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AAG-UCGIS Summer School 2019

Reproducible Problem Solving with CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Monday July 8 - Saturday July 13, 2019

See pictures from our week at UIUC! 

Plus, winners of the UCGIS-CyberGIS Center at UIUC Awards for Advancing Reproducible Geospatial Research! 

AAG-UCGIS Summer School 2019

In July 2019, a week-long summer school on Reproducible Problem Solving with CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science was co-led by the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies (CyberGIS Center) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), American Association of Geographers (AAG), and University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). Approximately 30 graduate students and early career scholars collaborated in developing novel solutions to complex problems and to take advantage of geospatial data science and cutting-edge scientific advances and technical capabilities of cyberGIS (e.g., CyberGIS-Jupyter and Virtual ROGER: cybergis.illinois.edu/infrastructures). Participants experienced the types of collaborative and professional interactions that are key to addressing reproducible geospatial problem solving in the context of computation- and/or data-intensive research involving confidential geospatial data. The program was built on the success of the inaugural UCGIS Summer School in 2017, and ideal for those working on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary topics, including but not limited to: data-driven social and environmental sciences, digital humanities, geospatial artificial intelligence, and remote sensing big data.

This Summer School was possible through the generous support of the National Science Foundation (NSF). 

Our 2019 cohort included:

Alexander Michels, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alexandra Timmons, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andong Ma, Texas A&M University, College Station Angela Werner, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Bidhyananda Yadav, The Ohio State University Brandon Lieberthal, University of Maine
Changzhen Wang, Louisiana State University Chen Liang, University of Kansas
David Lafferty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Forrest Bowlick, University of Massachusetts Amherst
James Coll, University of Kansas Jesse Bakker, University of Minnesota
Jimmy Feng, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Jinhyung Lee, The Ohio State University
Jinwoo Park, Texas A&M University, College Station Kate Vavra-Musser, University of Southern California
Kiley Heaps, Idaho State University Li Yi, University of Southern California
Megan Coffer, North Carolina State University Mehak Sachdeva, Arizona State University
Mishka Vance, Hunter College, CUNY Mohammad Eshghi, University of Oregon
Peng Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pu Huang, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
Swarnali Sanyal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Weibo Liu, Florida Atlantic University
Xiaonan Tai, University of Utah Xuan Zhang, University of Georgia
Xueqing Deng, University of California, Merced Yalin Yang, Binghamton University
Yogita Karale, University of Texas at Dallas Yuanyuan Tian, Arizona State University
Yun Zhao, University of Illinois at Springfield Yuqin Jiang, University of Southern California
Zhiyuan Yao, University of Cincinnati  

 

Questions about the Summer School can be directed to Dr. Anand Padmanabhan ([email protected]) or Dr. Shaowen Wang ([email protected]).

Organizers

  • Coline Dony, American Association of Geographers
  • Anand Padmanabhan, UIUC
  • Eric Shook, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  • Diana Sinton, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
  • Shaowen Wang, UIUC