CaGIS + UCGIS Symposium 2024 Program

Research papers, vision statements, lightning talks, and posters presented at the CaGIS + UCGIS Symposium 2024 by session, with links to PDF abstracts:

Session List:

Sessions:

Spatiotemporal modeling and analysis of hazards

Research Paper Session: 3-Jun, Mon., 10:40 AM – 12:00 PM
Moderator: Caglar Koylu
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A Comparative Analysis of Survival Models to Predict COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Uptake: The Influence of Geography and Demography
Hossein Naderi, Ziba Abbasian and Yuxia Huang
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Assessment on Hurricane Induced Population Migration in the CONUS – A Case Study of Hurricane Sandy
Jinwen Xu, Ran Tao and Yi Qiang
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Assessing the Ability of Deep Learning Models Integrated with Environmental and Weather Variables for Predicting Fire Spread: A Case Study of the 2023 Maui Wildfires
Jiyeon Kim, Yingjie Hu, Ryan Zhenqi Zhou and Kai Sun
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Social Vulnerability and Health Exposure to Well Nitrate Contamination in Iowa: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach
Jinyi Cai, Caglar Koylu, Eric Tate and David Cwiertny
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Mapping and analyzing impacts of climate change

Lightning Talk Session: 3-Jun, Mon., 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM
Moderator: Angela Yao
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How Do We Conduct Research, Education and Outreach in a Climate Friendly Way, Including the Activities of Professional Organizations? How Do We Help our Universities to Become More Climate Smart?
Tenyindze Therence Zabze
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Beneath the Tearline: Open Source and Geospatial Intelligence and Collaboration in the Climate Crisis (Lightning Talk)
Nathanael Bassett
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Visual Exploration of Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Air Quality using Volunteered Geographic Information: A Study Case of PM 2.5 in Minneapolis, U.S.
Zain Ul Abdin Siyal and Ying Song
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Modeling and Mapping of Climate Migration
Emily Schoerning and Caglar Koylu
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RINX 2.0: A Containerized Climate Raster Information Extraction System on OpenShift Cloud Environment
Jeff Blossom, Devika Jain, Jack Hayes, Heike Gibson, Sheryl Rifas-Shimann and Diane Gold
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Toward the Hidden Cost of China’s 2060 Carbon Neutrality: Potential Biodiversity Impacts of Terrestrial Wind and Solar Energy Expansion
Zhijie Zhou, Yixin Fang and Binbin V. Li
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Expect the Unexpected: Empowering Climate Resilience and Sustainability through Responsible GIScience
Lei Zou and Bing Zhou
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Methodological innovations in Cartography and GIScience

Research Paper Session: 3-Jun, Mon., 3:40 PM – 5:00 PM
Moderator: Barbara Buttenfield
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A Multi-objective Optimization Approach to Balancing Utility and Equity in Location-allocation Problems
Yue Lin
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A Hierarchical Approach for Geocoding Birthplaces in Temporally Continuous Crowd-Sourced Family Tree Data
Maryam Torkashvand and Caglar Koylu
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Untangling the Knots: A Procedure for Identifying Discernability Conflicts on a Cartographic Line
Barry Kronenfeld, Barbara Buttenfield, Lawrence Stanislawski and Ethan Shavers
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Poster Session

