Accomplishments

STUDENT AND ALUMNI PRESENTATIONS

2022

Joseph C. Toland (M.S. GIST '18) and An-Min Wu
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, February 27, 2022
"A New Transportation Disruption Metric for Household Food and Water Resource Accessibility After Earthquakes"

2021

Bita Minaravesh (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place)
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 11, 2021
"Using Space-Time Regression to Model the Impact of Natural Environmental Determinants on Childhood Academic Performance"

Emily Serman (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place), Kate Vavra-Musser (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place), and Rachel Wilkie (Ph.D. student, Population, Health and Place)
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 11, 2021
“Heat Index Burden for Older Populations in the Contiguous United States - The Case for an Age-Specific Analysis”

Li Yi (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place)
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 10, 2021
"Integrating Mobility and Time-Activity Patterns in Assessing Environmental Exposures During Pregnancy and Early Postpartum"

Mengya Yu (Ph.D. student, Population, Health and Place), Jasmine Wu (B.S. GeoDesign, Minor, Architecture '21) and team
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 10, 2021
"The Landscape of Health Behavior Bads in Greater Los Angeles: Estimating Population Exposure with Local Colocation Quotients"

Yan Xu (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place)
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 9, 2021
“Examining the Impact of Individual Time-Activity Patterns in Real-Time Personal PM2.5 Exposures of Low-income Hispanic Pregnant Women in Los Angeles, CA”

Avery Everhart (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place)
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 9, 2021, "A Human Rights-based Approach to Measuring Geographic Access to and Availability of Transgender Healthcare”; April 8, 2021
"More than Mentoring: Towards A More Equitable and Just Geography"

Cameron Audras (Jennifer Swift and Jennifer Bernstein research team)
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 7, 2021
“Investigating Industrial-Scale Solar Energy in Southeastern California Using Mixed Methodologies”

Kate Vavra-Musser (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place) and team
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 7, 2021
"Source Contribution to Soil Lead Contamination - the Role of Common Urban Residential Lead Sources and Major Industrial Sources in a Complex Urban Residential Environment”

Kristin Wong (Jennifer Swift research team)
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 7, 2021
“Geovisualization of the Ice Age at The La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California”

Alicia Adiwidjaja (B.S. GeoDesign student) and Adam Owens (B.S. GeoDesign student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 25, 2021
"Collaborative Project to Tackle Improving Response Time on LA County Hiking Trails"

Cameron Audras (Jennifer Bernstein research team)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 25, 2021
“Investigating Industrial-scale Solar Energy in Southeastern California Using Mixed Methodologies”

Jackson FitzGerald, Lilly Nie, and Sarah Ta (2019-2020 Geodesign Fellows)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 25, 2021
“Using Geodesign to Model the Health Impacts of New Urban Design Interventions”

Cameron Levine (B.S. GeoDesign '21)
Los Angele Geospatial Summit, February 25, 2021
“Detecting Fallow Fields in Europe Using Remote Sensing and Maximum Entropy Modeling”

Michelle Livings (Ph.D. student, Population, Health and Place)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 25, 2021
“Disrupted Society, Decreased Traffic Collisions: Spatiotemporal Change-Point Analysis of Traffic Collisions in Los Angeles During COVID-19”

Bryna Mills (M.S. GIST '21)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 25, 2021
“Spatiotemporal Analysis of Snow Crab in the Eastern Bering Sea”

Seher Randhawa (B.S. Business Administration, Minor in Spatial Studies '21), Erik Huisman (B.S. GeoDesign student), Rachel Ablondi (B.S. GeoDesign; Minor, Landscape Architecture '21), Jackson FitzGerald (2019-2020 Geodesign Fellow)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 25, 2021
"Urban Trees Initiative"

Kate Vavra-Musser (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 25, 2021
“Source Contribution to Soil Lead Contamination - the Role of Common Urban Residential Lead Sources and Major Industrial Sources in a Complex Urban Residential Environment”

Kristin Wong (Jennifer Swift research team)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 25, 2021
“The La Brea Tar Pits: An Ice Age Storymap”

Emily Serman (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place) and Kate Vavra-Musser (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 25, 2021
“Heat Index Burden for Older Populations in the Contiguous United States - The Case for an Age-Specific Analysis”

Eliza Gutierrez-Dewar (B.S. GeoDesign, Minor, Architecture '19)
Esri Geodesign Summit, February 9, 2021
“Building Conservation Resiliency with Geodesign”

Eliza Gutierrez-Dewar (B.S. GeoDesign, Minor, Architecture ’19)
Esri Geodesign Summit, February 8, 2021 and February 11, 2021
"Analyzing and Comparing Planning Scenarios"

Robin Franke (B.S. GeoDesign ’18)
Esri Geodesign Summit, February 8, 2021
"Creating and Sharing Awesome 3D Web Scenes"

2020

Yueqi Gu (M.S. Spatial Data Science student), Jacqueline Sosa (B.S. GeoDesign '20) and Orhun Aydin
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 1, 2020
"Democratizing Safety During an Earthquake: Multi-Disciplinary Spatial Optimization for Defining Evacuation Centers with Fair Access in L.A. County"

Bita Minaravesh (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place) and Orhun Aydin
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 1, 2020
"A Random Forest Based Spatiotemporal Regression Model for the Impact of Greenspace on Childhood Academic Performance
Modeling Mobility Patterns Uncertainty of Twitter Feeds During an Earthquake Using Spatio-Temporal Point Process Models"

Bita Minaravesh (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place) and Orhun Aydin
Center for Spatial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara "Reasoning in GeoAI" Mini-Workshop, October 21, 2020
"A Random Forest Based Spatiotemporal Regression Model for the Impact of Green Space on Childhood Academic Performance"

Christina Brunsvold (M.S. GIST ’19)
URISA GIS-Pro Conference, September 29, 2020
“Building the Perfect Combination of Education and Skillsets”

Rachel Rodriguez (M.S. GIST ’15)
URISA GIS-Pro Conference, September 29, 2020
“Building the Perfect Combination of Education and Skillsets”

Jackson FitzGerald (B.S. Environmental Studies; B.A. Archaeology ‘22; 2019-2020 SSI Geodesign Fellow)
URISA GIS-Pro Conference, September 29, 2020
“Modeling the Health Impacts of New Urban Design Interventions”

John Pedersen (M.S. HSGI ’20)
US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINTegration Summit, September 28, 2020
“Development of an Operations Dashboard Suite to Support COVID-19 Emergency Management Efforts for US Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles”

Kevin Mercy (M.S. Geographic Information Science and Technology ’20; B.A. in Interdisciplinary Archaeology; Minors in Computer Programming and Geospatial Intelligence)
US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINTegration Summit, September 28, 2020
“Comparing 3D Point Clouds in the Web: A Cloud Based Approach"

Mia Poynor (­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­B.S. Health and Human Sciences; Minors in Geospatial Intelligence and Spatial Studies ‘19)
US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINTegration Summit, September 28, 2020
“Leveraging Personal Electronic Device (PED) Data to Investigate Federalism and Inequality in a Pandemic”

Jacqueline Sosa (B.S. GeoDesign '20)
Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists Annual Meeting, September 18, 2020
"Preparing for The Big One: Data-Driven Spatio-Temporal Risk Maps for Earthquake Evacuation in L.A. County"

Young-Kyung Kim (­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­B.A. International Relations and Affairs; B.S. Computational Linguistics ’21; Minor in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence)
US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINTegration Summit, September 28, 2020
“Detecting Destroyed Communities in Remote Areas with Personal Electronic Device Data; a Case-Study of the 2017 Puebla Earthquake”

