"Urban centers need to anticipate environmental disasters--not just clean them up. A resiliency officer can help." Dr. Darren Ruddell Dr. Darren Ruddell, director of undergraduate studies, has been featured in Time magazine for his views on the need for cities to have a Chief Resilience Officer. Ruddell, who is responsible for the USC GeoDesign major, argues…
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GIST Student’s Geospatial Tools Guide Typhoon Relief
GIST student Jared Hyneman's job as GIS manager at World Vision, puts him in a position to make a difference quickly when disaster strikes. Hyneman and the World Vision team developed and deployed a rapid assessment tool in ArcGIS online that was critical to allowing the charity to deploy its resources effectively following Typhoon Haiyan's…
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SSI Spatial Support Facilitating Study of Religion
As spatial technologies mature in ways that make both data and maps more easily accessible across domains of knowledge, many opportunities emerge to ask geographic questions in a range of disciplines. The "spatial humanities" is a collective term to describe the increasing prevalence and sophistication of spatial tools and analysis in the study of humanist…
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A Bird’s Eye View
Students from USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI) launch an aerial camera attached to a helium-filled weather balloon to photograph the USC University Park campus and raise awareness about the institute’s new undergraduate degree in GeoDesign. By Susan Bell The passing troupe of blue-uniformed grade school children on a visit to University Park campus nudged…
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