Jack and Laura Dangermond Fund Award Recipients
The following are recipients of the Dangermond Travel Scholarship Award
There have been many recipients over the years and we now have two sections, one for 2016 and the
2005-2015 award recipients.
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| Dangermond | Travel | Awards | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPRING / SUMMER 2019 | |||
| Conference Dates | Name | Purpose/Destination | Paper/Talk |
| July 10-13, 2019 | Maximilian Stiefel | Spatial Statistics 2019: Towards Spatial Data Science, Barcelona, Spain | "Acute Air Pollution and Maternal and Neonatal Health: A Case Study of California Wildfires" |
| June 17-20, 2019 | Rui Zhu | 22nd Conference on Geo-Information Science (AGILE 2019), Limassol, Cyprus | "Relaxing Unanswerable Geographic Questions Using A Spatially Explicit Knowledge Graph Embedding Model" |
| May 19-22, 2019 | Angela Marcela Suarez | 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), Valencia, Spain | "Geographic and Content-Based Prioritization of Tweets During Weather-Related Disaster Events for Emergency Management" |
| May 19-22, 2019 | Erica Akemi Goto | 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), Valencia, Spain | "A Comparison of Two Methodologies to Assess Shallow Landslide Risk" |
| April 24-27, 2019 | Cascade Tuholske | Global Land Program Open Science Meeting, Bern. Switzerland | "Inventorying Population Pressures Across SubSaharan Africa" |
| April 10-13, 2019 | Maximilian Stiefel | Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting, Austin, TX | "Acute Air Pollution and Maternal and Neonatal Health: A Case Study of California Wildfires" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Amelia Pludow | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "Land Use Conflicts Associated with Growth and Development" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Rafael Blakeley Guimaraes Ramos | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | “Social & Environmental Determinants of Urban Crime: Residential Burglaries in Belo Horizonte, Brazil” |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Bo Yan | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "xNet+SC: Classifying Places Based on Images by Incorporating Spatial Contexts" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Gengchen Mai | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "Relaxing Unanswerable Geographic Questions Using A Spatially Explicit Knowledge Graph Embedding Model" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Meilin Shi | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "A simulation of real-time ridesharing model with taxi data" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Erica Akemi Goto | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "Using GIS to Assess Landslide Risk Areas: Comparing Results of AHP-Based Methodology and Logistic Regression" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Susan Burtner | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "Examining Segregated Travel Activity in the Los Angeles and Orange County Area" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Corbin Hodges | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "Maize Persistence and Cattle Decline in Guatemalan Household Livelihoods From 2000 to 2014: Evidence From Three Time Points of Nationally Representative Data (LSMS/ENCOVI)" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Daniel Phillips | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | “Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group Poster Session” |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Damilola Eyelade | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "Sensitivity of the SLEUTH cellular automata model to time intervals between land use inputs In session No. 23755 – Urban Data Science VI: Methods & Models for our Changing Cities" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Angela Marcela Suarez | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "Using Citizen Reports and Authoritative Geographic Information to Assess Tweets Reliability: The Case of Weather-Related Disaster Events" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Javier Rubio-Velazquez | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "Water Struggles Between United States and Mexico. The Colorado River Delta. California 2011-2018 Big Drought." |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Maximilian Stiefel | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "Acute Air Pollution and Maternal and Neonatal Health: A Case Study of California Wildfires" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Jingyi Xiao | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | " Spatial Modeling for Predicting the Default of Commercial Real Estate" |
| WINTER 2019 | |||
