Quantarctica User Survey (5 minutes): http://www.quantarctica.org/user-survey.html
Hi All,
Response from the community to our user survey and workshop has been incredible – Antarctic scientists at all career stages from all over the world have contributed a wealth of feedback that will help the Quantarctica team build an even better, broader, and more useful Antarctic GIS platform with the release of version 3.
We’re sending a final reminder to encourage all Quantarctica and other Antarctic GIS users to fill out the 5-minute survey [links above and below] to help shape Quantarctica. The survey will close next week, on Tuesday 31 May.
Additionally, only a handful of seats remain open for our User Workshop on 27 August at the 2016 SCAR OSC in Kuala Lumpur. If you’re attending the OSC, we’d love to see you there! As with all things Quantarctica, it’s free: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RR7G3PF
The Quantarctica Team now turns to building new educational modules for the conference season, as well as refreshing our website, revamping our logo and project style, and designing cool new goodies to give away at meetings.
From all of us on the Quantarctica project team, we appreciate your feedback, and look forward to bringing the next version of Quantarctica to you, the Antarctic community!
George Roth george.roth@npolar.no
Kenny Matsuoka kenichi.matsuoka@npolar.no
Norwegian Polar Institute
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The Norwegian Polar Institute has developed the free, standalone open GIS package Quantarctica [quantarctica.org] for Antarctic science and mapping. This geospatial data package is built on the open-source, cross-platform QGIS software, and includes a wide range of cartographic basemap layers, geophysical and glaciological datasets, and satellite imagery. The next version of Quantarctica, releasing in 2017, will focus on increasing the breadth and depth of the included open data from an expanded array of international partners and investigators. Priorities for this new version include Antarctic climatology, biology, oceanography, and atmospheric sciences. The Quantarctica project is also expanding its educational outreach through online and video user tutorials and user workshops.
As part of this enhanced outreach effort, the buildup to the 2016 SCAR Open Science Conference in Kuala Lumpur, and the upcoming release of Quantarctica v3, the Quantarctica project team has assembled a User Survey, with three main goals:
· Collecting basic demographic information about Quantarctica's diverse user community
· Soliciting and identifying new datasets for inclusion in future versions of Quantarctica
· Identifying user priorities for new features and technical improvements
The User Survey is meant for everyone in the Antarctic community, including those who have never used Quantarctica or GIS software. Feedback from this survey will be used to prioritize improvements and additions to Quantarctica v3. The survey will close on May 31st.
Access the User Survey here:
http://www.quantarctica.org/user-survey.html
Watch a quick tour of Quantarctica v1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HV_VbxKKDM
Registration for the (free!) Quantarctica User Workshop at the SCAR OSC in Kuala Lumpur, Saturday 27 August:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RR7G3PF
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George Roth
Quantarctica Project Coordinator
Norwegian Polar Institute