Lourdes Johanna Avelar Portillo (Ph.D. Population, Health and Place candidate)
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 6, 2020
“Water Insecurity and Homeless Encampments in Los Angeles, California”

Emmanuel Carrera Rueda (B.S. GeoDesign ’20)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Superblocks in Los Angeles”

Charles Convery (B.A. International Relations, Minor in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Using Game Engines and GIS to Visualize Fossils and Stratigraphy of the La Brea Tar Pits”

Charmaine Dalisay (B.S. GeoDesign student)
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 6, 2020
“Solar Development in Southeastern California: A field-based learning experience combining quantitative and qualitative methodologies”
 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Story Mapping Solar Development in Southeastern California: A Field-Based Learning Experience Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies”

Amelia Danholm-Pearce (B.S. GeoDesign student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Assessing the Biological Success of Marine Protected Areas Along Central California’s Coastline”

Peter Elliott (Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence ’19)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Graffiti, Crime, and Broken Windows: A Geospatial Exploration”

Sara Evanoff (M.S. GIST ’19)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“An exploration and assessment of bias within fossil prediction models using geographic information systems and geostatistical tools”

Jackson FitzGerald (B.S. Environmental Studies; B.A. Archaeology, Minor in Spatial Studies student)
International Geodesign Collaboration, February 23, 2020
“Evaluating the Feasibility of Implementing Superblocks in LA”

Nicholas Foster (B.A. Environmental Studies, Minor in GIS and Sustainability Science ‘20)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Catalina Seawall Photogrammetry: Temporal Algal Composition Observation”

Autumn Gupta (B.S. GeoDesign; B.A. Environmental Studies ‘20)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Leveraging GIS to Enhance Immigration Services”

Elin Henningsson (M.S. Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence ’19)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Forward support: cloud-based mosaic imagery for emergency operations”

Jennifer Horowitz (M.S. GIST student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Paradise Lost: Spatiotemporal Analysis of Declassified CIA Satellite Imagery to Understand the Extent of Ecological and Human Destruction in the Southern Iraqi Marshland”

Erik Huisman (B.S. GeoDesign student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Using Game Engines and GIS to Visualize Fossils and Stratigraphy of the La Brea Tar Pits”

Elisha Ibanga (M.S. Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence ’19)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Forward support: cloud-based mosaic imagery for emergency operations”

Andrew Leung (B.S. GeoDesign student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Resilient LA: Leveraging Geospatial Applications to Build Neighborhood Resilience”

Cameron Levine (B.S. GeoDesign student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Characterizing long term and seasonal vegetation change in Los Angeles County using NDVI and tree cover”

Lilly Nie (B.S. Urban Planning, Minor in Spatial Studies student)
International Geodesign Collaboration, February 23, 2020
“Evaluating the Feasibility of Implementing Superblocks in LA”

Cari Porter (M.S. GIST ’20)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Residual Flood Risk and Social Vulnerability in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta Area”

John Smith Mason (M.S. GIST ’20)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Multi-Criteria Site Selection for Innovative Wind Turbine in Urban Environment”

Seher Randhawa (B.S. Business Administration, Minor in Spatial Studies student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Resilient LA: Leveraging Geospatial Applications to Build Neighborhood Resilience”

Chris Sanders (M.S. GIST ’20)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 28, 2020
“Beyond Visual Line of Sight Commercial Unmanned Aircraft Operations: Site Suitability for Landing Zone Locations”

Sarah Ta (B.S. GeoDesign, Minor in East Asian Languages and Cultures student)
International Geodesign Collaboration, February 23, 2020
“Evaluating the Feasibility of Implementing Superblocks in LA”

Jasmine Siyu Wu (B.S. GeoDesign, Minor in Architecture student)
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 10, 2020
“Physical Accessibility of California Populations to Licensed and Unlicensed Cannabis Retail Facilities: Implications for Health Equity and Enforcement”

2019

Santina Benincasa (M.S. GIST student)
Bronx Community College Geospatial Center of the CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems (CREST) Institute (BGCCCI) NSF and NASA Spring 2019 Workshops, April 28, 2019, New York, New York
"Shoreline Erosion, Biodiversity Loss, and Salt Marsh Depletion in Jamaica Bay, NY after Hurricane Sandy"

Emmanuel Carrera Ruedas (B.S. GeoDesign student)
2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 8, 2019 and USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
“Superblocks for Los Angeles: Sustainable Urban Alternatives Evaluated with GeoDesign”

Austin Chow (B.S. GeoDesign '19)
2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 8, 2019 and the USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"The Macro of Micro: A Geospatial Exploration of Economic Development's Effect on Small Business Vitality in Los Angeles"

Grace Corsi (B.S. GeoDesign ‘19; B.A. Vocal Performance ‘19)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 20, 2019
“Changing Our Global Infrastructure in East Los Angeles, California: An International Collaborative Geodesign Studio”

International Geodesign Collaboration, February 25, 2019
“NE Los Angeles Climate Change Adaptation”

2019 Esri User Conference, July 9, 2019
“International Geodesign Collaboration: A New Mode of Data-Driven Discovery”

Jenora D’Acosta (M.S. GIST ’15)
2019 Esri User Conference, July 9, 2019
“From Means and Medians to Machine Learning: Spatial Statistics Basics and Innovations”

2019 Esri User Conference, July 10-11, 2019
“Beyond Where: Modeling Spatial Relationships and Making Predictions”

Kenneth Egelkrout (Spatial Studies Minor '19)
2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 8, 2019
“Soil Arsenic Pollution at Residences Near Exide Battery Recycling Plant in Vernon, California”

USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"Soil Arsenic Pollution at Residences Near Exide Battery Recycling Plant"

Jiawen Fang (Ph.D. student, Urban Planning and Development; Graduate Certificate in Spatial Analytics)
2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 8, 2019
“The Spatial Dynamics of Amazon Lockers in Los Angeles County”

Benjamin Friedman (B.S. GeoDesign ’19)
International Geodesign Collaboration, February 25, 2019
“NE Los Angeles Climate Change Adaptation”

2019 Esri User Conference, July 9, 2019
“International Geodesign Collaboration: A New Mode of Data-Driven Discovery”

Julia Fruithandler (B.S. GeoDesign ’19)
International Geodesign Collaboration, February 25, 2019
“NE Los Angeles Climate Change Adaptation”

2019 Esri User Conference, July 9, 2019
“International Geodesign Collaboration: A New Mode of Data-Driven Discovery”

Shea Ellen Gilliam (Ph.D. Population, Health and Place student)
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
“Reclaiming Critical Space in the Academy”

Felix Goldwasser (B.S. GeoDesign student)
International Geodesign Collaboration, February 25, 2019
“NE Los Angeles Climate Change Adaptation”

Jenna Gray (B.S. GeoDesign ’19)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 20, 2019
“LA ROSAH – Affordable Housing and Open Space Development Analysis”

2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 8, 2019
“LA ROSAH Affordable Housing and Open Space Site Identification Analysis”

Lindsay Hennes (M.S. GIST ’19)
2019 Esri Ocean and Atmospheric GIS Forum, November 6, 2019
“Spatiaotemporal Analysis of Long Times-Series Multidimensional Hydrographic Data”

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) 70th Anniversary Annual Oceanography Symposium, December 2, 2019
“Increase in Surface Temperature and Deep Layer Nitrate in the California Current: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Four-Dimensional Hydrographic Data”