| Conference Dates | Name | Purpose/Destination | Paper/Talk |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Enbo Zhou | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "A Deep Learning Method for Extracting Supraglacial Streams on Greenland Ice Sheet" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Evgeny Noi | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "Urban Sensing Optimization and Sampling. The Case of Moscow Air Quality Monitoring Network" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Karly Miller | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "Gendered livelihood impacts of emerging tourism in coastal communities; a case study from the Colombian Pacific" |
| April 3-7, 2019 | Carlos Baez | 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) | "The development of controversial urban on-demand transportation services including ridesharing, ride hailing services, bike sharing and shared scooters" |
| March 8-10, 2019 | Vania Wang | Consortium of Universities for Global Health: Translation and Implementation for Impact in Global Health (CUGH Conference 2019) | "Using Stochastic Simulation to Inform the Design of Emergency Intervention Trials in Low and Middle Income Countries" |
| FALL 2018 | |||
| Conference Dates | Name | Purpose/Destination | Paper/Talk |
| October 8-12, 2018 | Rui Zhu | Semantic Web Conference | "Debiasing Knowledge Graphs: Why Female Presidents are not like Female Popes" |
| November 7-10, 2018 | Amelia Pludow | North American Regional Science Conference (NARSC) | "Wireless Access Coverage in an Urban Area" |
| December 10-14, 2018 | Sarah Shivers | American Geophysical Union 2018 (AGU 2018) | "Using paired thermal and hyperspectral aerial imagery to explore land surface temperature variability and assess stress within California" |
| November 15-18, 2018 | Lily Cheng | 59th Annual Meeting of Psychnomic Society | Embodied experience of the 'wrong' hand, not world knowledge, supports the mental rotation of hands" |
| December 10-14, 2018 | Brandi Gamelin | American Geophysical Union 2018 (AGU 2018) | "Influences of a Mesoscale Convective Complex and Instability on Tropopause Thermodynamic Structure in the La Plata Basin”, as well as “ENSO Variability Influences Lower Stratosphere Ozone in South America" |
| December 10-14, 2018 | Chris Kibler | American Geophysical Union 2018 (AGU 2018) | "Spatiotemporal patterns of post-fire vegetation regrowth in Los Padres National Forest" |
| October 8-12, 2018 | Gengchen Mai | Semantic Web Conference | "Debiasing Knowledge Graphs: Why Female Presidents are not like Female Popes” |
| November 6-9, 2018 | Erica Goto | 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference | "A tool to compute the landslide degree of risk using R-Studio and R-Shiny" |
| December 10-14, 2018 | Fernanda Ribeiro | American Geophysical Union 2018 (AGU 2018) | "Challenges and contributions of using high spatial resolution data for biodiversity conservation planning in tropical savannas” |
| November, 7-10, 2018 | Xin Feng | North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International | "Medical Drone Delivery: Optimizing Location and Allocation Under Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity” |
| November, 7-10, 2018 | Jing Xu | North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International | “Issues and Challenges in Capacitated Coverage Modeling" |
| December 10-14, 2018 | Kate Voss | American Geophysical Union 2018 (AGU 2018) | "Tracking the spatiotemporal patterns of the high mountain water cycle with isotopic and geochemical data in the Arun watershed, eastern Nepal” |
| December 10-14, 2018 | Cascade Tuholske | American Geophysical Union 2018 (AGU 2018) | "Fusing Remote Sensing and Demography to Assess which Sub-Saharan African Cities Are Growing the Fastest" |
| December 10-14, 2018 | Gabriel Antunes Daldegan | American Geophysical Union 2018 (AGU 2018) | ”Spectral Mixture Analysis in Google Earth Engine to Model and Delineate Fire Scars from 1985 to 2017 in the Amazon Forest – Cerrado Transition Zone; Challenges and contributions of using high spatial resolution data for biodiversity conservation planning in tropical savannas" |
| November 6-9, 2018 | Gengchen Mai | 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference | "POIReviewQA: A Semantically Enriched POI Retrieval and Question Answering Dataset” |
| November 12-16, 2018 | Gengchen Mai | EKAW 2018 | "Support and Centrality: Learning Weights for Knowledge Graph Embedding Models" |
| January 6-9, 2019 | Nina L. Bingham | Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting | "Evidence for rock-derived Nitrogen contributions at the pedon-scale in a Mediterranean Grassland” |
| SUMMER 2018 | |||
| Conference Dates | Name | Purpose/Destination | Paper/Talk |
| August 6-10, 2018 | Michael Allen | 10th International Conference on Urban Climate | "Analysis of two time-continuous, multi-season climatologies of hemispherical sUHI" |
| August 28-31, 2018 | Sara Lafia | GIScience 2018 Conference | "Improving Discovery of Open Civic Data" |
