Celebrate Penn State GIS Day November 13

Schedule of Penn State GIS Day program and details of presentations are on the Penn State GIS Day website.

Monday, November 13, 2023
11:15 am-12:05 pm: Career Panel (in person or Zoom) in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, University Park

Career Panelists:

• Amanda Byrd – Geospatial Analyst, Dewberry
• John Greer – Geospatial Data Science Head, Applied Research Lab at Penn State
• Jason Shellhammer – GIS Director, Carbon County GIS/Mapping
• Scottie Wall – PA State GIS Coordinator

1:30-3:00 pm: Keynote & Lightning Talks (in person or Zoom) in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, University Park

• Keynote: Scottie Wall – PA State GIS Coordinator : “Geospatial Services in the Commonwealth”

Lightning Talk Presenters:

• Travis Flohr – Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Penn State: “Using GIS to evaluate policy performance, designed and future landscapes from the parcel to metropolitan scales”
• Christina Grozinger – Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology, Penn State: “Beescape: Seeing the world through the eyes of bees”
• Jacob Holland-Lulewicz – Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Penn State: “Revealing the Anthropogenic Landscapes of Ossabaw Island through LiDAR”
• Beth King – Associate Teaching Professor, Online Geospatial Education, Penn State: “Reflections on Penn State’s Embedded Geovisual Analytics Course”
• Brian Naberezny – Assistant Teaching Professor, Civil Engineering, Penn State
• Alexis Oltmer-Bergmann – MFA candidate, Penn State: “Art as Research”
• Michael Sutherland – Senior GIS Analyst, Cushman & Wakefield: “Lessons Learned as an Early-Career GIS Professional”

3:00 pm: Reception with refreshments in the Donald W. Hamer Center for Maps and Geospatial Information, 1 Pattee Library, University Park

Penn State GIS Day is co-sponsored by the University Libraries and Department of Geography.