Elisha Ibanga (Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence ’18; M.S. Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence ’19)
United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation 2019 GEOINT Foreword, June 2, 2019
“Leveraging Artificial Intelligence: Working with GEOINT as a Forecasting Tool”

United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation 2019 GEOINTegration, September 27, 2019
“Young Professionals Panel Discussion: What You Need to Know for Success”
“From Forecasting to Precognition: AI and Emergency Management”

Jong Su (Yuma) Kim (B.S. International Relations; M.S. Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence student)
USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"Detecting Village Burnings with High-Cadence SmallSats: a case-study in the Rakhine State of Myanmar"

Young-Kyung Kim (B.A. International Relations; B.S. Computational Linguisitics; Minor, Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 20, 2019
“Detecting Village Burnings with High-Cadence SmallSats; a case-study in the Rakhine State of Myanmar”

Harrison J. Knapp (B.S. GeoDesign; B.A. Earth Sciences student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 20, 2019
“Characterizing light pollution along the Southern California coast using hemispherical photography”

Eunbyul Abigail Koh (B.A. International Relations and East Asian Languages and Culture, Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence Minor '19, magna cum laude)
David Boren

Zoe Lee (B.S. GeoDesign student)
2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 8, 2019 and the USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"The Macro of Micro: A Geospatial Exploration of Economic Development's Effect on Small Business Vitality in Los Angeles"

Samantha Levi (B.S. GeoDesign student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 20, 2019
“Investigating Submarine Groundwater Discharge on Santa Catalina Island, CA”

USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"Detecting and Characterizing Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) on Santa Cantalina Island, CA"

Cameron Levine (B.S. GeoDesign student)
USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"A study on property values in residential areas in Los Angeles"

Kevin Mercy (B.A. Interdisciplinary Archaeology; Minor in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence; M.S. GIST student)
United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation 2019 GEOINT Symposium, June 4, 2019
“A Lightweight, Robust Exploitation System for Temporal Stacks of UAS Data: Use Case for Forward-Deployed Military or Emergency Responders”

United State Geospatial Intelligence Foundation 2019 GEOINTegration, September 27, 2019
“What Brought You to GEOINT?”
“A Lightweight, Robust Exploitation System for Temporal Stacks of UAS Data: Use Case for Forward-Deployed Military or Emergency Responders”

Anthony Mosinski (M.S. GIST student)
Ohio Wildlife Management Association Conference, January 18, 2019, Columbus, Ohio
"Risk Assessment to Wildlife from Ohio's Wind Energy Development: A Landscape Model Approach"

Lilly Nie (B.S. Urban Planning; Spatial Studies Minor student)
2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 8, 2019 and the USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"Superblocks for Los Angeles - Sustainable Urban Alternatives Evaluated with GeoDesign"

Emily Nixon (B.S. Biological Sciences '19)
USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"The effect of point source pollution on the health and resilience of the Southern California kelp forest ecosystem"

Torie Oulie (M.S. GIST '18)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 20, 2019
“Coastal Vulnerability Assessment for Archaeological Sites on San Clemente Island and San Nicolas Island, California”

Lois A. Park (Ph.D. Population, Health and Place student)
International Cartographic Conference, Tokyo, Japan, July 18, 2019
“Subnational estimates of health in low- and middle-income countries: a geospatial approach with interpolation and raster analysis”

Mia Poynor (Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence Minor, Spatial Studies Minor '20)
USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"Detecting Village Burnings with High-Cadence SmallSats: a case-study in the Rakhine State of Myanmar"

Michael Quant (M.S. GIST ’16)
2019 Esri User Conference, July 10, 2019
“Los Angeles Metro’s DigAlert Team Benefits from ArcGIS Spatial Conversion"

Seher Randhawa (Spatial Studies Minor '20)
USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"Community Science Tree Inventory: Spatial Analysis of the Los Angeles Urban Forest"

Sarah Rosenthall (M.S. GIST ’20)
2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 8, 2019
“Phoenix Islands Protected Area: A Natural Laboratory for Global Change”

2019 Esri Ocean and Atmospheric GIS Forum, November 5, 2019
“Soundscapes: Exploring the Ocean Through Acoustics”

Jacqueline Sosa (B.S. GeoDesign '20)
USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"A study on property values in residential areas in Los Angeles"

Jingran (Cici) Tao (B.S. GeoDesign '20, M.S. Spatial Economics and Data Analysis student)
USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"Community Science Tree Inventory: Spatial Analysis of the Los Angeles Urban Forest"

Joseph Toland (M.S. GIST '19)
US Geological Survey Western Geographic Science Center (WGSC) Science Seminar, June 17, 2019, Menlo Park, California
"Modeling Emergency Logistical Resource Requirements for the ShakeOut and HayWired Scenarios"

Alexander Toy (M.S. GIST student)
2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 8, 2019
“The John Muir Trail”

Adam Vaccaro (M.S. Spatial Data Science ’19)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 20, 2019
“Automated Wetland Hydroperiod Mapping Integrating Optical Satellite Imagery and Synthetic Aperture Radar”

Chloe Whipple (B.S. Environmental Studies; Spatial Studies Minor '19)
2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 8, 2019 and the USC Provost’s 2019 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 10, 2019, Los Angeles, California
"Superblocks for Los Angeles - Sustainable Urban Alternatives Evaluated with GeoDesign"

Richard Windisch (B.S. GeoDesign ’18; M.S. GIST student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 20, 2019
“Detecting Village Burnings with High-Cadence SmallSats; a case-study in the Rakhine State of Myanmar”

Li Yi (Population, Health and Place Ph.D. candidate)
2019 Active Living Conference, February 20, 2019, Charleston, South Carolina
“Methodologies for integrating GPS, GIS, and accelerometry to construct momentary built environment contexts of physical activity: A systematic review”

Xiaozhe Yin (Ph.D. Population, Health and Place student)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 20, 2019
“Characterizing light pollution along the Southern California coast using hemispherical photography”

Xin Yu (Ph.D. Population, Health and Place student)
2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 8, 2019
“The 21st Century Silk Road: The Economic Impact of The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from 2013 to 2017”

2018

Lourdes Johanna Avelar (Population, Health and Place Ph.D. candidate) and team
USC Graduate School’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Access (DIA) JumpStart Summer Research Program, Los Angeles, California
“LA County Homelessness and the Right to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)”
2018 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 23, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Homelessness and Water Access Landscape”

Benjamin Banet (B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies ’18)
5^th International Conference on Artificial Light at Night (ALAN 2018), November 13, 2018, Snowbird, Utah
“From Brighter than the Moon to Dimmer than the Stars: Hemispherical Photography of Nighttime Illumination Across the American West”
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 9, 2018, San Diego, California
“2016 Light Pollution in Joshua Tree National Park”
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“A Photographic Light Pollution Assessment Across Western Public Lands”
2018 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 23, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Parklight”

Yuanbin Cheng (M.S. Computer Science/Spatial Computing student)
26^th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL), November 9, 2018, Seattle, Washington
“Automatic Extraction Intersection and Building Arrangement from StarCraft II Maps”

Austin Chow (B.S. GeoDesign student)
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Geospatial Applications for Residential Stormwater Capture for the City of Los Angeles”

Antonio Cotroneo (M.S. GIST ’15)
Esri User Conference, July 11, 2018, San Diego, California
“Designing a Robust Environment: Workload Separation”; “Managing Identities of the ArcGIS Platform”; “Content Publication Strategy”

Grace Corsi (B.S. GeoDesign student)
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Shade Structures of the Future: Innovative Skin Cancer Solutions”

