Kaveh Shahabi has been awarded the USC Esri Development Center Student of the Year honor by the faculty of the USG GIS Research Laboratory. The award recognizes Kaveh’s work on dynamic planning of emergency evacuation routes that will constitute his dissertation. Shahabi has developed a network analysis tool for ArcGIS called ArcCASPER (Capacity-Aware Shortest Path Evacuation). The software…
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Recent Posts by Amy Kramer
Spatial Analysis Central to Pesticide-Prostate Cancer Link
USC researchers have documented a link between residential exposure to certain pesticides and prostate cancer, providing evidence that living near agricultural fields could be sufficient to increase cancer risk. The study is the first to address residential instead of occupational exposure and has garnered significant media attention (see “USC study tackles pesticide-prostate cancer link”). The…
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Real-World Classrooms for Virtual Classmates
Catalina Island serves as a training ground for students from USC Dornsife's online graduate degree programs in geographic information science and technology. [small]By Richard Hoops[/small] [clear] This summer, students in USC Dornsife’s online graduate programs in geographic information science and technology (GIST) gathered at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island to meet…
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SSI Coordinating AAG GIS Specialty Group Student Paper Competition
Spatial Sciences students are encouraged to prepare for the 2012 GIS Specialty Group (GISSG) Honors Competition for Student Papers in Geographic Information Science to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Dr. Dan Goldberg, Associate Director of the Spatial Sciences Institute, is coordinating the competition. The Spatial Sciences Institute has two faculty members…
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