CaGIS+UCGIS Symposium

Derek Arndt (“Deke") is the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).  NCEI maintains many of the world’s weather, ocean, and geophysical observations, records, and data sets and is home to four International Science Council World Data Centers.

A recent National Academy panel affirmed the need to evaluate the balance between supply and demand of geospatial professionals in the United States. As the geospatial industry has grown, it seems the number of geospatial professionals available to fill key jobs has not kept pace. Employers in the government and private sectors are having difficulty recruiting people with adequate skills. Meanwhile, the pace of change of technology in the geospatial-related disciplines has made education and training a challenge. During this session, panel members will describe current workforce trends; gaps between ideal and required characteristics, skills and education vs the realities of available job candidates; and suggestions/requests to the academic community to close those gaps so that the geospatial workforce supply can support the demand.

Hossein Naderi, Ziba Abbasian and Yuxia Huang
A Comparative Analysis of Survival Models to Predict COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Uptake: The Influence of Geography and Demography

Jinwen Xu, Ran Tao and Yi Qiang
Assessment on hurricane induced population migration in the CONUS – a case study of Hurricane Sandy

Jiyeon Kim, Yingjie Hu, Ryan Zhenqi Zhou and Kai Sun
Assessing the ability of deep learning models integrated with environmental and weather variables for predicting fire spread: A case study of the 2023 Maui wildfires

Jinyi Cai, Caglar Koylu, Eric Tate and David Cwiertny
Social Vulnerability and Health Exposure to Well Nitrate Contamination in Iowa: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach

May Yuan, NSF program director, will coordinate a discussion on how to prepare competitive proposals for HEGS and other NSF programs, especially in those she is involved (see her signature below). There will be a lunch table designated for the discussion on Monday, June 3. It will be an open discussion. She will share her observations on common issues and successes and welcome suggestions for broadening NSF engagement with research communities. Anyone is welcome to join, ask questions, and share experiences. You are welcome to email her questions before the lunch discussion.

Nathanael Bassett
Beneath the Tearline: Open Source and Geospatial Intelligence and Collaboration in the Climate Crisis

Tenyindze Therence Zabze
How do we conduct research, education and outreach in a climate friendly way, including the activities of professional organizations? How do we help our universities to become more climate smart?

Zain Ul Abdin Siyal and Ying Song
Visual Exploration of Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Air Quality using Volunteered Geographic Information: A Study Case of PM 2.5 in Minneapolis, U.S.

Emily Schoerning and Caglar Koylu
Modeling and Mapping of Climate Migration

Goeun Jung, Won Kyung Kim, Kyumin Kim, Seokmin Ji, Dongook Son, Soriul Kim, Chol Shin, Miji Kim, Hyunji Kim and Sun-Young Kim
Spatio-temporal Variations Across Visited Place and Activities by Season, Weekdays and Weekends

Jeff Blossom, Devika Jain, Jack Hayes, Heike Gibson, Sheryl Rifas-Shimann and Diane Gold
RINX 2.0: A Containerized Climate Raster Information Extraction System on OpenShift Cloud Environment

Zhijie Zhou, Yixin Fang and Binbin V. Li
Toward the Hidden Cost of China’s 2060 Carbon Neutrality: Potential Biodiversity Impacts of Terrestrial Wind and Solar Energy Expansion

Lei Zou and Bing Zhou
Expect the Unexpected: Empowering Climate Resilience and Sustainability through Responsible GIScience

Professional organizations naturally want to increase their membership and participation in activities.  Organizations also have responsibilities to reach out and collaborate with other professional societies, government and industry. In the past, this has often involved in-person meetings and travel.  However, travel at the national/international scale has a high carbon footprint, particularly if aviation is the only viable option. While all organization should be considering the climate impacts of their activities, this is especially imperative for professional geospatial and geographic organizations who should lead by example. In this panel, we will discuss strategies for professional organization to grow their activities while decoupling this from growth in carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions. 

