Summer Courses: LARC and PLSC

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Risk Analyst/GIS Specialist with State of Maryland

Job opportunity with the Maryland Emergency Management Agency:

https://www.jobapscloud.com/MD/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1=21&R2=002586&R3=0030

MSGIC Emerging Professionals Industry Talks Series & Panel

The Emerging Professional Working Group has launched the 2021 Industry Talks Series. This event consists of a series of interviews with young professionals working in a variety of disciplines in the geospatial industry. This series is intended as an opportunity for students and emerging professionals to learn about our presenters' experiences entering the workforce and the skills and tips they've acquired along the way.

The 2021 Industry Professional Talks will include a series of interviews with the panelists posted on the MSGIC website during the week of April 19th - 23nd, followed by an opportunity to engage the presenters directly at a virtual panel on April 28th. Interviews will be available here:

https://msgic.org/msgicintheclassroom/

Interviews are available on the MSGIC website now!

Presenters:
Environment: Stephanie D'Anna, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Engineering & Utilities: Christine Chang, AECOM
Environmental Engineering: Kayla Rhue, Maryland Environmental Service
Transportation & Planning: Hannah Davis, Wallace Montgomery
Health & Human Services: Jonathan Gross, Baltimore City Health Department

The panel will be held April 28th from 11am - Noon. To register and attend the panel, see the attached flyer and visit the MSGIC Events Calendar. This event is open to the public, so please forward to anyone who may be interested.

Thank you,

Graham Twibell

MSGIC Chair 2020-2021

PAID USGS Student Intern Opportunity Announcement

Three intern positions available at USGIF!

Help spread the word or apply!!

https://usgif.org/about/#career-opportunities

Apply for Summer/Fall 2021 BSOS Undergraduate Experience Funds!

Apply today for BSOS Summer/Fall 2021 Undergraduate Experience Funds!

These funds assist undergraduate BSOS majors engaged in experiential learning outside the classroom, such as unpaid internships, research, service-learning, and professional or academic virtual conferences. The funds are intended to help offset expenses related to such activities including, but not limited to;

pandemic conscious travel/transportation expenses
pandemic related relocation expenses
professional attire
opportunity costs, (i.e. the need to give up a part-time paid job in order to take an unpaid internship.)
software/technology, material needs, not provided by employer/University, but essential to the experience.
conference fees

For additional examples on the kinds of expenses that may be considered for funding, please click here.

If you are a BSOS student with financial need that is preventing you from taking advantage of an unpaid opportunity, you are encouraged to apply for BSOS Undergraduate Experience Funds.

The best consideration date for Summer/Fall 2021 experience applications is Tuesday, June 1, 2021 by 5 PM. Funding will be allocated on a rolling basis, based on the availability of funds. This application will close on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 by 5 PM or when funding for Summer/Fall 2021 experiences has been exhausted.

Click here to apply.
Before submitting your application, make sure to review the eligibility criteria.

Questions regarding the scholarships or the application process can be
e-mailed to bsos-scholarships@umd.edu.

Commercial Space Startups, Urban Planning for the Future, and more this Summer!

Hello GeoTerps!

We wanted to share with you all today four new and exciting summer-only courses! These courses are NOT offered during the Fall/Spring semesters. Email geog-advise@umd.edu to see how they might fit into your degree plan!

GEOG398X: Commercial Space Startups and Entrepreneurship

Dr. Hannah Kerner

Students will be introduced to the commercial "newspace" industry as it relates to startup companies working on products and services related to geospatial technologies. Lectures will include guest speakers from newspace companies and investors. In addition, students will learn about how to develop a startup idea, stages of investment, etc. culminating in their own space-related startup pitch.

GEOG298C: Urban Futures: Planning for a Changing Climate

Dr. Keith Yearwood

How are the cities of the world adapting to or planning to adapt to climate change? This course focuses on urban areas and the environment, specifically how anthropogenic factors have impacted the environment and how the environment has responded. The aim is to discover how associated and concomitant problems owing to the development and use of the planets resources are created and the various approaches to reduce the negative impacts of these problems through a variety of approaches.

GEOG130: Development Geography: Environmental & Social Justice (Scholarship in Practice Gen Ed!)

Prof. Ipsita Kumar

The geography of economic, social, and environmental well-being and inequality. The course will provide an integrated perspective on the causes, interconnections, and consequences across time and space of, among others, globalization, climate change, poverty, employment, migration and urban growth, agricultural productivity, rural development, policies and international trade. Portraits of selected countries and regions will be developed.

GEOG340: Geomorphology