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Unigis & SPINlab Staff Mutations
Au revoir Mme Jones, la douce France attendrait!
by Margaret Jones
Well, I’m not sure that France was exactly waiting for me – there seem to be
plenty of people attracted to this area. (For all the people reading this who I haven’t met, I should explain
that I left the Unigis team only because my husband Colin was retiring from his work with the European Space
Agency and we had decided to move from Holland to the south of France.)
We have done a lot of travelling between Holland and France, and sometimes the UK - mostly with the car full of stuff.
We may have given up on aerobics classes for the moment, but our furniture moving muscles are well-exercised!.
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Fortunately this year so far there has been nothing as dramatic as last year’s
flood of our property, and we are getting used to the idea that if we want something fixed up, it will
probably happen eventually, but never when first planned. Colin has turned into a maniac do-it-yourselfer,
but apart from assisting in his projects now and again, I still spend more time researching things on the
web and keeping in touch with people.
GIS has not played a big part in our lives lately; though Colin’s homebuilt plane is now based at
Montpellier airport, we haven’t found much time this year to go very far afield in it. We did land at
Cannes though to visit some friends in the Var area.
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It’s nice down here though, now in December when it’s frosty overnight and bright
sunshine during the day. We can still use our bikes to get fresh bread in the morning for breakfast, and there
are lots of interesting places to go walking.
It seems that there is still room for a French branch of UNIGIS (or would it have to be UNISIG?). So I shall
concentrate on improving my French in the next year, in the hope that I might still be able to play some small
role if this should ever happen!
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We shall be spending Christmas and New Year in Holland and in the UK for family
reasons, but we look forward to getting really settled in here in 2006. And if you are coming our way, be sure
to get in touch!
Margaret : colmar.jones@wanadoo.fr
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Secretary Eleni moved to ErasmusMC
Our secretary Eleni left the office
at the end of last Summer. After enjoying initially her absence, very notable for she reminded everyone of everything that
had to be done, we miss her presence of course very much. She added a Greek flavor to the UNIGIS team, and she had a fabulous
memory of all the student data, individual study progress etc. She certainly did not need the UNIGIS student database.
She moved to Schiedam and after traveling for some months from Schiedam to the VU, she decided that working in Rotterdam would be more
convenient. She now works as an education assistant at the Medical Centre of the Erasmus University.
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New Secretary - Anne Rooseboom
My name is Anne Rooseboom and I am the new secretary of Unigis. My background is in Psychology. I have had
a variety of jobs, only recently I have discovered that GIS played a major part in all of them: counselor by phone (all victims of robbery located
near tramline 51), therapist in a juvenile correction centre (using electronic ankle straps), course teacher of tile mosaic
(from a distance resemblance to satellite photo), account manager at a lottery (most winners from villages not to be found with GPS),
secretary at an advertising agency (using relational database software).
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New SPINlab Researcher- Arda Riedijk
Use geo-visualisation in spatial planning
and the effect it has on interaction processes between policy and society, that's the theme I'm currently employed with at the SPINlab.
As a recently graduated environmental policy scientist (at Radboud University), I'm very pleased to work on the preparations for the
'Virtual Netherlands' project. Sofar it's been great; concerning geo-visualisation I'm totally thrown into the deep but I don't have to
worry at all about interaction processes here at the SPINlab!
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New SPINlab Researcher- Willem Loonen
My name is Willem Loonen. In 2002 I
graduated in Forestry and Nature Conservation and in Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing at the Wageningen University.
Since 2002 I have worked at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and in May 2005 I joined the SPINlab to spend more time on
my PhD research. One of my tasks at the SPINlab will be to coordinate the UNIGIS workshop II in 2006.
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Vrije Universiteit, dep. Regional Economics ; De Boelelaan 1105 ; 1081 HV Amsterdam ; Room 3a-38 (Main Building) ;
Telephone: +31 (0)20-5986099
unigis@feweb.vu.nl
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