November-December Newsletter

November 28, 2022

The CGA newsletter for November-December has been published, read it here.

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CGA Researchers Win Best Paper

April 23, 2024

CGA visiting scholar Jan Kinne and CGA visiting fellow Bernd Resch, and their co-authors, received the Regional Studies Association's (RSA's) 2024 Spatial Economic Analysis Best Paper Award for their paper, "The digital layer: alternative data for regional and innovation studies... Read more about CGA Researchers Win Best Paper

GIS Colloquium April 18th: Mapping the Path off of Natural Gas - Presentation by Audrey Schulman, Co-Founder & Co-Director of HEET

April 1, 2024

Last year, Massachusetts issued an order that the state must begin to transition off of natural gas. The question is how? There are 30,000 miles of gas pipes in the state that together contain four times the energy at winter peak than our electric grid can currently hold. The once-in-a-century transition has to be planned in a street-segment and phased way to reduce costs and disruption, while delivering cleaner energy in an equitable way. ...

2024 EIP Award Winner

March 29, 2024

The 2024 Esri Innovation Prize has been awarded to : Femi Olamijulo, Mengyao Li, Monserrat Ocaña, Nicole Cacozza, and Zoe Iacovino for their entry “Everett Express: Transitioning a 95-acre industrial city parcel to mixed-use development in Everett, Massachusetts.” Judges comments: “A project performed with a professional level of quality from start to finish. The transportation, build-out, and 3D visual analyses are relevant, conducted with appropriate Esri technologies, and presented with engaging interactive maps. Where this project really... Read more about 2024 EIP Award Winner

CGA Newsletter for March and April

March 19, 2024

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CGA's Geospatial Infrastructure Enhancement project featured on NERC website

February 29, 2024

CGA's Geospatial Infrastructure Enhancement project featured on New England Research Cloud website as an example of the successful application of its cloud infrastructure. Funded by the Office of Vice Provost for Research, the goal of this project is to empower researchers by enabling the execution of geospatial big data projects across diverse use cases and provide ongoing support for CGA service projects. Leveraging computing resources at New England Research Cloud (NERC) and FASRC... Read more about CGA's Geospatial Infrastructure Enhancement project featured on NERC website

Beyond spatial analytics: The projective side of GIS

February 28, 2024

This workshop to be held at the Graduate School of Design on Thursday, Feb. 29, follows the Frances Loeb Library Colloquium "Invisible Topographies: Exploring the Impact of the Unseen" and provides a hands-on opportunity to explore workflows using Esri ArcGIS Pro, Esri CityEngine, and Esri ArcGIS Urban. Renia Kagkou and Shiori Sasaki will provide expert instruction in how to use these software tools for iterative and projective design work. Read... Read more about Beyond spatial analytics: The projective side of GIS

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