Poster Session: 3-Jun, Mon., 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
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The Enduring Impact of Historical Redlining on Social Vulnerability and Sustainability in Major U.S. Cities
Xi Gong, Yujian Lu, Yan Lin, Natasha Howard and Christopher P. Brown
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Mapping Resilience on Social Media: How Online Interactions were Translated into Mutual Aid Behaviors During the 2022 Buffalo Blizzard
Fuzhen Yin, Andrew Crooks and Lucie Laurian
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A Geospatial Knowledge Graph for Analyzing the Fate and Transport of Environmental Contaminants
Katrina Schweikert, Torsten Hahmann and Shirly Stephen
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3D Urban Modeling of Historic Black Neighborhoods Using GIS and Machine Learning: Poindexter Village, Columbus, in 1940
Mahnoush Mostafavisabet, Ahmad Llderim Tokey, Mostahidul Alam, Yue Lin, Ningchuan Xiao and Harvey J. Miller
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Measuring the Impacts of Sidewalks on Public Transit First Mile/Last Mile Accessibility and their Association with Social and Demographic Factors
Ahmad Ilderim Tokey, Luyu Liu and Harvey J Miller
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A GIS-based Framework to Select the Best Multi-Functional GSI Sites
Yunqiang Zheng, Daoqin Tong, Jacob Prietto and Courtney Crosson
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Spatio-temporal Variations Across Visited Place and Activities by Season, Weekdays and Weekends
Goeun Jung, Won Kyung Kim, Kyumin Kim, Seokmin Ji, Dongook Son, Soriul Kim, Chol Shin, Miji Kim, Hyunji Kim and Sun-Young Kim
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Constructing a Geospatial Data Pipeline for Environment and Health in South Korea – A Case Study of Personal Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter
Won Kyung Kim, Goeun Jung, Dongook Son, Kyumin Kim, Seokmin Ji, Soriul Kim, Chol Shin, Miji Kim, Hyunji Kim and Sun-Young Kim
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Unrevealing Nonlinear Effects of Travel Behaviors on Subjective Well-Being Via Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Yaxuan Zhang and Ying Song
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Participatory Mapping as a Proposed Method for Engaging Stakeholders in Spent Nuclear Fuel Relocation from Areas Exposed to Coastal and Climate Hazards
Julie Sorfleet and Jennifer Marlow
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GIScience for Community Driven Environmental Health Equity Research with Indigenous Communities
Theodros Woldeyohannes, Yan Lin, Joseph Hoover, Daniel Beene, Zhuoming Liu, Esther Erdei and Debra MacKenzie
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Understanding Transit Service Reliability in a Geographic Context Using High-Resolution Transit Data and Multi-Source Urban Data
Xiaohuan Zeng, Ying Song, Alireza Khani and Sahas Sok, Joey Reid
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Characterization of a Swine Interstate Movement Network in Ohio for Disease Spread Modeling
Lingyu Ouyang, Kristy Shaw, Andréia Arruda and Ting-Yu Cheng
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Bridging the Gap: Towards an Updated Flood Risk Map for Columbus
Oluwadamilola Salau
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Multimodal Social Media Data Learning and Visualization for Hurricanes
Chenxiao Atlas Guo and Qunying Huang
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Short-Term Course for High School Students to Learn How GIScience is Fun through Historical Mapping and VR Activities
Wataru Morioka
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Mapping Chicago’s Neighborhoods: Crowd-Sourced Data Analysis
Crystal Bae and Serena Bernstein
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Analyzing new patterns in urban environments

Research Paper Session: 4-Jun, Tue., 10:40 AM – 12:00 PM
Moderator: Lei Zou
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From Lake to Lakeplace: A Case Study of Lake-Related Human Activities in the Twin Cities
Meicheng Xiong and Di Zhu
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Sleepless Cities under Social Isolation: Geographically and Temporally Revealing Circadian Rhythm Disorders through Social Media
Mingzheng Yang, Lei Zou, Wanhe Li, Heng Cai, Binbin Lin and Bing Zhou
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Predicting Electric Vehicle Demand for Charging Stations: Time Series and Machine Learning Approaches
Farnoosh Roozkhosh and Angela Xiaobai Yao
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Enhancing Traffic Safety: A Deep Learning Approach for Predicting and Understanding Traffic Violations
Hao Yang and Xiaobai Yao
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Leveraging geospatial science for social and environmental justice

