CUNY Academic Commons | Javier Otero Peña | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/joteropena/activity/ Activity feed for Javier Otero Peña. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 6833ce63c4761d48f5d39cdb9a2a4120 Javier Otero Peña started the topic GISc Research Assistant Position @ The Climate Justice Hub in the forum GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/gisc-research-assistant-position-the-climate-justice-hub/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:42:04 -0400 Hello all, posting this great part-time GISc job opportunity for CUNY grad students, on behalf of Prof. Juliana Maantay. Contact her if you are interested!

Research Assistant

The Climate Justice Hub, a collaboration between CUNY and the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, has a research assistant opening for a master’s or doctoral s…[Read more]

]]> ed60d5bf4dc51261d8a43cf8d09a3e77 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1911 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:58:03 -0500 With Prof. Randy Lippert, University of Windsor, Canada; sponsor: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Since the introduction of North American condominium legislation in the 1960s, this […]

]]> 174708bb67ff496db9c60e5513dfd8a7 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1907 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:56:24 -0500 With Darshan Vigneswaran (Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute); sponsor: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

This working group, funded for three years by the Max Planck […]

]]> c57dab22c879e16a11e877f07a8a3687 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1905 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:55:23 -0500 In collaboration with: The Project for Public Spaces (PPS)

The purpose of the social and cultural impact assessment of the Moore Street Market project was to supplement the economic, political, design, and […]

]]> 6c160913e1997aa5f71bd7fad177f3eb Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1903 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:54:19 -0500 Funded by: National Cooperative Bank, Research Foundation of the City University of New York

Building on earlier work on urban fear, this research involved 25 interviews with owners of housing co-ops within New […]

]]> 81e58343e571b7e6445e6837e9515724 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1901 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:53:11 -0500 Partner and funded by: PSC-CUNY Grant, Research Foundation of the City University of New York, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

The goal of this research is to discover how the growth of […]

]]> 1eb299ef192e1272642a871677de4e94 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1899 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:52:04 -0500 Funded by: U.S. National Park Service

 

Photo by Intellidryad

]]> 66e4763fa4f71b633878979e4d5ecd09 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1897 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:50:50 -0500 Funded by: U.S. National Park Service

 

Photo by: A Bear Named Bryan

 

]]> 584ed3324ddeb0d2ee778706aef3f238 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1895 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:49:13 -0500 Funded by: Russell Sage Foundation, Research Foundation of the City University of New York, CUNY GC Office of Sponsored Research

 

Photo by Francisco Morals.

]]> ea12734b9f43ffb7cd8863b684d4335f Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1893 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:48:03 -0500 Partner and funded by: City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation

The Park Department obtained federal Community Development Block Grant funds to conduct user studies of these three large urban parks. […]

]]> 37df639f5bbe4a3fd2932b341e4c44a5 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1891 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:46:47 -0500 Partner and funded by: U.S. National Park Service

Student members of the research group worked with a Senior Ethnographer at the National Park Service to produce an ethnographic needs assessment for the Jamaica […]

]]> 8e7f9a331ba215c06b1a370a9a683e7c Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1889 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 04:45:07 -0500 Partner and funded by: U.S. National Park Service

In Fall 1994 PSRG used REAP methods to report on park-community relationships at Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia. PSRG again used street […]

]]> b46f809474cbdab801825d96d8647803 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1885 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:43:42 -0500 Partner and funded by: U.S. National Park Service

Prior to the formal organization of PSRG in 1996, the core members of the group worked together as consultants on several planning projects. The first was the […]

]]> db2156a87e1425a56ff235e9b9e617f7 Javier Otero Peña replied to the topic Top Mapping Mistakes in the forum GIS Working Group via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=114422 Thu, 22 Apr 2021 21:34:51 -0400 There are many great comments here!

Here are a few other contributions, though I’m not sure if they pertain
specifically to beginners:

– Although they are still the most widely distributed GIS format, take
into account the limitations of shapefiles, such as:
– The limit of 10-character-length for attribute names. This can be…[Read more]

]]> e8155fcb9bec2b09bebef91c0294046f Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1474 Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:00:42 -0500 The Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability was founded in partnership with the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) and […]

]]> dd8eff1a2a9b1f8c6a3186ca5f5084cd Javier Otero Peña replied to the topic Farewell and GIS Lab at Baruch in the forum GIS Working Group via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=106160 Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:10:12 -0500 Wow Frank, congratulations!! That is great news, and though I’m sorry that
CUNY will see you go, I look forward to learning about your new projects at
Brown, and I hope we stay in touch!

