Dr. David Berrigan – Biologist & Program Director, Health Behaviors Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Conghe Song – Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Jeffrey Hepinstall-Cymerman – Associate Professor, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Georgia
Dr. Peter Vogt – Scientific Officer, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Dr. Siva Ravada – Senior Director of Development, Oracle Spatial & Graph and MapViewer, Server Technologies
Dr. Ben Watson | Associate Professor | Dept. of Computer Science | NC State University Abstract: Finding our way has always been necessary, and we have always tried to make it easier. Yet today, wayfinding is changing so rapidly that it makes our heads spin. What have we lost? What might we gain? I will use…
Dr. Paul Byrne | Assistant Professor | Dept. of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences | NC State University Abstract: Until 2008 Mercury was a poorly understood planet, with less than half of it imaged by visiting spacecraft. NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury returned global image and topographic data and – together with gravity, spectral, and compositional…
Dr. James Wickham | Senior Research Biologist | US Environmental Protection Agency Abstract: Preserving and restoring the world’s forests is regarded as having a positive (cooling) effect on a warming climate. However, some have cautioned against reforestation and afforestation as a climate-warming-mitigation strategy outside of tropical regions, without considering the potentially counteracting biophysical effects (albedo, transpiration)…
Nate Irwin | Lead Developer | Trailhead Labs, San Francisco, CA Abstract: For a number of reasons, the relevance of GIS, as we know it, is waning. Geography, on the other hand, is alive and well. In fact, it’s so pervasive that you’d be hard-pressed to find a tech company whose portfolio doesn’t include it in…