September 7-9, 2016
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
Wednesday Sept. 7th
| 2-3 | UC/Stanford Maps Group Branner Library, Teaching Corner, 397 Panama Mall |
| 4-5 | WAML Executive Board Meeting Branner Library, Teaching Corner, 397 Panama Mall |
| 5:30 | Early Bird Dinner – The Old Pro, 541 Ramona St. Palo Alto |
Events on Thursday and Friday will be held in the David Rumsey Map Center, located in the Green Library.
Thursday Sept. 8th
| 9-9:15 | Welcome |
| 9:15-10:15 | Tour of the David Rumsey Map Center |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Break, SSRC Seminar Room |
| 10:30-11 | “Hacking Rumsey,” Stace Maples |
| 11-11:30 | “Colorado Historical Mine Maps (and the ArcGIS Pro Workflow)”, Phil White |
| 11:30-12 | “A History of Fairchild Aerial Surveys,” Jon Jablonski |
| 12-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2 | “Teaching and Supporting Mapping in the Digital Humanities”, Susan Powell |
| 2-2:30 | “Omi Kuni-ezu map,” Karen Wigen |
| 2:30-3 | “The stories, politics and controversies (buried) within topographic maps,” Daniel Brendle-Moczuk |
| 3:30-5 | WAML Business Meeting |
| 6:30 | Three Seasons Resaturant, 518 Bryant St. Palo Alto |
Friday Sept. 9th
| 9-12 | Workshop: “American Panorama,” Stamen Design |
| 12-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2 | “Gold Rush navigation maps and the 1906 earthquake combined to ignite the breakthrough discovery of modern seismic science, “Ross Stein |
| 2-2:30 | “MkrGeo: Creating Geographic Makerspaces in Libraries,” Karina Wilhelm |
| 2:30-2:50 | Break, SSRC Seminar Room |
| 2:50-3:20 | “The Canadian Historical GIS Partnership,” Marcel Fortin |
| 3:20-3:50 | “Spatial and semantic discovery of observations,” Sara Lafia |
| 4-5 | WAML Sounding Board |
Saturday Sept. 10th
| 1:00 | Field Trip: San Francisco Martime Museum : |