Spatial Sciences (#maptimeDavis)

About this Community of Practice

The Spatial Sciences Community of Practice is a welcoming and supportive community interested in working with spatial data. Our goal is to help people engage in new and creative ways with spatial data and to connect with other students and researchers who also work with spatial data.

This group focuses on engaging with spatial data through our workshop series called #maptimeDavis. These are instructor-lead formal workshops teaching a specific skills. These workshops typically (but not always) require participants to bring a laptop computer with software installed pertaining to the topic of the workshop. If a particular software is needed for a workshop, we’ll let you know what you need before hand if you register.

Membership

Anyone from UC Davis (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, post docs, staff, etc.) and our immediate community with an interest in working with spatial data are welcome to join. Participation is open to everyone, at any skill level.

How to Participate:

1. Attend events.  See below for the current #maptimeDavis Workshop Schedule.
2. Help at a workshop. Making workshops run smoothly is a team effort. We often need folks to help answer questions, relay communications to the presenter, or help participants who get stuck.
3. Present a workshop. You don’t need to be an expert to teach well.
4. Join #maptimeDavis Council, the group of people who organize each quarter’s events.

Meet-ups and Events

View full Spatial Sciences calendar

#maptimeDavis Council

Community members help advise and produce our #maptimeDavis workshop series. The team offers a variety of skills and interests and includes students, staff, and faculty. This year’s #maptimeDavis Council members are:

• Matthew Conner, librarian, UC Davis Library
• Lauren Mabe, graduate student, UC Davis Geography Graduate Group
• Alex Mandel, geospatial engineer, Development Seed
• Naomi Kalman, GIS programmer, UC Davis Campus Planning and Environmental Sciences
• Michele Tobias, data scientist, UC Davis DataLab

We thank the past council members for all of their work!

• Liam Bhajan, graduate student, Land Air Water Resources
• Lupe Franco, graduate student, Geography Graduate Group
• Veronica Herrera, graduate student, Geography Graduate Group
• Kyra Liu, undergraduate student, Environmental Science and Management
• Karen Beardsley, staff/faculty, UC Davis Global Affairs (2021-2023)
• Emma Forester, graduate student, Geography Graduate Group (2022-2023)
• Sadia Gul, graduate student, Energy Graduate Group (2021-2022)
• Mina Rezaei, graduate student, Geography Graduate Group (2021-2022)

We are always looking for volunteers to join our efforts! If you are interested in joining #maptimeDavis Council, please email Michele Tobias at mmtobias@ucdavis.edu.