GISS Specialty Group Activities at AAG2021
As we are nearing the Annual meeting of AAG, we wanted to highlight the sessions that the Geographic Information Systems and Science Specialty Group (GISSG) is sponsoring this year. Despite the virtual format of the conference, the GISSG will host and co-host 45 sessions. Highlights include the following:
Tobler Lecture Series – This is the GISSG’s signature lecture series. This year we will host Dr. Elizabeth Delmelle and Dr. Robert Roth in a back-to-back plenary, who will showcase the significant contributions of geographers to the GIScience discipline.
Best Student Paper Competition – Every year, GISSG hosts best student paper competition. These papers highlight the advancements in the GIScience discipline from a methodological and application perspective. Please join us in getting a glimpse into the future of GIScience discipline through the lens of upcoming researchers.
Geospatial Health Symposium – There are six sessions organized as part of this symposium that focus on spatiotemporal modeling of COVID-19 and other public health issues including substance use that has increased during the pandemic. The sessions also highlight the role of GIScience fundamentals in understanding, modeling and visualizing public health related research.
Symposium of Human Dynamics Research – This symposium will also host six sessions that focus on the role of spatiotemporal analytics, static and dynamic big data and geo-visualization in exploring, modeling and visualizing the interaction between human and natural systems across space and time.
Spaces of Education – The COVID_19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of our current educational system. These sessions reflect on the use and impact of geospatial technologies and techniques in education that can be used to build a GIScience education resilient to changing conditions.
Towards Computational Praxis for Social Justice – Like many issues, the COVID_19 pandemic has brought forth to our attention the issue of social justice, which is though not new, has fallen off the radar. These sessions are highlighting the role of computation and GIS in exploring social justice issues while exposing the nuances of using different techniques and technologies to study social justice.
The complete information of sessions sponsored by the GISS Specialty Group is listed below:
ID
Date
Time
Room
Session
Type
Chair/Organizer
27347
4/7
08:00-09:15
Virtual 38
Challenges and opportunities presented to battle pandemics in urban spaces
Paper
Tilottama Ghosh
28244
4/7
08:00-09:15
Virtual 1
Career Mentoring (Opportunity 1 of 6)
Network
Mark Revell
27643
4/7
09:35-10:50
Virtual 32
Towards Computational Praxis for Social Justice II
Paper
Albina Gibadullina
27088
4/7
11:10-12:25
Virtual 46
Geospatial Knowledge Graphs and Ontology
Paper
Alexandre Sorokine
27645
4/7
13:30-14:45
Virtual 32
Towards Computational Praxis for Social Justice IV
Paper
Corrine Armistead
28245
4/7
08:00-09:15
Virtual 1
Career Mentoring (Opportunity 2 of 6)
Network
Mark Revell
26962
4/7
15:05-16:20
Virtual 32
Towards Computational Praxis for Social Justice Panel
Panel
Mollie Holmberg
27028
4/7
15:05-16:20
Virtual 7
GIScience and Hazards in the Era of Big Data
Paper
Bandana Kar
27370
4/7
16:40-17:55
Virtual 7
Social Media and Big Data for Disasters
Paper
Bandana Kar
28246
4/8
08:00-09:15
Virtual 1
Career Mentoring (Opportunity 3 of 6)
Network
Mark Revell
27313
4/8
08:00-09:15
Virtual 33
Urban Data Science: Theories, Methods, Models, and Applications for Our Changing Cities I
Paper
Qunshan Zhao