Lisa Cortright (B.S. GeoDesign ’18)
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Characterization of Spatial and Spectral Distribution of Outdoor Lighting at the Wrigley Marine Science Center”
2018 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 23, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“GeoDesign Trails Analysis for Otay Ranch”

Jenora D’Acosta (M.S. GIST ’15)
Esri User Conference, July 12, 2018, San Diego, California
“Beyond Where: Modeling Spatial Relationships and Making Predictions,”

Esri User Conference, July 11, 2018, San Diego, California
“Spatial Data Mining: A Deep Dive Into Space-Time Analysis”

Esri User Conference, July 10 – 11, 2018, San Diego, California
“Spatial Data Mining: Essentials of Cluster Analysis”

William Dickey (Graduate Certificate in GIST ’16; M.S. in GIST ’18)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 9, 2018, San Diego, California
“Recreational Trails: Sweet Home Ranger District, Willamette National Forest”

Grant Dixon (M.S. GIST student)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 9, 2018, San Diego, California
“Prehistoric Archaeological Sites: Northeastern Illinois”

Monica Finnstrom (Spatial Studies Minor ’18)
American Association of Geographers, April 11, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Impact of municipal policies on trees in Los Angeles County”

USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Impact of municipal policies on trees in Los Angeles County”

Douglas Fleming (Population, Health and Place Ph.D. student)
2018 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 23, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Space-Time Clustering of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests (OHCA) for Spatially Targeted Community Health Education in LA”

2018 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, November 2018, Chicago, Illinois
"Spatial Distribution and Temporal Trends of Low Bystander CPR in the City of Los Angeles"

Benjamin Friedman (B.S. GeoDesign student)
2018 GEO|Design + BIM Conference, November 2, 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
“Creating a Sim City for the Real World”
2018 Esri Geodesign Summit, January 25, 2018, Redlands, California
“Real-World Solutions with GeoDesign: GeoDesign Internship”

Amanda Gilmore (Spatial Studies Minor ’18)
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Spatial https://spatial.usc.edu/los-angeles-geospatial-summit-events/">2018 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 23, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Soil Carbon Quality in the Depressional Landscape of South Central Minnesota”

Sarah Godfrey (M.S. in GIST ’18)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 9, 2018, San Diego, California
“Rancho La Costa Habitat Conservation Area: Bringing Awareness of Sensitive Species and Habitats to Recreation”

Mallory Graves (M.S. in GIST ’15)
2018 URISA GIS-Pro and CalGIS Conferences, October 11, 2018, Palm Springs, California
“From Piecemeal to the Whole Pie: A Team Building Approach to GIS Implementation”

Eliza Gutierrez-Dewar (B.S. in GeoDesign student)
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Spatiotemporal Analysis of Illuminated Boats at Night”
2018 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 23, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Squid Boat Locations off the Coast of California”

Julian Herren (B.S. in GeoDesign ’18)
American Association of Geographers, April 10, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Responsive Urban Design Solutions Utilizing a GeoDesign Framework”
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Shade Structures of the Future: Innovative Skin Cancer Solutions”
2018 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 23, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“SunSmart: Collaborative Civic Engagement and Service Learning Project”
2018 Esri Geodesign Summit, January 25, 2018, Redlands, California
“Real-World Solutions with GeoDesign: SunSmart @ USC”

Grant Holmes (Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence ’17)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 9, 2018, San Diego, California
“Major Exports in North Carolina 2013-2016”

Richard Holzer (M.S. GIST ‘17)
Esri User Conference, July 10, 2018, San Diego, California
“Evaluating the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program”

Young-Kyung Kim (Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence minor)
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Impact of municipal policies on trees in Los Angeles County”

Harrison Knapp (B.S. in GeoDesign student)
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Classification System for National Park Sites Based on Nightscape Lighting Profiles”
2018 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 23, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Parklight”

Samantha Levi (B.S. in GeoDesign student)
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Targeting the historical hydrology of Pimu (Catalina) Island and questions of scale”

Zekun Li (Computer Science/Spatial Computing Ph.D. student)
14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, December 6, 2018, Perth, Australia,
“Weighted Feature Pooling Network in Template-Based Recognition”

Isaiah Mack (GIST Graduate Certificate ’02; M.S. Geography ’03)
2018 URISA GIS-Pro and CalGIS Conferences, October 10, 2018, Palm Springs, California
“Working With, Understanding, and Controlling High-Accuracy GNSS in Esri Collector: A Case Study with the City of San Francisco Golden Gate Park”

Michele Macauley (Graduate Certificate in GIST ’16; M.S. in GIST ’18)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 9, 2018, San Diego, California
“Napa Valley Viticultural Areas – Influence of Terroir on Wine Varietals”

Kevin Mercy
2018 USGIF GEOINT Symposium student poster competition, April 21, 2018, Tampa, Florida
“Revelations from LiDAR: Maya Ground Reconnaissance”
American Association of Geographers, April 11, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Impact of municipal policies on trees in Los Angeles County”
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Revelations from LiDAR: Maya Ground Reconnaissance” and “Impact of municipal policies on trees in Los Angeles County”

Lauren Mullarkey-Williams (Spatial Studies minor)
American Association of Geographers, April 11, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Impact of municipal policies on trees in Los Angeles County”
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Impact of municipal policies on trees in Los Angeles County”

Jung Ho Park (Graduate Certificate in GIST ’17)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 9, 2018, San Diego, California
“Spatial Distribution of Subsidized Low-income Rental Housing in Los Angeles County”

Mia Poynor (Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence minor and Spatial Studies minor)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 9, 2018, San Diego, California
“A Spatial Analysis of Habitat Partitioning of Two Sympatric Tortoise Species: Pyxis arachnoids and Astrochelysradiata in Tranovaho, Madagascar”

Christian Lance Relleve (Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence minor)
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Shade Structures of the Future: Innovative Skin Cancer Solutions”
American Association of Geographers, April 10, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Responsive Urban Design Solutions Utilizing a GeoDesign Framework”
2018 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, February 23, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“SunSmart: Collaborative Civic Engagement and Service Learning Project”

Rachel Rodriguez (M.S. GIST ’14)
2018 URISA GIS-Pro and CalGIS Conferences, October 10-11, 2018, Palm Springs, California
“Resume Workshop”; “Social Media for the GIS Professional”; “How Can GIS Serve My Public Safety Emergency Communications Center?”; “Boardroom Skills for the Socially Awkward”

Sara Schubert (MPH GeoHealth Track student)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 9, 2018, San Diego, California
“Yellow Fever in Brazil July 2017 – March 2018”

Natalie Seroka (Graduate Certificate in GIST ’18)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 9, 2018, San Diego, California
“Is the Road “Tuff” Enough? A Road Stability Analysis”

Yan Xu (Population, Health and Place Ph.D. candidate) team
USC Graduate School’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Access (DIA) JumpStart Summer Research Program, Los Angeles, California
“Interdisciplinary Characterization of the Modifiable Temporal Unit Problem (MTUP) in Research: A Systemic Review”

Haoshi Joanna Wang
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Geospatial Applications for Residential Stormwater Capture for the City of Los Angeles” and “Suburbanization and Spatial Inequality in Indian Housing Market”

Richard Windisch (B.S. GeoDesign ’18; M.S. GIST student)
2018 URISA GIS-Pro and CalGIS Conferences, October 10, 2018, Palm Springs, California
“Showcasing Public Benefits of Stormwater Capture with Geospatial Applications”
USC Provost’s 2018 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, April 11, 2018, Los Angeles, California
“Geospatial Applications for Residential Stormwater Capture for the City of Los Angeles”

