Wanted to let you know I’m going to be presenting about the GTCM project at our GTEVCC cohort “debriefing” meeting  on Friday.  I’m impressed with the presentation of the results on the website and feel you should have several people sign up for an account after we discuss the value of the support materials.  I’ll let you know how it goes and also the results for my program. ... More

Salt Lake Community College professor Adam Dastrup explains how he engages his students in using geospatial technology to learn about environmental science.  Watch his video here .

The GeoTREE Center (www.geotree.uni.edu ) at the University of Northern Iowa received a NSF REU award to introduce young scientists to a highly interdisciplinary research environment with fundamental and applied research in hyperspectral imaging (HI). HI is widely used in various disciplines such as Earth Science, Environmental Science, Biology, Forestry, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geographic... More

David DiBiase, Esri Director of Education, announced major upgrades to the Esri site license agreement for colleges and universities today.  Esri is adding functionality to the educational license by allowing access to Community and Business Analyst extensions with Business Analyst Site Add-on license.  They are also adding several vertical market extensions, such as Defense, Aeronautical,... More

In early January a three day visit was held at Kaskaskia College as part of the American Association of Community College MentorLinks program which is funded by the National Science Foundation.  The major goal of this project is to develop a geospatial technology program at Kaskaskia.  During the visit the AACC MentorLinks mentor, Vince DiNoto, worked with the local project team on their... More

Caitlin Dempsey provides an upbeat analysis of several industy-leading reports that all point to vigorous growth in the Geospatial Technology Industry.  Expected job growth and opportunities are equally encouraging in these tough economic times.  More

We have just published our latest newsletter, Winter 2012 issue, and you can download the PDF file here .  Read all about our GTCM development workshops, national competition, and latest workshops planned across the US this year.

DIVA-GIS is a free computer program for mapping and geographic data analysis (a geographic information system (GIS ). With DIVA-GIS you can make maps of the world, or of a very small area, using, for example, state boundaries, rivers, a satellite image, and the locations of sites where an animal species was observed. We also provide free spatial data for the whole world that you can use in DIVA-GIS... More

Congratulations to Curtis Lowery who will have his project - "US-Mexico Border Crossings" published in the ESRI Map Book #27 that will be published this year. This makes the 4th map book that our students have published in!!! No other entity - commercial, educational, private. etc - has ever had maps published this many times in the ESRI Map Book. It is a testament to the quality of work... More

If you are studying for the Competition Round 1 Exam or just what to test your geospatial knowledge, there is now a 10 Question Sample Test and description of the Exam to help you as part of the Study Guide resources.  You can download the Rules and Application to take the Exam from the Competition tab.  Be sure to apply and take the Round 1 Exam before mid-March to get up... More