Geography Awareness Week

STELLA Spectrometer Showcase
Host: Heather Murillo

Come learn about the STELLA spectrometer - a NASA-developed, low-cost remote sensing instrument - and how you can build your own unit to measure light reflectance off different surfaces.  Then become a part of NASA’s citizen science efforts to learn more about environmental change through remote sensing.

Join us for our fall mapathon and celebrate the 10th anniversary of YouthMappers! We'll be competing against mappers from University of Maryland to see who can map the most features in Humanitarian Open Street Maps. We will demonstrate how to annotate satellite imagery, so don't feel intimidated if you've never mapped before. Come enjoy free food and get to know fellow mappers!

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Discuss GIS-focused careers with industry leaders. Sponsored by the Career Development Center.
Nicholas Cramer, alum, GIS Technician, Polk County;
Tyler Cooper-Kolb, alum, GIS Technician, Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD);
Jillian Pihulak, alum, GIS Analyst, PBS Engineering and Environmental;
Jennifer Kirkland, alum, GIS & UAS Specialist, South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve;
Trace Eaton, alum, GIS Technician, Remote Sensing Technician, NV5

Watch the GIS Career Panel recorded video.

Explore animations of numerous natural global systems and events, such as the ENSO and tsunamis; as well as human influences on our global systems through the mesmerizing OmniGlobe - a 32” spherical projection system. Two students will demonstrate how the Omniglobe simulates Earth geological, atmospheric, and other Earth (and non-Earth) processes.

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Join your Geospatial buddies and showoff your StoryMap or other maps! Each person will be allowed five minutes to share the juiciest bits of a StoryMap or Geovisualization effort you’ve been involved with, followed by time for mingling. Email Matthew Goslin to learn more, and sign up on the 2025 GIS DAY StoryMap / GeoViz Sign-up sheet

Zoom link for this map-sharing event

Information session on selecting a platform for your GIS portfolio with examples of each. Alec Ramirez will provide a demonstration of his GitHub site and provide advice on how you can develop one of your own.

Watch the GIS Portfolio recorded video.

This is an opportunity to meet with them in a casual setting to learn from their experiences.  There will be pizza!
Please RSVP

Title: International and local perspectives on water and food: How geography shaped the professional trajectories an accountant and an economist. 
Speakers: Mark and Meredith Giordano, Ph. D. '02

Watch the 2025 Marston Lecture recorded video.