kingston's own Staffspace web site but has made the Kingston Guardian and Surrey Comet where it's the 6th most read article over the weekend of 15/16th August. Check it out a href="http://tinyurl.com/pql6qr"here/a (but don't blame us for the journalism - we didn't write it!) Last year's winning Compensated Pass team photo is also emblazoned across Kingston's new 2009/10 Sport and recreation leaflet!

August 2009: There has never been a better time to study a GIS degree
a name="study_GIS"GIS is a rapidly developing discipline with graduates in demand from a wide range of companies, organisations, government and NGOs (see this latest report in a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/getting-job/how-to-map-out-a-new-role-for-yourself-as-a-cartographer-1764347.html"The Independent/a). If you enjoy geography, like Google Earth and want to learn how you can create high quality, interactive mapping applications, investigate patterns of crime or use satellite images to explore environmental themes such as deforestation or global warming then consider a GIS degree! brbr For all those A-level students anxiously waiting for their results, don't despair if you don?t quite get what you were expecting (hoping?) for. There are still spaces available on the 2009 GIS course at Kingston University for anyone interested in geography, maps and the use of computers, mobile phones and the internet for viewing, analysing and delivering geography to the world. brbr GIS has been referred to as 'geography on steroids' - and whilst condoning such an analogy is beyond our remit what we can assure you of is a cutting-edge degree that puts you right at the forefront of a revival in the geographical sciences. We have a lot of state-of-the-art equipment (like 3d laser scanners as seen on CSI) and we get to grips with creating GIS in wide variety of interesting ways. We work hard and play hard; GIS staff are all highly regarded international scholars; staff and students are regular award winners; we ensure students get terrific value and enjoy working in the GIS lab and on fieldwork and even our 5-a-side football team won Kingston University's intra-mural competition last year! brbr Come and join us and let us help you on the road to a rewarding career in the GI Industry. Check out the rest of our web site for further details (the course vacancy hotline will be on our main page when Clearing starts) or feel free to contact any one of the staff via email for a discussion.

August 2009: Kingston GIS Summer School
a name="summer_school"The third annual GIS Summer School is taking place week beginning 24th August. This year, it's being supported by AGI who are handling all the bookings. The 5 day course can be taken as a whole or attendees can join us for individual, themed, days if they prefer. Check out the details on the AGI web-site a href="http://www.agi.org.uk/pooled/articles/BF_EVENTART/view.asp?Q=BF_EVENTART_313570"here/a and we hope to see you ? book early though as places are strictly limited!

July 2009: Congratulations Ian!
a name="congrats_Ian9"We are absolutely delighted to announce that Dr Ian Greatbatch has recently been awarded a promotion to a full-time permanent member of staff at Kingston University. Ian has been with us for 2 years in a part-time capacity (though he pretty much worked full-time as he's always quick to mention) and has been mainly responsible for delivering our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course in GIS. He has also provided cover for Dr Mike Smith who was on sabbatical for 2008/9. Ian will continue to deliver the CPD course but will also now contribute more widely to the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in GIS. Welcome to the full-time team Ian!

July 2009: Successful ESRI User Conference
a name="ESRI09"img src="images/jack_09.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="230"The 2009 ESRI User Conference in San Diego was another massive event, bringing together a wide range of over 12,000 GIS Professionals from across the world. Dr Kenneth Field represented Kingston University London and presented a paper on mobile GIS in fieldwork in the Education User Conference (as part of the MoRSE project). He also attended a meeting of EDC sites and met a number of colleagues from other Universities who have also been awarded EDC status. brbr UC is always an enjoyable week but ridiculously busy with so many user papers and technical workshops to fit in as well as the massive map gallery, meetings with colleagues from various Universities and companies and the exhibition. As always, it's a shame non-GISers don't go to the event to absorb the enthusiasm and genuine passion that attendees share for developing and implementing GIS. It's always insightful to learn what's in the pipeline from ESRI (buzzword this year is GeoDesign; plenty of interesting developments). Also bumped into 2007 GIS graduate Faisal Al-Zadjali who returned to Oman upon completing his degree at KU and is doing well working on a range of GIS projects for his company. brbr Plenty of discussions with colleagues from ESRI Inc, ESRI (UK) and ESRI Switzerland-nothing to announce just yet but watch this space for some exciting announcements for the Centre for GIS. Also managed to pick up some great geo-tat (badges/t-shirts) for students when they return after the summer. I wonder if they'll appreciate me lugging it all the way back?

July 2009: ESRI map gallery winners
a name="map_gallery9"img src="images/map_gallery_winners.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="230"Dr Kenneth Field (along with co-author Dr Linda Beale, Imperial College London), recently won not one, not two, but three awards at the 2009 ESRI User Conference for their 'Geo-genealogy of Irish surnames' map. The map (which can be viewed a href="http://events.esri.com/uc/2009/mapgallery/search/index.cfm?fa=main.mapDetailsmapID=9"here/a) won the Cartography Special Interest Group best map award, the Map Gallery Most Unique award and the People's Choice award. Competition was stiff from over 1000 entries in the annual map gallery. Ken and Linda are pictured receiving the awards from ESRI President Jack Dangermond who personally asked for a copy of the map. Smiles all round!

