About: Amy Kramer

The UNIGIS 2012 Annual Business Meeting was held last week (October 24-28) in Salzburg, Austria and featured more than 30 representatives from partnering Universities and study centers worldwide, including a delegation from USC Spatial Sciences Institute.  Attendees spent three days discussing strategies to advance Geoinformatics in the following core areas: distance learning opportunities, geospatial software interoperability, industry…

GIST M.S. student Luke Wenschhof cares about your vote.  Or more specifically, he cares about the way in which all votes are counted, and the anomaly of the US electoral college in which a candidate can be elected president without winning the popular vote.  Luke investigated the geographic consequences of the use of the electoral…

Students and faculty from the Spatial Sciences Institute are a regular presence at the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies on Catalina Island.  GIST students all spend a week on the island to study GPS and its integration into GIS in an environment amenable to field work.  Presence on the island also brings students in staff…