Folks
Hurry up!!!!!!!
The abstract submission deadline of CITE-Concordia University Transportation Engineering Student’s Conference has been extended to July 22, 2013.
Submit your abstract through the following link
http://sitem.ca/?q=user%2Fregister
We would like to welcome Umma Tamima as a new student blogger to the Turret. Umma is a PhD student in Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics whose research interests include natural hazard and disaster management planning. She also works for the McGill Library as a Graduate Student Facilitator for the MyResearch Graduate Seminar Series . Welcome Umma! We look forward to lots of posts on student life and your research in Civil Engineering at McGill.
Let me also take a moment to introduce myself as another new blogger to the Turret. My name is Tara Mawhinney and I have recently returned from maternity leave to resume my duties as Liaison Librarian for Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Schulich Library. Glad to be back!
The 85th annual meeting of the Eastern Section of the Seismological Society of America will be held 6-8 October 2013 at the Manoir Richelieu located in La Malbaie, Québec, Canada. To know more details about the conference, please go to the following link:
Last April I visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal in Orlando. I have to admit, it was pretty neat. Now, thanks to Google and Warner Brothers Studios in Hertfordshire, everyone is welcome to Diagon Alley on Google Maps. How cool is this for Harry Potter fans?
If you have ever thought about making your own custom maps take some time to explore Google Maps and Google Earth tutorials. That is, after you have spent some time exploring the virtual exhibits in Diagon Alley. Just drag the street view symbol (little person) onto the map and away you go!
The United Kingdom will hold a month of map and GIS related conferences in September:
Society of Cartographers Conference 2013 in Stoke-on-Trent (2nd to 4th Maptember)
Conference on Spatial Information Theory 2013 in Scarborough (2nd to 6th Maptember)
British Cartographic Society Mapping 2013 Symposium in Leicestershire (3rd to 5th Maptember)
Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society 2013 Conference in Glasgow (4th to 6th Maptember)
State of the Map 2013 in Birmingham (6th to 8th Maptember)
European Planetary Science Congress 2013 in London (8th to 13th Maptember)
OpenStreetMap Professional Large User Summit in Birmingham (9th Maptember)
The Second Joint FIG/IAG/ISPRS Symposium on Deformation Monitoring in Nottingham (9th to 11th Maptember)
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team House Hack Week (9th to 13th Maptember)
QGIS-Dev Meeting in Brighton (12th to 16th Maptember)
Association for Geographic Information (AGI)’s Annual Conference, AGI’s GeoCommunity ’13 in Nottingham (16th to 18th Maptember)
GEOMED 2013 in Sheffield (16th to 18th Maptember)
FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham (17th to 21st Maptember)
Read more at http://www.maptember.org/
This may not be the most seasonal of posts, considering today is the first day of summer, or the most current, since this video caused quite a sensation more than a month ago – but who can resist a gorgeous time-lapse video of an ice breaker traveling through Antarctic waters?
Cassandra Brooks, a Stanford University doctoral student with the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, produced this video aboard the icebreaker, Nathaniel B. Palmer. The video is a time-lapse sequence, compressing about 60 days into less than five minutes. Enjoy!
Photo credit: Peter Rejcek / NSF
A European portal of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) was recently launched at www.openuped.eu. It offers online courses, free of charge, in different languages from partner universities in Europe. The subjects cover from learning skills, management, climate change to mathematics. If you are interested in how a topic is taught in Europe or something outside of your curriculum , take a course at this website. Other major MOOCs providers include Coursera, Udacity, edX.
Take this fun short quiz from the Discovery Channel website to find out which artistic or scientific genius was the most like you. Apparently, I resemble Pablo Picasso 🙂
Photo of Pablo Picasso’s “Young Woman” from jmussuto (Flickr)
I recently came across Developer Apps Showcase at Data.gov, where I was surprised to see how those apps made the Data.gov‘s open datasets more accessible and perhaps comprehensible for the public. Yes, data can be presented in a way that is interactive, innovative, and inspiring! Find more at here.
Image from http://images.apple.com/
