Liberatory Innovation: Critical GIS as a Tool for Civic Imagination Speaker: Nick Okafor, Founder and Executive Director @ trubel&co, and doctoral student at Stanford University  Hosted by: Dr. Aaron Hipp, Professor of Community Health and Sustainability, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, and Associate Director of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Geospatial Analytics Summary:…

Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. students will share current research in a series of short talks. Speakers: > Christina Perella – Climate as Push and Pull: Forecasting Movement of US Populations (co-advised by Dr. Adam Terando and Dr. Jelena Vukomanovic) Abstract: Human choices and preferences shape and impact landscapes. Historically, migration has been driven in large part by push…

Monitoring Dryland Ecosystem Function with Multi-Source and Multi-Scale Remote Sensing Speaker: Dr. Matt Dannenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, University of Iowa Hosted by: Dr. Chris Jones, Senior Research Staff and Faculty Fellow, Center for Geospatial Analytics, NC State Summary: Drylands make up ~40% of Earth’s land surface and are home to…

Spatiotemporal Impacts of Urban Rail Systems on Residential and Commercial Areas Speaker: Dr. Eleni Bardaka, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE), and CGA Faculty Fellow Introduction by: Dr. Ashly Cabas, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE), and CGA Faculty Fellow Summary: Forthcoming. About the speaker: Forthcoming.

From Software Distribution to Species Distribution: an Engineer’s Journey into Marine Spatial Ecology Speaker: Mr. Jason Roberts, Research Associate, Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University Hosted by: Dr. DelWayne Bohnenstiehl, Professor in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and CGA Faculty Fellow Summary: Species distribution models increasingly drive regulatory and policy decisions for…