Lightning Talk Session: 4-Jun, Tue., 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM
Moderator: Yue Lin
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Assessing Cooling Shelter Accessibility and Equity: A Case Study of Arizona’s Heat Vulnerability
Behnam Tahmasbi
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Environmental Justice & Green Space Access: Socio-Spatial Inequities at the Intersection of Disability, Race, and Class
Sandy Wong
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Local Landscapes of Assisted Housing: Reconciling Layered and Imprecise Administrative Spatial Data for Research Purposes
Shiloh Deitz, Will Payne, Eric Seymour, Kathe Newman and Lauren Nolan
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Communicating Quantitative Climate Change Information to Stakeholders and the Public: Opportunities and Challenges of a Regional Web Portal for Wyoming
Shannon Albeke, Jeffrey Hamerlinck, Nicholas Case, Samantha Ewers, Luke Todd, Bart Geertz, Stefan Rahimi-Esfarjani, Bryan Shuman, Pramod Adhikari, David Williams, Corrine Knapp and Melissa Bukovsky
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Investigating Spatial Inequalities in the Disruption of Mobility Networks Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic Onset
Hoeyun Kwon
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Using Geospatial Aapproaches to Locate Where to Plant Trees and Maximize the Thermal Comfort of Vulnerable Urban Residents
John Wilson
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Vision Papers

Vision Paper Session: 4-Jun, Tue., 3:40 PM – 5:00 PM
Moderator: Gaurav Sinha
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Climate Change and Locality Knowledge Semantics
Dalia Varanka and Cogan Shimizu
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Vision Statement: Spatial Data Infrastructure to Identify What Works Where
Peter Kedron
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Why your Climate Change Map Can Never Be Right
Aileen Buckley
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Session: 0-Jan, , 12:00 AM – 12:00 AM
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Methodological innovations in GeoAI

Research Paper Session: 5-Jun, Wed., 10:40 AM – 12:00 PM
Moderator: Barry Kronenfeld
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GISphere Knowledge Graph (GISphere-KG) Platform for Geography Programs Recommendation for Future GIS workforce
Zhining Gu, Wenwen Li, Bing Zhou, Yikang Wang, Yanbin Chen, Shan Ye, Kejin Wang, Hongkai Gu and Yuhao Kang
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Adaptive Fine-tuning for Transferring a U-net Hydrography Extraction Model using K-means
Lawrence Stanislawski, Ethan Shavers, Neal Pastick, Phillip Theim, Shaowen Wang, Nattapon Jaroenchai, Zhe Jiang, Barry Kronenfeld, Barbara P. Buttenfield and Adam Camerer
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Methodological innovations in geospatial science

Lightning Talk Session: 5-Jun, Wed., 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM
Moderator: Gaurav Sinha
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Advancing Sustainable Urban Mobility: A GIS-Based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Equitable Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Deployment in Philadelphia
Emily Zhou, Gustell Preston, Junyi Yang and Avani Adhikari
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CyberTraining: Broadening Adoption of Cyberinfrastructure and Geospatial Science Research and Workforce for Disaster Management
Zhe Zhang, Shaowen Wang, Honggao Liu, Samantha Arundel, Amy Rock, Joseph Kerski, Tao Cheng, Xiao Li, Jukka Krisp, Lingli Zhu, Aron Larsson, Huilin Gao, Changjie Cai, Henrikki Tenkanen, Jorge Brenner, Tim Cockerill, Lori Peek, Shelley Knuth and Zhuping Sheng
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Impacts of Bicycle Infrastructure and Network Characteristics on Bicycle Traffic over Time in 12 US Cities
Abdirashid Dahir, Daniel Harrington, Seyed Sajjad Abdollahpour, Steven Hankey and Huyen T. K. Le
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Investigating Mobility and Research Themes through Faculty Hiring Network in GIScience
Yanbing Chen and Yuhao Kang
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Recent Developments in Geospatial Information Management by the United Nations
Timothy Trainor
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Visualization Strategies for Handling Uncertainty in SVC models: Implications for Reproducibility and Replicability
Victor Irekponor and Taylor Oshan
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Warping Polygons with the Relational Reprojection Platform
Will Payne and Evangeline McGlynn
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Evaluating Sampling Bias in Geotagged Social Media Data
Ruowei Liu and Xiaobai Yao
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