What's up Muggles,

Happy November, this semester has flown by so fast. It's crazy that we are more than halfway through the semester already. Now that the temperatures are rapidly dropping we are starting to gear up for winter. Some things that are important to mention for this November.. 1) Last Friday was the MUGS apartment crawl, we put so much work into this event so thank you to everyone who came and we hope you enjoyed yourselves. More pics from the event have been shared on our instagram page @mcgillgeography 2) Another exciting upcoming event is GIS day, celebrated on November 14th from 1pm onwards in the GIC. 


Lots of Love,
your MUGS team

If you love GIS then be sure to come check out some geo-tastic festivities to celebrate world GIS, held by the GIC.

"Our GIS day this year will revolve around Space and Place.
Stop by and learn about Geographic Information and Geospatial Data Science!
Keynote speech by Prof. Grant McKenzie at 1 p.m., BH511 on "Space, Place and the Fourth Paradigm of Science"
Further talks by ESRI, Statistics Canada, LocalLogic and our former grad students, Chris Liangand Noé Schultz (schedule see below). We will also have a mapathon by OMG McGill!
We will have the students' GIS works session (McGill students, please send your GIS related poster or presentation to gicsupport@mcgill.ca by Nov, 9 and have the chance to win a price!), free coffee and, of course, the Wine & Cheese reception."

GIS Day schedule:
1:00 p.m. Prof. Grant McKenzie, new faculty member at Geography, McGill
2:00 p.m. Chris Liang and Noé Schultz: Mapping Accessiblity, Health and Wellness
2:30 p.m. Frederic Blouin-Michaud, ESRI: What's next in GIS?
3:00 p.m. Gabriel Damant-Sirois, LocalLogic: Adding value to place searches
3:30 p.m. Jean le Moullec, Statistics Canada: Statistics Canada and the Building Canada 2020
Initiative
4:00 p.m. Open Mapping Group (OMG McGill): Mapathon
5:00 p.m. Open Wine & Cheese reception
around 5:45 pm. GIS students' awards for posters and presentations

ECOLE is Hiring

ECOLE will be electing a new board this November at our AGM (November 20th 6-9 PM). We are looking for a roughly 4-7hr/month commitment (including a monthly meeting) for editing and drafting policies, mentoring facilitators, and joining consultations. The board is responsible for the financial and legal responsibilities of this non-hierarchical organization as well as draft policies and negotiate contracts with SSMU.

If you are interested, please email ecoleproject@gmail.com with the subject line "ECOLE Board Application" and a short paragraph about 1) why you are interested and 2) which board position you are applying for (check out our website for more information as well as the full listing of available positions).

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