Friday 17th June 2016
09.30 Coffee / Tea (Old Library)
10.00 Welcome (Ogilvie Room)
Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
10.10 Session: GIS & Health (Ogilvie Room)
Chair: Owen Macdonald (University of Edinburgh)
Life Course, Green Space and Health
Mark Cherrie (University of Edinburgh)
Inequalities in Colorectal Cancer Screening Participation
Alistair Geddes (University of Dundee)
11.10 Coffee
11.30 Session: Understanding GIS (Ogilvie Room)
Chair: Neil Stuart (University of Edinburgh)
Teaching GIS to non-geographers
Tom Armitage (EDINA)
Mapping/GIS Understanding and Responding to the "So What?" Question
That You Will Hear in your Profession
Stuart Miller (TerraGo Technologies)
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Session: Height and Depth (Room 2.13)
Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
How Deep Is Your Loch? History Re-imagined
Phil Taylor (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)
Lessons in LiDAR
Caroline Broughton (WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff)
15.00 Tea
15.30 Session: UAVs (Room 2.13)
Chair: David Cooper (University of Edinburgh)
The Democratisation of Earth Observation: A Drone Story
Paul Georgie (GeoGeo)
Leveraging GIS Towards Effective Drone Flight Planning: A Start Up's Journey
Kerr Mackinnon (Flyte Technologies)
16.30 Demonstrations of Current Students' Work
Open Forum
Chair: Bruce Gittings (University of Edinburgh)
17.30 Close
FRIDAY EVENING: From 6.00pm Pear Tree (opp. Appleton Tower)
7.30pm Restaurant (Ti Amo, South Bridge)
c.10.30pm Brass Monkey (Drummond Street)
SATURDAY EVENT: From 3.00pm 'til v.late BBQ at Bruce's House (Tel: 0131 667 0184 to make sure its on if weather poor)
26 Cameron March (by Cameron Toll Shopping Centre)
Bring fancy meat (if you want to) and drink. Sausages, burgers, salads, rolls and other basics provided.