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Editor\u2019s note:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Each semester, students in the\u00a0<\/em>Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. program<\/em><\/a>\u00a0can apply for a Geospatial Analytics Travel Award that supports research travel or presentations at conferences.\u00a0<\/em>The following is a guest post by travel award winner<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Gwen Kirschke<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>as part of the\u00a0<\/em>Student Travel series<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In October, I had the opportunity to attend the Ecospatial Summit<\/a> at Penn State University, where researchers from universities and government agencies gathered to discuss the use of spatial data for bee management and conservation. This summit centered around the Beescape<\/a> tool, developed at Penn State, which uses a combination of public datasets and new methods to provide beekeepers, farmers, and other managers with scores of the quality of bee habitat surrounding their sites. I contributed a short presentation about my current research, which combines on-the-ground measurements with aerial imagery to make detailed maps of the availability of floral resources (nectar and pollen) upon which bees depend for all of their food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n From the moment that I first heard about this meeting, I was very excited to meet and learn from other researchers working at the same intersection of spatial data and bee conservation that I am focusing on. I had great discussions at lunch and dinner with other graduate students about the relationships between our work. I was also approached after my talk by a researcher asking for feedback on nectar sampling methods for an upcoming project, based on my extensive past experience sampling nectar. I am excited to maintain these connections and to potentially collaborate with these people in the future!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every talk at the summit felt directly relevant to my research, and I took many notes on methods, datasets, and results that I hope to incorporate into my projects. Some speakers also identified gaps in existing datasets, particularly higher resolution map products and information about urban ecosystems\u2014these are exactly the areas I am focusing on during my PhD. Attending this meeting reaffirmed that my current work is providing timely additions to this space. 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This summit centered around the Beescape<\/a> tool, developed at Penn State, which uses a combination of public datasets and new methods to provide beekeepers, farmers, and other managers with scores of the quality of bee habitat surrounding their sites. I contributed a short presentation about my current research, which combines on-the-ground measurements with aerial imagery to make detailed maps of the availability of floral resources (nectar and pollen) upon which bees depend for all of their food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n From the moment that I first heard about this meeting, I was very excited to meet and learn from other researchers working at the same intersection of spatial data and bee conservation that I am focusing on. I had great discussions at lunch and dinner with other graduate students about the relationships between our work. I was also approached after my talk by a researcher asking for feedback on nectar sampling methods for an upcoming project, based on my extensive past experience sampling nectar. I am excited to maintain these connections and to potentially collaborate with these people in the future!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every talk at the summit felt directly relevant to my research, and I took many notes on methods, datasets, and results that I hope to incorporate into my projects. Some speakers also identified gaps in existing datasets, particularly higher resolution map products and information about urban ecosystems\u2014these are exactly the areas I am focusing on during my PhD. Attending this meeting reaffirmed that my current work is providing timely additions to this space. 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