吉普赛人新闻
新名字
2024年7月30日
We recently changed our name from the 九州娱乐官网 GIS 程序 to the Washington 大学地理空间创新计划(吉普赛人)!
实习生被提名为年度最佳学生员工
2024年4月19日
Congratulations to our Journeyman Leaders Dyllan Bishop and Dylan Brown for being nominated for the 2024 Student Employee of the Year at 九州娱乐官网. 他们的奉献精神 优秀是真正了不起的. 你能加入我们的团队，我们感到很自豪!
高中班级参观
2024年4月15日
A group of 22 10th-grade students from Kent County High School came to the GIS lab 参加工作见习之旅! The students learned about working with spatial data, and 在GIS领域找到工作的途径.
八年级班级访问
2024年3月22日
The GIS 程序 was thrilled to welcome an 8th grade science class from the Chestertown 基督教学院. Together, we talked about how to recognize "good" data, and how 在地图上可视化这些数据. 为了看到这个过程的实际效果，我们创建了一个data collection survey and used ArcGIS Field Maps to collect data points outside around 市中心Chestertown.
九州娱乐官网学生重返GIS项目
2024年1月29日
The GIS 程序 is happy to welcome back our student interns for the spring semester! We have 10 interns this spring working in the GIS lab on our various grants and contracts. Our student interns gain valuable experience working on real-world projects for our funders, exemplifying 九州娱乐官网’s mission to provide experiential learning 给学生. We’re looking forward to a great semester with our amazing students!
新项目:切斯特敦树木数据收集
2024年1月26日
The GIS 程序 is excited to work with the Chestertown Tree Committee to create and employ a data collection survey for all trees in Chestertown. 追踪树木 show where there are gaps in tree coverage in town, and where sick and injured trees 需要照料.
从切斯特镇主街来访
2024年1月25日
Main Street Chestertown visited the GIS 程序 to talk about how the GIS 程序 能协助他们完成任务吗. We discussed Main Street Chestertown’s goals for revitalizing the downtown area and creating a robust experience for tourists visiting the historic district. W我期待着 继续 会谈 与主街 Chestertown 随着这个过程的进行.
九州娱乐官网 and Amrita University's Joint Initiative Advances in USAID Partnership 程序
2024年1月25日
九州娱乐官网's 环境与社会研究中心, along with its GIS 程序, is proud to announce its successful collaboration with Amrita University (India) in advancing to the next stage of USAID's Higher Education Partnership for Disaster Resilient 基础设施(HEP-DRI). This joint initiative, "Resilient Infrastructure and 可持续性 Education (RISE)," is part of a larger collaborative effort involving multiple prestigious U.S. 以及印度学术界和工业界的合作伙伴. 这种合作强调了一种承诺 to international cooperation in disaster-resilient infrastructure education and professional 发展. The team eagerly anticipates the upcoming February 1, 2024, presentation to showcase their comprehensive and innovative approach in this vital domain.
为高级职员举办的GIS校园地图简报会
2024年1月17日
Things are steadily moving forward on the new campus web map! 麦迪逊·凯和塔瑞克 Rashed presented the current draft of the campus web map to 九州娱乐官网 senior staff who were very pleased with the map and excited for what possibilities a geospatial 校园可以提供九州娱乐官网. 校园地图将是一个很好的资源 students, families, alumni, and other visitors to 九州娱乐官网 and takes a step 推进校园无障碍建设.
The campus map extends into a collaboration between the GIS 程序 and Kent County 下一代911. This is a nationwide initiative for counties to be in line 有应急服务指南. 地理信息系统项目和肯特县正在合作 to update campus road names and address numbers for emergency services to be able to efficiently navigate the campus to respond to an emergency.
新GIS项目主任，Dr. Tarek·拉希德
2024年1月2日
Tarek brings over 30 years of experience in geographic information science and technologies (GIS&T)到GIS程序内 环境中心 & 九州娱乐官网社团. 他在开发GIS方面的工作&T and systems thinking technical solutions and frameworks, and their applications spans across incredibly diverse sectors, including disaster risk reduction, health, climate change, community resilience, digital transformation, urban and rural 发展, supply-chain management, homeland security, sustainable 农业和妇女赋权.
参加2024 Delmarva GIS会议
2024年5月1日至2日
杜威海滩，特拉华州
Our GIS team recently attended and presented at the Delmarva GIS Conference in Delaware! This year, Sean Lynn, our 程序 Manager, has participated in the conference as a 主持人和会议主席. 麦迪逊·凯，我们的地理信息系统 & 文化资源专员 presented a web application for the Delaware Department of Education. 会议期间 we were able to learn about innovative uses of GIS technology and mapping solutions, 同时展示我们的节目.
员工参加2024 Esri开发者峰会
2024年3月11日至15日
棕榈泉，加州
Earlier this month, two of our staff members traveled to Palm Springs, California 对于年度 Esri 开发者峰会! This conference, held by the makers of our GIS software, allows our coders and app developers to meet with and learn from the developers working directly 在我们每天使用的软件上. 我们期待着分享这些新技能 and tips with our students and implementing them into our projects!
参加2024年Esri联邦地理信息系统会议
2024年2月12日至15日
华盛顿特区.C.
Our staff recently attended the national Esri Federal User Conference in Washington, DC! We learned a lot about new and up-and-coming technology produced by Esri, the GIS软件的领导者. And we got the chance to reconnect with some GIS 程序 alumni! Now we're back in the lab to share our new-found knowledge with our students and partners.
工作人员 Attended the "在停车时幸存下来" Traffic Safety Conference
2024年1月27日至29日
由马里兰州公路安全办公室主办
This conference was the first of it kind for our partner, the Maryland Highway Safety 办公室(MHSO). MHSO的主要重点之一是执法. 执法 Liaisons (LELs), provided the opportunity to allow the attendee to hear from presenters from local law enforcement agencies and other organizations in the region.