Best,

Javier
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]]> 4e6a127707daf5c1f960a344f0184eda Javier Otero Peña joined the group Teaching and Learning Center https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/735377/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 21:26:23 -0500 ad4d5cf058da3595dcdd98620ba81921 Javier Otero Peña started the topic GIS Day @ the GC: Sharing applications of GIS in the forum GIS Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/gis-day-the-gc-sharing-applications-of-gis/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:34:32 -0500 November 18  from 5pm-630pm

Virtual on Zoom

Join us to share your GIS/Mapping projects! The Graduate Center’s GIS Day will be an opportunity to hear how current CUNY students and faculty are applying GIS and mapping to explore their research questions. The first hour will be short presentations. The next half hour will be an open discussion to…[Read more]

]]> a0f315a33ac1b8531acad9af51353ea3 Javier Otero Peña uploaded Code the Classics - Volume 1 to PUG – Python User’s Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/710063/ Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:38:23 -0400 Learn Python by coding classic games such as Pong, Bubble Bobble and Frogger

]]> 2eccb9abd361e5039a1135f6ba0d7639 Javier Otero Peña uses the digital research tool NVivo https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/702919/ Sat, 26 Sep 2020 11:03:21 -0400 aee22bcaef63aef4928a97392653576e Javier Otero Peña's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/689784/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 08:28:19 -0400 24ad563532459ff4afe1dbdffe0d4434 Javier Otero Peña replied to the topic Pause PUG meetings? Please respond in the forum PUG - Python User's Group via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=91271 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:02:36 -0400 Hi!!

I haven’t been active in the meetings, but I’d like to become active and
join the meetings through the Summer, if there’s enough quorum to do so.

Best,

Javier
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]]> 457df58443b875fbf4c051f005ba1988 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1202 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 18:29:53 -0400 Professor of Environmental Psychology, Anthropology and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Setha Low received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of […]

]]> 6eb0aa8546aee1ff4d2c5f9ce86ce0e7 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=16659 Tue, 05 May 2020 08:59:35 -0400 On April 17, the GIS/Mapping Working Group organized a brainstorming session to discuss maps that can be helpful in identifying and addressing urgent needs related to the COVID-19 crisis. Before the call, […]

]]> 0fe0cd3152d79e0d7967a235ebc92ef1 Javier Otero Peña replied to the topic Brainstorming Session (04/17/20): Mapping Needs and Solutions During COVID19 in the forum GIS Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=87925 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 04:47:20 -0400 Hello again,

Hope you are all staying safe. Just wanted to send a reminder of this Friday’s brainstorming session, to discuss maps that are necessary and we could potentially work on regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the socioeconomic crisis that it brings about. You can register here for the Zoom session, it will be this Friday from 12 – 1 PM.…[Read more]

]]> 967b24ae714bb74fabf767a6680ec93b Javier Otero Peña created the event Mapping Needs and Solutions During COVID19 in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group. https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/663734/ Thu, 09 Apr 2020 03:19:08 -0400 Title: Mapping Needs and Solutions During COVID19

Description: As we’ve seen from all of the COVID trackers, maps can be powerful tools for revealing important spatial phenomena and disseminating knowledge during a pandemic. We are interested in putting our skills to use to create other maps that can be helpful in this critical moment. Perhaps w…[Read more]

]]> e81c019d53ead3e8a72b12b1b624855c Javier Otero Peña started the topic Brainstorming Session (04/17/20): Mapping Needs and Solutions During COVID19 in the forum GIS Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/brainstorming-session-04-17-20-mapping-needs-and-solutions-during-covid19/ Thu, 09 Apr 2020 03:17:40 -0400 Hello everyone! Olivia and I are planning a brainstorming session next week to discuss what maps are out there and which ones do we need to produce during the COVID19 crisis. Here’s the blurb of the session, we hope to see you online on Friday 17 at noon!

