Okay, so to kind of wrap up the day we've got our math competition. So I'm
goingto invite Jill Sherwood from the map and geospatial Hub up. Jill is a
geospatial analyst working with Matt and his group. Let me just go ahead
and say Jill is a ah lifesaver. She is. She's the person that helps every
student on campus basically get access to this analytical cartography
software. So this g I s stuff, this mapping stuff. She's kind of the key
holder of a lot of that, and she helps out a lot of students, and, um,
she's a pleasure to work with. So Jill
I'm going, Tio Risk again using the last bit of my voice to further
acknowledge the very dynamic role that Jill plays far beyond distributing
software licenses. The students, which is absolutely critical here,
especially at one of the largest public universities in the country with
an increasingly large G I s geographic information systems, user base. Um
, but that is a large chunk of what Jill has found herself doing right now
, as we currently have a vacancy for a new map. Ingenious specialist tto
whom many of those duties of license distributions will hopefully be
assigned. But Jill is also a ah wonderful strategist for larger scale
visioning on the future of geospatial data management. We're living in the
era of big data, sure, but often overlooked is the fact that we're living
in the era of big geo data. You know, there's this proliferation and
inundation with geo tagged imagery and multi and hyper spectral satellite
and global navigation satellite system. Um consolations not only our GPS
system here in the United States, but also Galileo in Europe and the
Russians glow nous and by dough in China. So we have ah, this
proliferation of data Great We need someone like Jill with her expertise
and data management and data strategizing tto help us think of long term
data preservation and data distribution strategies. So, um, this may seem
like a long rent, but it was warranted. The just teo basically said to you
that I rely on Jill for so so much, including the successful execution of
what I think has been a very good day. One. So without further ado, thank
you for that, Nick. I just want to say, let's give it up for Joe Sherwood
here and taking a little joke.
Well, thank you for that matter. Um, I'm just going to say, even when Matt
has lost his voice, I'm still has more soft spoken counterpart. So if you
can't hear me, let me know. Um, since this conference is really about maps
and mapping the Grand Canyon, we decided to have a student math
competition to kind of showcase the work up up incoming cartographers. Um
, the competition was open to students enrolled in any certificate,
college or university. And, um, we have three categories for it. So, um,
we had an artistic data driven static and a data driven dynamic um, the
only thing that we asked, uh, all of the categories is that they focus on
some aspect of the Grand Canyon, as this is a conference about the Grand
Canyon. So we're very excited to get a fair number of, uh, submissions for
this, and so will kind of get onto that, um, before and announce the
winner's. Though I'd like to acknowledge just the judges for their time in
this, um, the three categories. The best artistic map category. The judges
, uh, Dori Griffin sitting right here in front of me. Thank you. Dori. Um
, Alan, my singer who's not here and Karina will home. Uh, she was here,
but I'm not sure she's must have left data driven, static map. The judges
were, uh, Barbara Capital. Laurie, Uh, Shea, Lamar, and and myself and
then data driven dynamic map was again Barbara to trap it'LL Uri myself
and Stephanie Dietrich. And unfortunately, no one took us up on the offer
of the dynamic maps, so we were kind of left with the two categories, but
we really did get some really good submission. So we're happy about that.
And with that, um, story's gonna introduce the best artistic map winner.
Hi, everyone. Um, so Karina and Ellen and I had the really delightful job
of judging the artistic maps category. Um, and all three of us felt quite
unanimously that Elizabeth Moore's Siri's of maps, which we're about to
see with just a few words from Elizabeth artist statements about them
really offered an original perspective, dynamically interpreting the idea
of mapping the Grand Canyon. I'm so there are three pieces in the series.
The first is Rise, which consists of thirteen separate panels that make
up a continuous image. So any additional art historians among you know
that it dip tic is an image sliced into two pieces that are sat next to
each other and Elizabeth tells us so. This is a thirteen piece or trade
tick image. Um, it's a hills a hill shade, capturing the exact position of
the sun at nine a. M. On February the twenty six, two thousand nineteen,
when the ultimate play of shadows or cascading down the canyon walls. The
next in the series is three D. So this is a stereo scope. Pick an eclipse
of the Grand Canyon at sunrise at the same day and time so and Anna Cliff
is a pair of images, with one shifted to the red band and the other
shifted to the scion. And then they overlay to make a three D effect. And
a stereo scope is a pair of the images that are taken from slightly
different angles to kind of mimic the way that human perspective works. So
those two technologies combined here, and then finally, we're looking at
Horizons. I'm an Elizabeth reflects on how tone mostly Powell was the
first white men to explore the Grand Canyon to step foot in the Grand
Canyon and February of nineteen nineteen, a really huge step and
exploration, Um, and now we consider the Grand Canyon one of the seven
wonders of the world. I'm juxtapose here with the New Horizons Space
Telescope, which is also exposing us again. Teo New Horizons. I'm so
offering us as viewers chances to reflect on the vastness of the Grand
Canyon and our own human scale in new and really, really gauging glaze On
behalf of the judging panel, I'm really happy to present this award to
Elizabeth More. Elizabeth, are you here with us? By any chance
we'LL track her down. Thank you
Well, we have these really nice certificate. So, um, Elizabeth, if you're
watching or anything, we have this for you when you're ready for it. Um,
so the next category, the data driven static category. This is really
about integrating, uh, various sources of data into a creative, insightful
, informative, cartographic product. We had some really good submissions
for this, which made it hard for, uh, Barbara and Shay and I to really
decide on this. But after looking at some of the maps, we chose Anna
riling zmapp from the University of Denver. And she did a Siri's of
geologic trail maps of the Grand Canyon.
And this is just one of her products.
Her. I'm just going to read her kind of view of this whole map, and it's a
It's a really beautiful map. She did. Three of these so pretty stunning.
Um, these maps combine a geologic trip log and guide book with the utility
of a topographic Till Matt term out. The concept is for anyone, regardless
of geologic, our navigational aptitude to use the map to hike and gain a
deeper understanding of the cannons. Geology Bye, pausing at each geology
stop to read about an observer geologic feature of interest. Such a stream
piracy, the tanner graven, or the great un conformity. The map also
contains trail info, elevation profile, water sources, that country zoning
and history. And then on the reverse of each map is the map legend and a
Siri's of graphics and photos. Information about the geology of the canyon.
The color scheme from the rocks on the map has continued through the
graphics on the reverse, and almost every feature on the map is data
driven. So some of the comments from the judges we really were impressed
by the amount of information that she included in this map and also the
way that she laid it out each and every one was just a beautiful piece of
work. Um, the sheik combine an amazing collection of data stories and maps
and imagery from a wide variety of sources. To create these products. She
created you logic maps that are very functional and informer apartment of
representations of the geology of the canyon that are obviously accessible
to a wide variety users. In addition, she was easily she took a lot of
information, a large amount information. Combine it all together into a
easily readable product. So and behalf of the data driven esthetic
committee, um, we wanted to present and a riling this certificate also, Um
, I don't think she's here is she's from the University of Denver. You are
here. That's amazing. Oh, hey,
maybe
go ahead and enjoy your moment here. Uh, I just would like to thank
everyone that made them. It's not possible because of the geologic data
was prepared for me, basically. And I just digested it. Um, and also, I
had some proofs printed of each of these maps. I did Hermit grand youto
Hance and Tanner. Um, and the idea is to do a geologic trail map for, um
Well, whatever trail I want to know the agility about. So I have some of
those that anyone wants. Thank you so much.
So, yeah. So what? That, um congratulations to Anna and Elizabeth. And
thank you. All of the students who submitted there really were some great
pieces of work, so thank you.