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Congratulations to Susan Resnick, 2021 Individual Achievement in GIS Awardee!
Susan Resnick is one of the winners of the 2021 Individual Achievement in GIS Award. Susan Resnick has worked tirelessly as a co-leader for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s GIS Center, managing the Agency’s GIS. She has participated in...
Congratulations to Catherine DuBreck, 2021 Individual Achievement in GIS Awardee!
Catherine DuBreck of the Town of Penfield and Monroe Community College is one of the winners of the 2021 Individual Achievement in GIS Award. Catherine has been helping high school students learn what GIS is and how they can use it to solve spatial problems with her...
2021 GIS Champion Award!!!!
Russell Urban-Mead led the crafting of a broad and complex technical scope of work involving multiple communities across New York State and then built a strong team of consultants with GIS and Planning expertise in support of the joint NYS Department of Environmental...
2021 Geospatial Application Award: Mapping NYC COVID-19 Community Transmission via Hospital Workers, Funded by New York University
Delphine Protopapas, Brooklyn Technical High School (left), Ron Alweiss, Ramaz High School (right) In the Spring of 2020, COVID-19 pandemic transformed New York City’s hospitals, with as many as 1,673 single-day, new admissions for COVID treatment and many more for...
2021 GIS Applications Award: terrain | Landscape Visualizations in R and Unity
Aidan Ackerman, Assistant Professor (left), Colin Beier, Associate Professor (middle), Michael Mahoney, Ph.D. Student (right) As geospatial analysis becomes increasingly important across fields, analysts are regularly expected to perform large-scale reproducible...
eSpatially – NYC H2O: Advocating Cleaner Water through StoryMaps
The latest post from NYS GIS Association member Sam Wear, “NYC H2O: Advocating Cleaner Water through StoryMaps", posted November 16, 2021, is available on his website eSpatially New York. "The city maintains 14 sewage treatment plants covering the five boroughs....
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