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Monday, June 23
 

8:00am MDT

Workshop: Harnessing Future Climate Data: Creating Automated Pipelines with R/Python Using University of Wyoming Open Data APIs
Monday June 23, 2025 8:00am - 10:00am MDT
The University of Wyoming (UWyo), in collaboration with UCLA, has developed a comprehensive suite of downscaled Global Circulation Models (GCMs) at a 9km resolution for the western United States. This dataset spans the years 1980-2100 and is available at daily, monthly, and annual (water year) temporal resolutions. Given the significant computational resources and carbon footprint associated with producing these datasets, as well as their substantial storage requirements, it is essential to make this valuable information more accessible to researchers and analysts. To promote reuse and reproducibility, UWyo now offers cloud-based access to these datasets. Utilizing Cloud Optimized GeoTiff (COG) file formats in conjunction with Open API endpoints, users can retrieve data on-demand, bypassing the need to download entire datasets. This workshop will provide hands-on examples using R, Python, and/or JavaScript to access and process these datasets in real-time. Participants will learn how to read geometry layers from web services, extract tabular data from APIs (e.g. converting JSON to data frames), and process cloud-optimized raster datasets. All necessary software and data will be provided, and participants are expected to have the required software installed prior to the course.
Monday June 23, 2025 8:00am - 10:00am MDT
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8:00am MDT

UCGIS Board & Chairs Retreat
Monday June 23, 2025 8:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Monday June 23, 2025 8:00am - 12:00pm MDT
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10:00am MDT

Workshop: From Field(view) to Your Table: Retrieving Object-based Crop Type Ground Truth from Street View and Satellite Imagery with an Operational GeoAI Workflow
Monday June 23, 2025 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Crop type maps are essential for informing, assessing, and managing agricultural practices and food security. Traditionally, ground truth data for these maps is collected through field surveys, which are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and difficult to scale. As a result, large-scale crop type mapping faces challenges in obtaining comprehensive and high-quality reference data. Street view imagery and vehicle-based surveys offer alternative solutions for field inspections, providing scalable and cost-effective ways to collect crop type information.

This 2-hour workshop will enable participants to:
1. Explore the potential of street view imagery as a novel and emerging source for large-scale crop type ground truth data collection.
2. Understand CropSight, the GeoAI-driven workflow for retrieving object-based crop type ground truth information, including collecting geotagged street view images, extracting crop type labels from street view images, and delineating crop field boundaries corresponding to each retrieved label using satellite imagery.

3. Discuss key challenges, best practices, and opportunities for integrating street view imagery into remote sensing workflows.

Participants of all skill levels in Python are welcome, and we will use Google Colab to ensure accessibility and ease of use. To support hands-on learning, we will provide example datasets and Jupyter notebooks for the workshop.

Authors
Zhijie Zhou (zhijiez2@illinois.edu), Tianci Guo (tiancig2@illinois.edu), Yin Liu (yinl3@illinois.edu), Chunyuan Diao (chunyuan@illinois.edu)
Department of Geography and GIScience, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Monday June 23, 2025 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT
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10:00am MDT

Workshop: Getting Started with SAGE3: A Collaborative Research and Visualization Platform
Monday June 23, 2025 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT
SAGE3 (Smart Amplified Group Environment) is an open-source, NSF-funded platform designed to support collaborative research, data visualization, and remote team engagement. Built on decades of research in scalable display environments, SAGE3 enables users to share, analyze, and present complex data in real time across multiple devices, from high-resolution display walls to personal laptops. Its capabilities make it particularly useful for GIS teams working on disaster response, land use planning, environmental monitoring, and other geospatial projects where collaboration and large-scale visualization are essential.

This workshop will introduce participants to SAGE3 and demonstrate how it enhances research collaboration, facilitates interactive meetings, and organizes complex data. Attendees will learn how to set up and navigate the platform, integrate data sources, and utilize its tools to streamline group discussions and decision-making.

Whether new to SAGE3 or looking to incorporate it into your workflow, this hands-on session will provide the foundational knowledge needed to use the platform effectively. For more information, visit https://sage3.sagecommons.org/.

Authors
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jason Leigh, PhD; Mahdi Belcaid, PhD; Ryan Theriot; Nurit Kirshenbaum, PhD; Roderick Tabalba, PhD;
Dylan Kobayashi, PhD; Giorgio Tran; Michael Rogers; Christopher J. Lee; Loelle Lam

University of Illinois Chicago
Andrew Johnson, PhD; Luc Renambot, PhD; Lance Long; Maxine Brown

Virginia Tech
Chris North, PhD; Jesse Harden; Elizabeth Christman
Monday June 23, 2025 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT
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10:00am MDT

Workshop: 3D Printing from Photogrammetry – A Hands-On Workshop
Monday June 23, 2025 10:00am - 12:30pm MDT
This workshop will introduce participants to the process of transforming photogrammetric models into 3D-printed objects. Using newly captured digital models from the Neltje Center, attendees will learn how to prepare, slice, and print 3D models using FDM and resin printers. The session will cover essential steps, including file optimization, scaling, and support generation, ensuring participants gain practical experience in digital-to-physical workflows.