| August 6-10, 2018 | David Miller | 10th International Conference on Urban Climate | "Gross primary productivity of a large metropolitan region using in situ measurements and WorldView-2 satellite imagery" |
| June 25-29, 2018 | Crystal Bae | iNav 20182nd Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium | "Collaborative Route Planning and Navigation in a Novel Environment" |
| June 11-12, 2018 | You (Lily) Cheng | 2018 UCSB Methods University (METHODS U 2018) | |
| June 3-7, 2018 | Blake Regalia | ESWC 2018 | presenting a full paper titled, "GNIS-LD Serving and Visualizing the Geographic Names Information System Gazetteer As Linked Data" |
| June 26-29, 2018 | Anagha Uppal | Digital Humanities 2018 | "Ethical Constraints in Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science” |
| June 25-28, 2018 | Deanna Nash | International Atmospheric Rivers Conference at the Scripps Institute of Oceanograph | "The Role of Atmospheric Rivers in Extratropical and Polar Hydroclimate" |
| August 28-31, 2018 | Jingyi Xiao | GIScience 2018 Conference | A study of transdisciplinary spatial computations on GIS Stack Exchange posts” |
| August 28-31, 2018 | Gengchen Mai | GIScience 2018 Conference | full paper "xNet+SC: Classifying Places Based on Images by Incorporating Spatial Contexts" |
| September 5-8, 2018 | Crystal Bae | Spatial Cognition 2018 | "Route Planning and Situated Navigation in a Collaborative Wayfinding Task" |
| September 5-8, 2018 | You (Lily) Cheng | Spatial Cognition 2018 | “Performance discrepancy between left-handers and right-handers reveals multisensory integration in the mental rotation of hands” |
| November 2-4, 2018 | Cascade Tuholske | Graduate Climate Conference | QA to present "Towards linking climate change and urban food security: Evidence from Accra, Ghana" |
| November 7-10, 2018 | Carlos Baez | North American Regional Science Conference | "Server Cooperation in Reliability-Based Location Problems" |
| December 10-14, 2018 | David Miller | AGU 2018 | "Drought Response of Urban Vegetation using Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy" |
| December 10-14, 2018 | Kaitlyn Zigner | AGU 2018 | "Predicting Extreme Events to Build Resillience to Natural Hazards" |
| October 8-12, 2019 | Bo Yan | International Semantic Web Conference | "Combining Text Embedding and Knowledge Graph Embedding Techniques for Academic" |
| December 10-14, 2018 | Deanna Nash | AGU 2018 | "Atmospheric Rivers Impact on High Asia Mountain Precipitation" |
| SPRING 2018 | |||
| Conference Dates | Name | Purpose/Destination | Paper/Talk |
| Kevin Mwenda | AAG in New Orleans, LA | “Multilevel Spatial Modelling of Chronic Child Undernutrition in Kenya” and a co- Organizer of the symposium “Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning” with the session title of “Deep Learning of Geospatial Patterns & Applications” |
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| Britta Schumacher | AAG in New Orleans, LA | "Characterizing Migratory Behavior, Climate Perceptions & Agricultural Practices in South Central Tanzania" |
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| Adam Davis | AAG in New Orleans, LA | "Commercial Neighborhood Attractiveness and Exclusion" | |
| Brandi Gamelin | AAG in New Orleans, LA | "South America ozone and temperature variability related to large-scale drivers with AIRS and MERRA-2" | |
| Maximilian Stiefel | European Population Conference | "Stress Impacts on Health in Urban Environments" | |
| Vania Wang | Sunbelt 2018 | "Heterosexual network structure and experiences of sexual discrimination among men who have sex with men in Seattle, Washington State" | |
| Jingyi Xiao | AAG in New Orleans, LA | "Key operations in spatial analysis: a data-driven method" | |
| Xin Feng | AAG in New Orleans, LA | "Allocation in Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity Space" | |
| Jing Xu | AAG in New Orleans, LA | “Assessment of Commercial Location Analytics” in Session “Urban Spatial Analysis I” | |
| Gengchen Mai | AAG in New Orleans, LA | "A Geographic Information Retrieval Framework Based on Semantic Web Technologies and Representation Learning ". |
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| April 10th to April 14th | Susan Burtner | AAG in New Orleans, LA | "Improving Harmonization of Geographic Data Labels Through Word Embeddings" |
| Rui Zhu | AAG in New Orleans, LA | "Utilizing Multiple-Point Geostatistics to Model Higher-order Geospatial Interactions | |
| Bo Yan | AAG in New Orleans, LA | "From ITDL to Place2Vec - Reasoning About Place Type Similarity and Relatedness by Learning Embeddings From Augmented Spatial Contexts | |
| Behzad Vahedi | SAP + ESRI Hackathon in Palm Springs, CA | ||
| May 9-11th | Natasha Krell | workshops at 10th conference on ICT4D (Information & Communications Technology for Development | |
| Cascade Tuholske | UC Global Health Day at UC San Diego | "Urban Food Security and Nutritional Challenges in West Africa: Evidence from Accra, Ghana". | |
| Behzad Vahedi | AAG in New Orleans, LA | "Functional Map Algebra: Designing Local Operations for Ocean Zinc Models." | |
