CGS News

Congratulations to our own Dr. Ran Wei who was selected as the 2020 Emerging Scholar from the Spatial Analysis and Modeling Group of the American Association of Geographers!

Congrats Ran!

A new paper from the CGS team, Dr.s Su Han, Serge Rey, Eli Knaap, Wei Kang, and Levi Wolf develops a new open source and web-based tool for exploring relationships between multiple variables at multiple spatial scales.

We are thrilled to announce that Founding Faculty Member Dr. Ran Wei has earned her promotion from Assistant Assistant Professor to Associate Professor (w/ tenure), beginning July 1st, 2020.

CGS Associate Director Eli Knaap will deliver a presentation on a new CGS paper on modeling gentrification through time and space at the upcoming “Predicting Gentrification with Machine Learning” conference hosted by the Berkeley Institute for Data Science

CGS Director Sergio Rey and Center Affiliate Janet Franklin will speak at the Distinguished Lecture Series for the Department of Geography at San Diego State University on February 4. Professor Franklin’s lecture will focus on Geospatial Data for Forecasting Global Change Impacts on Ecosystems, while Professor Rey’s will concentrate on Open GIScience.

Serge Rey will give a keynote a the International Conference on Geographic Information Science in Merida, Mexico.

CGS Affiliate Janet Franklin will be delivering the keynote address at this year’s Geocomputation conference, and our director Serge Rey will be delivering a Spatial Data Science Workshop.