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During the UNIGIS International annual network meeting, held this year in Krakow – Poland, the 2013 winner and runners-up in the UNIGIS Academic Excellence Award, dedicated to the network’s top Master’s theses, were announced. Jeroen Steenbeek was elected by the
Climate change is likely to affect living conditions in urban areas, causing, for example, an increase in the urban heat island effect. Understanding why urban areas have a higher temperature than their rural surroundings and finding appropriate adaptation measures are
Joris Tieleman, educated in GIS by the SPINlab during his VU-master studies in Spatial, Transport and Environmental Economics (STREEM), has won the prestiguous national ESRI Young Scholar Award 2013 for his UvA master thesis in Human Geography entitled The Shifting Cityscape
The updated land-use projections related to the Global Economy (GE) and Regional Communities (RC) scenarios have been released. These scenarios were initially developed by a consortium of Dutch research institutes (CPB et al., 2006) and translated into land-use projections in
Uit 40 inzendingen zijn drie datasets genomineerd voor de Nederlandse Dataprijs voor humaniora en sociale wetenschappen, jaarlijks uitgereikt door DANS-KNAW. Het Geoplaza dataportaal van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is een van de drie genomineerden “De drie genomineerde datasets hebben stuk
Hoogleraar Ruimtelijke Informatica Henk Scholten is, samen met zes anderen, genomineerd voor de Huibregtsenprijs 2012 voor het beste Nederlandse onderzoek ‘dat opvallend wetenschappelijk vernieuwend is en dat uitzicht biedt op een waardevol maatschappelijk effect’. Henk Scholten heeft de nominatie in
Geodan, het Spatial Information Laboratory (SPINlab) van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, het Waterschap Rivierenland en GeoFort hebben een leuk en leerzaam programma samengesteld voor het Weekend van de Wetenschap bij GeoFort. Met de spellen “Te land, te gracht en in
The Geoplaza, a combined effort from UBVU and SPINlab, is officialy on-line. This Spatial Data Infrastructure offers a growing collection spatial data. Everyone can view the data, in most cases download functionality is limited to VU staff and students only.
Eveline van Leeuwen & Jasper Dekkers, assistant professors at the Department of Spatial Economics, were awarded the Best Paper Award for early career/doctoral students at the annual conference of the Regional Science Assoc. Intl – British & Irish section
EduGIS, the GIS portal for education in the Netherlands, has won the Societal Geo-Innovation Award 2009. EduGIS was chosen as the best from a selection of 24 projects.