Geography graduate student Anna Cherry won third place in 2020 UNC GIS Day Map Contest. Her map title is “United States Morrill Act Land Cessions and Land Grant Universities”. Descriptions about this map from Anna: “The relation between indigenous groups, … Read more
The deadline is Nov. 13 noon, 2020. You can submit digital maps, or online maps (URLs) via this link. The best three maps will be decided by a panel of GIS specialists. Students who create the best three maps … Read more
UNC libraries celebrated 2019 GIS Day on Nov. 13, 2019 with the traditional Student Map Competition and Humanitarian Mapathon. Both events were sponsored by the Department of Geography and the University Libraries. The winners of the map competition were decided … Read more
Geography major Walker Harrison’s research paper on “City Parks in Minneapolis, Minnesota: An Access and Accessibility Analysis” won second place in the recent UNC Innovative Use of GIS Competition. Below is a few maps created from his GIS project: … Read more
Geography graduate student Tong Qiu’s GIS research project “Automatic Extraction of Water Bodies from ZY-3 Imagery based on spectral signature: A case study in Wuhan City” just won first place in the 2018 UNC Innovative Use of GIS Competition. In … Read more
2017 UNC GIS Day (Nov. 15, 2017) event had three activities: the traditional map competition, scavenger hunt, and Student-led Humanitarian Mapathon. These activities were sponsored by the following organizations at UNC-CH – UNC Library, UNC Department of Geography, and UNC … Read more
2017 UNC GIS Day (Nov. 15, 2017) event had three activities: the traditional map competition, scavenger hunt, and Student-led Humanitarian Mapathon. These activities were sponsored by the following organizations at UNC-CH – UNC Library, UNC Department of Geography, and UNC … Read more
Innovative Use of GIS competition is sponsored by the Department of Geography, GIS Graduate Certificate Program and the Davis Library Research Hub every other year. In the recent competition, Geography graduate student Trey Murphy won second place with his research … Read more
GIS day at UNC brought together students, faculty, and staff for a series of events exploring how geographic information can advance research and policy. Ellen Currin, a Geography major, won first place in one of the day’s events – the Innovative … Read more
Please mark your calendars now for the UNC GIS Day Celebration, to be held November 19 at 3pm in the Davis Library Research Hub (2nd floor). Geography department worked with Davis Library to organize two student competitions for GIS Day.
