Mapping in Action will be held at the National Library of Australia, Canberra on Tuesday 24, and Wednesday 25 September, 2019.
REGISTRATION is now open. $40 per day General Admission and $20 per day Student Admission. Lunch & teas included. Don’t miss out!
Held over two days, Mapping in Action offers researchers and students a unique opportunity to showcase and share their research. There are presentations on the mapping of linguistic properties of Indigenous placenames, how maps are used to understand Marine Protection, the ecosystem of Port Phillip Bay, the British Music Trade, cultural practices in Papua New Guinea, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, and much more. There are new tools, including Geoscience Australia’s Aerial Photography Through Time, and the National Library’s new Mapwarper.
“Mapping in Action will feature the latest in spatial information, data visualisation and historical mapping, with prizes awarded the best presentations, and open the doors to Australia’s largest map collection. Its my pleasure to introduce such a diverse group of speakers and subjects.” Dr Martin Woods, Senior Curator of Maps and Research at the National Library of Australia
Presentation ABSTRACTS are now available.
PROGRAM
(*= student presentation)
TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER | |
Welcome & Keynote | |
9:00-9:30 | Martin Woods/ ANZMapS/National Library of Australia
Map societies & libraries in action: past, present and future |
Pacific session | |
9:30-10:00 | Hedvig Skirgård*/ANU Mapping the Pacific – a sea of islands |
10:00-10:30 | Greg Lauer/Eastview Geospatial Topographic mapping in the South Pacific |
10:30-10:50 | MORNING TEA |
Ecology session | |
10:50-11:20 | Micah Edwards*/Nowra Christian Sch. Optimizing nest box placement for Sugar Gliders – a journey in learning digital maps |
11:20-11:50 | Percy Rakoto*/RMIT Investigating the relationships between the spatial pattern of urban vegetation & Urban Heat Islands (UHI) in Melbourne |
11:50-12:20 | Robert Streit*/JCU Custom maps reveal patchy feeding by fishes may leave coral reefs more vulnerable than previously thought |
12:20-13:00 | LUNCH |
Socio-ecology session | |
13:00-13:30 | Mae Noble*/ANU Using maps to balance social-ecological spatial priorities in Marine Protected Areas |
13:30-14:00 | Kirrily Apthorp*/ANU Seeing the forest for the trees: remapping primate conservation in Vietnam |
14:00-14:30 | Melissa Pineda*/Swinburne Mapping ecological injustice hotspots in cities |
14:30-15:00 | AFTERNOON TEA including Day 1 speakers: certificate presentation/photo |
Socio-historical session | |
15:00-15:30 | Cynthia Parayiwa*/ANU A spatiotemporal exploration of preterm & low birthweight incidence in Queensland, Australia, 2007-16 |
15:30-16:00 | Nick Skopal*/ANU Mapping megalithic jar sites in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic |
16:00-16:30 | G. Allen Mawer/— Treasured Islands: charting the imagination |
17.00-18.00 | ANZMapS Annual General Meeting (Members) |
WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER | |
Welcome & Keynote | |
9:00-9:30 | Igor Drecki/ NZ Cartographic Soc./Auckland Uni Beyond the Vote: ANZMapS’ Affiliate Membership of the International Cartographic Association (ICA |
Cartographic session | |
9:30-10:00 | Oscar So*/RMIT Landform perception accuracy in shaded relief maps among map readers who grew up in Victoria |
10:00-10:30 | Leigh Mills/Geoscience Australia Unlocking Geoscience Australia’s aerial photography collection |
10:30-10:50 | MORNING TEA |
Indigenous session | |
10:50-11:20 | Inge Riebe*/ANU Space becomes Place: One Kalam’s Maps |
11:20-11:50 | David Nash/ANU Mapping linguistic properties of Indigenous placenames |
11:50-12:20 | Bill Arthur/ANU Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia |
12:20-13:00 | LUNCH |
13:00-13:15 | Day 2 speakers certificate presentation/photo. Student prize awarded. |
Historical session | |
13:15-13:45 | Margaret Cameron/— The Juxtaposition of Two Inlets: Captain Cook’s ploys to keep out the French |
13:45-14:15 | Robert J. King/— Gerard Mercator’s Pulo Condor |
14:15-14:45 | Trevor Lipscombe/Australian Hydrographical Soc. Lt James Cook’s misplaced landmarks on the coasts of Victoria & NSW |
14:45-15:00 | AFTERNOON TEA |
15:00-17:00 | NATIONAL LIBRARY MAP COLLECTION TOUR – including NLA Mapwarper viewing |
CLOSE |
Contact the organisers: here
PRIZES
The Dorothy Prescott Prize of $500 is awarded annually for the best presentation eligible to be published in our journal The Globe.
This year for the first time the ANZMapS Prize of $1000 for the best student presentation will be awarded, with an option to publish in The Globe.
REGISTRATION includes – all presentations and tour of NLA Maps collection on Day 2. Morning/afternoon teas and lunch are included. Please contact the organisers if any dietary needs: here
Event organising committee:
Dr Martin Woods, Senior Curator, Maps and Research Programs, National Library of Australia
Dr Brendan Whyte, Curator of Maps, National Library of Australia
Kay Dancey, Manager CartoGIS Services, Australian National University
Thanks to National Library of Australia for their support of this event