Dr. Nikolai Alvarado | nikolaia@illinois.edu
Mapping the new frontier of urban extractivism in Costa Rica

Potential project tasks: We need someone with GIS skills who will be in charge of
1) Mapping current and future vertical condominium projects in Costa Rica’s capital of San José using information already collected;
2) collect new condominium data as available;
3) Map established and proposed “Rutas Naturbanas.” These are urban biological corridors, trails, etc., initiatives that suggest an intention to connect these clusters of condominium projects, and;
4) Help analyze the types of redevelopment associated with this new frontier of urban extractivism in Costa Rica. 

Dr. Chunyuan Diao | chunyuan@illinois.edu
Mapping crop species distributions across the US using satellite remote sensing and street view imagery

Potential project tasks: Satellite and street imagery collection, crop species label creation, imagery analysis and interpretation.

Dr. Marynia Kolak | mkolak@illinois.edu
Digital Data Recovery Project: Georeferencing Historic Federal Housing Administration Redlining maps using the Old Insurance Map Framework

Potential project tasks: Student will be trained to:
1) Georeference maps using multiple control points;
2) Trim historical files as needed;
3) Support the quality assurance & inspection processes of the data recovery project;
4) Collaborate with colleagues from the UIUC HEROP lab and Morgan State University;
5) Support archival processes and brainstorm research topics and paper/proposal development with the team

Dr. Anand Padmanabhan | apadmana@illinois.edu
Project 1: Creating a Web interface for CyberGIS-Compute which will help access the cyberinfrastrure resources. Project 2: Help the I-GUIDE project with design activities and social media communication

Potential project tasks:
Project 1: We need someone who is conversant with basic web development such as JavaScript. The team is working to maintain and expand the CyberGIS-Compute GitHub (), a tool for democratizing High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources. Students will get to learn in how to use CyberGISX environment and CyberGIS-Compute and will then be expected to develop Web interfaces for making the Models in CyberGIS-Compute accessible to all. I will be interested to have the person work during Spring and Summer.
Project 2: In this project student will learn about I-GUIDE and interact with I-GUIDE team members to help communicate the findings of I-GUIDE to the broader science community. They will be required to have familiarity with Canva or other such tool and be active on few social media channels like LinkedIn.

Dr. Jida Wang | jidaw@illinois.edu
GeoDAR (Georeferenced global Dams And Reservoir Dataset) version 2

Potential project tasks: Students will assist in harmonizing multi-source georeferenced dam datasets and perform quality control on an improved version of the GeoDAR dataset.

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