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About socalgovgis - Michael Carson

Michael Carson, GIS Manager (retired) for the City of Burbank and President of Southern California Government GIS User Group. Currently teaching GIS at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita.

GIS Courses at Rio Hondo College

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Rio Hondo College GIS courses start the week of January 29th 2018. http://riohondo.isteaching.com/spring-semester-2018.html Apply for admission and register for classes entirely online. Available courses include Introduction to GIS (GIS 120), Cartography Design and GIS (GIS 221) located off site at the LA County Department of Public Works (900 S Fremont Ave, Alhambra), also offered is GIS Applications (GIS 220) on Fridays and a second offering TTh evening, and the Environmental GIS (GIS 230) course on MW evening.

Waivers are available if you are unable to meet prerequisites due to scheduling, if you have experience using GIS or attended an introductory course elsewhere. Contact wroberts@riohondo.edu for support. For more information on the courses you can view here and you can follow steps here to register.

Creek Fire & Thomas Fire

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As winds kept blowing this morning, the Creek Fire near Sylmar started up and mandatory/voluntary evacuations were issued.  More on LA County Fire PIO twitter site.

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Check out the National Weather Service’s visible loop to see how fast the Creek Fire erupted.  You can also see the larger spot, which is the Thomas Fire in Ventura County.

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Also if you have been following the Thomas Fire near Santa Paula/Ojai/Ventura, more info can be found on the Ready Ventura County site.  Mandatory and voluntary evacuations have been issued.

For the National Weather Service wind speed map and other info, click below.

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