Get your Professional Certificate in GIS at UC Riverside Extension. They have been offering the GIS Certificate since 1993! Check them out!
http://www.extension.ucr.edu/academics/certificates/geographic.html
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Southern California’s Shrinking Salton Sea: Mapping, Managing and Mitigating New PM10 Air Pollution Sources
Abstract:
The Imperial Irrigation District (IID) Water Conservation and Transfer Project includes a long-term transfer of up to 303,000 acre-feet of water annually from IID to the San Diego County Water Authority, and the Coachella Valley Water District. The Water Transfer Project, along with other factors affecting Salton Sea inflows and water balance, will result in accelerated exposure of the Salton Sea floor. As the Sea continues to recede, there is potential for windblown dust emissions from the exposed dry lakebed (the playa). A significant portion of this windblown dust is PM10 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 10 micrometers or less). PM10 are approximately 1/7th the thickness of a human hair, are small enough to be inhaled, and represent a potential human health risk.
The Salton Sea Air Quality Program is focused on monitoring and mitigating dust emissions from exposed Salton Sea playa. Remote sensing is a key component of this program, and will be used to map playa surfaces, vegetative cover, and active dust source areas. Learn how satellite, aerial and UAV images all contribute to this effort and how they are being processed using Trimble eCognition image analysis software. The presentation will also discuss dust control pilot projects, such as Surface Roughening, and the remote sensing techniques used to inform design and evaluate dust control effectiveness.
Looking to get into Python for spatial data analysis? Check out this online video. The video notes state you will learn about geoprocessing, analyzing and visualizing spatial data using Python and how it compares to other available options such as desktop GIS options (ArcMap or QGIS) or R. The talk will introduce various Python projects such as PySAL, GeoPandas, and Rasterio, and give attendees a starting place for independently exploring and learning geoprocessing skills using Python.
Slides for the video can be found here.
You might want to check out some of these online geospatial courses as outlined by Directions Magazine.
Selected Open Online Geospatial Courses
| Course | Organization | Next Offering |
| Desktop GIS | Pace University via Blackboard’s OpenEducation | Currently in session |
| From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing | University of Minnesota via Coursera | No future sessions yet scheduled |
| Geodesign: Change your World | Penn State via Coursera | No future sessions yet scheduled |
| Geospatial Intelligence & the Geospatial Revolution | Penn State via Coursera | February 2016 |
| GIS 101, Introduction to Global Information Systems | SkillsCommons | Open, self-paced |
| Go Places with Spatial Analysis | Esri | Currently in session |
| Introduction to Geographical Information Systems | University of West Florida via Canvas Network | Summer 2016 |
| Maps and the Geospatial Revolution | Penn State via Coursera | No future sessions yet scheduled |
| Mobile Devices for Land Management (in Spanish) | UPValencia via edX | No future sessions yet scheduled |
| Open Source GIS | SkillsCommons | Open, self-paced |
| QGIS Courses | GeoAcademy | Open, self-paced |
| Skills for the Digital Earth | Elmhurst College | No future sessions yet scheduled |
| Spatial Analysis | SkillsCommons | Open, self-paced |
| The Location Advantage | Esri | November 2015 |
| Various geospatial courses | Discover Spatial | Open, self-paced |
Looks like ESRI has posted some of the tech session videos from the 2015 ESRI User Conference. Click below to check them out.
ESRI has a free Spatial Analysis course that you can take online. Here are a few more details:
For more info and to register, visit their sign up page.
High-quality hydrographic data are critical to a broad range of government and private applications. Resource management, infrastructure planning, environmental monitoring, fisheries management, and disaster mitigation all depend on up-to-date, accurate, and high-quality hydrographic data. The U.S. Geological Survey National Geospatial Program has begun a series of virtual seminars to highlight the uses of hydrographic data. The next seminar will be on July 30 at 2 pm EDT. These seminars are intended to share success stories from users who have solved real world problems using hydrographic data, provide information about the National Hydrography Dataset and related products, and provide a virtual forum for users, similar to what might be encountered in a conference setting.
Connections are limited, and you will need to register to attend these seminars. Please visit this site here to sign up. After your registration is approved, you will receive instructions for joining the meeting.
The next seminar will feature Anita Stohr of the Washington Department of Ecology discussing applications of hydrography within the State of Washington. There will also be lightning talks by Susan Phelps of AECOM, and David Holtschlag of the USGS Michigan-Ohio Water Science Center. They will discuss developing local-resolution hydrography from lidar; and UFINCH, a method for estimating unit and daily flows in a stream network defined by the National Hydrography Dataset with Value-Added Attributes (NHDPlus) using daily flows from USGS streamgages, respectively.
For full abstracts and biographies of the speakers, or for information about past hydroseminars, please visit the Hydrography Seminar Series website.
Discover Spatial is offering a free video tutorial on QGIS. The video tutorial provides an overview of the QGIS platform and dives into the features and functions so you can create maps and output using the open source software. Check it out!
Are you a developer, firm, or organization using mobile or web applications to enable your users? The USGS has publicly available geospatial services and data to help your application development and enhancement.
The USGS National Geospatial Technical Operations Center will be hosting a 30- minute webinar on “Using The National Map services to enable your web and mobile mapping efforts” on June 16 at 9am Mountain Time.
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