Katherine “Kelly” Wright (M.S. GIST ’17)
2018 Ohio GIS Conference, September 24 – 26, 2018, Columbus, Ohio
“Negotiating Success for Women in GIS”; “What to Expect When You’re Expecting (a New Career)

Victoria Yargeau (Graduate Certificate in GIST ’18)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, July 9, 2018, San Diego, California
“Manual Digitization vs. Supervised Classification: Using Field Verification to Test the Accuracy of Vegetation Mapping Techniques”

2017

Bailey Baumann (M.S. GIST '17)
Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) 17: A Symposium That Advances the Science of ABM, National Science Foundation, San Diego, California, April 20-22, 2017
"Finding Environmental Opportunities for Early Sea Crossings: An Agent-Based Model of Middle to Late Pleistocene Mediterranean Coastal Migration"

Elizabeth Berson (B.S. GeoDesign), Grace Corsi, Courtney Fassett (B.S. GeoDesign), Julia Fruithandler (B.S. GeoDesign), Eliza Guiterrez-Dewar, and Sarah Ladhani
19th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, April 12, 2017
"3D Visualization of the USC University Park Campus"

Richard Holzer (M.S. GIST '17)
American Planning Association (APA) National Planning Conference, New York, New York, May 8, 2017
"Evaluating the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program"

Diana Kim (B.S. GeoDesign '17) and Thwe (Nida) Soe (B.S. GeoDesign '17)
19th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, April 12, 2017
"Alternative 'SunSmart' Landscapes for Elementary School Playgrounds: A GeoDesign Approach"

Yu Chuan Shan (Spatial Studies Minor '17)
19th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, April 12, 2017
"Reconstructing Mesozoic Evolution of the Central Sierra Nevada Batholith"

Izzy Mitchell (B.S. GeoDesign '17), Leonard Ngo (B.S. GeoDesign), and Richard Windisch (B.S. GeoDesign)
19th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, April 12, 2017
"LA GeoHub: A Spatial Analysis of Street-Level Crime Trends in Los Angeles"

Kevin Mercy (Spatial Studies Minor)
19th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, April 12, 2017
"Life-Sustaining Water on Pimu/Santa Catalina Island as a Foundation for Understanding Past and Future Settlement Decisions"

Benjamin Banet (Interdisciplinary Studies) and Yu Chuan Shan (Spatial Studies Minor '17)
19th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, April 12, 2017
"Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Nighttime Lighting In and Around National Parks"

Caroline Buth (Spatial Studies Minor '17) and Monica Finnstrom (Spatial Studies Minor '17)
19th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, April 12, 2017
"Spatial Patterns of Air Pollution (PM 2.5) in Los Angeles County"

Katherine A. (Kelly) Wright (M.S. GIST '17)
American Association of Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, April 9, 2017
"From research to results: Web GIS as a platform for research collaboration to affect real-world change"

Lara Hughes-Allen (M.S. GIST '17)
American Association of Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, April 8, 2017
"Monitoring Mountain Glacier Changes in Relation to Climate Change"

Diana Kim (B.S. GeoDesign '17) and Nida Soe (B.S. GeoDesign '17)
American Association of Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, April 8, 2017
"Sun Exposure Reduction Recommendations for Elementary School Playgrounds in Los Angeles: A Service Learning Project for Undergraduates"

David Roachford (Spatial Studies minor)
American Association of Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, April 5, 2017
"Gentrification and Displacement in Los Angeles' Rail Transit Neighborhoods"

Kevin Mercy (Spatial Studies Minor)
Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, March 31, 2017
"Analysis of Spatial Characteristics and Traditional Knowledge of Freshwater Springs as a Foundation for Predictive Settlement Modeling and Identification of Submarine Groundwater Discharge"

Phil Conner (M.S. GIST)
Esri Development Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 9, 2017
"Exploring Commercial Catch: Creating a Fisheries Data Web Application"

Katherine A. (Kelly) Wright (M.S. GIST '17)
Esri Development Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 8, 2017
"Tungiasis eLibrary: a Web GIS App for Public Health"

Allen Branch (Graduate Certificate in GIST)
Esri Development Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 6, 2017
"Spatio-Temporal Mapping of Distributed Work Using GIS and Blockchain"

Charles Hall (M.S. GIST '17)
Esri Development Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 6, 2017
"Accessing REST APIs in Python"

Izzy Mitchell (B.S. GeoDesign '17)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2017
“A Spatial Analysis of Street-level Crime Trends in Los Angeles”

Mallory Graves (M.S. GIST '15)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2017
“Spatial Narratives of Struggle and Activism in the Del Amo and Montrose Superfund Cleanups: A Community-Engaged Web GIS Story Map”

Brandon Brooks (M.S. GIST)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2017
“Connecting with Landscapes Through Physical Models”

Pamela Hathaway (Graduate Certificate in GIST '16; M.S. GIST)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2017
“Census (almost) Made Simple: Developing a toolbox/add-in to facilitate quick sums and mapping of American Community Survey (ACS) data”

Kevin Mercy (Spatial Studies Minor)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2017
“A Comparison of Impact from Different Resolutions of Ems in Terrain Analysis”

Nandan Nayak (M.S. Spatial Informatics '17)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2017
“Ocean Acidification”

JungHo Park (Graduate Certificate in GIST)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2017
“An ArcGIS Toolkit for Vintage Analysis on Rental Housing Market”

Benjamin Suber (M.S. GIST '16)
Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2017
“Transportation Accessibility Impacts of the Tucson Modern Streetcar”

2016

Corina Chung (M.S. GIST '14)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, June 30, 2016
"Developing Health and Equity Indicators from a Place-Based Perspective"

Krista McPherson (M.S. GIST '17)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, June 30, 2016
"Spatial Solution for Earthquake Safety on the USC Campus"

Corina Chung (M.S. GIST '14)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, June 29, 2016
"Spatial Analysis of Bicycle and Pedestrian Collisions and Factors"

Michael Quant (M.S. GIST '16)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, June 29, 2016
"Rail Equipment Locator Maps for Los Angeles Metro Rail Department"

Antonio Cotroneo (M.S. GIST ’15)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, June 28, 2016 and June 29, 2016
"Retail - Location, Location, Location!"

Jenora D’Acosta (M.S. GIST ’15)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, June 28, 2016 and June 30, 2016
"Using Spatial Statistics: Doing More with Your Data", "Spatial Data Mining I: Essentials of Cluster Analysis", "Spatial Data Mining II: A Deep Dive into Space-Time Analysis", "Beyond Where: Modeling Spatial Relationships Using Regression Analysis"

Brian D. Jopp (M.S. GIST '16)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, June 27 - 30, 2016
"An Explanatory Variable of Homicide: Asian Areas Show a Negative Relationship in Washington, D.C."

