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Call for Papers and StoryMaps at the 2024 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit

Los Angeles Geospatial Summit Call for Papers and StoryMaps
Call for students to submit their abstracts to be selected to present their Papers and StoryMaps at the 2024 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit. Undergraduate and Graduate students in GIS, geospatial technologies, and related disciplines at Southern California institutions are encouraged to apply to participate in the LA Geospatial Summit Esri ArcGIS StoryMaps competition and to be selected to present a talk during the Lightning Talk session.
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SSI welcomes new faculty

Joining the faculty ranks of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute are three talented and diverse spatial scientists. Katherine A. Lester Katherine A. Lester, Ph.D., lecturer, is a medical geographer who investigates the spatial relationship between suicide, mental illness and race and ethnicity. With a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship, she developed a novel framework…
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John Wilson receives Geomorphometry Life Time Award

The International Society for Geomorphometry has announced that John P. Wilson, Professor and Founding Director of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, is receiving its 2023 Geomorphometry Lifetime Achievement Award. The society will recognize Wilson with this award at its 2023 conference from July 10 - 14, in Iasi, Romania. Past recipients of the Geomorphometry Lifetime…
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Health Benefits of Superblocks

SSI Founding Director and Professor John P. Wilson, Ph.D.,  and Kenan Li, Ph.D., a former SSI research scientist, have published a paper on "Modeling the Health Benefits of Superblocks across the City of Los Angeles" in Applied Sciences. The article was published on February 6, 2023. The term "Superblocks" entered the urban planning vocabulary in 2020…
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