| June 12th to June 15th | Gengchen Mai | The 21st Conference on Geo-Information Science (AGILE 2018) | "Visualizing the Semantic Similarity of Geographic Features." |
| May 21st to May 25th | Rui Zhu | 13th International Symposium of Spatial Accuracy in Beijing, China | "Adopting Semantic Signatures to Quantify the Uncertainty of Volunteered Geographic Information." |
| WINTER 2018 | |||
| Conference Dates | Name | Purpose/Destination | Paper/Talk |
| Jing Xu | Western Regional Science Association 57th Annual Meeting | “Spatial Analytics for Exploring Retail Gasoline Price Variability” | |
| Adam Davis | Transportation Research Board 97th Annual meeting | two publications titled, “A latent class pattern recognition and data quality assessment of non-commute long-distance travel in California” & “A tour-based path analysis of long distance non-commute travel behavior in California”. | |
| Lumari Pardo-Rodriguez | 2018 Cities and Climate Change Science Conference (Cities IPCC) organized by IPCC. | “Enhancing social vulnerability assessments: the optimal spatial scale". | |
| Xin Feng | Western Regional Association 57th Annual Meeting | -“Addressing Spatial Allocation: Planning for Drone-based Emergency Medical Service”. | |
| Sara Lafia | SAP + ESRI Hackathon; ESRI Developer Summit | "Improving Discovery of Open Civic Data" | |
| Cascade Tuholske | AAG Annual Meeting 2018 | "Towards Assessing Urban Food Security in West Africa". | |
| Thomas Hervery | SAP + ESRI Hackathon; ESRI Dev Summit | "Improving Discovery of Open Civic Data". | |
| Aaron Bagnell | SAP + ESRI Hackathon; ESRI Developer Summit | "Improving Discovery of Open Civic Data" | |
| (Lily) You Cheng | Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium (iNAV) 2018 | "Travel direction as a fundamental component of human navigation". | |
| FALL 2017 | |||
| Conference Dates | Name | Purpose/Destination | Paper/Talk |
| December 11-15, 2017 | Helen Chen | 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | “Water storage dynamics and streamflow in coastal California watersheds developed in fractured rocks” |
| December 11-15, 2017 | Sarah Shivers | 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | "Using Imaging Spectrometry to Approach Crop Classification from a Water Management Perspective." |
| December 11-15, 2017 | Mike Johnson | 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | “Accessing National Water Model Output for Research and Application: An R Package” |
| December 11-15, 2017 | Katalyn Voss | 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | "Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Water Sources in the Eastern Himalaya: A Case study of the Arun watershed, Nepal" |
| December 11-15, 2017 | Tessa Montini | 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | “Assessment of Uncertainties in Recent Changes in the South American Low-Level Jet based on Various Reanaylses.” |
| December 11-15, 2017 | Brandi Gamelin | 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | “Tropopause Ozone and Water Vapor Concentrations during the South American Monsoon System with AIRS Satellite Observations and MERRA-2 data” |
| December 11-15, 2017 | Natasha Krell | 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | “Real time monitoring of smallholder farmer responses to intra-seasonal climate variability in central Kenya” |
| December 11-15, 2017 | David Miller | 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | “Gross Primary Productivity and Vegetation Light Use Efficiency of a Large Metropolitan Region based on CO2 Flux Measurement and WorldView-2 Satellite Imagery" |
| December 11-15, 2017 | Sari Blakeley | 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | “Index Insurance and the use of data with trends in West Africa.” |
| December 11-15, 2017 | Erin Wetherley | 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting | "Evaluating vegetation type effects on land surface temperature at the city scale" |
| November 22-24th, 2017 | Kevin Mwenda | 8th International Chemical and Environmental Engineering Conference | |
| November 11-8th, 2017 | Gengchen Mai | 25th International Conference on Advances in GIS | From ITDL to Place2Vec – Reasoning About Place Type Similarity and Relatedness by Learning Embeddings From Augmented Spatial Contexts |
| November 7-10th, 2017 | Bo Yan | ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 Meeting | "From ITDL to Place2Vec-Reasoning About Place Type Similarity and Relatedness by Learning Embeddings From Augmented Spatial Contexts" |
| November 1-8th, 2017 | Xin Feng | North American Regional Science Conference 2017 International Meeting | |
| October 22-25 , 2017 | Nina Bingham | The Geological Society of America Annual Meeting | "Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Anthropogenic-Driven Erosion Controlled by Rock Type" |
| October 19-22 , 2017 | Anagha Uppal | Computational Social Science 2017 | "Computational Social Science: A State of Affairs" |
