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CRS bids farewell to Gabe Westmaas, systems administrator extraordinaire, who is leaving for an out of state position as of May 16, 2008. We also welcome new computer support staffer Ian Rees.
CRS welcomes James Hammond as the newest member of the computer support team, starting Aug. 2007. We also have a new email address for support requests. Please use the new address ibssupport@colorado.edu. Gabe and James can also be reached at 303-492-2148, but email is preferred.
Tom Dickinson and Nancy Thorwardson provided technical help with creating maps and illustrations for Bill Travis' 2007 book, "New Geographies of the American West: Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place". (April 2007)
Tom Dickinson and Nancy Thorwardson were co-authors and created maps, charts, and illustrations for a special issue of Eurasian Geography and Economics, March-April, 2007, edited by John O'Loughlin.
Jani Little attended the Computer Directors Meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of American in New York, March 29-31.
The meeting focused on disaster recovery strategies, the optimum physical environments for servers, integrated web services software for facilitating collaboration between colleagues from different institutions, optimizing email services for population centers, and securing sensitive data and enforcing sensitive data agreements.
Jani Little attended the IPUMS Winter Workshop at the Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, Jan 10-12, 2007.
The workshop provided indepth exposure and training in the use of the products developed by the Minnesota Population Center. These include:
- The National Historic GIS portal to historical U.S. Census geographic data
- The Integrated Public Use Micro Surveys for the U.S, the Health Interview Series, the CPS, and the ACS
- The North Atlantic Population Project for electronic access to complete records for censuses prior to and including 1930
- The Integrated Public Use Micro Surveys for International Censuses
Congratulations to Jani Little for having completed 25 years of service with the University of Colorado at Boulder!
Jani Little attended the Computer Directors Meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Los Angeles, California, March 28- April 1, 2006. In addition, she presented "What Can the Age Composition of a Population Tell Us about the Age Composition of Its Out-Migrants?" at the poster session on Migration, Urbanization, Neighborhood and Residential Context.
Tom Dickinson attended the Association of American Geographers 2006 Annual Meeting, held March 7-11, in Chicago, Illinois. He gave a talk, "Assessing landscape vulnerability in high amenity areas: A GIS approach using land tenure pattern."
Please visit the memorial website for Sean Blackburn, who died unexpectedly on September 29, 2005. He worked for IBS Computing and Research Services doing web and GIS work and had a long and distinguished career as a performer of western swing music.
Jani Little was selected to attend a workshop on the American Community Survey (ACS), held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor August 8-10, 2005 and sponsored by ICPSR.
The ACS is an annual survey which replaces the survey component of the decennial census. The course covered the purpose, structure, and research applications of the ACS.