Best,

Javier

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As we’ve seen from all of the COVID trackers, maps can be powerful t…[Read more]

]]> b82006edb27bbd3f53e829e753513d64 Javier Otero Peña edited the event Olivia's Office Hour in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group. https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/646675/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:00:07 -0500 b56da59c671afcf0bdeb1da834060fb4 Javier Otero Peña edited the event Javier's Office Hour in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group. https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/646673/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 07:58:22 -0500 d37580b99f0eccdd8e09f2fd1f6f5db3 Javier Otero Peña created the event Olivia's Office Hour in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group. https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/646528/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:32:49 -0500 Title: Olivia’s Office Hour

Description:

Date: February 5, 2020 7:00 pm EST

]]> 81fc5c421a981d45283f44d9ff6e752f Javier Otero Peña created the event Javier's Office Hour in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group. https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/646526/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:31:05 -0500 Title: Javier’s Office Hour

Description:

Date: February 18, 2020 12:30 pm EST

]]> 9b950488df71d69ccc79209af804507b Javier Otero Peña created the event How Not to Lie with Maps in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group. https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/646524/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:29:07 -0500 Title: How Not to Lie with Maps

Description: While most mapmakers do not intentionally try to lie, it’s impossible to display objective knowledge with maps since mapmaking requires processes of simplification, categorization, omission, and technical limitations. This workshop will draw on feminist GIS and critical cartography to discuss a…[Read more]

]]> 5fbe76165cd626c2677935cae09954d4 Javier Otero Peña created the event How to Change the Spatial Boundaries of Your Data Using QGIS in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group. https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/646522/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:27:58 -0500 Title: How to Change the Spatial Boundaries of Your Data Using QGIS

Description: Census data is distributed in specific geographies, such as census block groups and census tracts. It is common for researchers to have study areas that do not correspond to these predetermined geographies. This workshop will teach participants how to determine more…[Read more]

]]> d1b8a1cd90e63870148a348202c9eec2 Javier Otero Peña replied to the topic Olivia's Office Hours in the forum GIS Working Group via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=83617 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:21:33 -0500 Hello all!

Like Olivia, I will also be having office hours to help anyone with their
GIS projects, issues or questions (other non-GIS digital tool questions
also welcome), every other Tuesday, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM (next one will be on
the 17).

And, this semester I will also offer a GIS-related workshop, thinking of a
more advanced audience (could…[Read more]

]]> 5c8f3295fecdf30379dbf2e1a9542e28 Javier Otero Peña's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/646193/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:02:01 -0500 f5c5ef73c830f0c0d6007db3e8c701fa Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=856 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 07:36:36 -0500 Javier Otero Peña’s dissertation consists of three articles related to how contextual factors affect park use, urban environmental justice and place attachment. The first proposed article is an analysis of […]

]]> b81ba46fa0bac0b5108a06c17f7c13a2 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=847 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 06:41:34 -0500 Erin is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Psychology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation work, tentatively titled Staying Power: the Black struggle for home and place in Crown Heights, develops from the […]

]]> 0711461a0877a8e166971efe4d124e77 Javier Otero Peña wrote a new post on the site The Public Space Research Group https://psrg.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=843 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 06:27:34 -0500 In the Public Space Research Group, we are excited to attend the World Urban Forum 10 and, with our partners, join efforts to put public space on top of the agenda.

We are going to participate and co-organize […]

]]> 6ee557f584bf4feb2bb483009eb5da53 Javier started the topic Short Survey about the GIS/Mapping Working Group (Please fill it out!) in the forum GIS Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/short-survey-about-the-gis-mapping-working-group-please-fill-it-out/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:36:42 -0500 Hello everyone!

The GIS Day event we organized was a great success, and we thought it could be fruitful to have meetings more often than just once a year. This is why we made this very short survey to ask all of you members of the GIS/Mapping Working Group what you think should be the shape of this group, whether we should meet more often,  what…[Read more]

]]> 4f05560fdb6075c67b4f9fcafc807005 Javier Otero Peña joined the group GC Digital Research Institute - January 2019 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/613274/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 06:11:34 -0500 adcc8b00eb00165fd00014336002ad76 Javier Otero Peña joined the group GC Digital Research Institute – January 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/613272/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 06:11:12 -0500 95d23daf6a2255e49e699756cf998c2d Javier started the topic GIS Day @ the GC: Project share and mingle in the forum GIS Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/gis-day-the-gc-project-share-and-mingle/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 03:07:30 -0500 Hello all! we wanted to invite you all to participate in the GIS Day event we’re organizing next week. We intend it to serve as a sort of “after party” for GIS Day at CUNY. It is an ideal opportunity to get together, build our GC mapping community and briefly present our GIS projects to each other, following last year’s successful event.

