In July 2019, a week-long summer school on Reproducible Problem Solving with CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science was co-led by the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies (CyberGIS Center) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), American Association of Geographers (AAG), and University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS).

Approximately 30 graduate students and early career scholars collaborated in developing novel solutions to complex problems and to take advantage of geospatial data science and cutting-edge scientific advances and technical capabilities of cyberGIS (e.g., CyberGIS-Jupyter and Virtual ROGER: cybergis.illinois.edu/infrastructures). Participants experienced the types of collaborative and professional interactions that are key to addressing reproducible geospatial problem solving in the context of computation- and/or data-intensive research involving confidential geospatial data. The program was built on the success of the inaugural UCGIS Summer School in 2017, and ideal for those working on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary topics, including but not limited to: data-driven social and environmental sciences, digital humanities, geospatial artificial intelligence, and remote sensing big data.

This Summer School was possible through the generous support of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Our 2019 cohort included:

Alexander Michels, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Alexandra Timmons, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Andong Ma, Texas A&M University, College Station

Angela Werner, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Bidhyananda Yadav, The Ohio State University

Brandon Lieberthal, University of Maine

Changzhen Wang, Louisiana State University

Chen Liang, University of Kansas

David Lafferty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Forrest Bowlick, University of Massachusetts Amherst

James Coll, University of Kansas

Jesse Bakker, University of Minnesota

Jimmy Feng, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Jinhyung Lee, The Ohio State University

Jinwoo Park, Texas A&M University, College Station

Kate Vavra-Musser, University of Southern California

Kiley Heaps, Idaho State University

Li Yi, University of Southern California

Megan Coffer, North Carolina State University

Mehak Sachdeva, Arizona State University

Mishka Vance, Hunter College, CUNY

Mohammad Eshghi, University of Oregon

Peng Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Pu Huang, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

Swarnali Sanyal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Weibo Liu, Florida Atlantic University

Xiaonan Tai, University of Utah

Xuan Zhang, University of Georgia

Xueqing Deng, University of California, Merced

Yalin Yang, Binghamton University

Yogita Karale, University of Texas at Dallas

Yuanyuan Tian, Arizona State University

Yun Zhao, University of Illinois at Springfield

Yuqin Jiang, University of Southern California

Zhiyuan Yao, University of Cincinnati

Questions about the Summer School can be directed to Dr. Anand Padmanabhan (apadmana@illinois.edu) or Dr. Shaowen Wang (shaowen@illinois.edu).

Organizers

Coline Dony, American Association of Geographers

Anand Padmanabhan, UIUC

Eric Shook, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Diana Sinton, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science

Shaowen Wang, UIUC