Insights from QGreenland workshops
lessons for anyone seeking to improve learning with open science
Trey Stafford 
Twila Moon
Alyse Thurber
Matt Fisher
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Welcome!
This website is for people interested in learning more about the QGreenland team’s “Insights from QGreenland workshops” poster presented at the 2024 CIRES Rendezvous under the “Communications, Policy, Outreach, Education” theme.
To learn more about QGreenland and download the QGreenland data package, visit our website at qgreenland.org!
Abstract
This poster highlights the successes and challenges of educational workshops facilitated by the QGreenland team in 2023. QGreenland is an NSF-funded initiative to improve accessibility and usability of geospatial data related to Greenland. The QGreenland data package is a curated collection of online and offline interdisciplinary data intended for use with QGIS, a geospatial analysis and visualization suite like ArcGIS, but free and open-source.QGreenland has developed resources such as workshops and tutorials to make QGreenland easy-to-use by the general public. Video tutorials and how-to guides are available for new and advanced GIS users. Moreover, curricula have been developed to use QGreenland in high-school and undergraduate classrooms for teaching about Greenland.
In addition to these resources, the QGreenland team has developed and facilitated virtual and in-person workshops that target new, intermediate, and advanced GIS users and researchers. This poster details our experiences with facilitating these workshops and includes recommendations for other workshop planners. In April 2023, the QGreenland team conducted in-person workshops in Denmark and Greenland that focused on beginner and intermediate GIS skills. In May, a virtual researcher workshop focused on best practices for geospatial data management. Finally, a workshop focused on educators was conducted in June. In addition, the poster touches on educational materials currently in development and planned for the next few years as part of a new collaboration with the Arctic Data Center (ADC), titled QGreenland-Net.
Poster
Learn more!
- QGreenland official site
- QGreenland 2023 Researcher Workshop
- QGreenland 2023 Educator Workshop
- QGreenland on YouTube