GIS Day

Held as part of the National Geographic Society's Geography Awareness Week and Geography Action initiative, GIS Day is an international grassroots event designed to promote geographic literacy in schools, communities, and organizations. In 2003, the Foothills Research Institute held it’s first ever GIS Day to introduce grade 7 & 8 students in Hinton to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology as a tool for understanding forested lands surrounding their community. Since the original program was offered, over 400 students have participated in our GIS Day events.

2009

GIS Day 2009: What is GIS?
November 16, 2009 - November 16, 2009
Drop by the library and learn how we use GIS to track grizzly bear use of the landscape, to map points of historical importance and interest, or to map all streams and tributaries in a watershed.