| October 21-25 , 2017 | Blake Regalia | International Semantic Web Conference 2017 | "Decentralizing the Persistence and Querying of RDF Datasets Through Browser-Based Technologies" |
| October 29th to November 24th, 2017 | Jessica Marter-Kenyon | 28th International Population Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) | "Villagization, 'Modernization', and Family Formation in Rwanda" |
| SUMMER 2017 | |||
| Conference Dates | Name | Purpose/Destination | Paper/Talk |
| Sept. 4-7, 2017 | Crystal Bae | Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) 2017 | “Paired Social Wayfinding: Dyadic Interaction in Coordinating Real-World Navigation Behavior” |
| Sept. 4-7, 2017 | Daniel Phillips | 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory | “Categorizing Cognitive Scales of Spatial Information” and serving as an organizer for a workshop entitled “Cognitive Scales of Spatial Information” |
| Sept. 4-7, 2017 | Thomas Hervey | Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) 2017 | present “Categorizing Cognitive Scales of Spatial Information” |
| Aug 6th -10th, 2017 | Gabriel Antunes Daldegan | Ecological Society of America –ESA – Annual Meeting | |
| Aug 6th -10th, 2017 | Fernanda De Figueireido Ribeiro | Ecological Society of America –ESA – Annual Meeting | “Vegetation Mapping and Habitat Suitability Analysis of Anodorhynchus Hyacinthinus in the Brazilian Savanna” |
| July 31-Aug 3, 2017 | Currier, Kitty | Participatory Mapping/GIS 2017 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, CA | “Web-based participatory mapping for tourism planning in Bali, Indonesia” |
| July 17-19, 2017 | Gabriel Antunes Daldegan | Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) Annual Conference 2017 | “Spectral Mixture Analysis in GEE to map fire scars in Brazil deforestation arch” |
| July 17-19, 2017 | Fernanda De Figueireido Ribeiro | Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) Annual Conference 2017 | “High spatial resolution mapping of land cover types in the Cerrado’s heterogeneous landscape” |
| July 10-14, 2017 | Gao, Song | 2017 Esri International User Conference San Diego, CA | “Extracting Urban Functional Regions from Points of Interest and Human Activities on Location-based Social Networks” |
| July 2-7, 2017 | Gao, Song | 28th International Cartographic Conference Washington DC | “Quantifying the Attractiveness of Destinations for Modeling Travel Patterns Using Location-Based Social Media Data” |
| July 2-7, 2017 | Zhang, Yuchen | 28th International Cartographic Conference Washington DC | "Identifying Geographic Features through Map Interpretation: A Case Study of Craters Using |
| July 2-7, 2017 | Angela Marcela Suarez | 28th International Cartographic Conference | “Leveraging Spatio-Temporal Information to Enrich Thematic Clustering of Twitter Posts” |
| June 14-17, 2017 | O’Neal, Blaire | AFHVS/ASFS Annual Meeting Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA | “Urban Agriculture and Gentrification: How Gardeners are Transforming Urban Neighborhoods” |
| May 11-12, 2017 | Baez, Carlos | Workshop on Analyzing Movement and Mobility within Geographic Context Columbus, OH | “Inferring the characteristics of taxi and Uber users/trips with event data” |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Blakeley, Sarah | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | ”Rainfall Variability in West Africa” |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Feng, Xin | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | “Heterogeneous Voronoi diagram” |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Gengchen, Mai | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | ”ADCN: An Anisotropic Density-Based Clustering Algorithm for Discovering Spatial Point Patterns with Noise” |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Ju, Yiting | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | “Things and Strings: Improving Place Name Disambiguation from Short Texts” |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Marter-Kenyon, Jessicai | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | “Planned Population Resettlement in an Era of Global Environmental Change” |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Mwenda, Kevin | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | “Forest Dynamics and landscape ecology metrics in Old Providence Island, Colombia 2005-2015” |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Ramos, Rafael | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | “Is finer better? On the Limits of Crime Data Aggregation” |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Suarez, Marcela | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | “Using spatio-temporal data to enrich thematic clustering of Twitter reports of extreme weather events” |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Vahedi, Behzad | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | “Revisiting the Notion of ‘Continuous Fields’ |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Xu, Jing | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | “Detection of Nighttime Street Lighting” |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Yan, Bo | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | “Beyond Coordinates: Incorporating Geographic Knowledge into Geocoding Services Using Linked Open Data” |
