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Join us for the next CyberTraining webinar:


Emergency Response is a Geospatial Problem


Presented by Dr. Michael Goodchild, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)


Registration: https://forms.gle/tDyNGNz2WUFzSnxY9


CyberTraining: Broadening Adoption of Cyberinfrastructure and Research Workforce Development for Disaster Management

funded by National Science Foundation (Award No. 2321069)

This project aims to establish an International CyberTraining for Disaster Management (CTDM) network in which disaster management research communities can broaden their computational and cyberinfrastructure (CI) skills by participating in our CTDM training program. This project targets undergraduate/graduate students, researchers, faculty, and educators with a research focus on applying CI and geospatial analytics in disaster management across Geoscience, Public Health, Engineering, Transportation, Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. Through our training program, the participants can gain CI and geospatial analytic skills to build new CI capabilities for observing, monitoring, and managing disaster events. This project also provides them with a level of core literacy so they can develop new computational skills in analyzing extensive disaster data to produce scientific outcomes.


Presenter:


Dr. Michael Goodchild

Professor Emeritus• Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara


When:

March 20, 2024, 1:50 pm U.S. Central Time


Where:

Zoom ID 732 294 94 27

https://tamu.zoom.us/j/7322949427

Dr. Michael Goodchild held the Jack and Laura Dangermond Chair of Geography. He was the Director of UCSB’s Center for Spatial Studies. His research and teaching interests focus on issues in Geographic Information Science, including uncertainty in geographic information, discrete global grids, and Volunteered Geographic Information. He directed or co-directed several large funded projects, including the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, the Alexandria Digital Library, and the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science. He was elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2002, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2010.


Abstract: Emergency response is often discussed in terms of four stages, from preparedness to mitigation. At each stage the geospatial dimensions are critical and raise issues of geospatial data sharing, GIS, uncertainty, and privacy. Today many of these issues can be addressed through high-performance computing and Artificial Intelligence. This webinar will discuss issues of governance, response times, access to proprietary data, wearable technology, and resilient communications.






Sincerely,

Dr. Zhe Zhang

Assistant Professor

Department of Geography

Texas A&M University 

Principal Investigator of CTDM Project

zhezhang@tamu.edu