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Learn more about QGreenland at these upcoming presentations!

Seminar Spotlight 🔦

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center | ESSIC Seminar Series | Data for Discover and Education: Insights from QGreenland's Integrated GIS Framework, Dr. Twila A. Moon, University of Colorado Boulder on Monday, May 4 at 2 pm ET. Registration information in the text below. Photo of Twila Moon (white woman with short brown hair, wearing small white earrings) is shown on left.

Data for Discovery and Education: Insights From QGreenland’s Integrated GIS Framework

Join Dr. Twila A. Moon, Principal Investigator of QGreenland on Monday, May 4, 2026 at 2 p.m. ET for a talk on how QGreenland is transforming access to Greenland geospatial data for research and education. QGreenland is a free, open‑source GIS environment that brings together infrastructure, socio‑economic, ice, and hydrology datasets into a single, analysis‑ready framework, making high‑quality spatial data easier to find, use, and reuse.

Dr. Moon will share lessons from QGreenland’s seven years of development, including its commitment to FAIR data principles, links to 50,000+ Greenland datasets, and extensive tutorials and teaching resources.

Poster Spotlight 🔦

Poster presenters Rikki and Trey. On the left (Rikki) is a white woman with shoulder-length brown hair smiling in front of a field in Montana. On the right is (Trey) a white man with short brown hair and a long beard in front of a snowy white mountain scene.

QGreenland: A free GIS tool for Greenland Research

Learn more about QGreenland through a poster showcasing recent progress and the upcoming QGreenland v4 release. The poster highlights how QGreenland brings together interdisciplinary Greenland datasets in an integrated, easy‑to‑use QGIS package that supports research, education, field planning, proposal development, and collaboration across the geoscience community.

You can catch the same poster at two upcoming events:

Colorado Glaciology Workshop

Presenter: QGreenland Intern Rikki Held

When: Friday, April 20, 2026, 11:40 a.m.–12:30 p.m. MT

Where: McHugh Commons, West Campus, Colorado College

CIRES Rendezvous

Presenter: QGreenland Developer, Trey Stafford

When: Thursday, May 14, 1:30–4:30 p.m.

Where: University of Colorado Boulder, UMC Terrace Tent and Aspen Rooms

We hope to see you at these upcoming events! If you have any questions in the meantime, let us know at qgreenland.info@gmail.com.

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