A new national initiative to enable geospatial data-driven scientific discovery will create a $15-million institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to better understand the risks and impacts of climate change and disasters.
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New $15 million NSF institute tackles resilience and sustainability challenges through data-intensive geospatial understanding
Shaowen Wang receives 2022 AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors
Study: Fire hastens permafrost collapse in Arctic Alaska
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- Shaowen Wang, a 2022 recipient of the AAG’s Distinguished Scholarship Honors, has played a leading role in the development of cyber-based geographic information science (cyberGIS) as a transdisciplinary scientific approach that develops and integrates new computational methods,...
- by Diana Yates, U of I News Bureau While climate change is the primary driver of permafrost degradation in Arctic Alaska, a new analysis of 70 years of data reveals that tundra fires are accelerating that decline, contributing disproportionately to a phenomenon known as “thermokarst,” the...
- Congratulations to the GIS Day 2021 Virtual Student Poster Competition winners! You can explore the poster gallery (31 total posters) at GISDay.Illinois.edu and in the Gather.town virtual exhibition space.