The Huxley College Speaker Series at Western Washington University presents Nick Hedley, of Simon Fraser University, who will speak on "Serious Games in Space and Geospatial X-ray Vision: Exploring New Modes of Visualizing Complex Environmental Phenomena" at 3 p.m. today in Communications Facility Room 125. This presentation is free and open to the public.

Geographical information systems, or GIS, have been used extensively in environmental research and public outreach for many years and have become the standard tool for performing analysis on data in 2D "geographic space." However, mainstream desktop GIS software is limited in its ability to characterize dynamic environmental phenomena with inherent 3D structures and processes. Emerging new technologies are changing the way people access information about geographic spaces and environmental data. In the near future, there will be significant advances in the way people are able to interact with geospatial...