Archive for the 'Presentations' category
The Juneau Icefield Research Program
Back in 2007 I participated in the Juneau Icefield Research Program. It is one of the world’s longest running glacier monitoring projects and has educated hundreds of undergraduates (such as I was at the time) in glaciology, climatology and GPS surveying. It also provides invaluable training in how to live and work in an extreme environment. Many of the program’s alumni go on to work in Antarctica or the glacial environments above the Arctic circle. The Juneau Icefield Research Program provided one of the most enjoyable and educational experiences I have ever had. The purpose of the short presentation below was to inform delegates at last week’s International Polar Year Olso Science Conference about the benefits of the program by providing a few “case studies” from past participants.
A Method of Representing Large, Multidimensional Datasets in a Single Map
Embedded below is my presentation to the British Cartographic Society’s Annual Conference 2010, held in Nottingham. You will find high resolution versions of many of the maps featured in the presentation available for download on this blog.
Some Examples of GIS at UCL: ESRI (UK) Update
IEEE Geospatial Computing Workshop
Yesterday I presented the paper “Combining Historic Interpretations of the Great Britain Popualtion with Contemporary Spatial Analysis: the Case of Surnames” during the Geospatial Computing Workshop at the 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science . You can download the extended abstract here and I have uploaded the complete presentation below. In later posts I will provide a summary of the other papers presented in what I thought was a very interesting session.
RGS-IBG AC 2010 Session: Analysing and Visualising Social Change
I am convening a session at next year’s RGS-IBG Annual Conference (2-4th September, London). It is the GIScience Research Group’s Postgraduate session and I have chosen the topic “Analysing and Visualising Social Change”. I hope this offers sufficient breadth to attract a wide range of papers from current postgraduates interested in a diverse set of topics. The breadth of the session should, I hope, attract a larger audience than some of the GIS/ Quantitative sessions did at this year’s RGS-IBG Annual Conference. I have pasted the session details below, please visit the GIScRG’s website for full details of the other GIS sessions and how to submit an abstract. If you are interested in presenting and have any questions I would be happy to answer them.
Postgraduate Session: Analysing and Visualising Social Change
Conveners: James Cheshire (james.cheshire@ucl.ac.uk), Dr Muki Haklay (m.haklay@ucl.ac.uk).
The data and tools that are used for analysing, visualising and understanding social change have become increasingly accessible and sophisticated in recent years. GIScience has been at the forefront of these advances, developing tools, providing new visualisations and communicating the results to wider audiences. This session seeks to attract postgraduate researchers from all areas of GIScience, Geovisualisation and wider geography who are concerned with monitoring and visualising social change. Submissions are especially welcome from those researching geovisualisation, modeling, geodemographics, migration and other aspects of social change.
POPfest 2009 Presentation
Below is the presentation I gave at POPfest 2009 on the 2nd July. The conference took place at LSE during one of the hottest weeks of the year and the organizers did a great job of keeping the delegates happy with plenty of strawberries, chilled drinks and sweets. I found the informal and friendly atmosphere a great place to discuss new ideas and find out what other postgraduates are up to in the field of Population Studies.