Megan Gosch (M.S. GIST ‘16)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, June 27 - 30, 2016
"Assessed Secured Roll Values and Increases, 2015 - San Mateo County, Peninsula Region"

Charles Jurden (M.S. GIST), Wenyu Xie (M.S. GIST), and Alvin Yeung (M.S. GIST)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, June 27 - 30, 2016
"Catalina Island Fisherman’s Cove Site Salinity Analysis"

Jameson Reeves (M.S. GIST '15)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, June 27 - 30, 2016
"El Camino De Santiago, Spain: Route Choice and Starting Location, 2013"

Lindsay Decker (M.S. GIST ’16)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, June 27 - 30, 2016
"Population Growth (1960-2060) in Proximity to Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Western United States"

Nicholas Gliserman (Graduate Certificate in GIST '16; M.S. GIST)
"Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, June 27 - 30, 2016
Quebec and Environs, 1685: The Geographical Census of Robert de Villeneuve"

William Dickey (Graduate Certificate in GIST '16; M.S. GIST), Ryan Driggers (Graduate Certificate in GIST '16; M.S. GIST), Sarah Godfrey (M.S. GIST), and Liping Rahman (Graduate Certificate in GIST '16)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, June 27 - 30, 2016
"Santa Catalina Bison and Mule Deer Study: Impact on Island Ecology"

Cynthia L. Burrows (M.S. GIST '16)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, June 27 - 30, 2016
"The Cedar Fire: A Spatial Analysis of the 2003 San Diego County Firestorm"

Cora Chong (M.S. GIST '17)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, June 27 - 30, 2016
"Working in the Inland Empire: Jobs by Industry, 2002 & 2010"

Charles Hall (M.S. GIST '17)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, June 27 - 30, 2016
"Selecting Census Tracts for a Food Access Study"

Eleonor Concepcion (Graduate Certificate in GIST '16), Myles McCadney (Graduate Certificate in GIST), Alexandra Motyka (M.S. GIST), and David Rosas (Graduate Certificate in GIST '16)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, June 27 - 30, 2016
"Ranking GNSS Accuracy, Preserving GIS Credibility"

Michael Quant  (M.S.GIST '16)
CalGIS 2016 Conference, Anaheim, California, May 12, 2016
"GIS-Aided Production of Equipment Locator Maps for Metro Rail Maintenance and Support"

Benjamin Banet (Interdisciplinary Studies)
18th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, April 13, 2016
"Feral Cat Ecology in the Baldwin Hills"

Benjamin Banet (Interdisciplinary Studies) and Yu CHuan Shan (Spatial Studies Minor)
18th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, April 13, 2016
"ParkLight: A Framework to Monitor Nighttime Upward Radiance In and Around National Parks"

Diana Kim (B.S. GeoDesign) and Haoshi Wang (B.S. GeoDesign)
18th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, April 13, 2016
"3D Visualization of Campus Hardscapes"

Jeffrey Block (M.S. GIST '15)
XXXVI Sunbelt Conference of the International Network For Social Network Analysis, Newport Beach, California, April 8, 2016
"Spread Global, Start Local: Modeling Endemic Socio-Spatial Influence Networks"

AJ Bengoa (M.S. GIST '16) with Philip Ethington, Jennifer Swift and Robert Vos
2016 Esri Developer Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 10, 2016
"Visualizing Journeys as Transections – An Innovative ArcGIS Toolbox"

James Ray (M.S. GIST '16)
2016 Esri Developer Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 10, 2016
"GIS Infused Genealogy with Dynamic Thematic Representation and Spatiotemporal Control"

Katherine A. (Kelly) Wright (M.S. GIST '17)
2016 Esri Developer Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 10, 2016
"Developing Novel Approaches to Humanitarian Aid and Pest Eradication Using ArcGIS Web AppBuilder"

Krista McPherson (M.S. GIST '16)
2016 Esri Developer Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 10, 2016
"USC Earthquake: Utilizing Web GIS to Encourage Earthquake Preparation on the University of Southern California Campus"

Kacey Pham (M.S. GIST '15) with Aisling Farrell, Collections Manager, La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
2016 Esri Developer Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 9, 2016
"Innovations in Fossil Occurrence Data Curation: La Brea Tar Pits 2D Web Map Application & 3D Visualization of Associated American Lion and Sabertoothed Cat Skeletons"

Ryan Mock (M.S. GIST)
2016 Esri Developer Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 8, 2016
"Wildfire and Emergency Services WebApp: Working Thesis Study of San Diego, CA"

Cora H. Chong (M.S. GIST '17) and Robert L. Grotefend (Graduate Certificate in GIST '15; M.S. GIST)
2016 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2016
"Dredging the Detroit River: A Geodatabase Prototype for Past, Present, and Future Information Regarding Dredging in the Great Lakes"

Adrianna Valenti (M.S. GIST '14)
2016 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2016
"Estimating populations at risk in data-poor environments: a geographically disaggregated analysis of Boko Haram terrorism"

2015

Cora H. Chong (M.S. GIST '17), Julia L. Goldsworth (M.S. GIST), Robert L. Grotefend (Graduate Certificate in GIST '16; M.S. GIST), Kevin W. Klemens  (M.S. GIST '17), Jason I. Martin, and Dustin L. Sunderman
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Palm Springs, California, October 23, 2015, Poster Session
"Dredging the Detroit River: A Geodatabase Prototype for Past, Present, and Future Information Regarding Dredging in the Great Lakes"

Anthony Leimeister (Graduate Certificate in GIST '14)
GIS-Pro & NWGIS 2015 Conference, Spokane, Washington, October 22, 2015
"Applying GIS Database Design and Management for Survey Control Monuments, Preserving Historic Values Spanning Multiple Spatial Reference Systems for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, United States National Capital Region"

Anthony Leimeister (Graduate Certificate in GIST '14)
GIS-Pro & NWGIS 2015 Conference, Spokane, Washington, October 20, 2015
"Applying GIS to Survey Monument Management"

Luke Wenschhof (M.S. GIST '14)
Esri Electric & Gas GIS Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, October 8, 2015
"Getting a Handle on Underground Injections with ArcGIS"

Luke Wenschhof (M.S. GIST '14)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, July 22, 2015
"Tracking and forecasting wire injections using ArcGIS and .Net Add-Ins"

Kacey Pham (M.S. GIST '16)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, July 22, 2015
"International Medical Corps Emergency Response to the Nepal Earthquake"

Melodie Grubbs (M.S. GIST '17)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, July 21, 2015
"Ebola Communications Capacity Building -- ArcGIS and GIS Corps to the Rescue"

Paul Napaqtuq Anderson (M.S. GIST)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, July 20-23, 2015
"Land Ownership in the NANA Region"

Doug Daniels (M.S. GIST '17), Rob Scobie (M.S. GIST '16), Wayne Chien (M.S. GIST '15)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, July 20-23, 2015
"A Survey of Outdoor Wi-Fi Signal Strength at the USC Wrigley Campus"

Mallory Graves (M.S. GIST '15)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, July 20-23, 2015
"Cleanup Sites, Hazardous Facility Closures, and Pollution Burden, Los Angeles County"

Brian Jopp (M.S. GIST '16)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, July 20-23, 2015
"Hot Spot Analysis of Homicide: Census Tract Aggregation, Washington, D.C., 2011-2014"

Carrie Steves (Graduate Certificate in GIST '14; M.S. GIST)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, July 20-23, 2015
"2013 Commercial Pollock Fishery"

Faith Webster (M.S. GIST '16)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, July 20-23, 2015
"Population Growth in Southern California"

Liling Lee (Graduate Certificate in GIST)
United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINT Symposium Map Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 22, 2015
"Modeling Habitat Area of Mission Blue Butterfly in San Francisco Bay Area"

Charles Hanley (M.S. GIST '15)
CalGIS 2015, Sacramento, California, June 3, 2015
"Using VHR Multispectral Imagery and Object-Based Extraction to Discover Vernal Meadows Through Vegetative Persistence at Fort Ord, California"

Jimmy Dao (M.S. GIST '15)
Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 22, 2015
“A Comparison of Address Points and Street Ranges in a Computer Aided Dispatch System”

Jordan Cooper (Graduate Certificate in GIST '15), Nicholas Gliserman (Graduate Certificate in GIST '16; M.S. GIST), and Cian Reger (M.S. GIST '17)
Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 22, 2015
Poster: “Measuring Geographic Change with Geospatial Technology and Landscape Photography in Two Harbors, CA”

