Megan Skrip
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Focus on Geospatial Ethics
Guest speakers from around the Triangle area of North Carolina participated in the Center for Geospatial Analytics' first Geospatial Ethics Panel discussion, sharing their experiences with students in the Master of Geospatial Information Science and Technology program.
Tangible Landscape Research Honored by International Computer-Human Interaction Conference
Research led by Geospatial Analytics doctoral student Garrett Millar was ranked among the top 5% of papers submitted to the 2018 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international conference for Human-Computer Interaction.