Symposium 2024

Climate Smart GIScience: Mapping a Sustainable Future

The Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) held a joint CaGIS and UCGIS symposium in Columbus, Ohio, on June 3-6, 2024. The theme of the meeting was Climate Smart GIScience: Mapping a Sustainable Future.


Plenary speakers included Derek Arndt, Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and Dr. Virginia Burkett, Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use Change, International Programs, U.S. Geological Survey. Day 3 opened with a plenary panel on “Climate Change, Infrastructure and the Built Environment” and included panelists: Dr. Kevin McKeehan, Climate Resilience, Project Manager, HNTB; Brandi Whetstone, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Associate Director of Sustainability; and Dr. Steven Quiring, StormImpact, Inc., Chief Scientist and Co-Founder; The Ohio State University, Professor, Climatologist.


The remainder of the event consisted of research paper and vision statement presentations, lightning talks, poster presentations, and roundtable/panel discussions. Almost half of the research presentations were by students.


The full schedule, including abstract links, can be found on the CaGIS website.

Student Poster Awards

First place

Theodros Woldeyohannes, Yan Lin, Joseph Hoover, Daniel Beene, Zhuoming Liu, Esther Erdei and Debra MacKenzie GIScience for Community Driven Environmental Health Equity Research with Indigenous Communities


Second place

Crystal Bae and Serena Bernstein Mapping Chicago's Neighborhoods: Crowd-Sourced Data Analysis


Third place

Fuzhen Yin, Andrew Crooks and Lucie Laurian Mapping Resilience on Social Media: How Online Interactions were Translated into Mutual Aid Behaviors During the 2022 Buffalo Blizzard

Student Research Awards

Students at UCGIS member institutions are eligible for awards based on the quality of their research and presentation during the Symposium. We are pleased to announce the winners of this year's competitions.

Student Poster Awards


First place

Theodros Woldeyohannes, Yan Lin, Joseph Hoover, Daniel Beene, Zhuoming Liu, Esther Erdei and Debra MacKenzie

GIScience for Community Driven Environmental Health Equity Research with Indigenous Communities


Second place

Crystal Bae and Serena Bernstein

Mapping Chicago's Neighborhoods: Crowd-Sourced Data Analysis


Third place

Fuzhen Yin, Andrew Crooks and Lucie Laurian

Mapping Resilience on Social Media: How Online Interactions were Translated into Mutual Aid Behaviors During the 2022 Buffalo Blizzard


Student Paper Awards


First place

Maryam Torkashvand and Caglar Koylu

A Hierarchical Approach for Geocoding Birthplaces in Temporally Continuous Crowd-Sourced Family Tree Data


Second place

Hossein Naderi, Ziba Abbasian and Yuxia Huang

A Comparative Analysis of Survival Models to Predict COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Uptake: The Influence of Geography and Demography


Third place

Jiyeon Kim, Yingjie Hu, Ryan Zhenqi Zhou and Kai Sun

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

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