Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Geography Awareness Week: November 13-17, 2023
Exploring geography deepens our understanding of the planet. Brown students are invited to join IBES in celebrating Geography Awareness Week with special activities grounded in building our awareness of place.
Geography Awareness Week: November 13-17, 2023
Exploring geography deepens our understanding of the planet. Brown students are invited to join IBES in celebrating Geography Awareness Week with special activities grounded in building our awareness of place.
Photo Contest
Geography has long been devoted to describing and understanding the natural and urban landscapes, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. To celebrate the Geography Awareness week with us, please submit a photo that you have taken that falls in one of the following categories:
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Natural Landscapes and/or Geology
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Urban Landscapes
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People and/or Culture
Rules :
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Photographer must be a Brown student.
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Only photos that have been personally taken by you can be accepted.
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For photos in which recognizable individuals are featured, photographers must obtain permission from the individuals highlighted in the photograph to submit it to this contest.
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Photos should be a minimum of 980x552 pixels.
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Each person can enter only one photo per category.
Submit your photos by November 13
Submitted photos will be displayed on this web page by November 15. Please come back here to vote for the winners November 15 or 16!
The winners will be announced here on November 17. There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place of each category.
Good luck!
GIS Day: November 15
Join us on Wednesday, November 15, 2023, as we celebrate Geographic Information Science (GIS) Day at Brown University. The event is free and open to all! GIS Day is an annual event celebrating geographic information systems-based technologies.
Schedule
10:00 – 10:45 am
Virtual Geographic Information Science (GIS) Coffee Social
Start GIS Day with refreshments and socialize with the community. The event will be through zoom and open to everyone.
Hosted by Seda Şalap-Ayça (Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society)
11 am – noon
#BrownGISday2023 Mapathon
Mapping areas of the world that are stricken by disasters to provide aid. The leader gets a GIS Day t-shirt!
This event offers a hybrid experience. Earth Lab (85 Waterman St, Providence), our physical venue, has a capacity for 20 participants, and registration is mandatory for in-person attendance. Please fill out this form to show your interest of in-person participation. Alternatively, you can access the Zoom link for remote participation.
Hosted by Seda Şalap-Ayça (Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences & Institute at Brown for Environment and Society)
1 – 1:50 pm
Mapping OpenStreetMap Data with Python
Get ready to learn the basics of OSM data and sharpen your Python powers! Access the notebook and repository on GitHub.
This event offers a hybrid experience. Earth Lab, our physical venue, has a capacity for 20 participants, and registration is mandatory for in-person attendance. Please fill out this form to show your interest of in-person participation. Alternatively, you can access the Zoom link for remote participation.
Hosted by Seda Şalap-Ayça (Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society)
2 - 2:50 pm
The Ocean State Spatial Database Project
A presentation and demo of this free and open-source resource for Rhode Island spatial analysis and thematic mapping, created by the GeoData@SciLi team at the Brown University Library. We will cover how the database was created with QGIS, Python, and spatial SQL. Download the database and view some of the project code on GitHub.
This event offers a hybrid experience. Earth Lab, our physical venue, has a capacity for 20 participants, and registration is mandatory for in-person attendance. Please fill out this form to show your interest of in-person participation. Alternatively, you can access the Zoom link for remote participation.
Presenter Frank Donnelly (Head of GIS & Data Services, Brown University Library)
These activities are hosted by Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences.