Guest Speakers/Talks

Please join us for "A City Is Sometimes a Tree," an Urban Conversations event with speaker Geoff Boeing in conversation with Carole Voulgaris. Geoff is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy. Lunch...

Please join us for "Digital Gossip and Neighborhood Value," an Urban Conversations event with speaker Elizabeth Delmelle in conversation with Chris Herbert. Elizabeth is an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, and director...

CGA Brown Bag presentation by Crhistian Joel González-Cuatianquis Abstract Educational aspirations play a central role in shaping social mobility, but the influence of contextual factors on aspiration formation remains poorly understood. This paper...

Center for Geographic Analysis Geography Club Presentation by Evangeline McGlynn Abstract While Opensource Intelligence (OSINT) as a concept has been in use since the Second World War, wide availability and increasing savvy of the public on geospatial...

Presentation by Zhe (Sarina) Zhang, Ph.D Abstract Coastal communities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters and environmental challenges such as stronger hurricanes, flooding, and pressures on fisheries. Addressing these issues is...

Presentation by Allen Carroll, Program Manager, Storytelling, ESRI Abstract The advent of the digital age has revolutionized the creation, distribution, and consumption of maps. The web created enormous opportunities for storytelling, enabling maps to...

Presentation by Dr. Dan O’Brien, Northeastern University Abstract The Pointillistic City extends the classic observation that “neighborhoods matter” for health and well-being, arguing that we need to pay more attention to the other geographic scales that...

Presentation by Dariusz Wójcik and Julien Migozzi Atlas of Finance is the first book-size collection of maps and visuals dedicated to the topic of finance, that brings together data from around world within historical context. The Atlas uses graphics and...

Speaker Yarden Michaeli is a senior journalist at the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, who has been working at the newsroom for the past ten years. In his most recent role, Yarden served as the newsroom’s Gaza editor, and personally reported on the war using...

Zoom Registration Link Presentation by Dr. Hamed Alemohammad, Director of the Center for Geospatial Analytics, Clark University. Abstract There is a rapid growth in developing AI foundation models for Earth observations (EO) including multi-modal models...