Women and Gis, Volume 2 - (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Women and GIS, Volume 2: Stars of Spatial Science features 30 inspiring stories of diverse women using geospatial technology to improve the world. These women serve as guiding stars to motivate all readers.

From the Back Cover

Thirty inspiring stories of remarkable women who are true stars

As STEM continues to advance and shape our understanding of our world, so, too, are women, who are taking charge and using research and new approaches to achieve more than they imagined. Women and GIS: Stars of Spatial Science, the second volume in the Women and GIS series, tells the stories of how 30 diverse women in STEM applied themselves and overcame obstacles and life's challenges using a combination of maps, analysis, and geographic information systems (GIS).

From planetary scientists to civil engineers and from entrepreneurs to urban planners, the strong, passionate women in this volume of Women and GIS: Stars of Spatial Science serve as mentors to motivate readers who are developing their own life stories and inspire their potential in a new way. By reading the stories in this book, young women might be better able to chart their own futures.

Review Quotes

All of us have our own stories to tell; how and where we started, our accomplishments, our challenges, our most successful dreams realized. This book tells us how we can use maps, analysis and geographic information systems (GIS) to motivate and develop our lives and others. The women's sorties in this book definitely encourage us to succeed as individuals and as WON members. I can so identify with their stories! WON members and all women can and do make a difference in our government. We are the force!

--Bronwyn Asplund-Walsh, President, National Association of Counties Women (WON)