27496
4/8
09:35-10:50
Virtual 33
Urban Data Science: Theories, Methods, Models, and Applications for Our Changing Cities II
Paper
Qunshan Zhao
28247
4/8
13:30-14:45
Virtual 1
Career Mentoring (Opportunity 4 of 6)
Network
Mark Revell
27194
4/8
13:30-14:45
Virtual 40
Map Up 1: Relational and Radical Mappings
Panel
Eric Huntley
27926
4/8
15:05-16:20
Virtual 40
Map Up 2: Auditing and Accountability
Panel
Taylor Shelton
27218
4/8
16:40-17:55
Virtual 48
Paper (Tobler Lecture)
John Wilson
28248
4/9
08:00-09:15
Virtual 1
Career Mentoring (Opportunity 5 of 6)
Network
Mark Revell
28041
4/9
08:00-09:15
Virtual 22
Open Source Data for Assessing Vulnerabilities, Risk & Resilience
Paper
Nagendra Singh
27013
4/9
08:00-09:15
Virtual 8
Paper
Ming-Hsiang Tsou
27605
4/9
09:35-10:50
Virtual 16
Holocaust & Genocide Geographies 1: Methods
Paper
Alberto Giordano
27736
4/9
09:35-10:50
Virtual 36
Paper
Michael Minn
27604
4/9
09:35-10:50
Virtual 8
Paper
Atsushi Nara
28282
4/9
09:35-10:50
Virtual 63
Meet the Cities’ COVID Mitigation Mapping (C2M2) Initiative
Panel
Melinda Laituri
27751
4/9
11:10-12:25
Virtual 36
Paper
Michael Minn
27426
4/9
11:10-12:25
Virtual 47
Paper
Renee Sieber
27060
4/9
13:30-14:45
Virtual 9
Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Modeling Human Dynamics in Coupled Natural-Human Systems I
Paper
Heng Cai
27070
4/9
15:05-16:20
Virtual 14
Geographic Information Science and Systems Best Student Paper Competition
Paper
Song Gao
27113
4/9
15:05-16:20
Virtual 8
Geospatial Health Symposium 8: Geography and Substance Use 1
Paper
Kathleen Stewart
27427
4/9
15:05-16:20
Virtual 9
Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Modeling Human Dynamics in Coupled Natural-Human Systems II
Paper
Heng Cai
28134
4/9
16:40-17:55
Virtual 14
Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group Business Meeting
Meeting
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27114
4/9
16:40-17:55
Virtual 8
Geospatial Health Symposium 9: Geography and Substance Use 2
Paper
Jeremy Mennis
28249
4/10
08:00-09:15
Virtual 1
Career Mentoring (Opportunity 6 of 6)
Network
Mark Revell
27404
4/10
08:00-09:15
Virtual 9
Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Emerging Themes in a Post-pandemic Era
Paper
Shih-Lung Shaw
27259
4/10
09:35-10:50
Virtual 16
Paper
Alexander Savelyev
27122
4/10
09:35-10:50
Virtual 9
Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Mining Human Dynamics with Big Data & Spatio-Temporal Analysis
Paper
Xining Yang
27869
4/10
11:10-12:25
Virtual 4
Meet the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI)
Panel
Michael Scott
27484
4/10
11:10-12:25
Virtual 8
Paper
Marta Jankowska
27352
4/10
13:30-14:45
Virtual 22
Earth Observation data in sustainable urban science research
Paper
Pranab Roy Chowdhury
27871
4/10
15:05-16:20
Virtual 1
Meet certified GIS Professionals (aka GISPs)
Panel
Clancy Wilmott
27415
4/10
15:05-16:20
Virtual 21
GIS methods to analyze land change
Paper
Thomas Bilintoh
27152
4/10
16:40-17:55
Virtual 9
Paper
Zhe Zhang
27883
4/11
08:00-09:15
Virtual 48
Urban Data Science: Theories, Methods, Models, and Applications for Our Changing Cities
Panel
Qunshan Zhao
27428
4/11
09:35-10:50
Virtual 44
The Future of Atlases: Practice, Reflection, Potential
Paper
Aileen Buckley
27146
4/11
09:35-10:50
Virtual 8
Paper
Marta Jankowska
26889
4/11
11:10-12:25
Virtual 9
Symposium on Human Dynamics Research: Mapping, Modeling and Prediction with VGI
Paper
Guiming Zhang
Thank you very much for your support to the AAG-GISS community. We look forward to 'seeing' you at AAG2021!
The AAG-GISS Specialty Group