The UNIGIS network of post-graduate GIS education programs, of which the Spatial Sciences Institute is a member, introduces its international online education opportunities via a new video. The 11 minute introduction features researchers, educators, and students from UNIGIS locations around the globe. As part of the UNIGIS network, the USC GIST program provides access to…
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Recent Posts by Amy Kramer
SSI to Host Vespucci Institute on Population, Health, and Place
Each summer since 2003, diverse groups of scholars have gathered in Italy and Spain to explore the frontiers of the spatial revolution — how modern computational tools and concepts applied to a georeferenced 3D environment can address difficult social problems. The topics of these meetings have later emerged in our everyday lives: volunteered geographic information…
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National Renewal Energy Lab
One of my colleagues, Karen Kemp, sent me this link to an amazingly large and diverse group of GIS staff working for the National Renewable Energy Lab. It’s a very interesting list of GIS-related positions, education, and interests. For more details, check out http://www.nrel.gov/gis/staff.html.
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Carbon Footprint Labels Inaccurate, USC Study Finds
[small]By Eddie North-Hager[/small] [clear] The current methods used to measure the carbon footprint of many consumer products fall short of assessing their true environmental impact, according to two studies from Robert Vos of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute. Carbon labels — which aim to quantify the climate change impacts of a particular item — now appear…
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