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Republished by 30 news organizations (including the Washington Post), Jennifer Bernstein’s first article for The Conversation, “Yes, GPS apps make you worse at navigating — but that’s OK,” was the third most widely read article by a USC Dornsife scholar last year, with just under 100,000 views. Bernstein is a lecturer with the USC Spatial Sciences Institute.…

The UNIGIS International Association (UIA) has announced that Carrie Steves (M.S. GIST ’17) is the winner of its 2018 Academic Excellence Prize for her thesis “Trends in the Alaskan Bottom-Trawl Fishery from 1993 – 2015: A GIS-based Spatiotemporal Analysis.” The Prize, initiated in 2008, recognizes the best master of science thesis or paper during the…

Esri Chief Medical Officer Este Geraghty, MD, MS, MPH, GISP, will give the Ph.D. in Ph.D. in Population, Health and Place Colloquium address on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 3:30 – 4:30 pm, in the Hedco Neurosciences Building Auditorium (HNB 100). In her address “Gaps or Overlaps? Applying Location Intelligence for Better Decisions,” Dr. Geraghty will…

The USC Spatial Sciences Institute welcomes LCDR [R] Christopher Verlinden, Ph.D., to its faculty as of the Spring 2019 semester. During his 14-year career with the United States Coast Guard, Dr. Verlinden developed expertise in geospatial information systems, remote sensing, environmental response planning, and ocean acoustics, including novel sonar techniques and methods. He was first…