IGIS and the California Naturalist Program are pleased to help celebrate the launch of a new information portal on climate adaptation. The California Adaptation Clearinghouse was officially launched at the California Adaptation Forum in August in Sacramento.
The River Fire began July 27, 2018 at 1pm on Old River Road in Hopland. By the evening it had spread, and was threatening numerous buildings in the area. We have a ANR Research and Extension Center (HREC) there, and Shane Feirer from IGIS lives and works here.
I've come to rely on this, my blog, for recalling important work related events, places, tools, and datasets. But, it is a bit unwieldy as a search engine. Perhaps it is delayed spring cleaning (ok, delayed like 12 years...
My wrap-up from a very engaged and provocative 1.5 day workshop on geospatial technology futures, hosted by the CyberGIS Center: Towards a National Geospatial Software Ecosystem. First: great group of cool peeps all hyper-engaged in geospatial data, tools, use cases, science, and community.
As always, the Plenary session was an immersive and emotional showcase of the power of mapping. Running through Mondays talks was a sense of urgency for we GIS people to save the world. This is what JD calls societal GIS, or embracing the digital transformation and leverage the science of where.
