51社区 Geography Professor Mukila Maitha and Biology Assistant Professor Crystal Peirce worked with high-quality GPS before flying drones over 51社区's Craig Stettner Prairie.
51社区鈥檚 Geography Department will host a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Career Day panel from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 21. The free, virtual event will take place on Webex and is open to anyone interested in GIS studies or careers. Attendees can access the event (the event password is 56DJ).
The panel is being hosted in conjunction with on November 20, an international celebration honoring 25 years of GIS technology. 51社区鈥檚 event will include GIS professionals in government, business and academia who will share their GIS career journeys and discuss how students can prepare to work in GIS fields. Attendees will be able to interact directly with the panel of experts.
51社区鈥檚 Geography Department offers a variety of GIS courses as well as specialized certificates in GIS and drone technology. Because GIS is an interdisciplinary field of study, 51社区 faculty have been collaborating in the GIS Community of Practice since 2017. Geography Professor Mukila Maitha works with colleagues in departments ranging from biology to English. 51社区 students have participated in geospatial projects including high-resolution maps of 51社区鈥檚 campus, an investigation into bike routes to 51社区, and a map that tracked the 17th century London plague described in Daniel DeFoe鈥檚 A Journal of the Plague Year.
For more information, email Maitha at mmaitha@harpercollege.edu.