AGI - Site Visits

Environmental SIG Site Visits

The Site Visit programme is open to all AGI members and aims to visit at least three "environmental" organisations per year throughout Great Britain.

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THE ENVSIG WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE MET OFFICE

July the 18th saw another successful site visit, this time to the Met Office. Thank you to all those who made this possible and to those attendees. Our review of the day will be posted here soon!

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Recent Site Visits

March 2012: GI CAREERS SEMINAR AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Robert, Angharad, Dave, Kay and Chris of the Environmental Special Interest Group of the AGI (Association for Geographic Information) formed a panel at the University College London to answer questions from postgraduate students in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering on career options related to Geographic Information. Panel members gave a brief summary of their career, their qualifications, the route that brought them into GI-related work, and the skills and experience which helped them get there. They then answered questions on pathways to GI related work; issues included professional connections, internships, using AGI and other organisations to meet people, work in the NGO sector, GIS developer or GIS Analyst?, salary levels, presentation of your cv and yourself. Host Dr.Claire Ellul expressed her intention to repeat the seminar next year.

March 2012: Thames Tunnel

The AGI Environmental SIG visited The Thames Tunnel Project in March this year; Members were provided with a morning of excellent presentations, delivered by Kendall James and his GIS team. The presentations covered an interesting range of areas offering an overview of the Thames Tunnel project and its existence; the Environmental effort and how the eight proposed sites for the main tunnel drive site were chosen using GIS as the tool.

Want to know what you missed, then read the review .

October 2011: Kew's Millennium Seed Bank

The AGI Environmental SIG visited Kew's Millennium Seed Bank partnership last month; the largest ex-situ plant conservation project in the world with a focus on global plant life faced with the treat of extinction and plants of most use in the future.

The programme for the day included presentations by Dr John Hickie, the Head of the Botanical Information Section and Justin Moat, Head of Kew's GIS Unit followed by a tour of the facilities. For an insight into the day, see our summary of the visit.

In addition to the obvious benefits of attending such a world class facility, attendees were able to allocate 1.5 points towards the AGI continuing professional development scheme.