The Spatial Sciences Institute partners with public agencies, private firms, not-for-profit agencies, and individual faculty members to advance spatial thinking and the deployment of geospatial technologies. The institute also supports scholarship at USC by offering small grants for research, providing faculty and students with opportunities to participate in conferences, workshops and seminars, distributing and supporting a variety of geospatial software hardware and platforms, organizing working groups, and participating in interdisciplinary research projects.
Recent Partners:
Our collaborations during the past five years have involved the following organizations and departments:
· BioMedware, Ann Arbor, Michigan
· CSU, Northridge, Department of Geography
· Esri, Redlands, California
· MLC & Associates, Costa Mesa, California
· San Francisco Estuary Institute
· Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
· TerraSeer, Ann Arbor, Michigan
· UCLA Department of Epidemiology
· UCSB Department of Geography
· UNIGIS International Association
· University of Redlands
· USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture
· USC Department of Anthropology
· USC Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
· USC Department of Earth Sciences
· USC Department of Economics
· USC Department of Preventive Medicine
· USC Gould School of Law
·USC Information Sciences Institute
· USC Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research
· USC Integrated Media Systems Center
· USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity
· USC School of Architecture
· USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
· USC School of Social Work
Corporate, Foundation, and Institutional Support:
The aforemetnioned collaborations have been supported in part or in whole by one or more of the following sources:
· Department of Defense, Legacy Resource Management Program
· California Central Cancer Registry
· Cartifact, Los Angeles, California
· Esri, Redlands, California
· MLC & Associates, Costa Mesa, California
· National Institutes of Health
· National Science Foundation
· North American Association of Central Cancer Registries
· San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy
· Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission
· Union Bank of California
· USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
· USC Office of Research
· USC Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center
