Education

Ashley Liddiard currently works at the USGS as an administrative operations assistant. She's a recent graduate of Regis University with a B.A. in Politics and a B.A. in Music and is pursuing a bookkeeping clerk certificate at Red Rocks Community College. In this article she explains how she got her position at USGS and what's ahead.

URISA’s 50th anniversary event, GIS-Pro 2012, celebrated the past in a respectful, conservative way with familiar themes, presenters and awardees. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg asks, does this provide a glimpse into its next 50 years?

Destination Spatial is the latest strategy to draw attention to the need for geospatial practitioners, and to guide students and job changers toward those careers. This effort, launched in Queensland, Australia, is picking up steam and now supports all of Australia and New Zealand. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg details what makes it different from previous approaches.

A survey of companies that employ geospatial works reveals U.S. organizations’ current and future hiring plans.

How are you preparing for your big interview for your first (or fifth) GIS job?  What hard questions should you expect? Directions Magazine shares 20 probing questions to use for practice.

Two images from the Landsat 7 satellite are included in the new U.S Post Office series of 15 Earthscapes Forever stamps. Released October 1 to kick off National Stamp Collecting Month, the stamps vividly portray America’s diverse landscapes as viewed from heights of several hundred feet above the Earth to several hundred miles in space.

How do you qualify to receive your GIS Certification? Sheila Wilson, executive director of the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI), has the answers to all the questions you might have, whether you are new to GIS or have been in the profession for a long time.

The mission of NASA’s DEVELOP program is to unite NASA Earth observations with society to foster future innovation and cultivate the professionals of tomorrow by addressing diverse environmental issues today. Over 300 interns, high school through graduate school, participate in DEVELOP each year and are afforded an opportunity to refine their research skills using NASA science and technology products. This article provides a brief introduction to the internships, research and end-user partnerships.

The Spatial Computing-2020 workshop was organized to address the current scattering of research in spatial computing across many sub-disciplines. The organizing committee behind the event shares the big takeaways from the September meeting held in Washington DC.

If you took a break from your job search over the summer, September might be the right time to jump back into the fray. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg has collected some new resources that can help GIS job seekers in their quest.