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Panel: GIScience and COVID-19
Monday, June 01, 2020, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT
Category: Symposium

This panel session brings together a variety of experts to explore how the Geographic Information Science community can address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on health, economic, social, environmental, political, transportation, and other systems, including highlights from several current GIS&T-COVID-19 research initiatives.

Panelists:

  • Manish Parashar, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey University, and Office Director of the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) at the US National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Patricia Solis, Associate Research Professor of Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and Executive Director of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience at Arizona State University, and Co-Founder and Director of YouthMappers
  • Michael Emch, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Geography and Epidemiology, and Fellow at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Kathleen Stewart, Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences and Director of the Center for Geospatial Information Science at the University of Maryland
  • Shaowen Wang, Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science; Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar; and an Affiliate Professor of the Department of Computer Science, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Click here to register for this panel session. You will be taken to a GoToWebinar registration page.