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California Map Society Spring Conference - June 28, 2025

  • 28 Jun 2025
  • 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
  • David Rumsey Map Center


California Map Society (CMS) Conference

Saturday, June 28, 2025

David Rumsey Map Center

Green Library, Stanford University

10:00 am - 4:30 pm


    Join us on June 28, 2025, for a gathering of map, history, art and science lovers, to hear from a superb group of speakers about historic and modern-day maps. 

    A full playlist of videos is available on our YouTube Channel

    Thanks,

    Tom Paper 

    California Map Society, tom@pixeum.org

    Speaker Start Time / Topic

    Champ Turner, recent college grad

    10:40am / The Globe View in Its Historic and Present Day Context
    Chris Hughes, current college student 11:05am / Historic Battle Maps from the 17th and 18th Century
    Susan Powell & Karen Pfeffer 11:30am / Student engagement with the map collection at UC Berkeley
    Miriam Sweeney, Dave Medeiros, Elena Kadyrova  11:55am / Modern-day creators of maps and map-art
     LUNCH ON YOUR OWN  12:35pm / Coupa Cafe
    Evan Thornberry 1:40pm / Current Activities at The David Rumsey Map Center
    John Pettley 2:05pm / Mapping the Survey Monuments on top of Mount Diablo
    Linda Rui Feng 2:30pm / Mapping the Yellow River: An exploration of East Asian mapping practices
    Rob Simmon  3:05pm / Satellite Imagery: From Space to Story in Data Journalism
     Tom Paper  3:30pm / A Cartographic History of San Francisco


    Agenda

    Times are subject to change.

    10:00 Registration and Hospitality
     10:30   welcome
    10:40 - 11:20 William Mosely

    "Satellite imagery and wildfire response: The Palisades Fire"

    Planet Labs PBC operates flocks of microsatellites providing a hi-resolution snapshot of the earth every day, and even higher-resolution satellites that capture images on demand.

    Customer Success Manager William Mosely will detail how Microsoft AI for Good and Planet partnered to measure the impact of the devastating nearby Palisades fire this past January.

     11:25 - 12:05

    Cal Tabuena-Frolli

    "Yield 02"

    Artist Cal Tabuena-Frolli is following a stint with the Santa Paula Oil Museum with a series of maps and related pieces detailing the history of oil in California, from pre-historic times through 1929. That's when most of us think California oil history begins.


     12:10 - 12:50 Ed LeFranco

     "The Best of Beijing"

    Journalist and sinophile Ed LeFranco will share the various ways the capital of China has been cartographically portrayed throughout the 20th century.

    12:50 - 1:30
    break
    1:30 - 2:10 Jon Jablonski "Resurrecting Landscapes with Machine Vision"

    Librarian Jon Jablonski is leveraging collections of aerial photography at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA to build 3-d models of 1930s Yosemite Valley, the Gaviota Coast, and more! By using Agisoft Metashape, the overlapping stereo photographs reveal long-forgotten vistas and have the potential to help find forgotten abandoned oil wells. 
    2:15 - 2:50 Deborah Scacco

    Santa Monica's first artist-in-residence at City Yards, Deborah Scacco will highlight how maps, cartography, and the landscape interact in her work as artist and curator. 

    bonus: Deborah's exhibition "Laboratory for the Future" at Propeller Gallery is open through January 2026!



    closing remarks




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