7th Annual

GIS Day @ KU

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
5th Floor - Kansas Union

GIS Day @ KU is part of a nationwide event to promote awareness of geographic information systems (GIS), and how we use this evolving tool to analyze our world. We continue our tradition of bringing together a community of GIS users from academia, business and government. Check out KSNT's coverage of last year's event at: http://www.ksnt.com/news/local/11321556.html

The 2008 symposium will also include an information fair with vendors from academia and local business that will run throughout the day. As always, GIS Day @ KU is FREE and open to the public. Please register so we can plan for ample refreshments and provide pre-printed name tags.

– Free and Open to the Public –

All presentations will be in Woodruff Auditorium on the 5th Floor Kansas Union. Refreshments, along with the Information Fair, will be in the Big 12 room also on the 5th Floor of the Kansas Union.
The agenda is still a work in progress. Please check back for a final schedule of events and speakers.
8:30 – 9:00	Registration and Coffee
9:00 – 9:15		Opening Remarks Joshua Campbell - GIS Day Planning Committee, KU Dept. of Geography View Presentation:    Realplayer     Flash
9:15 – 9:55		Steve Lime Minnesota Department of Natural of Resources and Lead Developer, MapServer View Presentation:    Realplayer     Flash Link of Interest: Getting Started with MapServer FOSS4G workshop presented by Jeff McKenna and Tyler Mitchell
10:00 – 10:40		New Developments in GIS in Water Resources David R. Maidment Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair in Civil Engineering and Director of the Center for Research in Water Resources at the University of Texas at Austin View Presentation:    Realplayer      Flash
10:40 – 11:15		Break with Information and Job Fair Participants
11:15 – 12:00		Open Source as a Disruptive Technology Paul Ramsey Principal, Clever Elephant Solutions http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/ View Presentation:    Realplayer      PDF Links of Interest: A Survey of Open Source GIS Introduction to PostGIS FOSS4G presentation and workshop by Paul Ramsey
12:00 – 1:15	Lunch at the Kansas Union (on your own)
1:15 – 2:30	Student Research Presentation Competition (8 - 8 minute talks)
2:30 – 3:15		Break with Information and Job Fair Participants
3:15 – 3:55		From Temporal GIS to Dynamics GIS May Yuan Director of the Center for Spatial Analysis and Associate Dean and Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor in the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma View Presentation:    Flash
4:00 – 4:30		Preserving and Geospatially Enabling Historical Data of the Missouri River Scott Bowman Western Air Maps, Inc. View Presentation:    Realplayer      Flash
4:30 – 5:00	Concluding Remarks and Award Presentation

• KU Department of Geography
• KU Institute for Policy & Social Research

• State of Kansas Data Access and Support Center (DASC)
• KU Libraries GIS and Scholar Services
• KU Transportation Research Institute
• Wilson & Company (formerly Western Air Maps)

• Bartlett & West
• KU Biodiversity Institute
• KansasView Consortium

• Coca-Cola
• Kansas Biological Survey/Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS)
• KU Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
• KU Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
• Black & Veatch
• Spatial Data Research
• AECOM
• MJ Harden