QGIS Workshop with MSU Library

QGIS Workshop at KBS

Free

Saturday, Oct. 8 from 1-4pm

This three-hour workshop gives participants the opportunity to learn QGIS, the free and open source geospatial software package. The content of the workshop revolves around a research/planning question using data from Detroit. Skills included in the workshop are making a color-shaded choropleth map, selection and sub-setting data, geocoding within QGIS, joining data together, creating buffers and more. If you have taken other library workshops on QGIS the workshop will review and build on earlier skills, and if you are totally unfamiliar with QGIS this workshop will give you an introduction to the software.

Pre-registration is required and space is limited!  Register here through the MSU Library.

Workshop Instructors:

Amanda Tickner is the GIS Librarian at Michigan State University. She has a MLS and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a B.A. from the University of Minnesota. She was involved in an interdisciplinary research project reconstructing historical land use in Burgundy, France using GIS for a decade prior to coming to Michigan State.

Kasey Wilson is the GIS staff-person at the MSU Map Library.  He holds a B.A. in History from Western Carolina University and an M.A. in Classical Archaeology from the University of British Columbia.

Where will this workshop take place?

Stack Classroom 139

Kellogg Biological Station

3700 East Gull Lake Dr.

Hickory Corners, MI 49060

The W.K. Kellogg Biological Station is located in SW Michigan, about 90 minutes from main campus.  Directions and Maps can be found here.    Please park in the Faculty and Staff Parking near the Stack Building (#15), use this map for reference.  Our class will meet in room 139 of the Stack Building.

Prior to the event, please email karahaas@msu.edu with questions about the location or atickner@mail.lib.msu.edu with questions about the program.