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Home News Education Research Services Events Data Jobs Links Contact Us	The Geospatial Centroid at CSU is dedicated to facilitating campus-wide communication about events, research, and education in geospatial sciences. The Centroid is a resource and research center at Colorado State University established to provide students, faculty, and the Colorado community with information about GIS at CSU and how these activities link to broader statewide, regional and global initiatives. Workshop: Web Mapping with Open Source - Monday, May 21, 9:00 - Noon Join the Centroid in welcoming Jennifer Strahan from Green Info Network to CSU on Monday, May 21. Jennifer will be offering a hands-on workshop that introduces open source options for publishing maps on the web. Seating is limited! To register, click here. (You will be asked to create a new account. It will be used only for this workshop.) Cool New Resource for Teaching Spatial Thinking: SpatiaLABS These new labs inspire undergraduate students from multiple disciplines to utilize spatial thinking and GIS tools to analyze a range of topics. Check out the 50 labs/activities. Access to datasets is restricted to CSU affiliates. (Subscription to SpatiaLABS made possible with support from The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT) at CSU.) High-Tech Trees Website Launched! The Geospatial Centroid, in partnership with CSU Facilities, received a mini-grant from the Warner College of Natural Resources last year to develop an online inventory of trees on the CSU campus. The beta version of the website is now available at http://trees.warnercnr.colostate.edu/server. The project was launched at the Arbor Day celebration on April 20. Click here for additional information about High-Tech Trees. Brown Bag Lunch Check back soon for future Brown Bag presentations Centroid Newsletter The first edition of the Centroid Newsletter can be downloaded from here. COMaP v9 Available for Download: October 2011 The Colorado Ownership, Management and Protection (COMaP) public data set is now available for download from here. GEOSPATIAL Listserv To receive information about activities and events of the Geospatial Centroid, subscribe to CSU's GEOSPATIAL listserv. Select GEOSPATIAL from the drop-down list and include your contact information. GIS in Colorado: Industry Profile and Outlook What is the outlook for occupations in the GIS field? This report, compiled by Chad Young, summarizes both national and statewide statistics on GIS-related occupations and what their potential for growth will be. Executive Summary. Help Desk Assistance with GIS-related questions is available in the Centroid office (NR302). To set up an appointment (recommended): gis@colostate.edu or call: 970-491-2774 Who's Who at CSU? Geospatial Directory Many professors, researchers, students and others at CSU utilize GIS and other spatial technologies in their work. We are compiling a current listing of who's doing what and how to contact them. Want to be included? Send your contact information and areas of interest/expertise to: gis@colostate.edu Are you ready for a revolution? The Geospatial Revolution is underway. centroid: (n) 1. the center of gravity or mathematically exact center of an irregularly shaped polygon. 2. The virtual center of geospatial technologies and activities at Colorado State University. Funded by the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES)
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