Dr. Giedrė Beconytė
Professor
Scientific Interests, Keywords
Thematic mapping, database design, system engineering; graphic communication; graphic design, GIS; spatial information infrastructure. Geography of crime
Links to External Profile
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3036-0544
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giedrebeconyte/
Project and/or Grant leadership
2019–2020. Update of spatial datasets and digital maps of the Republic of Lithuania (GDR50LT).
Funding: National Land Service, Lithuania
Responsibility: project leader. Planning and co-ordination of activities, team management, analysis and revision of spatial data and technical documents, reporting.
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. International and science communication activities of Lithuanian Cartographic Society.
Funding: Lithuanian Science Council
Responsibility: project leader, planning and conducting research activities, creation and maintenance of innovative web content, team management, reporting.
2022–2023. Research project ,,Investigation in application of regionalization methods for crime“
Funding: Lithuanian Science Council
Responsibility: project leader. Planning and co-ordination of research activities, assessment of results, reporting.
2019–2024. International projects for European Spatial Data
Funding: National Land Service, Lithuania
Responsibility: project leader. Planning and co-ordination of activities, team management, analysis and revision of spatial data and technical documents, data opening, reporting.
Invited Talks
Beconytė, G. (2018). Flora and fauna in Lithuanian place names. 19th meeting of Baltic Division of the United Nations group of experts on geographical names. Vilnius, May 21–24, 2018
2. Beconytė, G. (2018). Human cartography: map language. National conference CartoCon 2018. 2018-11-30, Vilnius.
Supervision of Doctoral Students and/or Postdoc Students
2015–2019 Darius Vasiliauskas. Methodology of cartographic generalization and visualization of spatio-temporal events localized by point geometry . PhD studies terminated in 2019 after successful attestation
2016–2020 Donatas Gudelis. Cartographic research of territorial structures of residents. PhD studies terminated in 2020 after successful attestation
2016–2020 Julius Donatas Budrevičius. Cartographic generalization for multiscale topographic maps (case study: national reference base map of Lithuania). PhD studies terminated in 2020 after successful attestation
2018–2020 Raimonda Skapaitė. Methods of cartographic generalization of data of literary spaces. PhD studies terminated in 2020 after successful attestation
2019– 2024 Rita Viliuvienė. Functional style system for maps.
Teaching Courses
• Geographic Information Management (PhD)
• GIS in Environmental Research (PhD)
• Logical methods (BSc)
• Database design (MSc)
• Cartographic Communication (MSc)
• Cartographic and GIS Project Management (MSc)
• Methodology of Scientific Research (MSc)
• Cartographic Communication (Erasmus BSc, BA, MSc, MA)
Expertise
United Nations Expert Group for Geographic Names (Baltic Division)
Lithuanian Committee for Standardisation, expert
Awards
2019, for active partcipation in ERASMUS program, Ministry of Education of Lithuania
2020 Best publication (Map of Mytical Creatures of Europe), Vilnius University Press
2020 Award for the preservation of the Lithuanian language, with other "Explanatory Dictionary of Geographical Terms" authors
Science popularization
Numerous and diverse activities (ca. 60 in2018–2022)
Main activities
Organized 3 national conferences (www. cartocon.lt)
Organized 3 public workshops and expert discussions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_-0ev_tNo4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_367QKBOLOU&t=8882s,, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_-jitFBHz8 )
Publication on Geoportal.lt (https://www.geoportal.lt/geoportal/documents/10195/1642011/Geoportal2020_+EN_2021.pdf/f4963e88-3d91-47f9-ae24-2378a9991057)
Public lecture at Lithuanicon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOF6WCz5G6A
International Children map Contest (bi-annual): http://kc.gf.vu.lt/?page_id=792
Map Book: http://kc.gf.vu.lt/?page_id=1667