UCGIS Symposium 2025

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8:00am MDT

Continental Breakfast

Thursday June 26, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT

UW Conference Center

Thursday June 26, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
UW Conference Center

Social Event, Breakfast

9:00am MDT

Using the Sage Grande Artificial Intelligence Testbed to Explore the Future of Distributed Sensing

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT

Salon CD (Conference Center)

The Sage Grande Testbed (SGT) is NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure for exploring new AI techniques, edge computing, advanced sensing, robotic actuation, and generative AI. The testbed will deploy 300 nodes across the nation exploring AI for wildfire detection, drought monitoring for agriculture, and new AI algorithms. SGT is an open testbed and a NAIRR demonstration project, open to users.

Presenters: Pete Beckman, Northwestern University and Neal Conrad, Argonne National Lab

Speakers

Pete Beckman

Argonne National Lab

Thursday June 26, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Salon CD (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

Plenary

10:00am MDT

Break

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am MDT

Social Event, Networking Break

10:30am MDT

Campus Geospatial Community Session

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT

Salon E (Conference Center)

A conversation about how geospatial programs can build support within and between campuses.

Len Kne
Harvey Miller

Speakers

Len Kne

U-Spatial Director, University of Minnesota

Harvey Miller

Professor, The Ohio State University

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Salon E (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

Presentations, Panel discussion

10:30am MDT

Professional Papers: AI/ML and Geoprocessing

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT

Salon AB (Conference Center)

Tao Hu: FAIR Principles in Workflows: An AI-Enhanced GIScience Workflow Management System (WfMS) for Reusable, Reproducible and Replicable Studies

Sean Ahearn: Multi-scale Generative Movement using a Language Model

Speakers

Tao Hu

Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University

Sean Ahearn

Professor, Hunter College

Thursday June 26, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Salon AB (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

Presentations, Professional papers

12:00pm MDT

Lunch

Thursday June 26, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT

TBA

Thursday June 26, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
TBA

Social Event, Breakfast

1:30pm MDT

GAIA Session

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT

Salon AB (Conference Center)

Updates on the Geospatial sciences Alliance for International women faculty Advancement (GAIA) project.

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Salon AB (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

Meeting

1:30pm MDT

Spatial science and data sharing across disciplines: Insights from the Wyoming Adapting to Climate-Water Transitions project

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT

Salon E (Conference Center)

Many scholars have pointed to spatial data as an important boundary object in inter- and trans- disciplinary environmental work. And these sorts of complex, integrated projects are becoming more common in the face of funder pressure, shifting scholarly norms, and the deep complexity of modern socio-ecological crises. Therefore, it has never been more important to understand the potential translational role of spatial data in joining together large teams of environmental scientists, engineers, and social scientists. The current Wyoming Track 1 EPSCoR program, called Wyoming Adapting to Climate-Water Transitions (WyACT), puts this to the test. Environmental data are inherently spatial, and the project has been designed to promote interdisciplinary synergies via overlapping study locations and data that can crosswalk via spatial thinking. Even beyond the work already done, several of the sustainable deliverables of the program revolve around this concept of spatial science as boundary object, including: 1. An intersectoral modeling laboratory which centers spatial data (called CLIMES); 2. A long-term sensor network focused on collecting climate-water data throughout the state (WySEASON); and 3. A spatial data communication platform, which has become the host for most data collected through the project (WyADAPT). In this session, members of the WyACT team will discuss the ways that spatial data and spatial thinking have shaped their experience of WyACT, and how GIScience has influenced the outcomes of the project. We will use these presentations to catalyze discussion of the future of spatial science as a cornerstone of a more integrated academy in the 21st century.

Speakers

Jason Hawes

Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming

Shannon Albeke

School of Computing, University of Wyoming

Thursday June 26, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Salon E (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

Presentations, Panel discussion

3:00pm MDT

Break

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT

TBA

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
TBA

Social Event, Networking Break

3:15pm MDT

Historical Map Collection Tour

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm MDT

UW Conference Center

Calling all map geeks! Immediately following close of Symposium, we'll make a 10-minute walk across campus to Coe Library for a tour of the Special Collections unit's map collection including eaxmples of early maps of North America by Collet and Burr, 1870s map of Yellowstone National Park, and an 1890 map of the Oregon Trail.

Hosted by Margo Berendsen, Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center and Andrea Hastings, UW Libraries

Meet by the Registration table at 3:00

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm MDT
UW Conference Center

Social Event, Field trip

3:30pm MDT

EDGE computing conversation

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm MDT

Salon FG (Conference Center)

Meet at the Birds of a Feather space to continue a conversation around EDGE computing

Thursday June 26, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm MDT
Salon FG (Conference Center) 2221 Grand Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA

5:30pm MDT

Laramie Dine Around

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT

TBA

As an alternative to the hike and cookout, chill out in town joining your colleagues for a casual no-host meal at a local restaurant. You sign up and we'll make the reservation!

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
TBA

Social Event

5:30pm MDT

Vedauwoo Hike and Cookout

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:30pm - 8:30pm MDT

TBA

Travel 25 minutes by van to take in some fresh mountain air at the Vedauwoo Recreation Area in the Laramie Range Mountains east of the city. Enjoy a laid-back hike on the Box Canyon or Turtle Rock trails, followed by a cookout around the campfire at the picnic area gazebo.

Vans leave from Hilton Garden Inn at 5pm, with an estimated 9pm return. Pre-registration (ticket) required.

Thursday June 26, 2025 5:30pm - 8:30pm MDT
TBA

Social Event, Field trip