Last week, at Google’s Mountain View headquarters, a group of 74 professors and students met for a Geological Society of America Penrose Conference to discuss “Visualizing the Possibilities for Geoscience Education and Research“.
While the event was hosted at Google, and the Google folks certainly helped with logistics, the event was run by members of the geospatial community, for the purpose of discussing the role of Google Earth in higher education and research.
The week provided a wealth of ideas and information, such as Barb Tewksbury’s discussion of geologic map interpretation and John Bailey and Sean Askey’s presentation about generating tours from lines.
For a quick look at what the conference was like, Eugene Potapov shot this brief video:
To learn more about the topics discussed at the conference, your best resource for now are the blogs of Rich Treves and Meg Stewart, as they’ve both posted a lot of great information from the week. The official site should be updated soon with more detail about each presentation.
All in all, it sounds like it was a very educational week. Were any of you among the attendees? Leave a comment and let us know what you thought of the conference.
About Mickey Mellen
Mickey has been using Google Earth since it was released in 2005, and has created a variety of geo-related sites including Google Earth Hacks. He runs a web design firm in Marietta, GA, where he lives with his wife and two kids.
Español:
Deberían hacer una aplicación como Building Maker para colocar arboles en Google Earth, Google lo apruebe ¿como en Google SketchUp? para quedar seleccionado como modelo de Google Earth en la papa “Arboles”
English:
Should make an application as Building Maker to put trees on Google Earth, Google approves how in Google SketchUp? to be selected as a model for Google Earth in potato “Trees ”