Presentations

Our Environment of Light: An Interdisciplinary Survey Course

Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Annual Conference, July 2020

Finding Your Roots: Understanding America’s Immigrant History Through Genealogy

Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference, October 2018

Open Educational Resources for Community Service with Web-Based Geographic Information Science and Technology

NERCOMP Professional Development Opportunity on OER: Obtaining Exceptional Results, College of the Holy Cross, February 2018

Cities, Schools, and Highways   Powerpoint PDF

Institute for Social Science Research, University of Massachusetts Amherst, December 2015

Research Computing at Amherst College

Future Directions in Research Computing in the Northeast, Waltham MA, September 2015

Community Service with Web-Based Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST): Blended Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century

Five College Blended Learning Institute, Amherst College, May 2015

Supporting Ebola First Responders

HackEbola, University of Massachusetts Amherst, November 2014

News: HackEbola at UMass Aids Fight Against West African Epidemic

Cities, Schools, and Space: Successes, Failures, Lessons Learned   Powerpoint PDF

Student-Faculty Research Collaboration in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amherst College, December 2012

Spatial Humanities in the Five Colleges Powerpoint PDF

GIS and Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Bucknell University, November 2012

Assessing the Impact of the Inner Belt: The Local Community, MIT, and the Housing Market
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Teaching Workshop: Using Local and Regional History in History and Foundations Classrooms
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HES Digital Drop-In Session: Online Mapping

History of Education Society Annual Meeting, Seattle WA, November 2012

Making Census of Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schools, Highways, and Historical GIS Powerpoint PDF

NEArc Spring Conference, Smith College, May 2012

Elementary School Construction in Cambridge, 1960-1979: Reconstructing the Role of Space, Race, and Class in School Assignment Decisions

Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Boston MA, November 2011

Cities, Schools, and Space (Long Talk)   Powerpoint PDF

NEArc Fall Conference, Saratoga Springs NY, November 2011

Cities, Schools, and Space (Lightning Talk)   Powerpoint PDF

NEArc Spring Conference, Smith College, May 2011

Cityscapes: An Online Discovery Tool for Urban and Cultural Studies   Powerpoint PDF

CGA Conference on Geospatial Collaboration: New Common Ground, Harvard University, May 2011

Cities, Schools, and Space: Collaborative Research as Pedagogy   Powerpoint PDF

Liberal Arts Education, Collaborative Research, and the Humanities, Swarthmore College, April 2011

Cityscapes: An Online Discovery Tool for Urban and Cultural Studies   Powerpoint PDF

ICT Summit, University of Massachusetts, March 2011

GTiler: A Python Script to Generate Google Tiles From a Georeferenced Image   Movie PDF

GeoDev Meet-Up, Boston MA, December 2010

Building Historical Maps for Cityscapes,
     An Online Discovery Tool for Urban and Cultural Studies   Movie PDF

NEArc Annual Conference, Newport RI, November 2010

Circles (●) and Squares (■) and Diamonds (◆), Oh My!

NEArc Spring Conference, Smith College, May 2010

GIS, Gratis: Free Clients for Web Mapping Services

NITLE Geospatial Technologies in the Liberal Arts Conference, Skidmore College, September 2009

Open Sesame: Open Source GIS Servers, Databases, and Clients

NITLE Geospatial Technologies in the Liberal Arts Conference, Skidmore College, September 2009

Creating Cartograms: Making Geographic Areas Speak Volumes

NEArc Spring Conference, Smith College, May 2009

Moran's I: Are Those Clusters Random or Meaningful?

Skidmore Regional GIS Conference, January 2009

Telling Tales and Solving Mysteries with Maps:

Teaching and Technology Lunch for Amherst College Faculty, October 2008

Introducing GIS via College-Sponsored Community Service Activities

NEArc Fall Conference, Burlington, VT, November 2007