IMAGE OF THE WEEK
SWIG steps out for safety
Members of Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG) participate in the annual Steps to Safety 5k benefiting the Centre County Women’s Resource Center (CCWRC) held October 6, 2014. October is national Domestic Violence Awareness month. Like SWIG on Facebook.
GOOD NEWS
USGIF presented scholarships to 22 students as part of its Scholarship Program. Three Penn State geographers received awards: Undergrad, Everleigh Stokes; MGIS, Nouman Hussain; MPS/HLS-GEOINT, Seth LeMaster.
Mark Coletti competed with his bagpipe band, MacMillan-Birtles Pipe Band, on September 27 at the Celtic Classic in Bethlehem, Pa. It was the first time he had competed with the band after a two-year hiatus courtesy of grad school. They placed third in a very competitive field.
NEWS
October 17 Coffee Hour: Graduate Students Lightening Talks
Josh Stevens, Sasha Savelyev, Emma Gaalaas Mullaney, David Retchless, Jase Bernhardt, Doug Baldwin, Jennifer Titanski-Hooper, and Dana Cuomo will speak about their research and observations during fieldwork and teaching.
- 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
- Refreshments are offered in 319 Walker Building at 3:30 p.m.
- The lecture begins in 112 Walker Building at 4:00 p.m.
- Coffee Hour To Go
Next Week: October 24 Armen Kemanian “The Soil Carbon Balance, Nitrous Oxide Emissions, and Biofuels”
Petra Tschakert quoted in article about Diane Ackerman book, The Human Age
Petra Tschakert, a geography professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has spent years in northeast India, researching the riverside villages in the Himalayan foothills where deforestation has lead to worsening monsoon floods. Tschakert found two better-off, politically-connected communities that were able to build partial embankments to protect themselves. In another community, of recent migrants of a different ethnicity and no political pull, floods are continual.s
“Any effort to reduce negative impacts of climate change that are rooted exclusively in economic or technical solutions will not be successful, or will be highly unfair, because they do not tackle these underlying inequalities, and do not build capacities among those who are most affected,” says Tschakert.
Meet Esri interns via a story map
An interactive story map was the perfect way to introduce this summer’s interns. We broke a record this year by hiring 105 interns to work at our headquarters in Redlands, California, and in several regional offices. The students’ backgrounds were just as diverse as the schools they attend.
Can you see yourself as an Esri intern? The first step is to learn about available internships, then apply online. Maybe your story will be on the map next year!
Recently (or soon to be) Published
By Christoph Kinkeldey, Alan M. MacEachren, Jochen Schiewe
In The Cartographic Journal
For decades, uncertainty visualisation has attracted attention in disciplines such as cartography and geographic visualisation, scientific visualisation and information visualisation. Most of this research deals with the development of new approaches to depict uncertainty visually; only a small part is concerned with empirical evaluation of such techniques. This systematic review aims to summarize past user studies and describe their characteristics and findings, focusing on the field of geographic visualisation and cartography and thus on displays containing geospatial uncertainty. From a discussion of the main findings, we derive lessons learned and recommendations for future evaluation in the field of uncertainty visualisation. We highlight the importance of user tasks for successful solutions and recommend moving towards task-centered typologies to support systematic evaluation in the field of uncertainty visualisation.