Yue Lin
A Multi-objective Optimization Approach to Balancing Utility and Equity in Location-allocation Problems

Maryam Torkashvand and Caglar Koylu
A Hierarchical Approach for Geocoding Birthplaces in Temporally Continuous Crowd-Sourced Family Tree Data

Barry Kronenfeld, Barbara Buttenfield, Lawrence Stanislawski and Ethan Shavers
Untangling the Knots: A Procedure for Identifying Discernability Conflicts on a Cartographic Line

Georg Gartner, International Cartographic Association (ICA) President, will open the plenary session with information about the ICA, including its upcoming 2025 conference in Vancouver, Canada.

Dr. Virginia Burkett, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will be the plenary speaker in this session. Dr. Burkett is the Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use Change, International Programs.  She has published roughly 100 journal articles, book chapters and reports that focus on wetlands, global change, and low-lying coastal systems. Burkett was a Lead Author of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third, Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports and the IPCC Technical Paper on Water. She was also a Lead Author of the First, Second and Third US National Climate Assessments. 

This panel will continue and expand a conversation which began at a specialist meeting on the leading role GIScience can take in a time of scientific disruption led by faculty in the Center for Spatial Studies and Data Science at UC Santa Barbara. The panel discussion will focus on the development of a research agenda and curriculum that can respond to and shape the direction of science during a time of disruption.

Dalia Varanka and Cogan Shimizu
Climate Change and Locality Knowledge Semantics

Peter Kedron
Spatial Data Infrastructure to Identify What Works Where

Aileen Buckley
Why Your Climate Change Map Can Never Be Right

Wenyu Wang, Zhenhua Chen and Kailai Wang
Assessing the Impact of the 2021 Texas Winterstorm Disaster on Social Group Vulnerability and Resilience: A Spatial Flow Analysis and Deep Learning Approach

Behnam Tahmasbi
Assessing Cooling Shelter Accessibility and Equity: A Case Study of Arizona's Heat Vulnerability

Sandy Wong
Environmental Justice & Green Space Access: Socio-Spatial Inequities at the Intersection of Disability, Race, & Class

John F. Harrison and Hong-Thu-Phuong Nguyen
Visualizing Indigenous Culture: Digital Story Mapping of The Sapediq Group, Taiwan

Will Payne, Shiloh Deitz, Eric Seymour, Kathe Newman and Lauren Nolan
Local Landscapes of Assisted Housing: Reconciling Layered and Imprecise Administrative Spatial Data for Research Purposes

Shannon Albeke, Jeffrey Hamerlinck, Nicholas Case, Samantha Ewers, Luke Todd, Bart Geertz, Stefan Rahimi-Esfarjani, Bryan Shuman, Pramod Adhikari, David Williams, Corrine Knapp and Melissa Bukovsky
Communicating quantitative climate change information to stakeholders and the public: opportunities and challenges of a regional web portal for Wyoming

Paula Marcea Perez Briceño, Hugo Hidalgo Leon, Eric Alfaro Martinez, Blanca Calderón Solera and Iván Cerda-Escares
Geovisualization of Climate Change Scenarios for Central America and the Dominican Republic: Implications for Sustainable Development-Focused Public Investment Management.

Hoeyun Kwon
Investigating spatial inequalities in the disruption of mobility networks before and after the COVID-19 pandemic onset

John Wilson
Using geospatial approaches to locate where to plant trees and maximize the thermal comfort of vulnerable urban residents

Societal grand challenges related to issues such as climate change, water scarcity, and food insecurity continue to increase in their complexity and uncertainty. In response, geospatial technologies, methods, and practices continue to evolve but not always in the way they did in the past. The objective of this interactive session is to engage conference participants in a ‘futures thinking’ exploration of the higher education geospatial community in the broader geospatial ecosystem. (Re-)considering our social networks both within and beyond the academy can provide important context for establishing a strategic compass to guide organizations such as CAGIS and UCGIS over the next decade and beyond. Understanding cross-disciplinary and intersectoral relationships provides useful initial insight into understanding how drivers of change – ranging from artificial intelligence advancements to calls for increased use inspired research – may influence geospatial research and education in the future and impact the directions we take regarding technology platform development, interdisciplinary co-production of knowledge, and innovation partnerships.

