Mia Poynor - I recently started a one-year internship with the Federal Geographic Committee (FGDC), and I found out about this internship on the Virtual Student Federal Service (VSFS) website. The VSFS website offers hundreds of online, government affiliated internships for students exploring careers in the government. Having GIS as one of my skills helped…
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World-Class Honors: SSI’s Carrie Steves takes UNIGIS International 2018 Academic Excellence Prize
The UNIGIS International Association (UIA) has announced that Carrie Steves (M.S. GIST ’17) is the winner of its 2018 Academic Excellence Prize for her thesis “Trends in the Alaskan Bottom-Trawl Fishery from 1993 – 2015: A GIS-based Spatiotemporal Analysis.” The Prize, initiated in 2008, recognizes the best master of science thesis or paper during the…
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Esri’s CMO to speak on GeoHealth Location Intelligence
Esri Chief Medical Officer Este Geraghty, MD, MS, MPH, GISP, will give the Ph.D. in Ph.D. in Population, Health and Place Colloquium address on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 3:30 – 4:30 pm, in the Hedco Neurosciences Building Auditorium (HNB 100). In her address “Gaps or Overlaps? Applying Location Intelligence for Better Decisions,” Dr. Geraghty will…
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Welcoming Dr. Chris Verlinden to the faculty
The USC Spatial Sciences Institute welcomes LCDR [R] Christopher Verlinden, Ph.D., to its faculty as of the Spring 2019 semester. During his 14-year career with the United States Coast Guard, Dr. Verlinden developed expertise in geospatial information systems, remote sensing, environmental response planning, and ocean acoustics, including novel sonar techniques and methods. He was first…
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