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Wednesday Oct 4, 2023
| Time (Eastern) | Activities |
|---|---|
| 8:00 am-9:00 am | Registration, Check-in and Breakfast |
| 9:00 am-10:30 am | Hands on Workshops and Tutorials - Session 1 (3 parallel sessions) Why Understanding Spatial Heterogeneity and Context Matters in Vulnerability Science (3 hrs) - Leader: Mehak Sachdeva (3 hrs) - Room: Workshop Room 1 (Room 301) Building a scalable modern GIS infrastructure (3 hrs) - Leader: Matthew Forrest - Room: Workshop Room 2 (Room 316) How humans are increasing flood risks by altering the world’s natural floodplains? (1.5 hrs) - Presenters: Adnan Rajib, and Qianjin Zheng - Room: Workshop Room 3 (Room 317) |
| 10:30 am-11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 am-12:30 pm | Hands on Workshops and Tutorials - Session 2 (3 parallel sessions) Why Understanding Spatial Heterogeneity and Context Matters in Vulnerability Science. (continued) - Presenter: Mehak Sachdeva - Room: Workshop Room 1 (Room 301) Building a scalable modern GIS infrastructure (3 hrs) (continued) - Leader: Matthew Forrest - Room: Workshop Room 2 (Room 316) CyberGIS-Compute: Geospatial Middleware for High-Performance Computing (1.5 hrs) - Leaders: Alexander Michels, Anand Padmanabhan, and Shaowen Wang - Room: Workshop Room 3 (Room 317) |
| 12:30 pm-1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm-3:00 pm | Hands on Workshops and Tutorials - Session 3 (3 parallel sessions) Recent Advances in Pre-trained Language Models and Geospatial Knowledge Discovery from Text (3 hrs) - Leaders: Zhaonan Wang, Bowen Jin, Wei Hu, Minhao Jiang, Jiawei Han, and Shaowen Wang - Room: Workshop Room 1 (Room 301) ScienceCore Heuristics for Open science Outcomes in Learning (SCHOOL): Water Resources Module Development (3 hrs) - Presenters: Kytt Macmanus, Greg Yetman, Sri Vinay, Thomas Parris, Deborah Balk, Linda Pistolesi, Juan Martinez, Camilla Green, Christina Deodatis, and Joshua Brinks - Room: Workshop Room 2 (Room 316) General-purpose GPU parallel programming for urban microclimate analysis (1.5 hrs) - Presenter: Xiaojiang Li - Room: Workshop Room 3 (Room 317) |
| 3:00 pm-3:30 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm-5:00 pm | Hands on Workshops and Tutorials - Session 4 (3 parallel sessions) Recent Advances in Pre-trained Language Models and Geospatial Knowledge Discovery from Text (continued) (3 hrs) - Room: Workshop Room 1 (Room 301) ScienceCore Heuristics for Open science Outcomes in Learning (SCHOOL): Water Resources Module Development (continued) (3 hrs) - Workshop Room 2 (Room 316) CyberTraining on Geospatial Data Processing using Python (1.5 hours) - Leaders: Jibin Joseph, and Venkatesh Merwade - Room: Workshop Room 3 (Room 317) |
Thursday Oct 5, 2023
| Time (Eastern) | Activities |
|---|---|
| 8:00 am-9:00 am | Registration, Check-in and Breakfast |
| 9:00 am-9:30 am | Welcome & Introductions - Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Upmanu Lall, Columbia University |
| 9:30 am-10:15 am | Keynote #1 |
| 10:15 am-10:30 am | Break |
| Frontiers in Convergence and Sustainability Sciences | |
