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Northern California Spring Conference

  • 25 Apr 2020
  • 10:00 AM - 12:15 PM
  • VIRTUAL CONFERENCE


California Map Society
Northern California Spring Conference

BECAUSE OF THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, PART OF THE CONFERENCE WILL NOW BE HELD VIRTUALLY AND THE REMAINDER WILL BE POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2021

Saturday, 25 April 2020 Agenda (Revised)

10:00-10:10 am | Welcome – President Jon Jablonski and Vice President Ron Gibbs

10:10-11:00 am | Courtney Spikes, Los Angeles, CA.  Mapping Paris After Haussmann. In 1860, Emperor Napoleon III unilaterally altered the map of Paris - doubling its size and quadrupling the population. City planner Baron Haussmann, deep into his 20-year renovation project, reconfigured the map of France’s capital into the ‘city of light’ we celebrate today. Courtney earned her degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and UCLA. She lectures at Loyola Marymount University and serves as a historical consultant for television and feature films.  Presentation followed by Q&A.

11:00-11:45 am | Juliet Rothman, San Francisco and Fred DeJarlais, Capitola, CA. Calafia: Bringing a Professional Cartographic Journal to Life.  Juliet and Fred, editor and publisher of the journal, will discuss the arduous, but rewarding path of transforming the Society’s newsletter into a publication that reflects the multifaceted interests of our members and attracts the attention of the wider cartographic world.  Presentation followed by Q&A

11:45-12:15 pm | Business Meeting

No registration is required for members.  Instructions for joining the virtual conference will be emailed to all members about one week in advance.  Non-members should email Dr. Ron Gibbs at ron@californiamapsociety.org to register and receive instructions for joining the conference.

Agenda

Times are subject to change.

10:00 Registration and Hospitality
 10:30   welcome
10:40 - 11:20 William Mosely

"Satellite imagery and wildfire response: The Palisades Fire"

Planet Labs PBC operates flocks of microsatellites providing a hi-resolution snapshot of the earth every day, and even higher-resolution satellites that capture images on demand.

Customer Success Manager William Mosely will detail how Microsoft AI for Good and Planet partnered to measure the impact of the devastating nearby Palisades fire this past January.
 11:25 - 12:05

Cal Tabuena-Frolli

"Yield 02"

Artist Cal Tabuena-Frolli is following a stint with the Santa Paula Oil Museum with a series of maps and related pieces detailing the history of oil in California, from pre-historic times through 1929. That's when most of us think California oil history begins.
 12:10 - 12:50 Ed LanFranco

 “Map Madness: Corralling, Collating and Categorizing a Cartobiliography of Beijing”

Journalist and sinophile Ed LanFranco will share the various ways the capital of China has been cartographically portrayed throughout the 20th century.
12:50 - 1:30
break
1:30 - 2:10 Jon Jablonski "Resurrecting Landscapes with Machine Vision"

Librarian Jon Jablonski is leveraging collections of aerial photography at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA to build 3-d models of 1930s Yosemite Valley, the Gaviota Coast, and more! By using Agisoft Metashape, the overlapping stereo photographs reveal long-forgotten vistas and have the potential to help find forgotten abandoned oil wells. 
2:15 - 2:50 Debra Scacco

Santa Monica's first artist-in-residence at City Yards, Debra Scacco will highlight how maps, cartography, and the landscape interact in her work as artist and curator. 

bonus: Debra's exhibition "Laboratory for the Future" at Santa Monica City Yards' Propeller Gallery is open through January 2026! She has offered to walk us through immediately after the meeting. The gallery is a short drive away


closing remarks




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