CGA at William & Mary

The final CGA Speaker Series will feature John Nelson! John will be demonstrating how to use blend modes, effects, and gumption to create Area of Interest visualization techniques! The event will take place on Friday, April 3rd at 1pm on Zoom. Register at tinyurl.com/john-nelson-cga

Our next Speaker Series is two days away! Register at the link in the post below if you haven't already!

Emily Hein, Assistant Director for Advisory Services at VIMS, visited the Intro to UAS/UAV class last Thursday! Emily showed students her drones and discussed how they've aided her work in coastal geology research and the airspace regulations and restrictions she's faced.

Data Science PhD student Swostika Thapa's spatial research on graph neural networks, satellite time-series, and elephant movement was featured in W&M News last week! Read the excerpt here or visit news.wm.edu/2026/03/06/bui… to read the full article.

Happy TA Tuesday, our TA spotlight this week features Sarah Hendricks!

Happy Spring Break from everyone here at the CGA! The office (Swem 215) will be open from 9AM to 5PM on March 10th and 11th.

Happy TA Thursday, our TA spotlight this week features Elizabeth Bocock!

Happy TA Tuesday, our TA spotlight this week features Anna Schafer!

The Center for Geospatial Analysis is excited to welcome Cassandra Farrell, Senior Map Archivist at the Library of Virginia, for our March Speaker Series event! The talk will take place virtually on Zoom on Friday, March 20th at 1PM. Register here: tinyurl.com/mappingwburg

Happy TA Tuesday, our TA spotlight this week features Jacob Schildkraut!

Come Chat! If you want to pose some questions in advance, please submit them here: tinyurl.com/fellowquestions. Zoom link: cwm.zoom.us/j/84976280072

Happy TA Thursday, our TA spotlight this week features Sylvia Harvey!

Happy TA Tuesday! Our TA Spotlight this week features Hunter Church!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Messy Data Panel Friday! We appreciate our speakers for their wonderful insight to the common trials and tribulations encountered while working with spatial data! Visit our website to hear about the next CGA Speaker on March 20th!

In honor of the holiday the CGA would like to share a wonderful example of the fun aspects of spatial data: Groundhog-day.com It is a world’s leading data source for North America’s prognosticating groundhogs and their yearly predictions. Go check it out!

To celebrate International Love Data Week, CGA is excited to host a panel illuminating some of the common problems faced by those working in federal and local sectors as well as independent research fields. Bring your questions, there will be pizza!

Tune in at 8AM tomorrow on C-SPAN 2 to hear about a project the CGA worked on!

Happy Last Day of Classes from everyone here at the Center for Geospatial Analysis!

Happy TA Thursday, our last TA spotlight this semester features our Head TA Landon Jones! We appreciate all the hard work the TA team does to support the CGA during the semester!

Happy TA Thursday, our TA spotlight this week features Dylan Mantovani!