| 10:30 am-11:45 am | Paper Session - Geospatial Computing for Sustainability Sciences (each speaker has 12 min for presentation, 3 min for Q&A) Dong Liang, Jeremy Testa, Cassie Gurbisz and Lora Harris. A spatiotemporal synthesis of high-resolution salinity data with aquaculture applications. (Paper 17) Subhankar Ghosh, Jayant Gupta, Arun Sharma, Shuai An, Shashi Shekhar and Aneesh Subramanian. Spatial-variability-aware Sea-level Rise Prediction (Paper 21) Nicholas Manning, Iman Haqiqi and Jianguo Liu. A Convergent Approach to Evaluating Shocks: Determining the 2012 US-Midwestern Drought’s Telecoupled Impacts on the Cerrado of Brazil Through a Gridded Agricultural Economic Framework (Paper 25) Anna Herzberger, Andres Vina, Yue Dou, Jing Sun, Dong Chen, Hongbo Yang, Yuxin Tong and Jianguo Liu. Unexpected environmental spillover effects of the soybean trade Jiyoung Lee, Rubayet Bin Mostafiz, Shifat P. Mithila, Md. Adilur Rahim, Andrew Garcia, Yong-Cheol Lee, Robert V. Rohli and Carol Friedland. FloodSafeHome: Empowering Geospatial Decision Support Tool for Flood Management and Freeboard Optimization (Paper 15) |
| 11:45 am-12:15 pm | Plenary Talk 1 - Data-intensive Convergence and Sustainability Sciences |
| 12:15 pm-1:15 pm | Lunch |
| Digital Transformation of Workforce | |
| 1:15 pm-1:45 pm | Plenary Talk 2 - Invited talk |
| 1:45 pm-2:45 pm | Paper Session - Inclusive Education, Training, and Workforce Development (each speaker has 12 min for presentation, 3 min for Q&A) Jinyi Cai, Mei-Po Kwan, Chunyu Hou, Dong Liu and Yeung Yam. Curriculum Design of Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability in Secondary School (Paper 31) Coline Dony. Solving Geospatial Problems under Extreme Time Constraints - A Call for Inclusive Geocomputational Education (Paper 23) Thomas Hertel, Elizabeth Fraysse and Iman Haqiqi. SIMPLE-G in the Classroom and the Cloud (Paper 28) Iman Haqiqi, Wei Hu, Ramya Kumaran, Pin-Ching Li, Nicholas Manning, Alex Michels, Ayman Nassar, Jinwoo Park, Jimeng Shi, Adam Tonks and Zhaonan Wang. I-GUIDE Climbers: a model for multidisciplinary academic labs for early career development (Paper 35) |
| 2:45 pm-3:15 pm | Presentations from I-GUIDE Summer School Winners (2 groups; 11 minutes each) Kat Fowler, Marian de Orla-Barile, Yen-Yi Wu, Daniel Beene, Mallory Jordan, and Hodo Orok. Team Leader: Irene Garousi-Nejad. Investing Hydrological Responses and Shrinkage Patterns of the Great Salt Lake Sukanya Dasgupta, Elaina Gonsoroski, Subhashni Raj, Oluwadamilola Salau, Marija Verner, and Andy Zimmer. Team Leader: Zhan Wang. Margins of Adaptation to Human Heat Stress: Local, National, and Global Socioeconomic Responses |
| 3:15 pm-3:30 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm-4:30 pm | Panel with the Council of Geospatial Leaders |
| 4:30 pm-5:15 pm | Lightning Talks (5 min each; 10 min Q/A in end for all talks) Caleb Gallemore. The European Union’s Due Diligence Regulation Requires Geoethical Reflection on Geospatial Governance Armita Kar, Huyen Le, Harvey Miller and Ningchuan Xiao. An equity-oriented sidewalk planning approach using non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm Alexander Michels and Shaowen Wang. An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Spatial Accessibility Chenggang Li and Youhui Bao. Assessment of the Coupling Coordination Relationship between the Green Financial System and the Sustainable Development System: The Case of China Zhan Wang and Jing Liu. Agricultural Impacts of Land Retirement for Ecosystem Restoration: A Gridded Assessment and Simulation of China’s Grain-to-Green Program Wenguang Chen, Ming Lei, Xiangbin Kong and Jianguo Liu. China and Beyond Must Concern the Telecoupled Unsustainable Arable Land-use System |
| 5:15 pm-5:20 pm | Wrap-up |
Friday Oct 6, 2023
| Time (Eastern) | Activities |
|---|---|
