Schedule
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The schedule below is subject to change.
All events will take place at the David Rumsey Map Center unless otherwise noted. All times are PDT.
Wednesday, October 8
- 1:00-5:00pm Doors open to view exhibition
- 4:45-5:00pm Opening remarks: Evan Thornberry and David Rumsey
- 5:00-6:00pm Keynote by Betsy Mason, Science Journalist: Illuminating the Deep: How Marie Tharp’s pioneering maps revealed the ocean floor
- 6:00-7:00pm Reception in the Green Library Rotunda
Thursday, October 9
- 11:00am-12:00pm Presentation Session 1
- Luca Scholz, University of Manchester: Mapping Anthropogenic Weather
- Dustin Schroeder, Stanford University: Mapping the Subsurface Processes of Ice Sheets and Icy Moons with Ice Penetrating Radar
- 12:00-1:30pm Lunch break on your own
- 1:30-3:00pm Presentation Session 2
- Rob Simmon, Cartographer: Beyond the Image: Mapping Clouds, Oceans, and Energy from Space
- Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie Theoretical Astrophysics Center: An Atlas of the Universe in Space, Time, and Spectrum
- Angel Abbud-Madrid, Colorado School of Mines: The View from Above: Mapping Earth and Worlds Beyond
- 3:00-3:30pm Coffee break in the Bender Room
- 3:30-4:30pm Keynote by Peter Bellerby, Bellerby & Co.: Worlds within words: 21st century globemaking
Friday, October 10
- 10:30am-12:00pm Collection Field Trip, Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries
- 12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch break on your own
- 1:30-3:00pm Presentation Session 3
- Laura Trethewey, Journalist: Seeing the Unseen: An Exploration of Ocean Mapping, Past and Present
- Ved Chirayath, University of Miami: Inventing NASA Space Exploration Technologies for our Blue Planet & Beyond
- Johannes Mattes, Austrian Academy of Sciences: How Was the Subterranean Made Knowable? Mapping, Trust, and the Limits of Early Modern Vision
- 3:00-3:30pm Coffee break in the Bender Room
- 3:30-4:30pm Presentation Session 4
- Gregory Staple & Markus Kristeya, TeleGeography, Inc.: Mapping Tomorrow
- 4:30-4:45pm Closing Remarks