Category Archives: Event
Celebrate Earth Day 2020!
This Wednesday (April 22, 2020) will mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. While many of the large scale celebrations will have to be postponed; here are some ideas for ways to celebrate in your home or neighborhood. #EarthDayAtHome with NASA – this website has a great collection of activities to explore our world. Here
Iowa Map Contest 2020 – Entries due 5/13/2020
Just wanted to put out a reminder that the Iowa Map Contest is still going on. It’s a great opportunity for students in grades 4-12 to learn how to tell a story about Iowa’s special places using a story map. Also there are great prizes – $100 and a chance to go to the national
Iowa Map Contest 2020
The 2020 Map Competition for Iowa middle and high school students is open. Students in grades 4-12 are invited, with their teachers, to participate in this year’s mapping contest sponsored by Esri, the Iowa Geographic Information Council (IGIC), and William Penn University. This year’s theme is Mapping Iowa’s Tourist Attractions. Contest Website: https://sites.google.com/site/iowamapcontest/home Story Maps
Happy GIS Day #GISDay
Geography Awareness Week continues with the celebration of GIS Day. Participate in the international celebration of geographic information systems (GIS) technology. GIS is a scientific framework for gathering, analyzing, and visualizing geographic data to help us make better decisions. On GIS Day, help others learn about geography and the real-world applications of GIS that are
A Great Day For Earth Observation – Part II
The second part of Earth Observation Day was dedicated to using OpenStreetMap to remotely map Wayland, Iowa and Mindanao region of the Philippines. Amy Logan, an IowaView staff member, gave a brief introduction to remote sensing and OpenStreetMap. Then mappers began working on a TeachOSM task – Improving the Iowa OSM Basemap: Wayland, Iowa (https://tasks.teachosm.org/project/981).
Count Down to Earth Observation Day 2019
Register now: https://forms.gle/pDeEHbLY1eEV6Ejq7
Coming Soon: Earth Observation Day – Tuesday October 15, 2019
When: Tuesday, October 15, 2019Where: GIS Teaching Lab, Room 248, Durham Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa This year the ISU GIS Facility in collaboration with IowaView will be celebrating Earth Observation Day. This year the theme is “Geoscience is Everywhere.” We have a great day planned. To start out our day at 10:30am, Professor