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.