Jeffrey Block (M.S. GIST '15)
Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 25, 2015, Robert Raskin CyberGIS Student Competition Finalist Oral Presentation
“Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) Dynamic Spatial Interface”

Brian P. McDonald (M.S. GIST '16)
Association of American Geographers Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 25, 2015
“Dasymetic Mapping Conversion Application within HAZUS-MH: A North Dakota Case Study”

Sima Moghaddam
Esri Developer Summit, Palm Spring, California, March 12, 2015
"Symbol Recognition, Geographic Information Integration" (with Yao-Yi Chiang and Phokgoan Chioh)

Sarah Gehring (M.S. GIST '15)
Esri Developer Summit, Palm Spring, California, March 11, 2015
"Innovation in Visualizing Spatial Information in Unstructured Text"

Lara Hughes-Stinson (M.S. GIST '17)
Esri Developer Summit, Palm Spring, California, March 12, 2015
"Delimination of Evacuation Trigger Buffer using FARSITE and GIS: Fire Evacuation Prediction Model"

Charles Hall (M.S. GIST '17)
Esri Developer Summit, Palm Spring, California, March 12, 2015
"Weather Underground Data Integration"

Michael Barnett (M.S. GIST '16)
Esri Developer Summit, Palm Spring, California, March 12, 2015
"GeoHazard Map with Volunteered Geographic Information" and "GeoHazard Risk Analysis Model at the Block Level"

Patricia Jula (M.S. GIST '15)
Spatial Sciences Institute 5th Annual Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 27, 2015
"Generating Bicyclist Counts Using Volunteered and professional Geographic Information Through a Mobile Application"

Ana Stoudt (M.S. GIST '15)
Spatial Sciences Institute 5th Annual Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 27, 2015
"Redefining Urban Food Systems to Identify Optimal Rooftop Community Garden Locations: A Site Suitability Analysis in Seattle, Washington"

Michael Quant (M.S. GIST '15)
Spatial Sciences Institute 5th Annual Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 27, 2015
"Demographic Inequality Across Los Angeles: A Spatial Analysis"

Sarah Gehring (M.S. GIST '15)
Spatial Sciences Institute 5th Annual Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 27, 2015
"Semi-Automated Visualization of Spatial Information in Unstructured Text"

Carlos Martinez (M.S. GIST '15)
Spatial Sciences Institute 5th Annual Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 27, 2015
Poster: "Relocation Bay: Identifying a Suitable Site for the Tampa Bay Rays"

Rachel Rodriguez (M.S. GIST '15)
Spatial Sciences Institute 5th Annual Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 27, 2015
Poster: "Topo/Bathy DEM Creation Using ArcGIS Interpolation Methods: A Case Study of the Klamath River Estuary"

Andrew Thomason (M.S. GIST '15)
Spatial Sciences Institute 5th Annual Geospatial Summit, Los Angeles, California, February 27, 2015
Poster "Spatial Distribution of Wildfire Probability Across California"

2014

Spiridon Katehis (M.S. GIST '15)
7th Annual HAZUS Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 5, 2014
“Validating the HAZUS Coastal Surge Model for Superstorm Sandy” (with Jordan T. Hastings)

Brian P. McDonald (M.S. GIST '16)
7th Annual HAZUS Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 4, 2014
“Dasymetric Mapping Conversion Application Within HAZUS: Assessment for North Dakota” (with Jordan T. Hastings and Nikolay Todorov)

Ricardo Montijo (M.S. GIST)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, July 14-18, 2014
"2013 Distribution and Density of Three Invasive Plant Species on Bluebird Ranch, Glendora, California

Yonatan Rosen (M.S. GIST '15)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, July 14-18, 2014
"Phantom City: The San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, 1915 and 2013"

Jamen Underwood (M.S. GIST '15)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, July 14-18, 2014
"Negative Campaign Spending, U.S. Congressional Races, 2012"

Adrianna Valenti (M.S. GIST '15)
Esri User Conference Map Gallery, San Diego, California, July 14-18, 2014
"Murder Analysis in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, January – October 2012 by Neighborhood"

Tierney O'Dea Booker (M.S. GIST)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, July 14-18, 2014
“Spatial Journalism in Support of Citizen Science”

Jared Hyneman (M.S. GIST '14)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, July 14-18, 2014
“Using a GIS model to Plan Community Water Resources in Rural Uganda”

Luke Wenschhof (M.S. GIST '14)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, July 14-18, 2014
“Replication on a Budget”

Billy Ferguson (M.S. GIST '14)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, July 14-18, 2014
“Defining Disaster Effects on Health Care Small-World Networks”

Michael Wahl (M.S. GIST '13)
Esri User Conference, San Diego, California, July 14-18, 2014
“Utilizing VGI & Mobile GIS to Geotag Native Plants in S. California”

Ryan Reeves (M.S. GIST '15)
Digital Mapping Techniques 2014 Workshop, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, June 1-4, 2014
“Geologic Traverse Generator” (with Jordan T. Hastings)

Megan Oyarzun (M.S. GIST '16)
Nevada Anthropological Conference, Minden, Nevada, May 10, 2014
“Predicting Archaeological Sites in Northeastern California’s High Desert” (with Jordan T. Hastings and Robert K. Vierra)

Trang M. VoPham (M.S. GIST '14)
American Association of Geographers Conference, Tampa, Florida, April 11, 2014
"A Landsat Remote Sensing Method to Estimate Agricultural Pesticide Exposure in California"

Nancy Milholland (M.S. GIST '14)
American Association of Geographers Conference, Tampa, Florida, April 9, 2014
"Showdown in San Francisco Public Art: Ready Set Draw"

David Staffel (M.S. GIST '15)
The Infrastructure Partnership Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 7, 2014
"Modeling of Anthropogenic Risk Factors Using Trimble SketchUp and Google Earth" (with Richard Sheffield John and Jordan T. Hastings)

Haynes Bunn (M.S. GIST '14)
Esri International Development Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 11, 2014
"Political Party Geocoder"

Brian Dean (M.S. GIST '15)
Esri International Development Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 11, 2014
"Can Twitter Predict Election Results?"

Patricia Jula (M.S. GIST '15)
Esri International Development Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 12, 2014
“Vehicle Collisions with Pedestrians and with Cyclists in Los Angeles, CA”

Luke Wenschhof (M.S. GIST '14)
Esri International Development Summit, Palm Springs, California, March 12, 2014
“A Simple and Straightforward Tool for First Responders”

2013

Robert Franssen (M.S. GIST '14)
Africa GIS 2013 / GSDI 14, Global Geospatial Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
“Modeling Changes in the Frequency of Armed-conflicts Relative to the Regional Distribution of High-frequency Radios Comprising an Early-warning Network in Central Africa”

Michael Hino (M.S. GIST)
GIS in Transit Conference
“Creating a Cloud-Based Geographic Information Systems Web Application and Integration with SharePoint”

Dominic Maldonado (M.S. GIST '13)
Esri International User Conference, San Diego, California
“Routing Wrong Way Drivers Using Network Analyst”

Luke Wenschhof (M.S. GIST'14)
Esri International User Conference, San Diego, California
“Your vote doesn't count. . .but how it was counted does.” Paper

Ronald G. Lehman (M.S. GIST'11)
Esri International User Conference, San Diego, California
“Concentrated Solar Thermal Facilities: A GIS Approach for Land Planning.” Paper

Nancy Milholland (M.S. GIST '14)
Esri International Developer Summit, Palm Springs, California
Got Pics? More Ways to Make Your Friends Jealous Through Publishing Your Geotagged Photos
Showcasing her Python script tool that creates a shareable web map showing trip routes and photo locations.

