PSW News
Happy Holidays!
December 23, 2015 Volume 1 Issue 4
GIS Day 2015
University of California, Berkeley
Inside This Issue GIS Day 2015 1
Pacific Southwest Region Election 3
PROSE 5
More GIS Day Photos 4
Pacific Southwest Region Scholarships 4
Upcoming Events 5
New Members 5
CalGIS 2016 5
Identify an Historic Aerial Photo Contest 6
Your Region Council 7
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University of California, Santa Barbara
GIS Day 2016
The Pacific Southwest Region of ASPRS can provide support for your GIS Day event
next year. The Region typically provides a monetary stipend to help finance
refreshments at GIS Day events throughout the Region. We can also help to identify
possible speakers for the technical portion of your GIS Day festivities.
Please contact us at [email protected] if you would like assistance in organizing a
GIS Day event in 2016.
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Pacific Southwest Region Council – Election Underway By Lorraine Amenda
PHENOLOGY RESEARCH AND OBSERVATIONS OF SOUTHWEST ECOSYSTEMS (PROSE)
Student Poster Winners (L) Mallory Barnes 1st place, Consideration of sub-annual climate conditions improves understanding of vegetation response to drought in the Southwest), Armando Barreto Munoz (2nd place, VI-PHEN: an online vegetation index and phenology analysis tool), Jesus Rodriguez (3rd place, Downscaling MODIS evapotranspiration via cokriging in the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District, Yuma, AZ) with PROSE organizer Jessica Walker (R)
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More Photos from GIS Day 2015
. . . from Berkeley
and Santa Barbara . . .
Pacific Southwest Region Scholarships Deadline Extended!
The Pacific Southwest Region ASPRS will once again
be offering scholarships to our student members.
Applications are available on the Region’s website –
PSWASPRS.org.
Due to the low number of applications received, the
deadline for completed applications has been
extended to February 15, 2016.
Three Scholarships in the amount of $1,000 will be
awarded. One each to students in the following
fields:
Photogrammetry
Remote Sensing
GIS
Application Requirements:
Completed Application Form
College Transcripts (Unofficial Copy is Acceptable)
One Page Essay on “How Can ASPRS, Nationally or
Regionally, Provide More Value to Students”
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CalGIS 2016 22nd Annual California GIS Conference May 10-12, 2016, Anaheim, California.
Would You Like a Technical Session in Your Area?
Upcoming Events of Interest:
January 28, 2016 Installation of 2016 Region Council
CSU, Fresno, 6 p.m. and Technical Session
January 29-30, 2016 CSUF Geomatics Conference
Fresno, CA
April 29, 2016 SDSU Colloquium
San Diego, CA
May 10-12, 2016 California GIS Conference
Anaheim, CA
New Members
The Pacific Southwest Region ASPRS Membership Committee offers a
Big Welcome to the following NEW MEMBERS!
October 2015 November 2015 December 2015 Angela Casas Timothy Burrows * Madison Davis * Douglas Carner Julia Goldsworth * Jill Rundall *
* = Student Member
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Identify an Historic Aerial Photo Contest If you can identify the area shown in the
photo to the right, send an email to
[email protected] and be entered into
a drawing for a Pacific Southwest Region
ASPRS USB Drive. Eligible entries must
be received by January 20, 2016.
All who correctly identify the scene
shown in the historic photo will be
identified, along with the winner, in our
next edition of the newsletter.
Hint: Within 100 Miles of the Capitol Rotunda in Sacramento, CA
Can you identify the area shown in this photo from the Towill, Inc., archives? Email your answer to [email protected] to
qualify for the prize drawing.
Our first Hawai’i photo did pretty well. We have four correct identifications
– Jeffrey Miller, Linda Tucker, James Scarborough, and Joseph McGlinchy.
James Scarborough won the raffle and received a Pacific Southwest
Region of ASPRS USB drive.
Diamond Head/Waikiki, Oahu, Hawai’i
February 16, 1965 – A portion of the Island of Oahu featuring Diamond
Head and Waikiki.
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Your Pacific Southwest Region Council
The officers for the Pacific Southwest Region are working hard to provide you with quality technical
presentations near to home.
In the last few years we’ve offered technical sessions in San Diego, Fresno, Reno, and Davis. We are currently planning
sessions for 2016. If you have suggestions for locations and topics for a session near where you live, please contact one of
our officers or the region email at [email protected].
President: Scott Miller, CP [email protected]
Vice President: Matt Coleman, CP [email protected]
Past President: Bill Zeman [email protected]
Secretary/Treasurer: Lorraine Amenda, CP, PLS [email protected]
National Director: Alan Mikuni, CP, PE [email protected]
Regional Directors: Steve Barton [email protected]
John Erickson, CP, PLS [email protected]
Todd Mitchell, CMS [email protected]
Steven J. Steinberg, Ph.D., GISP [email protected]
Sam Perez [email protected]
Ross Winans [email protected]
Webmaster: Jeffrey Miller [email protected]
We welcome any suggestions that would allow us to better serve ASPRS membership in Arizona, California,
Nevada, Hawai’i, and the Pacific Islands.
Can you suggest a better name for our
Newsletter? Send your suggestions to
[email protected]. If your
suggestion is adopted, you’ll receive a
PSW Region USB Drive as a prize!
