Spatial sciences enables us to see and understand our world in new ways, whether through the lens of the past, the present or the future. By Susan Bell - April 21, 2017 [caption id="attachment_9767" align="aligncenter" width="690"] Illustration by Janice Kun for USC Dornsife Magazine.[/caption] Captured by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972, “The Blue…
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2017 AAG Annual Meeting SSI Highlights
Faculty, leadership, students, and alumni present in Boston Representatives of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute organized, moderated, and presented at sessions which spanned the five days of the 2017 annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston, Massachusetts. From April 5 – 9, 2017, 19 SSI faculty, leadership, students, and alumni were among…
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Celebrating SSI Undergrad Research
[caption id="attachment_9745" align="aligncenter" width="800"] photo credit: Michael Quick [/caption] Student teams present at the USC Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work Spatial Sciences Institute undergraduate students and their faculty advisors culminated their research for the 2016-2017 academic year with presentations at the university’s 19th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work on April 12,…
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Hacking for Food Security
USC SSI teams win NGA Los Angeles hackathon Two teams from the Spatial Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California captured the top prizes at the March 25-26, 2017 hackathon presented by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in Los Angeles, California. The hackathon challenge was how to use geospatial information to better understand, model,…
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