This summer, local high school students will have an opportunity to study with USC Dornsife faculty during a four-week session. The program Summer@USC has a wide range of course offerings, and this summer will include a new opportunity in spatial sciences. Lecturer Dr. Darren Ruddell developed a new course, “Navigating Our World: Science, Digital Mapping and Communication,” to introduce students to…
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New Research: Urbanization Exacerbates Effects of Climate Change on Extreme Temperatures
Extreme high temperatures in cities are increasing more rapidly than rural areas, with urban climate dampening the effects of natural climatic fluctuations such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation. In a study just published in Climate Research, USC researcher Dr. Darren Ruddell and colleagues showed that maximum temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona showed pronounced increases…
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SSI Offers Workshop on Spatial Thinking and Analysis for the Humanities to USC Faculty and Graduate Students
On January 28-29, 2013, Professor of History Phil Ethington and Professor of Spatial Sciences Karen Kemp will welcome up to 20 faculty members and graduate students for a two-day workshop on spatial thinking and analysis in the humanities. The humanities have been heavily influenced by a conceptual and methodological reorientation known as the “spatial turn,”…
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SSI to Host Vespucci Institute on Population, Health, and Place
Each summer since 2003, diverse groups of scholars have gathered in Italy and Spain to explore the frontiers of the spatial revolution — how modern computational tools and concepts applied to a georeferenced 3D environment can address difficult social problems. The topics of these meetings have later emerged in our everyday lives: volunteered geographic information…
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