We’ll…[Read more]

]]> e9293375c8d9b628ccb2419ef46144ad Javier Otero Peña created the event GIS Day @ The GC: Project share and mingle in the group GIS / Mapping Working Group. https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/608350/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 22:46:51 -0500 Title: GIS Day @ The GC: Project share and mingle

Description: What: GIS Day @ The GC: Project share and mingle<
When: Thursday, November 14, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Where: The GC Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 7414), The Graduate Center, CUNYFlyer for the GIS Day event. Contains same information than the text, plus a decorative abstract image.

Following the CUNY GIS Day Events (on November 13), the GIS/Mapping Working Group is hosting an “after par…[Read more]

]]> bb60418af263d309c8ae666616b38113 Javier started the topic Fwd: Fw: [EP Community] Reminder: Registration Open for Mapping (In)Justice Symposium at Fordham University (Nov 7-9) in the forum GIS Working Group via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/fwd-fw-ep-community-reminder-registration-open-for-mapping-injustice-symposium-at-fordham-university-nov-7-9/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:18:38 -0500 Hi all,

thought this could be of interest for the group.

Best,

Javier

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MAPPING (IN)JUSTICE SYMPOSIUM
DIGITAL THEORY + PRAXIS FOR CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP
November 7th – 9th, 2019 | Fordham University | New York, New York

The Mapping (In)Justice Symposium at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus will convene a group of more than 60 cri…[Read more]

]]> 98a0e90a8df67606357a4d7fa1c0ee97 Javier Otero Peña joined the group CUNY Pie https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/606283/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:12:30 -0400 a7ed90e58664cc547cbeef9f5cc3892c Javier Otero Peña joined the group PUG – Python User’s Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/605731/ Fri, 25 Oct 2019 19:16:45 -0400 927aefffa5ab15626adea0ed0919fca8 Javier started the topic Tenure-track AP position in spatial (in)justices in the forum GIS Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/tenure-track-ap-position-in-spatial-injustices/ Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:45:32 -0400 Hello all,

I’m sharing here an opportunity that arrived via e-mail that might be of interest to many of you. Looks super interesting!

Best,

Javier

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The Urban Studies Program at The College of Wooster invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position in urban studies, with a focus on spatial (in)justices, to…[Read more]

]]> b6a3f7812a84e9cea1aa89d0d0ca6804 Javier started the topic Wednesday 09/03/19, 1pm-7pm: GC Digital Scholarship Lab Open House in the forum GIS Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/wednesday-09-03-19-1pm-7pm-gc-digital-scholarship-lab-open-house/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 18:31:09 -0400 Hello everyone! Welcome back to a new semester at the GC. Hope your Summer break was productive/relaxing/both!

Next week we will be hosting an Open House at the GC Digital Scholarship Lab, and I’d like to share the details with you in case you’d like to come visit the Lab and talk with us about what we can do this Semester for the GIS / Mapping…[Read more]

]]> 36115d70dbfdd7e325caf66ad2bb2265 Javier started the topic Event (04/03/19): Mapping Contagion at New York Public Library in the forum GIS Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/event-04-03-19-mapping-contagion-at-new-york-public-library/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:55:11 -0400 Hello all, thought this event could be of interest to you. And our fellow Stefano Morello will be part of the panel!

Best,

Javier

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Wed, Apr 3, 2019, 03:30 PM – 06:00 PM
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, NYPL, 476 Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street

About the research methods workshop

How have researchers used or c…[Read more]

]]> fe3468a9c38f6faf86e60246d24a3507 Javier started the topic Fwd: Conservation GIS Symposium in NYC on April 16 in the forum GIS Working Group via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/forum/topic/fwd-conservation-gis-symposium-in-nyc-on-april-16/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 19:55:49 -0400 Hello all,

sharing with you this information sent by Jennifer from the NY/NJ Chapter of the Society of Conservation GIS (SCGIS). Sounds like an interesting event to attend and maybe participate in!

Best,

Javier
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The NY/NJ Chapter of Society of Conservation GIS (SCGIS) is hosting a symposium event coming up next month at Hunter College with…[Read more]

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