2016 Speakers

Schedule

 Schedule of Events For GIS Day, November 16th, 2016

*All events will be held at 1810 Liacouras Walk (Conference Suite) unless otherwise noted.

Session
Time
Event
1
12pm-1pm
WorkshopExtending your skills in ArcGIS Online using WebApp Builder (Lauri Dafner, ESRI)

Limited space available. Please register here.

2
1pm-2pm
Registration and poster set up
3
2:00-2:50pm

Keynote

Break
2:50-3:00pm
4
3:00-3:50pm
GIS Lightning talks I
  1. Urban Structure and Ecological Function (Peleg Kremer, Geography and the Environment, Villanova University)
  2. The relationship between resource availability and accessibility with community participation of individuals with serious mental illnesses (Eugene Brusilovskiy, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences)
  3. Mapping the Ships sunk during the First World War (Andrea Siotto, History)
  4. Exploring Gentrification through GIS (Bradley Gardner, Geography and Urban Studies)
  5. Tacony/Tookany/Frankford Watershed Trash Monitoring Project (Stewart Scott, Geography & Urban Studies)
  6. Severe Road Crashes in Philadelphia (Carlos Bonilla, Econsult)
Break
3:50-4:00pm
5
4:00-5:00pm
GIS Lightning talks II
  1. Public engagement online for transportation planning (Steve Spindler, Geography and Urban Studies)
  2. Understanding risk factors for abundance of Aedis Albopictus Mosquito in Eastern US (Daniel Wiese, Geography and Urban Studies)
  3. Maps, Charts, Web Maps and more! (Christopher Pollard, DVRPC)
  4. Identifying geographic disparities in breast cancer survival using spatial scan statistics and Bayesian geo-additive models (Kevin Henry, Geography and Urban Studies)
  5. Modeling Place as a Relationship between a Person and a Location (Jeremy Mennis, Geography and Urban Studies)
  6. Mapping the “Divine Comedy” (Shrobona Karkun, Geography and Urban Studies)
Reception
5:00-6:00pm
Poster session and reception

Mapping Community Gardens in Philadelphia (Craig Borowiak, Political Science, Haverford College)

Distance Based Modeling of Interactions in Structured Regression (Ivan Stojkovic, Computer and Information Sciences)

Elatlas, a collective social networking platform for grassroots community groups
(Alexis Saenz, Geography and Urban Studies)

Representation learning based structured regression (Chao Han, Computer and Information Sciences)

Modeling the Distribution of Plant Communities (Daniel   Wiese, Geography and Urban Studies)

Prettyboy Watershed Planning (Bianca Santos, AKRF, Inc.)

Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval Using Gaussian Conditional Random Fields with Constraints  (Shanshan  Zhang, Computer & Information Science)

Maps students have made (Steve Spindler, Geography and Urban Studies)

PSM Capstone Project with OIT (Daniel  Wiese, Geography and Urban Studies)

Correlation of Greenspace on Self-Reported Psychological Stress for Urban Adolescents
(Andreea Ambrus, Geography and Urban Studies)

Development of a land cover map for the Colombian Altillanura Region through satellite images Jeronimo Rodriguez (Geography and Urban Studies)