July 2009: Undergrad student results
a name="results_09"The GIS staff would like to congratulate our third year undergraduate students who have recently found out their results. Well done to all of you but a special mention goes to our four first class students. This is a record haul of first class results for a cohort of GIS students. Congratulations to Pete Buchanan, Fred Fabbri, Graham Glanfield and Lily Wydra. brbr As noted in a previous post, Pete also took our inaugural ESRI Development Center Student of the year award and it's pleasing to announce he also wins the Ordnance Survey prize for the most outstanding undergraduate GIS dissertation this year (to be presented at graduation). Pavel Sharma (2i) is also another GIS prize winner having won the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment's Lawrence Webb memorial award for his contribution to the spirit and community of the School. Well done everyone?and stay in touch!

June 2009: MRes and PhD studentships available at Centre for GIS
a name="studentships"The School of Geography, Geology and the Environment are currently inviting applications for MRes and PhD studentships. The Centre for GIS is advertising two excellent opportunities. brbr MRes (1 year): a href="http://www.kingston.ac.uk/ceesr/studentships/field_msc.pdf"Assessment of the accuracy of onshore and offshore digital elevation models using RTK-GPS/a brbr PhD (3 years): a href="http://www.kingston.ac.uk/ceesr/studentships/field_phd.pdf"Terrain reconstruction, visualisation and analysis of the British landings at World War I Gallipoli campaign/a brbr Both of these studentships come with a £14k annual stipend, £1k annual expenses (bench fees) and all study fees are fully paid. Further details are available by clicking the above links or by contacting Dr Kenneth Field (ken.field@kingston.ac.uk). Update: applications for these posts are closed

June 2009: Conference talks
a name="conferencetalks"Dr Kenneth Field is giving a talk on the use of GIS tools for effective mapping at the annual a href="http://www.cartography.org.uk/"British Cartographic Society/a symposium in Newport Pagnell 17-19th June. Ken is also giving an invited lecture at Kings College London a href="http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/"Institute of Psychiatry/a on 25th June on the use of GIS techniques for the analysis and visualisation of health issues.

June 2009: SPLINT Fellowship award
a name="splint"Dr Kenneth Field has been awarded a a href="http://www.le.ac.uk/gg/splint/"SPLINT/a Visiting Fellowship to work with the £3.9 million HEFCE-funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) led by the University of Leicester working in conjunction with the University of Nottingham and University College London. The focus of SPLINT is on the pedagogy of geospatial technologies; the pedagogy of taught postgraduates and the enhancement of spatial literacy in HE. brbr Ken's project will explore the pedagogic challenges of effective teaching of GIS in fieldwork. Specifically, it will seek to develop methodologies to implement new server-driven mobile GIS and to develop best practice for their implementation in fieldwork.

June 2009: Exciting new MSc plans...
a name="rnli"Drs Field, O'Brien and Greatbatch have been involved in talks with the a href="http://www.rnli.org.uk/"Royal National Lifeboat Institution/a about collaborative plans for an exciting new MSc course. Plans are at an early stage and we're not able to reveal much at the moment but suffice to say, our reputation for developing ground-breaking 'world first' GIS courses is one of the drivers for our discussions. If you are interested in GIS, hazards, search and rescue and the marine environment then watch this space!!!

June 2009: Inaugural ESRI Development Center Student of the Year
a name="EDC_pete"img src="images/pete_winner.gif" style="margin-right: 7px;" align="left" width="230"Peter Buchanan (GIS Year 3) is our inaugural ESRI Development Center Student of the Year recipient. Pete has maintained an enthusiasm for GIS throughout his degree and produced work of a consistently high quality. He was the unanimous choice of the judges (GIS staff!) to be our 2009 recipient of the ESRI sponsored award. brbr Pete receives a $500 award and the Student of the Year plaque, which hangs in the GIS lab at Kingston, will be engraved with his name. Pete also enters an international competition where two EDC winners (from the 17 international EDC sites) will receive an all expenses paid trips to the ESRI User Conference in San Diego. brbr Pete received his award at our end-of-year GIS barbecue, presented by Professor William Cartwright of RMIT Melbourne. Many congratulations Pete, and good luck with the International award.

June 2009: Professor William Cartwright joins us on sabbatical
a name="cartwright"Centre for GIS welcomes Professor William Cartwright for the summer 2009 on sabbatical leave from RMIT University Melbourne. Bill is a world-renowned academic scholar with specific interest in cartographic visualisation and multimedia representations. He is also current President of the International Cartographic Association. Bill is working with Ken and James on a range of exciting research geovisualisation projects revolving around the World War I Gallipoli landings.

June 2009: New news feed
a name="newnewsfeed"For the astute amongst you, you'll see that our news feed no longer contains much news! A technical 'issue' (i.e. we haven't a clue but have some suspicions about who is responsible) means that the news feed was deleted. It will reappear in an archived format as soon as Mike gets round to it... brbr In the meantime...here is the start of a brand new news feed!