Please see below for information about this year’s virtual GIS Day 2020 event at the Library of Congress. Best, Meagan Meagan Snow Geospatial Data Visualization Librarian Geography and Map Division [http://staff.loc.gov/sites/librarylink/files/2018/08/Email-LOC-logo.jpg] From: Hessler, John W <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 7:57 AM Subject: Library of Congress Conference-- Mapping a Pandemic: Cases, Traces and Mutations to Premier on Nov 18, at 1 PM EST Colleagues, and Friends The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a geospatial analysis challenge like no other. To explore what’s been accomplished and what is on the horizon in terms of mapping it, the Geography and Map Division is bringing together a panel of experts, on Wednesday Nov 18th, who are at the forefront of using new geographic information science (GIS) to track and fight the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Mapping a Pandemic: Cases, Traces and Mutations, will take place tomorrow in honor of GIS Day 2020 and National Geography Week. Experts from Johns Hopkins University and Esri, the world’s largest GIS software provider, will join me on Nov. 18, to discuss the geospatial and genomic data being used to understand the pandemic and examine how mapping and GIS technologies are helping public health officials, emergency rooms, epidemiologists and the public grasp the spread of the disease and decide on allocation and distribution of precious resources, like vaccines. For epidemiologists, studying the virus and its evolution and mutations, not to mention thinking about the distribution of potential vaccines, the pandemic has inspired widespread use of GIS, and new geospatial machine and deep learning technologies. Scientists and public health officials are relying on these new mapping and computational methods to understand the viruses spread and on new visualization techniques developed by cartographers to track the geospatial dynamics of its mutations. Speakers are: Keynote: Dr. Este Geraghty, Chief Medical Officer at ESRI The Role of GIS in Fighting the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Technical Papers: Ensheng Dong, Center for System Science & Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Historic First: Mapping the Pandemic in Real Time Mike Schoelen, ESRI Health and Human Services Driven by GIS: A Resilient Supply Chain for COVID-19 John Hessler, Library of Congress & Johns Hopkins University More Than Just Cases: Mapping the Mutations of SARS-CoV-2 This presentations will premiere on NOV. 18, at 1 PM EST, with closed captions on both the Library's YouTube site at https://www.youtube.com/loc/<https://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress> and on the Library of Congress website at https://www.loc.gov/collections/event-videos/. The presentation will be available for viewing afterwards at those sites. For more information see the Library of Congress Events Calendar or Press Release below: https://www.loc.gov/item/event-400264/gis-day-2020-mapping-the-pandemic/2020-11-18/ https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-073/library-to-host-experts-on-mapping-covid-19-pandemic-for-gis-day-2020/2020-11-10/ I hope you can join us tomorrow at 1 or any time after it posts on-line. Stay well. John John Hessler Specialist in Computational Geography & Geographic Information Science Geography & Map Division Library of Congress Washington, DC https://jhessler.net