Are you interested in leveraging your GIS skills in the industry? Hear from alumni discussing their time at NCSU and how it aided in their career journey! RSVP here: https://forms.gle/eR85ovW2vtHSKQZ39 This event is part of GIS Week at NC State, organized by the Geospatial Graduate Student Organization.
Listen to Faculty Fellows with the Center for Geospatial Analytics present lightning talks about their research. Lunch provided! Chris Jones (Senior Research Scholar at CGA) Title: Iterative Forecasting improves ecological understanding and management of invasive species. Brian Reich (Gertrude M. Cox Distinguished Professor at the Department of Statistics) Title: Novel spatial causal inference methods for…
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll take our first steps in GRASS by exploring a small watershed in Eastern North Carolina—home to some of the highest densities of swine waste lagoons in the country. Within an online computational notebook we will model how water — and waste — might move through the landscape. No prior GRASS…
Leveraging Geospatial Science to Better Understand How We Live, Work and Play Speaker: Dr. Enbal Shacham, Associate Dean for Research in the College for Public Health and Social Justice, and Professor of Behavioral Science and Health Equity, Saint Louis University Hosted by the Geospatial Graduate Student Organization and part of GIS Week at NC State.…
Defense Presentation Title: Policy, Place, and Practice: Mapping Data into Decisions for Environmental Investment Advisor: Dr. Bethany Cutts, faculty fellow and associate professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management Abstract: Data gives us the power to understand environmental challenges and the decisions we make to address them. Yet gaps and misalignments between how…
Virtual symposium with posters viewable online from 12pm Dec 10 until 2pm Dec 11. The MGIST Digital Symposium is an opportunity for our graduating professional master’s students to present their Capstone projects to the geospatial community at NC State and beyond. This includes student peers, alumni, faculty and staff from across the university, and our…
Defense Presentation Title: What’s all this then?: Managing Piedmont forests for balanced ecosystem service delivery Advisor: Dr. Robert Scheller, faculty fellow and associate dean for research in the College of Natural Resources Abstract: Ecosystem services are the goods and services that nature provides to society and the wider ecosystem. Tradeoffs are inherent in any ecosystem, but attempts…
Data Challenges in Geospatial Measures of Parks and Ways Forward Speakers: Dr. Katie Burford and Dr. Youngjae Won, Postdoctoral Research Scholars, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, North Carolina State University Hosted by: Dr. Aaron Hipp, Professor and CGA Fellow for Social and Behavioral Science Applications, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, North…
Exploring Urban Landscape Connectivity for Pollinators Using Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Models Speaker: Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Ecology, and CGA Faculty Fellow, North Carolina State University Introduction by: Dr. Georgina Sanchez, CGA's Director of Research Engagement Summary: Animal movement is central to ecology, determining individuals’ access to resources and mates while mediating…
Title: Accounting for Regulatory Zoning in Land Change Science and Modeling Advisors: Dr. Georgina Sanchez, Director of Research Engagement of the Center for Geospatial Analytics and Dr. Ross Meentemeyer, Executive Director of the Center for Geospatial Analytics Abstract: Local land use policies shape when and where economic development, conservation, and hazard mitigation activities occur. Likewise,…