| April 5-9, 2017 | Zhu, Rui | AAG 2017 International Meeting Boston, MA | “From the Geo-dipole to the Geo-multipole: A Framework of Applying Multiple-Point (Geo)Statistics for Geographic Field Analysis” |
| March 22-31 | Regalia, Blake | Ghent University, Belgium | Knowledge Representation on Web-Scale group of Data Science Lab |
| March 7-9, 2017 | Mwenda, Kevin | Africa Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC) Nairobi, Kenya | "Fine-Scale Spatial Modelling of Child Undernutrition in Kenya" |
| Jan 22-26, 2017 | Wetherley, Erin | American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA | “Quantifying Urban Composition at Multiple Scales using Airborne Spectroscopic Imagery” |
| Jan 8-12, 2017 | Davis, Adam | Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting Washington, D.C | "Exploring Social Media Data for Travel Demand Analysis: Comparison of Twitter, Household Travel Survey, and Synthetic Population Data in California " |
| SUMMER / FALL 2016 | |||
| Conference Dates | Name | Purpose/Destination | Paper/Talk |
| Nov 19-23, 2016 | Ju, Yiting | 20th Int'l Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Bologna, Italy | “Things and Strings: Improving Place Name Disambiguation from Short Texts by Combining Entity Co-Occurrence with Topic Modeling" |
| September 27-30, 2016 | GAO, Song | GIScience 2016, Montreal, Canada | full paper: “Moon Landing or Safari? A Study of Systematic Errors and their Causes in Geographic Linked Data”; oral presentation: “Where to Meet: A Context-Based Geoprocessing Framework to Find Optimal Spatiotemporal Interaction Corridor for Multiple Moving Objects”; short paper: “Identifying Local Spatiotemporal Autocorrelation Patterns of Taxi Pick-ups and Drop-offs” |
| September 27-30, 2016 | YAN, Bo | GIScience 2016, Montreal, Canada | “A Data-Driven Approach for Detecting and Quantifying Modeling Biases in Geo-Ontologies by Using a Discrepancy Index” and “Which Kobani? A Case Study on the Role of Spatial Statistics and Semantics for Co-reference Resolution Across Gazetteers” |
| September 27-30, 2016 | REGALIA, Blake | GIScience 2016, Montreal, Canada | "Moon Landing or Safari? A Study of Systematic Errors and their Causes in Geographic Linked Data" |
| September 5-9, 2016 | MAI, Gengchen | 12th Reasoning Web Seminar, Aberdeen, Scotland | “A Linked Data Driven Visual Interface for the Multi-Perspective Exploration of Data across Repositories” |
| December 12-16, 2016 | CHEN, Helen | 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA | “Linkages between rainfall regimes and storage-discharge relations under climate variability in coastal California watersheds” |
| December 12-16, 2016 | SHIVERS, Sara | 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA | “Comparing Column Water Vapor Retrievals from AVIRIS imagery and their Uncertainties over Varying Surfaces” |
| September 27-30, 2016 | LAFIA, Sara | GIScience 2016, Montreal, Canada | “Exploring the Notion of Spatial Data Lenses” |
| December 12-16, 2016 | HEIDINGER, Haline | 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA | “The Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) on Extreme Rainfall Over The Central and Southern Peruvian Andes” |
| September 27-30, 2016 | ZHU, Rui | GIScience 2016, Montreal, Canada | Paper 1: “Which Kobani? A Case Study on the Role of Spatial Statistics and Semantics for Coreference Resolution Across Gazetteers” Paper 2: Identifying Local Spatiotemporal Autocorrelation Patterns of Taxi Pick-ups and Drop-offs. Paper 3: Moon landing or safari? a study of systematic errors and their causes in geographic Linked Data” |
| September 27-30, 2016 | HERVEY, Thomas | GIScience 2016, Montreal, Canada | “Deriving Locational Reference through Implicit Information retrieval” |
| September 14-16, 2016, | YE, Haiyun | AutoCarto 2016, Albuquerque, NM | “Spatial, Temporal, and Thematic Structure of VGI in Social Media Following Different Catastrophic Events” |
| September 25-28, 2016 | BINGHAM, Nina | Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO | “Stable vs. Evolving Hillslopes: Setting the Geomorphic Stage for Interpreting Soils” |
| December 12-16, 2016 | ZILLI, Marcia | 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA | “Decadal variability of the position and strength of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone and its relationship to precipitation variability and extremes over Southeastern Brazil” |
| December 12-16, 2016 | WETHERLEY, Erin | 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA | “Quantifying urban vegetation type fractions using signal unmixing with airborne spectroscopic imagery” |
