The Center for Sustainability and the Environment’s Sustainability Perspectives Series welcomes Nick Hollingshead, geospatial analyst for Cornell University. Hollingshead will explain how today, more than ever before, we are surrounded by spatial data, whether it’s using the GPS in our smartphones to navigate to a restaurant or examining a map of temperature changes due to global climate change. But how well do we understand this spatial information? When are we fooled by poor spatial data and how can we learn to be more spatially intelligent? This lecture will focus on the principles of spatial thinking and geography in our everyday lives and in the study of our global environment.
This talk is held in conjunction with the In Residence program. It will take place at 12:20 p.m. Monday, February 13, in the deWitt Lecture Room (Zabriskie 106) on the Wells College campus. Admission is free, and all are welcome to attend.
Wells is committed to providing access to all events; anyone needing assistance should contact Marian Brown, director of the Center for Sustainability and the Environment, as soon as possible.