Geotech Presentation: Mapping Our World

Barbaree Duke did a presentation at GeoTech 2012, called Mapping Our World. The description: GIS is a powerful tool to visualize data and look for patterns. In this session, Participants will start from the beginning and learn how to use this tool to help their...

GeoTech Presenter Highlight: Brad Baker

Brad Baker trains the next generation of GIS practitioners. Brad works with the GeoTech Research Lab at Bishop Dunne that teaches students become researchers, active community stakeholders, and creators of environmental solutions using GIS. This unique program has...

GeoTech Presenter Highlight: Dr. Paul Nagel

Dr. Paul Nagel holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Minnesota, MA from the University of Guam, and Ph.D. in Geography Education from Texas State University – San Marcos. He has taught middle school social studies in Guam and Texas...

GeoTech Presenter Highlight: Hannah Moots

Hannah Moots studied anthropology at the University of Chicago, focusing on Africa, conducting research and excavation in Niger. Working in the fossil preparation laboratory at the University of Chicago, she developed an interest in palaeontology and archaeological...

GeoTech Presenter Highlight: the ePUBLISHING track

Three of the giants in ePublishing are coming out to GeoTech to bring us all up to speed in the latest advancements in eBooks – on creating them and implementing them in your classroom. What’s New at Pearson in eBooks, Making the Most of Online Learning Chis...

GeoTech Presenter Highlight: the ROBOTICS track

Robotics is one of the major themes running through GeoTech this year! GeoTech is next week, but there’s still time to register! It’s the scientific event that you can afford, but can’t afford to miss! Here is a sneak peek of the exciting robotics...

Full GeoTech Schedules and Descriptions Released

We have been working hard to finalize the line up for GeoTech, and are thrilled to release the full schedules for the event! Click here for the Thursday & Friday Schedule and here for the corresponding workshop descriptions. Click here for the Saturday Schedule...

GeoTech Speaker Spotlight: Kip Petroff

Kip Petroff is a recognized expert in Fen-Phen litigation and has been featured in print and television media around the country. Kip Petroff is the founder and senior partner of the law firm Petroff & Associates, based in Dallas, Texas. The law firm of Petroff...

GeoTech Speaker Spotlight: Bert Shipp

As the focus of local news began to shift from radio and newspapers to television in the 1950s, Bert Shipp made a similar transition, leaving the Dallas Times Herald to work as a reporter for WBAP Channel 5. Shipp spent the next three decades helping shape broadcast...

GeoTech Speaker Spotlight: Brett Shipp

Brett has worked as an investigative reporter at WFAA-TV since 1995. His most notable work of late, the year-long inquiry into faulty natural gas couplings linked to fatal explosions and serious injuries dating back to the 1980’s. Brett’s investigation has...