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New PoPS Border Simulation Supports Front Lines of Pest Detection
Software developers at the Center for Geospatial Analytics have released the first version of a pest or pathogen spread (PoPS) simulation that can quantify the effectiveness of inspections at ports of entry and reveal how many pests are missed.
Undergrad Position Available for Urban Flooding Research
The Landscape Dynamics group at the Center for Geospatial Analytics is recruiting an NC State University undergraduate to assist with ongoing urban flooding research. Applications are due July 30, 2021.
Undergrad Positions Available for Biological Invasions Research
The Landscape Dynamics group at the Center for Geospatial Analytics is recruiting two NC State University undergraduates to assist with ongoing biological invasions research. Applications are due July 26, 2021.
Where There’s Smoke: Reducing Downwind Impacts of Prescribed Burns
New research by Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Kate Jones will use geospatial modeling and interactive data visualization to help fire managers consider the vulnerability of communities downwind of prescribed burns.
Brit Laginhas Wins 2021 ESA George Mercer Award
Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Brit Laginhas and her coauthors won the Ecological Society of America’s 2021 award for an outstanding, recently published, ecological research paper by young scientists.
Alex Reinwald Is NC State’s 2021 Esri Innovation Program Student of the Year
NC State joined a select group of universities worldwide when it became part of the Esri Innovation Program in 2017. Congratulations to our 2021 EIP Student of the Year: Fall 2020 MGIST graduate Alex Reinwald!
Helping Clean Energy Move Forward
Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Alex Yoshizumi is combining passions for geography, planning and sustainability to help map North Carolina’s energy future.
Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. Students Land Prestigious Funding Awards
Congratulations to our students who recently won grants and fellowships from NSF, NASA, The Nature Conservancy, the Joint Fire Science Program and NC Sea Grant-NC Space Grant!
New IARPA-Funded Research Will Improve Accuracy and Efficiency of Analyzing Geospatial Imagery Across Large Scales
Faculty Fellow Josh Gray is leading NC State’s effort in a multi-university, multi-company research project using machine learning to process big data and detect landscape change.
Race and Place Seminar Series to Explore Role of Racial Justice in Geospatial Analytics
January through April, the Geospatial Graduate Student Organization will host a three-part Race and Place seminar series and panel discussion, intended to highlight research that contextualizes race by speaking to environmental justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in the geographical and geospatial sciences.