The now annual GIS Symposium will be held for the 5th year in a row on Wednesday November 19th this year. 

 

In conjuction with the symposium, University Libraries will be hosting a GIS poster session.  Information will be available on submitting posters very soon.

 

Please make sure to watch this space for information on the registration and location!

We are pleased to announce that Bill Winston is now a part of the GIS team at Washington University in St. Louis.  Bill will be working at the University GIS Analyst within the University GIS Coordinator's office. 

 

Bill can be reached at 935 8426 or billwinston@wustl.edu

 

 

All presentations from the 4th Annual GIS Symposium held on 11/15/2007 are now available by selecting the link on the left side of the page.  Presentations are made available in PDF format and can be viewed using the free Adobe Acrobat viewer available on the Adobe website.

 

Thank you to the over 80 faculty, staff, graduate students and undergraduate students that made the 2006 GIS Symposium a success! 

 

Several excellent talks were puncuated by lively discussion of how GIS is being leveraged around the WU campus.  Many posters were displayed illustrating how GIS is being used on current research.

 

Many of the symposium presentations will be posted in the document link to the left.  Be sure to check back if the presentation you are interested in is not yet posted.

 

It's not too early to start thinking about a poster for next year!

Welcome to GIS at Washington University in St. Louis. These are exciting times for the University’s GIS user community. We have fully implemented the University-wide ESRI license; we have hired new faculty and staff, and we are expanding our course offerings. GIS@WUSTL remains a work in progress.

 

Four years ago there was no GIS initiative, no University-wide site license, and no plans for any integrated GIS initiative. With the support of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of Arts and Sciences Ed Macias, we have come a long way but we still have significant work ahead of us.

 

I, (T.R. Kidder), have been appointed to head the University’s GIS initiative and will be working closely with Associate Vice Chancellor and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences Dennis Martin and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Network Technology Services (NTS) Jan Weller to build up this critical 21st century technology.  We are also working to make it accessible to students, staff, and faculty across the entire campus.

Over the next two years we will be working on four related areas of interest:

 

• Building the technological infrastructure
• Providing GIS educational opportunities to WU community
• Developing and expanding GIS as a research tool
• Coordinating with the local and regional GIS community

Through the GIS initiative, Washington University in St. Louis is committed to being a leader in the use and teaching of spatial technologies. As I noted above, this is a great time to be involved in GIS on campus. I look forward to working with interested individuals, departments, research groups, programs, and schools to foster this technology and to make it something that is completely accessible, easy to use, and seamlessly integrated into the research and teaching mission of the University.

 

If you have ideas or suggestions about GIS or how we can improve our services please feel free to send me an e-mail (trkidder@wustl.edu).