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Three Cheers for the Top Three GIST Theses

USC Spatial announces the 2020 M.S. in GIST Thesis Prize Winners The USC Spatial Sciences Institute (USC Spatial or SSI) has announced the 2020 prizes for the top three outstanding GIST Theses by graduating students in the M.S. in Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) program. Each year, the SSI faculty who serve as thesis advisors…
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SSI’s Orhun Aydin to speak in online COVID-10 Data Forum

Orhun Aydin, Ph.D., lecturer with the USC Spatial Sciences Institute and researcher and product engineer with Esri, will be one of the featured speakers on the COVID-19 Data Forum. The COVID-19 Data Forum is a series of multidisciplinary, online meetings for topic experts to focus on data-related aspects of the scientific response to the pandemic,…
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Calculating the Water It Takes to Make Blue Jeans

Ethically sourced apparel is becoming increasingly important to consumers. And in a world facing severe challenges from climate change and water scarcity, the apparel industry is making efforts to measure, report and reduce the environmental impacts from the clothing we wear with carbon and water footprints - even with blue jeans. According to Robert O.…
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Rebecca Smith

Graduate Certificate in Spatial Analytics
I am a first year Ph.D. student in Public Policy and Management at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Prior to attending USC, I received my undergraduate degree in economics and French from the Georgia Institute of Technology. I went on to receive a Masters in Economics from Sciences Po in Paris. My…
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