Mingzheng Yang, Lei Zou, Wanhe Li, Heng Cai, Binbin Lin and Bing Zhou
Sleepless Cities under Social Isolation: Geographically and Temporally Revealing Circadian Rhythm Disorders through Social Media

Meicheng Xiong and Di Zhu
From Lake to Lakeplace: A Case Study of Lake-Related Human Activities in the Twin Cities

Farnoosh Roozkhosh and Angela Xiaobai Yao
Predicting Electric Vehicle Demand for Charging Stations: Time Series and Machine Learning Approaches

Hao Yang and Xiaobai Yao
Enhancing Traffic Safety: A Deep Learning Approach for Predicting and Understanding Traffic Violations

Extreme weather due to global heating will cause unprecedented strain and damage to infrastructure and built environments that were designed for climate conditions that no longer exist. The way we build can also enhance or attenuate the impacts of heat waves, extreme precipitation and strong storms on people and property. How should we change our approach to planning and designing our infrastructure and built environment to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis? These questions will be addressed by an expert panel drawing from academia, the private sector and government.

Xiao Huang
The Art of AI Reading: Converting Remote Sensing Imagery into Compelling Narratives

Zhining Gu, Wenwen Li, Bing Zhou, Yikang Wang, Yanbin Chen, Shan Ye, Kejin Wang, Hongkai Gu and Yuhao Kang
GISphere Knowledge Graph (GISphere-KG) Platform for Geography Programs Recommendation for Future GIS workforce

Lawrence Stanislawski, Ethan Shavers, Neal Pastick, Phillip Theim, Shaowen Wang, Nattapon Jaroenchai, Zhe Jiang, Barry Kronenfeld, Barbara P. Buttenfield and Adam Camerer
Adaptive Fine-tuning for Transferring a U-net Hydrography Extraction Model using K-means

Emily Zhou, Gustell Preston, Junyi Yang and Avani Adhikari
Advancing Sustainable Urban Mobility: A GIS-Based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Equitable Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Deployment in Philadelphia

Zhe Zhang, Shaowen Wang, Honggao Liu, Samantha Arundel, Amy Rock, Joseph Kerski, Tao Cheng, Xiao Li, Jukka Krisp, Lingli Zhu, Aron Larsson, Huilin Gao, Changjie Cai, Henrikki Tenkanen, Jorge Brenner, Tim Cockerill, Lori Peek, Shelley Knuth and Zhuping Sheng
CyberTraining: Broadening Adoption of Cyberinfrastructure and Geospatial Science Research and Workforce for Disaster Management

Abdirashid Dahir, Daniel Harrington, Seyed Sajjad Abdollahpour, Steven Hankey and Huyen T. K. Le
Impacts of bicycle infrastructure and network characteristics on bicycle traffic over time in 12 US metropolitan areas

Katrina Schweikert, Torsten Hahmann and Shirly Stephen
A Geospatial Knowledge Graph for Analyzing the Fate and Transport of Environmental Contaminants

Yanbing Chen and Yuhao Kang
Investigating Mobility and Research Themes through Faculty Hiring Network in GIScience

Timothy Trainor
Recent developments in geospatial information management by the United Nations

Victor Irekponor and Taylor Oshan
Visualization strategies for handling uncertainty in SVC models: Implications for reproduciblity and replicability

Will Payne and Evangeline McGlynn
Warping Polygons with the Relational Reprojection Platform

Ruowei Liu and Xiaobai Yao
Evaluating Sampling Bias in Geotagged Social Media Data

This workshop will provide attendees with information on best practices for preparing graphs, figures, and illustrations for the CaGIS journal. In addition, information will be provided on review and edit procedures, including expected timelines for each phase of the process as well as general information about publishing in the journal.