| 8:00 am-9:00 am | Registration, Check-in and Breakfast |
| 9:00 am-9:05 am | Welcome to Day 2 |
| 9:05 am-9:50 am | Keynote #2 |
| Geospatial AI and Data Science | |
| 9:50 am-10:20 am | Paper Session - Geospatial AI and Data Science for Sustainability Solutions (each speaker has 12 min for presentation, 3 min for Q&A) Caixia Wang and Andrew Coulson. Fine Tuning Mobilenet Neural Networks for Oil-spill Detection. (Paper 20) Jimeng Shi, Vitalii Stebliankin, Zhaonan Wang, Shaowen Wang and Giri Narasimhan. Graph Transformer Network for Flood Forecasting with Heterogeneous Covariates. (Paper 33) |
| 10:20 am-10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 am-11:30 am | Paper Session - Geospatial AI and Data Science for Sustainability Solutions (each speaker has 12 min for presentation, 3 min for Q&A) Orhun Aydin. Deep Q-Learning Framework for Quantitative Climate Change Adaptation Policy for Florida Road Network due to Extreme Precipitation. (Paper 14) Zhe Wang, Chao Fan, Min Xian, Xiaogang Ma and Shoukun Sun. Cross-scale Urban Land Cover Mapping: Empowering Classification through Transfer Learning and Deep Learning Integration.(Paper 2) Fangzheng Lyu, Xinlin Ma, Yan Song, Eric Zhu and Shaowen Wang. Large-scale Google Street View Images for Urban Change Detection (Paper 5) |
| 11:30 am-12:00 pm | Plenary Talk 3 - Geospatial AI - Challenges and Opportunities |
| 12:00 pm-1:00 pm | Lunch |
| CyberInfrastructure (CI) for Convergence Research | |
| 1:00 pm-1:30 pm | Plenary Talk 4 - Democratize CI for Convergence Research and Education |
| 1:30 pm-2:30 pm | Papers Session - Advanced CI for Enabling Convergence Research and Education (each speaker has 12 min for presentation, 3 min for Q&A) Alexander Michels, Mit Kotak, Anand Padmanabhan and Shaowen Wang. Streamlined HPC Environments with CVMFS and CyberGIS-Compute (Paper 34) Joseph Holler and Peter Kedron. Decentralized Infrastructure for Reproducible and Replicable Geographical Science. (Paper 20) Bharat Jayaprakash, Matthew Eagon, Mingzhou Yang, William F. Northrop and Shashi Shekhar. Towards Carbon-Aware Spatial Computing: Challenges and Opportunities (Paper 26) Shannon Albeke, Nicholas Case, Samantha Ewers, Jeffrey Hamerlinck, William Kirkpatrick, Jerod Merkle and Luke Todd. Geospatial data integration middleware for exploratory analytics addressing regional natural resource grand challenges in the U.S Mountain West (Paper 19) |
| 2:30 pm-3:15 pm | Lightning Talks (5 min each; 10 min Q/A in end for all talks) Iman Haqiqi, Zhan Wang, Srabashi Ray, Uris Baldos, Jing Liu and Thomas Hertel. Market-mediated effects: What are they? And why are they important for geospatial analysis of sustainability policies Derek Van Berkel, Nathan Fox, Stella Cousins and Kai Zhu. Can social media help us understand the impact of climate change on forests in the US? Maryam Shafiee Shakib, Patricia Solís, Abdulrahman Alsanad and Kate Varfalameyeva. Closing the Heat Data Gap: Leveraging MapSwipe to Enhance Mobile & Manufactured Home Community Resilience Ankitha Reddy and Rajan K S. Decadal Analysis of Observed Temperature using P-MiSTIC Qutu Jiang, Zhenci Xu and Jianguo Liu. Utilizing geospatial technology to assess the complex impacts of wars on Sustainable Development Goals (Paper 32) Xiyu Li and Le Yu. Different stages of urbanization lead to cropland loss: Geospatial data analysis in a global rural-urban continuum perspective |
| 3:15 pm-3:30 pm | Forum Closing Remarks |
| 3:30 pm-5:30 pm | I-GUIDE Researcher Meeting (All Hands Meeting) |