SFE : la Société Française d'Écologie GISjobs.com - GIS Jobs Vacancies and Resumes for Geographic Information Systems The Environmentalist Association pour la sauvegarde de la biodiversité TENDUA a été créée en 2008, après un voyage en Inde où, en dépit de nombreux parcs nationaux, la faune sauvage et ses habitats sont menacés. Le constat est malheureusement planétaire : partout dans le monde, la biodiversité est en danger, sur terre et dans les mers. La 6e extinction majeure de biodiversité est en cours : en 150 ans l’homme a réussi à détruire son environnement comme il ne l’avait jamais fait auparavant. En août 2013, il a été estimé que l’humanité, par sa consommation effrénée, a dépassé la capacité de régénération de la Terre. Les industriels font la course aux brevets sur des animaux et plantes non encore répertoriées qui vivent dans le « no man’s land » océanique ou les rares forêts primaires encore intactes des pays plus pauvres afin d’en tirer un profit sonnant et trébuchant sous le fallacieux prétexte de soigner les maux des hommes des pays riches. Cela étant, nous n’avons plus le temps d’être pessimistes. Une nouvelle relation entre l’homme et la nature
Internships in GIS – Where to find an opportunity? Geospatial Internships – Where to find an opportunity? This is probably one of the main questions I get asked when I am speaking to new graduates or people wanting to get experience in the GeoSpatial Industry. Last week’s blog post received some great feedback on Linked In and people shared some great advice about their experiences with internships. Sílvia Batista • Internships in every area of work are very necessary otherwise most of graduates won’t get the experience and therefore wouldn’t be able to put their recently acquired skills in action.Chuck Skaggs • I got into GIS 25 years ago on a paid internship…been doing it ever since!!! This week I am going to look at some ways to get yourself an internship that will be both beneficial to you and the employer. Recruitment Sites Not too many recruitment sites have intern categories but there are a few resources that maybe of interest to you. Internships.com Using the keyword GIS I found 23 possible internships at the time of writing this.
ECNC : expertise Centre for biodiversity and sustainable development UNEP-WCMC Land Use Analysis of the Salmon River Watershed Table 1: Original Land Use Classification Schemes for each time period In order to compare the data sets the land use attributes were subjectively reclassified to have any combination of the following seven land use classes (Table 2): Agriculture Residential Commercial Parks and Recreation Transportation and Communication Resource and Industrial Government and Institutional The reclassification method was done simply by comparing the original land use classes with the new land use classes. The old land use class was changed to the new land use class that best described it. Table 2: Summary of reclassified land use attributes for each time period Each land use shapefile was converted to raster format and combined into two rasters called “Combine66_86” and “Combine86_01” using the raster calculator in ArcGIS. Maps of the agriculture land use within the Salmon River Watershed were created using ArcGIS to visualize these calculations. Slope Analysis Critical Nutrient Source Area Analysis