Professor Gilmore Pontius, of Clark’s Graduate School of Geography, gave the traditional Schermerhorn lecture at the ITC: Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente, Netherlands.

Speaking to an audience of 350 people, including 120 newly arrived master’s students from 36 countries, Prof. Pontius explained the merits of learning the latest in GIS technology, how the basic mapping tasks of allocation and quantification could be explained via the his 8-year-old daughter’s coloring book, how learning means sometimes disagreeing with the existing information and that as a student it is ‘your job to teach your colleague’ by sharing insights.

To read more about his enthusiastically received lecture visit the ICT website and to read more about Dr. ‘Gil’ and his work visit his Clark University faculty bio page.