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Wednesday, June 25
 

8:00am MDT

Education Committee Breakfast Meeting
Wednesday June 25, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Salon FG (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

8:00am MDT

Continental Breakfast
Wednesday June 25, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
UW Conference Center

9:00am MDT

Where's our future Workforce?
Wednesday June 25, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
Workforce development continues to be a priority topic in the geospatial industry.  The challenges have been set out --but what are the pathways forward?  The panel will discuss some of the opportunities working in the near term, as well as what the future make look like given the rapid pace of change in geospatial technology, as well as new dimensions such as AI.
Moderators
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Aaron Addison

Executive Director, World Geospatial Industry Council
Speakers
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Ben Oesterling

Logan Simpson
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Eric Shook

Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
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Angela Lee

Director, Education, Esri
Angela Lee is the Director of Education Solutions at Esri. She leads outreach to educators, students, and administrators, and promotes a geographic approach to learning and problem solving. She also manages Esri’s product offerings for educational institutions. As a liaison between... Read More →
Wednesday June 25, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
Salon CD (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

10:30am MDT

Break
Wednesday June 25, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am MDT

11:00am MDT

GIS&T Body of Knowledge Steering Committee
Wednesday June 25, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Salon AB (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

11:00am MDT

Strategic Breakout: The Role of GIScience in Causal Inference
Wednesday June 25, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Geographic information science (GIScience) has always centered on the dual objectives of developing the basic scientific foundations needed to understand the world through the collection, analysis, and representation of spatial data, and the creation of the technological tools needed for that task. In recent years, the discipline has experienced a period of rapid tool and technology development particularly around the emergence of GeoAI. Paralleling these developments in GIScience, there has been a period of conceptual development across the social and environmental sciences in causal inference. While the pattern-process approach to spatial analysis uses the tools and concepts of GIScience to describe spatial patterns of objects and events, it remains challenging to make inferences about the causal mechanisms generating those patterns.

Within the geographic and spatial statistical literature a series of recent papers have discussed causal paradigms, introduced new spatial statistical techniques, and generally deployed methods of quantitative causal analysis to answer geographic questions. However, a robust discussion of causal inference and its connection to core concepts and questions in GIScience has yet to appear in the literature. We invite colleagues to contribute to an interactive discussion session about the connections between GIScience and causal inference. Discussion topics will include whether GIScience has a unique contribution to make to the causal literature, if the current conceptual and technical foundations of GIScience are prepared to support causal analysis, and what a GIScience curriculum designed to prepare students to undertake causal analyses would look like.
Speakers
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Lei Song

University of California, Santa Barbara
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Peter Kedron

Associate Professor, UCSB
Wednesday June 25, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Salon E (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

12:00pm MDT

UCGIS Council Meeting and Lunch
Wednesday June 25, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
TBA

1:30pm MDT

From Student to GIS Pro: GIS Career Readiness Workshop
Wednesday June 25, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Join us for a workshop for strategies on seeking mentorship, building your professional network, investing in your professional development and navigating the exciting world of GIS careers. You will hear from the Geospatial Professional Network (GPN) and how to access and leverage their Mentor Network. Esri Young Professionals Network (YPN) will cover the power of networking and strategies to establish a strong support system and grow your presence in the GIS community. GIS Certification Institute (GISCI) will discuss leveraging the PreGISP exam for your own professional development and to jumpstart your GIS career.  GISphere will cover resources and opportunities for GIS scholars. To wrap up, you'll participate in an interactive networking activity, giving you the chance to refine your skills and forge meaningful connections.  

Presenters:
Hannah Walters
GIS Analyst, Denver Water
Affiliation: Geospatial Professionals Network (GPN)

Austin Stone
Account Manager – Education, Esri
Affiliation: Esri Young Professionals Network (YPN)

Jochen Albrecht
Professor for Computational and Theoretical Geography and Graduate Adviser, Hunter College CUNY
Affiliation: GIS Certification Institute (GISCI)

Armita Kar
Assistant Professor, Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University
Affiliation: GISphere

Speakers
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Jochen Albrecht

Professor for Computational and Theoretical Geography and Graduate Adviser, Hunter College CUNY
Professor for Computational and Theoretical Geography at Hunter College, CUNY and research associate at the Mineta Transportation Center @ San Jose State University. President of the GISCI and Board member of CGIA and BayGeo. Interested in open source GIS (for emergency management... Read More →
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Hannah Walters

GIS Analyst, Denver Water
Hannah Walters is a GIS Analyst for Denver Water in Colorado, where her focus is in GIS applications for watershed analysis. She is on the Vanguard Cabinet and serves as the Outreach Coordinator for the Rocky Mountain chapter of URISA. Hannah graduated from the University of Colorado... Read More →
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Armita Kar

Assistant Professor, Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University
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Austin Stone

Account Manager, Esri Education
Wednesday June 25, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Salon E (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

1:30pm MDT

Professional Papers: Modeling and Analysis Applications
Wednesday June 25, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Hasan Raja Naqvi: Longitudinal Assessment of NO 2 , SO 2 , CO, and Aerosol Air Pollutants with Special Reference to Stubble Burning in the Indo-Gangetic Plains Using Geospatial Data and HYSPLIT Modelling

Guiming Zhang: Geographic proximity and homophily effects drive social interactions within VGI communities: An example of iNaturalist 

Masahiko Haraguchi: Guiding Directions for City-Scale Digital Twins: Enhancing Inclusive and Participatory Hazard Planning

Chen Xu: Modeling Wyoming Population Mobility Dynamics with a Graph Neural Network (moved to Tuesday Lightning Talk session due to a schedule conflict)

Moderator: Xiaobai Angela Yao, University of Georgia
Moderators Speakers
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Guiming Zhang

Assistant Professor, University of Denver
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HASAN RAJA NAQVI

Department of Geography, Faculty of Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
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Masahiko Haraguchi

Columbia University/ Harvard University
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Chen Xu

Associate Professor, University of Wyoming
Wednesday June 25, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Salon AB (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

3:00pm MDT

Break
Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
TBA

3:30pm MDT

Past Presidents' Panel
Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Former UCGIS Presidents will discuss how lessons learned over the past 30 years of the organization can inform the UCGIS of the future.



Jeremy Mennis (moderator)
Jane Read
John Wilson
Nina Lam
Shaowen Wang
Sean Ahearn

Speakers
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Nina Lam

Professor, Louisiana State University
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Sean Ahearn

Professor, Hunter College
Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Salon E (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

3:30pm MDT

Professional Papers: Teaching and Learning
Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Margo Berendsen: Incorporating spatial thinking into a GIST undergraduate course and measures of learners’
spatial abilities, spatial thinking, and GIS interaction.

Diana Sinton, Shaowen Wang, and Eric Shook: I-GUIDE’s Approaches to Supporting the Geospatial Data Science Community

Robert E. Roth: Making Mapping for a Sustainable World: An Open Source Textbook for Teaching Cartography
through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Speakers
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Margo Berendsen

Geospatial Analyst, University of Wyoming
Margo Berendsen is a GIS analyst, educator, and research scientist at the University of Wyoming. She teaches courses on Geospatial Foundations, Spatial Data Visualization and Cartography, and works on various research projects and GIS analysis projects. She co-authored the Wyoming... Read More →
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Diana Sinton

Adjunct Associate Professor, Cornell University
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Robert Roth

Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert is a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geography and Director of the University of Wisconsin Cartography Lab.
Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Salon AB (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

6:00pm MDT

 
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