why should students attend GIS Day?
1. GIS leads to interesting, professional jobs with good salaries and benefits.
The GIS Lounge: How to build a carrer in GIS
Geospatial Technology Positions in the Earth Sciences
2. An Education in GIS at southern will enhance your degree even if you are not a Geography Major.
You might not be aware of just how many fields are enhanced by or require Geospatial Technology for visualizing and analyzing geographic context in order to make even the most basic of decisions as well as to conduct rigorous research.
Take a look at the Minor and Certificate Program in Geographic Information Science at SCSU.
As a matter of fact, many universities (in addition to the Geography Department at SCSU), have excellent curricula in GIS.
Anthropology: Mapping geographic information is essential to understanding peoples' relationship to the environment, migration and settlement patterns, the diffusion of cultural phenomena, and visualizing culture across time and space. GIS also enables native peoples to construct and argue for their claims to indigenous lands.
Biology: Visualizing and incorporating geographic contextual variables that represent natural and human influences on species is an essential component to understanding and protecting habitat.
Business:
Chemistry: GIS opens the door to data collection, analysis, and visualization techniques that are critical for environmental chemistry.
Computer Science:
Earth Science: GIS is an indispensable too for the Earth Sciences. Visit The Center for International Earth Science Information Network of Columbia University to see how GIS and interdisciplinary training are essential to careers in Earth Science. See the Geosciences Masters Program in Geographic Information Science at the University of Edinburgh. Look at the GIS in the Earth Sciences website at the University of California at Berkeley.
Education:
History: Read What Historians Want from GIS. See how History has been incorporated into the undergraduate history curriculum at Arizona State University.
Information and Library Science:
Political Science: GIS is integral to the geodemographic analysis that supports election campaigns for state and national offices; to redistricting; and, to visualizing the distribution of people and conflicts.
Public Health:
Sociology:
Theatre:
Urban Studies:
3. GIS IS ALREADY USED AND EXPECTED IN MANY FIELDS
Stanford Library describes how GIS is used in major areas, such as in the Humanities, Health and Medical Research, Law, Archaeology, Marine Biology, and Business.
ESRI, the industry-leading vendor of GIS software, has a nice overview of the use of GIS in a wide range of industries. However, the list is by no means exhaustive!