Mobile Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies are mobile phone-based apps supporting spatio-temporal data collection in the field. ArcGIS Field Maps is a powerful mobile GIS app that enables users to collect and update real-time spatial data in the field, providing a seamless and efficient workflow for GIS researchers and professionals across various disciplines. Primarily, the app streamlines field data collection through flexible survey design and custom form creation depending on the research needs. The user-friendly interface of this app enables users to track their travel routes and record location, condition, and attribute information of any spatial objects via various data types like points, lines, polygons, photos, and notes. The app also supports offline mapping, shared data collection from multiple users, and real-time syncing with other ArcGIS mapping platforms. Integrating all these features within one mobile app makes it a versatile technology for research and practices in many domains e.g., transportation, environment, hazard, and health. For instance, in a recent study on designing an inclusive accessibility measure, this app has been successfully utilized for large-scale mobility data collection tracking people's travel routes for a week, while collecting their safety perceptions for different road environments using a survey form and street photos. Similar to this example of capturing user-specific travel behavior and perception, this app can be very effective in investigating and tackling the climate crisis. Especially, this app can be used to evaluate asset loss and damages, emergency response needs, and health and safety compliance during natural and man-made disasters and shocks.
This workshop aims to discuss and demonstrate how to utilize ArcGIS Field Maps for effective survey design and data collection. The app has two platforms: 1. Computer-based field map designer for map configuration and survey design and 2. Field maps mobile app for field data collection using the map features and surveys. This workshop participants will have hands-on experiences with Field map designers in setting up the mapping environment, adding feature layers, building survey forms, and sharing the map with users for using it in the mobile app. In addition, the workshop will also introduce the mobile app interface, available features, downloading offline maps, and sample data collection using the mobile app. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will learn effective survey design and spatial data collection using the ArcGIS Field Maps platform.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of GIS Technology requirements: Participants should bring a laptop. Access to ArcGIS Online may be beneficial, but not mandatory. Participants may use the trial version of ArcGIS Field Maps (https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-field-maps/trial) for the hands-on exercises of this workshop.

America’s coastal communities, ecosystems, and infrastructure face increasing hazards from sea level rise. This workshop is geared towards faculty and studentsinterested in learning and/or teaching about resiliency planning around coastal flooding and sea level rise. We’ll explore questions such as “What do future sea level rise scenarios look like in my community? Is the land that Ihelp manage going to be impacted? How do we understand the impacts so we can appropriately develop our resilience plan? What areas will be impacted first? How do I visualize this information for community stakeholders that will generate support for our mitigation plans?”
In the workshop, we will utilize authoritative sea level rise resources produced by NOAA alongside ArcGISOnline to visualize Sea Level Rise layers, conduct analysis of critical facilities, view results, and produce compelling3D visualizations.
This is an interactive, in-person, hands-on workshop where we use a case-study and walk through the steps online solutions to better understand flooding impacts.
You will learn to assess and compare sea level risescenarios and to conduct impact assessments to help prioritize resiliency and mitigation efforts in the first halfof the workshop. In the second half, you will learn to build a 3D digital twin and use it to visualize scenarios and impacts.

The goal of this workshop is to describe experiences, challenges, prospects, and needs for using open-source GIS tools in the classroom for both undergraduate and graduate courses. We plan to discuss barriers and the pros and cons of using open-source GIS software for GIS instruction by asking participants to share success stories and to share their visions for integrating a wider variety of tools into classes. In essence, we will try to capture what works, what doesn't, and what we'd like to see.
We will explore the prospect of developing training materials for instructors who would like to expand into open-source tools, and resource-sharing for instructors who would benefit from a library of course materials. These materials should be free and available to instructors, and can include curated datasets, step-by­step GIS labs, instructional videos, exploration activities, and back-end programming assignments for a wide range of undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and computer science.
As part of this workshop, we will also discuss the prospects of applying for federal funding to help support and develop shared open-source GIS infrastructure and resources for higher education.
Participants do not need any prerequisites to join, although this workshop will be held primarily for instructors and faculty. There are no technical requirements for this workshop.