Stanford Geospatial Center

Our Mission

The Stanford Geospatial Center (SGC) is dedicated to supporting all faculty, students, and staff with their GIS needs free of charge. To achieve this, we provide access to geospatial data, digital map services, and geographic information systems (GIS).

At the Stanford Geospatial Center, patrons can:

• Create, modify, and print custom maps by using commercial GIS packages and geospatial data.
• Communicate research and project results by creating maps and charts for use in journal articles, term papers and theses.
• Analyze data graphically by conducting “what-if” scenarios.
• Access a rich collection of databases that provide both geospatial boundary and statistical information.
• Explore the spatial element of your data (e.g., display soil types, track crime patterns, analyze animal migration patterns, find the best location for an expanding business, model the path of atmospheric pollution) to make decisions for many types of complicated problems.

To accomplish our mission, the Stanford Geospatial Center provides support for departments and institutions across campus and by building partnerships with organizations off campus. Our support includes workshops, class instruction, 1-on-1 consultations, and project collaboration. To learn more about our support visit our Workshops page or our Consultations page.

• Partnering Departments
  • School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University
  • Spatial History Project, Stanford University
  • Google Earth Outreach, Google Inc
  • Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
  • Knight Fellowship Program at Stanford
  • Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Supported Institutes
  • Woods Institute, Stanford University
  • Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University
  • Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute & Harvard University
  • Center for Health Policy, FSI, Stanford University
  • Bill Lane Center for the American West
• Supported Stanford Courses
  • Anthropology
  • Biology and Marine Sciences
  • Business
  • CEE 166A/266A: Watershed Delineation
  • Earth Sciences
  • EESS212: Measurements in Earth Systems
  • Engineering
  • History 10W: Visualizing Evidence
  • History 79S-From Coffee to Cocaine: Commodities, Society, and Environment in Modern South America
  • Journalism
  • Urban Studies 164

The SGC is the central on-campus location for GIS services and access to spatial data. We are located inside of Branner Earth Sciences library, on the second floor of the Mitchell Building.

Patricia Carbajales, Geospatial Manager
Phone: (650) 842-0837
Email: carbajales@stanford.edu

Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data & Services
Phone: (650) 725-1102
Email: sweetkind@stanford.edu

G. Salim Mohammed, Digital and Rare Maps Librarian
Phone: (650) 723-5100
Email: gsalim@stanford.edu

David Medeiros, Geospatial Instruction & Reference Specialist
Email: davidmed@stanford.edu

Celena Allen, GIS Assistant
Email: celena.allen@gmail.com

Claire Kouba, GIS Assistant
Email: ckouba@stanford.edu

Amy Weiner, GIS Assistant
Email: arweiner@stanford.edu

• Erwin, Tracey and Sweetkind-Singer, Julie. The National Geospatial Digital Archive: A Collaborative Project to Archive Geospatial Data. (in press).
• Sweetkind-Singer, Julie. Uncharted Territory: Building a Network for the Archiving of Geospatial Images and Data. Against the Grain, v. 21, no. 2, April 2009.
• Erwin, Tracey, Sweetkind-Singer, Julie, and Larsgaard, Mary L. The National Geospatial Digital Archive — Collection Development: Lessons Learned. Library Trends, v. 57, n. 3, Winter 2009.
• Sweetkind-Singer, Julie, Larsgaard, Mary L., and Erwin, Tracey. Digital Preservation of Geospatial Data. Library Trends, v. 55, n. 2, Fall 2006.
• Sweetkind-Singer, Juliet K., and Williams, Meredith J. Supporting the Needs of Geographic Information Systems Users in an Academic Library. Science & Technology Libraries, v. 21, issue 3/4, 2001. (Co-published in Information and the Professional Scientist and Engineer.)
• Derksen, Charlotte R. M., Sweetkind-Singer, Juliet K., and Williams, Meredith J. The Place Of Geographic Information System Services in a Geoscience Information Center. Geoscience Information Society Proceedings, v. 31, 2001.