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Apr 23, 2018

2018 Esri Development Center Student of the Year

Ph.D. student Ashwin Shashidharan, co-advised by Ross Meentemeyer and Raju Vatsavai, has been named by Esri as the 2018 Esri Development Center Student of the Year, out of a pool of over twenty honorees worldwide.

Apr 16, 2018

A Landscape Ecology Legacy

During his two-year term as president of US-IALE, center director Ross Meentemeyer enhanced the association's communication initiatives and pushed to expand the membership to all of North America.

Apr 16, 2018

A Day in the Life at NC State

Local high school sophomore Miranda Johnson visited the Center for Geospatial Analytics to shadow a graduate student in the center's professional master's program.

Apr 12, 2018

Using Virtual Reality to Plot Urban Green Spaces

Research with VR goggles gives landscape designers fresh insight on how green landscapes refresh city residents.

Apr 3, 2018

Helena Mitasova Awarded 2018 Waldo Tobler GIScience Prize

The Austrian Academy of Sciences awards the GIScience Prize to a scientist who has demonstrated outstanding contributions to the discipline. This year's awardee is Center for Geospatial Analytics Associate Director of Geovisualization Helena Mitasova.

Apr 2, 2018

Ready Player Two: Virtual Reality in the Geospatial Sciences

Ph.D. student Payam Tabrizian uses virtual reality and geospatial analytics to learn about human cognition and advance landscape design. We asked him about his current research and his predictions for the future of the field.

Mar 27, 2018

New Research Shows Water Use Impacted by the Shape of Our Cities

Georgina Sanchez, Ph.D. student in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, is using geospatial analytics to understand water demand in the Southeast. Her latest findings: urban developments with simpler shapes use less water.

Mar 22, 2018

Ashwin Shashidharan Is NC State’s 2018 Esri Development Center Student of the Year

The Center for Geospatial Analytics joined an elite group of worldwide university departments last fall when it was named an Esri Development Center. Congratulations to our first EDC Student of the Year: doctoral student Ashwin Shashidharan.

Mar 22, 2018

Global Change Fellow Spotlight: Devon Gaydos

Every year the Southeast Climate Science Center funds a multi-disciplinary cohort of Global Change Fellows representing colleges across NC State University. Catch up with Spring 2018 Fellow and Center for Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Devon Gaydos and learn more about her applied research in forest health.

Mar 14, 2018

National Park Service Honors Center Web Mapping Team

The National Park Service recognized a Center for Geospatial Analytics team led by research associate Justin Shedd for collaboratively developing web maps that integrate data across parks in the Mid-Atlantic.