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Monthly Archives: July 2020

SSI’s Kate Vavra-Musser, Meredith Franklin and Jill Johnston publish in “Environmental Health Perspectives”

Environmental Health Perspectives
Kate Vavra-Musser, Meredith Franklin and Jill E. Johnston of the Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI) at the University of Southern California (USC) have co-authored the article “Flaring from Unconventional Oil and Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in the Eagle afford Shale in South Texas” published on July 15, 2020 in Environmental Health Perspectives. Vavra-Musser is a…
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Lucio Soibelman named Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering est. 1967

Lucio Soibelman
Yannis C. Yortsos, Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California, has announced that Dr. Lucio Soibelman has been appointed the new holder of the Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering est. 1967. Soibelman is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Spatial Sciences. This chair was established through…
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Erik Huisman

As a current B.S. GeoDesign student, I often look back at how my childhood led me to be where I am today. Growing up, I was always attracted to maps. I would obsess over ski resort maps during family vacations and rip out airplane route maps from the back of Skymall magazines. I spent my…
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SSI-Viterbi Team Wins 2020 USC Center for Sustainability Solutions Research Grant

Executive Vice Provost Elizabeth A. Graddy, Ph.D., has announced that a multi-disciplinary team including John P. Wilson, Ph.D., and Yolanda Gil, Ph.D., of the Spatial Sciences Institute is one of three teams awarded a 2020 research grant from the USC Center for Sustainability Solutions (CSS). In the announcement, Graddy said, “With support from the Provost’s…
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