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New to GIS?  New to QGIS open source software?  Check out this free self paced course from Del Mar College introducing you to GIS and QGIS software.  The course opens today.

Topics covered in this course include GIS, cartography, remote sensing, and spatial analysis through a series of lectures and hands-on computer-based exercises. This course is designed to be used as a stand-alone course to complement other disciplines or as an entry level course into a geospatial program. Course content is based upon the United States Department of Labor’s Geospatial Technology Competency Model for entry level geospatial occupations, including Geospatial or GIS Technicians and Technologists.

If you consider yourself knowledgeable in GIS, but want to know more about QGIS open source software, visit the QGIS website and follow the training manual.

New to ArcGIS Pro?  Take advantage of ESRI’s free online training to learn the key capabilities of the software:

ArcGIS Pro interface

• Project structure
• Explore the ArcGIS Pro interface and structure
• Map views
• Work with map views

Editing

• Editing workflow
• Edit in ArcGIS Pro

Analysis

• Geoprocessing and visual analysis
• Perform analysis in ArcGIS Pro
• Perform visual analysis of 3D data

Sharing projects

• Map layouts
• Create map layouts
• Packages
• Create a package file
• Web layers and web maps
• (Optional) Share a web layer

ArcGIS Pro licenses come with your ArcGIS Desktop licenses.  You will also need an ArcGIS Online Organizational account.

If you are looking for a school with the best overall Graduate Geography Program for a spatial career, check out this posting on Geographical Perspectives.

The U.S. Geological Survey will host an educational event for the news media focused on earthquakes on Wednesday September 24, 2014. The goal of the event is to provide the press an opportunity to work with USGS staff to build knowledge about and confidence in the information delivery systems and people to create more timely and accurate reporting of earthquakes.

At this event, USGS scientists and public affairs staff will lead sessions in which journalists can refresh knowledge about basic principles about earthquakes, how to improve scientific accuracy when reporting on earthquakes, and about USGS resources to make your job easier. Find out about USGS public domain maps, images, and graphics that can be quickly and freely downloaded and reused following an earthquake.

Who: USGS geologists, geophysicists, and public affairs. See list below.

What: 30-minute plenary session with presentations on reporting on earthquakes and relevant USGS resources, followed by concurrent small group discussions with USGS researchers on various aspects of earthquake science. Subjects will include:

• Earthquake Early Warning vs. Earthquake Prediction, by Doug Given, Geophysicist
• Natural vs. Induced Seismicity, by Justin Rubinstein, Geophysicist
• Emerging New Technology: GPS, InSAR, LiDAR, by Ben Brooks, Geologist
• Shaking Intensity versus Earthquake Magnitude, by Brad Aagaard, Geophysicist
• Liquefaction, Landslides, & Fault Rupture, by Tom Holzer, Engineering Geologist
• USGS Real-time Online Earthquake Products, by David Wald, Geophysicist
• Is the Number of Large Earthquakes Increasing? by Jeanne Hardebeck, Geophysicist
• Earthquake Resources on the Web, by Lisa Wald, Geophysicist/Web Content Manager, Webmaster
• Foreshocks, Main Shocks, and Aftershocks, by Andrea Llenos, Geophysicist and Ruth Harris, Geophysicist
• Who/how/when and where to go for an interview concerning an earthquake, by Leslie Gordon, Public Affairs Specialist and Susan Garcia, Outreach Coordinator

When: Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PDT

Registration: Please register online to participate in the workshop.

Where: U.S. Geological Survey, Main Auditorium, Bldg. 3, 2nd floor, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, Calif.

Online: The first 30 minutes of the event will be live video-streamed over the web, and archived online for later viewing.

The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) invites current undergraduate and graduate students to submit their work to the specialty group’s annual Peter Gould Student Paper Competition. The competition is meant to promote written scholarship by students across the field. Single-authored papers from any medical, health, disability and/or health systems related topic are encouraged.

The deadline for submitting an extended abstract is November 2, 2014.

More information here.

Though the prize is only $100, having your name associated with Peter Gould’s would be a very good thing for an up-and-coming student’s career!

And while you are at it, join the AAG!