Diego Vasquez (M.S. GIST '14)
Society of Petroleum Engineers Western Regional / Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists Joint Technical Conference
“Petroleum Reservoir Characterization using Noble Gas Geochemistry and GIS Engineering Technology”

2012

Luke Wenschhof (M.S. GIST '14)
Northeast Arc Users Group (NEARC), Rockland, Maine
“Geographic Consequences of the Use of the Electoral College”

Esri Energy/Gas User Group Conference, Columbia, South Carolina
“Disconnected Editing for the Little Guy” (Powerpoint)

2010

Brice Cameron Burkett (M.S. GIST '12)
California Geographical Society Annual Meeting
“Geography of Fear in Highland Park”

2009

Brice Cameron Burkett (M.S. GIST '12)
California Geographical Society Annual Meeting
“The Impact of Wildfires on the Water Resources of San Diego County”

2008

Brice Cameron Burkett (M.S. GIST '12)
Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research
“The Next Hot Spot in Los Angeles”

STUDENT AND ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS

2022

Wang, Xinyu, co-author, GeoTools: Development of Geographical Information System (Beijing: Posts and Telecom Press, 2022), and author of Chapter 11, "Spatial Data Management System Development."

Vasquez, Diego A.; and Swift, Jennifer. "Using Geostatistics to Generate a Geological Model of a Sandstone Petroleum Reservoir in Southern California." Geographica Pannonica, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 47-64 (March 2022).

2021

Bernstein, Jennifer Moore; Audras, Cameron; Dalisay, Charmaine; and Swift, Jennifer. "A Multi-Disciplinary Undergraduate Pedagogical Experience Looking at Attitudes Towards Solar Development in the Mojave Desert." Pedagogy -- Challenges, Recent Advances, New Perspectives, and Applications. December 10, 2021.

Hill, Kristiane; Swift, Jennifer; Howard, Carrie; Farrell, Ainsley; and Lindsey, Emily L. 3D "Visualization of Subsurface Objects from La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA." Digital Applications and in Archeology and Cultural Heritage 20. March 2021.

Gu, Yueqi; Aydin, Orhun; and Sosa, Jacquline. Quantifying the Impact of a Tsunami on Data-Driven Earthquake Relief Zone Planning in Los Angeles County via Multivariate Spatial Optimization. Geosciences. 11(2), 99. February 19, 2021.

2020

Marx, Andrew; Poynor, Mia; Kim, Young-Kyung; and Oberreiter, Lauren. "Detecting Destroyed Communities in Remote Areas with Personal Electronic Device Data: A Case Study of the 2017 Puebla Earthquake." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 9(11), 643. October 28, 2020.

Unger, Jennifer B.; Vos, Robert O.; Wu, Jasmine Siyu; Hardaway, Kimberly; Sarain, Ada Y., Soto, Daniel W.; Rogers, Christopher; and Steinberg, Jane. "Locations of Licensed and Unlicensed Cannabis Retailers in California: A Threat to Health Equity?" Preventive Medicine Reports, Volume 19, Article 101165. September 1, 2020.

Luttrull, James E. and Fleming, Steven. "Artificial Island Development in the South China Sea: Overcoming Data Scarcity of New Environmental Features Through Shadow Analysis." Case Studies in the Environment. June 19, 2020.

Castellanos, Rebecca; Corsi, Grace; Friedman, Benjamin; Fruithandler, Julia; Goldwasser, Felix; Ly, Emily; MacDonald, Beau; Swift, Jennifer; Wilson, John P. "Northeast Los Angeles climate change adaptation, United States, University of Southern California, United States." Thomas Fisher, Brian Orland, and Carl Steinitz, editors. The International Geodesign Collaboration: Changing Geography By Design (Redlands: Esri Press, 2020), pgs. 108-109.

Henningsson, Elin (M.S. Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence ’19); Ibanga, Elisha (Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence ’18; M.S. Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence ’19; Anguiano, Victor (M.S. Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence ’19)­. “Forward Support—Cloud Based Mosaic Imagery for Emergency Operations.” Journal of Geographic Information System, 12, 84-95, April 2020.

Marder, Christopher (M.S. GIST ’19)
“The Role of Precision in Spatial Narratives: Using a Modified Discourse Quality Index to Measure the Quality of Deliberative Spatial Data.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. Volume 14, Issue 1-2, Pages 197-217. Available online February 2020.

2019

Gilliam, Shea Ellen (Ph.D. student, Population, Health and Place)
“A Cautionary tale: Trauma, ethics and mentorship in research in the USA.” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. Published online May 31, 2019.

“Feminist Methodologies.” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. November 2019.

Tom-Jack, Quincy (M.S GIST ’19)
“The Role of Geoprocessing in Mapping Crime Using Hot Streets.” International Journal of Geo-Information. Volume 8, Issue 12, Pg. 540. Published November 28, 2019.

Yi, Li (Ph.D. candidate, Population, Health and Place)
“Methodologies for assessing contextual exposure to the built environment in physical activity studies: A systematic review.” Health & Place. Volume 60, November 2019.

Chou, Yu-Hsi, Marx, Andrew, Mercy, Kevin, and Richard Windisch. "A Lightweight, Robust Exploitation System for Temporal Stacks of UAS Data: Use Case for Forward-Deployed Military or Emergency Responders." Drones 2019, 3(1) 29. DOI: 10/3390/drones3010029. ePublished 22 March 2019.

Marx, Andrew, Richard Windisch, and Jong Su Kim. "Detecting Village Burnings with High-Cadence SmallSats: a case-study in the Rakhine State of Myanmar." Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. Vol. 14, pgs. 119-125. April 2019.

2018

Fleming, Douglas O. (Ph.D. student, Population, Health and Place)
“Spatial Distribution and Temporal Trends of Low Bystander CPR in the City of Los Angeles.” American Heart Association Circulation, Volume 138, Issue Supplement 1. Published November 5, 2018.

Lin, Haowen and Yao-Yi Chiang. "An Uncertainty Aware Method for Geographic Data Conflation." In Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data, November 2018.

Lin, Haowen and Yao-Yi Chiang Y.-Y. "SRC: Automatic Extraction of Phrase-level Map Labels from Historical Maps." SIGSPATIAL Special, 9(3):14-15. DOI: 10.1145/3178392.3178400. 2017.

Ferguson, William J., Karen Kemp and Gerald Kost. “Using a geographic information system to enhance patient access to point-of-care diagnostics in a limited-resource setting.” International Journal of Health Geographics 15(10). DOI: 10.1186/s12942-016-0037-9. ePublished: 1 March 2016.

VoPham, T., Wilson, J.P, Ruddell, D., Rashed, T., Brooks, M., Yuan, J-M, Talbott, E., Chang, C-C, Weissfeld, J. "Linking pesticides and human health: A geographic information system (GIS) and Landsat remote sensing method to estimate agricultural pesticide exposure." Applied Geography 62 (2015) 171-181.

Milholland, N. and Pultar, E. “The San Francisco Public Art Map Application: Using VGI and Social Media to Complement Institutional Data Sources.” MapInteract '13: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on MapInteraction, November 2013, pgs. 48–53.

Weidemann, C. “Social Media Location Intelligence: The Next Privacy Battle - An ArcGIS add-in and Analysis of Geospatial Data Collected from Twitter.com.” International Journal of Geoinformatics, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2013). Weidemann developed an application called Twitter2GIS to analyze the geospatial data Twitter users generate and investigated how their information could potentially be used by third parties.