| December 12-16, 2016 | GAMELIN, Brandi | 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA | “Deep Convective Events Influence Ozone Variability in Southeast South America” |
| December 12-16, 2016 | BLAKELEY, Sari | 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA | “Using CHIRPS Rainfall Dataset to detect rainfall trends in West Africa” |
| December 12-16, 2016 | MILLER, David | 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA | “Estimating Urban Gross Primary Productivity at High Spatial Resolution” |
| September 22-23, 2016 | ERVIN, Daniel | French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) International Young Researchers’ Conference , Paris, France | “Exploring the Relationship between International Migration Processes and Land Use/ Land Cover Change in Mexico from 2000 to 2010” |
| September 29-30, 2016 | ERVIN, Daniel | European Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Malaga, Spain | “Understanding Risk Perceptions for Climate Change in Vulnerable Pacific Island Communities” |
| November 9-12, 2016 | XIN, Feng | North American Regional Science Council, Minneapolis, MN | “Heterogeneous space facility siting in order to maximize coverage” |
| September 27-30, 2016 | MAI, Gengchen | GIScience 2016, Montreal, Canada | “Moon Landing or Safari? A Study of Systematic Errors and their Causes in Geographic Linked Data” |
| September 27-30, 2016 | VAHEDI, Bhezad | GIScience 2016, Montreal, Canada | “Exploring the Notion of Spatial Data Lenses” |
| October 17-21, 2016 | REGALIA, Blake | International Semantic Web Conference, Kobe, Japan | “Designing a Map Legend Ontology for Searching Map Content” |
| October 31-November 3, 2016 | MAI, Gengchen | 24th ACM SIGPATIAL, San Francisco, CA | “ADCN: An Anisotropic Density-Based Clustering Algorithm” |
| October 31-November 3, 2016 | GAO, Song | 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL, San Francisco, CA | “Employing Spatial Analysis in Indoor Positioning and Tracking Using Wi-Fi Access Points” and “ADCN: An Anisotropic Density-Based Clustering Algorithm” |
| October 31-November 3, 2016 | HERVEY, Thomas | 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL, San Francisco, CA | “Extracting Spatial Information from Social Media in Support of Agricultural Management Decisions” |
| December 12-16, 2016 | DEFIGUEREIDO RIBEIRO, Fernanda | 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA | “High Spatial Resolution Mapping of the Cerrado’s Land Cover and Land Use Types in the Priority Area for Conservation Chapada da Contagem, Brazil” |
| December 12-16, 2016 | ANTUNES, Gabriel | 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA | “Using Google Earth Engind to Apply Spectral Mixture Analysis Over Landsat 5TM and Modis Imagery to Map Fire Scars in Alto Teles Pires River Basin, Mato Grosso State, Brazil” |
| November 7-9, 2016 | JOHNSON, Mike | 9th Annual HAZUS User Conference, Charleston, SC | "OPERA - Operational Platform for Emergency Response" |
| SPRING 2016 | |||
| Conference Dates | Name | Purpose/Destination | Paper/Talk |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | ERVIN, Daniel | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “International Migration, economic environmental, and sociodemographic factors correspond with forest cover change in Mexico from 2000-2010” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | TUHOLSKE, Cascade | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “The Effects of Tourism on Land Cover and Land Use Change in Roatán, Honduras” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | ROMERO, Rafael | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Exploring the spatial-temporal relations between burglary and socioeconomic factors using GIS” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | SALAP-AYCA, Seda | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Investigating the Effects of Neighborhood Schemes on Local Multi-Criteria Evaluation” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | LAFIA, Sara | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “People and Places: Resource Discovery in a Library Context” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | HU, Yingjie | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Task-oriented information value measurement based on space-time prisms” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | ZHU, Rui | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Gazetteer Place Matching using Spatial Analysis” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | GAO, Song | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Employing Spatial Analysis in Indoor Positioning and Tracking Using Wi-Fi Access Points.” |
| May 29-June 2, 2016 | REGALIA, Blake | ESWC 2016 Extended Semantic Web Conference, Anissaras, Crete, Greece | “VOLT: A ProvenanceProducing, Transparent SPARQL Proxy for the OnDemand Computation of Linked Data and its Application to Spatiotemporally Dependent Data” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | MAI, Gengchen | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Tea Plantation Expansion in Hangzhou, China: Process, Related factors & Ecological Effect” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | McBRIDE, Elizabeth | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Spatial Transferability Using Synthetic Population Generation Methods” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | JU, Yiting | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Ontology Design Pattern of Spatiotemporal Scope: From an Application to Life Cycle Assessment” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | DAVIS, Adam | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Modeling Quantifiable Place Attitudes” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | YE, Haiyun | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Spatiotemporal Analysis of Social Media Response After a Flood Event” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | YAN, Bo | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Geo-ontology Quality Evaluation and Difference Measurement” |
| July 5-8, 2016 | CROOK, Stephen | GI Forum, Salzburg, Austria, July 5-8, 2016 | “An Agent Based Model for Exploring Wolf Recolonization in Austria” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | SUAREZ, Marcela | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Spatiotemporal Analysis of Social Media Response After a Flood Event” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | CHEN, Mingquan | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Reconstructing Fire Severity and PostFire Recovery in a Southern California Watershed Using Hyperspectral Imagery and LiDAR” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | PHILLIPS, Daniel | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Cognition, Visualization, and User Issues III” |
| April 29-May 1, 2016 | HARRIS, Sarah | California Geographical Society Annual Conference, San Jose, CA, April 29-May 1, 2016 | “Backwards trajectory analysis of southern California atmospheric rivers” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | SEIDL, Dara | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Privacy and False Identification Risk in Geomasking Techniques” |
| May 21-26, 2016 | FRAZIER, Heather | Society for Freshwater Science 2016 Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA May 21-26, 2016 | “Ecosystem Metabolism Response to Urban Development in Coastal California Streams” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | LEE, Jae Hyun | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Activity Space Estimation with Longitudinal Observations of Social Media Data” |
| March 29-April 2, 2016 | FENG, Xin | AAG Annual Meeting; March 29-April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Spatial analytics for enhancing street light coverage of public spaces” |
| June 14-17, 2016 | VAHEDI, Behzad | AGILE International Conference on GIS, June 14-17, 2016, in Helsinki, Finland | "Question-Based Spatial Computing - A Case Study" |
| July 17-23, 2016 | ZHU, Rui | 12th Semantic Web Summer School (SSSW '16), July 17-23, 2016, in Bertinoro, Italy | "Spatial Signatures for Geographic Feature Types: Examining Gazetteer Ontologies using Spatial Statistics" |
| WINTER 2016 | |||
| Conference Dates | Name | Purpose/Destination | Paper/Talk |
| January 10-14. 2016 | HARRIS, Sarah | American Meteorology Society Annual Meeting, January 10-14, 2016. New Orleans, LA | “Investigating Atmospheric Rivers Affecting Southern California” |
| January 10-14, 2016 | LEE, Jae-Hyun | The 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 10-14, 2016, Washington, D.C. | 1) “Activity Space Estimation with Longitudinal Observations of Social Media Data”; 2) “Comparing the Origin-Destination Matrices from Travel Demand Model and Social Media Data”; 3) “Taking Place Attitudes into Travel Behavior Research”; 4) “Behavioral micro-dynamics of car ownership and travel in the Seattle metropolitan region from 1989 to 2002” |
| March 29 - April 2, 2016 | MWENDA, Kevin | AAG 2016, March 29 - April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Modelling woody vegetation cover change in Boyaca, Colombia, using OLS, GWR and Random Forests” |
| January 10-14, 2016 | DAVIS, Adam | The 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 10-14, 2016, Washington, D.C. | “Taking Place Attitudes into Travel Behavior Research” |
| March 29 - April 2, 2016 | MEERDINK, Susan | AAG 2016, March 29 - April 2, 2016; San Francisco, CA | “Differentiating California plant species across seasons using airborne VSWIR and TIR imagery” |
| February 14-17, 2016 | NIBLETT, Tim | Western Regional Science Association, February 14-17, 2016 Hilton Waikoloa Village, HI | “TRANSMax II: an extended model for transit route optimization” |
| January 10-14, 2016 | McBRIDE, Elizabeth | The 95th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 10-14, 2016, Washington, D.C. | “Behavioral Microdynamics of Car Ownership and Travel in the Seattle Metropolitan Region from 1989 to 2002” |