Participants will have the opportunity to download a pre-processed photogrammetric model, import it into slicing software, and print their object on our 3D printers. This hands-on approach will highlight best practices for preserving detail, optimizing prints for various materials, and troubleshooting common issues.

This workshop is designed for GIS professionals, educators, and researchers interested in integrating 3D printing into their workflows for visualization, preservation, or educational applications. No prior experience with 3D printing is required.

Workshop Length: 2.5 hours. With participants picking up prints the following day.
Monday June 23, 2025 10:00am - 12:30pm MDT
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12:00pm MDT

Board/Chairs/Fellows Lunch
Monday June 23, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Monday June 23, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
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12:00pm MDT

Lunch on your own
Monday June 23, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Monday June 23, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
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1:30pm MDT

Fellows meeting
Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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1:30pm MDT

Workshop: AI in ArcGIS: Possibilities and Practicalities
Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
AI enhances productivity—it helps us achieve faster results and gain deeper insights into the problems at hand. In this workshop, you will learn about AI capabilities in ArcGIS that empower educators to integrate AI seamlessly and responsibly into their work. Participants will explore practical applications of GeoAI, such as land use classification, object detection, and predictive modeling, using ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro. Participants also will learn about AI Assistants in ArcGIS and how these assistants can increase productivity and improve workflows. Throughout the workshop, we’ll discuss how GeoAI and AI assistants might change GIScience education and how we can develop policies and practices to align AI use with our educational goals.

Learning goals:
  • Get familiar with what is possible with GeoAI and AI assistants
  • Get excited–AI in GIS is not just for advanced workflows
  • Explore teaching and research uses
  • Learn about AI resources for the classroom
Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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1:30pm MDT

Workshop: Capturing Human Perception of Neighborhoods using Online Data with Language and Vision Models
Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 5:30pm MDT
Understanding how people see, feel, and think about their surroundings (i.e., locality characteristics) is important, as this directly affects well-being, an essential component of sustainable development, and impacts levels of physical activity, which is crucial for public health. Efficient ways for identifying locality characteristics (e.g., disorder, safety) allow stakeholders, including policymakers and urban planners, to improve quality of life.

This 4-hour workshop offers a hands-on opportunity for participants to explore methods using language models, including BERT and our previous work SpaBERT and GeoLM, to capture shared locality characteristics through online text descriptions of places. Additionally, we will introduce in-context learning methods with vision large language models to understand locality characteristics using street view images.

Participants will learn to 1) process text descriptions with locations or street view images and then train tools to learn locality characteristics, 2) visualize localities using the learned characteristics, enabling comparative analysis between results from text and images, and 3) fine-tune tools to predict locality indices such as greenness or other human perception indexes.

This workshop is designed for researchers, practitioners, and anyone interested in learning how to capture locality characteristics from text and images.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own location-based text datasets they would like to test. Basic Python knowledge is required to complete the experiments.

Authors
Jina Kim, Guanyu Wang, Michelle Pasco, Yao-Yi Chiang1
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 5:30pm MDT
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1:30pm MDT

Workshop: Creating the A Guide to the Geographic Approach: Building Lessons for a Changing GIScience Curriculum
Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 5:30pm MDT
Over the last three decades the environment, society, and GIScience have all changed dramatically.  GIScience education has likewise evolved, but the race to keep up never ends. We invite participants to join an expanding community effort to build open GIScience learning materials that can be adapted to meet different educational needs and evolve with the constantly changing world.

In this workshop, we will work with participants to create GIScience teaching materials to solve applied problems of their choosing. We will briefly present milestones from an ongoing collaborative project between the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies and Esri and introduce participants to our approach to developing content for the GIS classroom. We will then invite participants to work with our team to develop teaching materials using our framework and resources. Working in small groups with our team members, participants will workshop their applied GIS problem, link that problem to GIScience concepts and pedagogical objectives, and begin to storyboard their lessons.

Participants will also engage in collective discussion of the ethical lessons that could be drawn from their problem and highlighted for students. Beyond this workshop, we invite participants to continue to collaborate with us, complete the
development of their lessons, and share their lessons through an online community platform. Participants that chose to share their materials will receive full acknowledgement for their work and be highlighted as project contributors.

Before arriving for the workshop, we ask participants to dedicate about 2 hours reviewing shared materials and preparing their applied GIS problem.

Presenters: UCSB Center for Spatial Studies, Esri
Monday June 23, 2025 1:30pm - 5:30pm MDT
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3:30pm MDT

Workshop: A Hands-On Workshop on Mapping and Measuring Structural Racism and Discrimination in the U.S.
Monday June 23, 2025 3:30pm - 5:30pm MDT
Purpose
Disparities between Black and White communities in the U.S. stem from a deep-rooted history of racist and discriminatory policies that have perpetuated inequities across multiple social dimensions. This form of racism, i.e., structural racism, has disproportionately impacted Black communities by limiting their access to housing, income and wealth through employment opportunities, education, voting, and healthcare. Despite widespread recognition of the impact of structural racism, a standardized methodology for quantifying its manifestation at the population/neighborhood level remains a challenge. To address this critical need, we developed an index of structural racism and discrimination (SRD), the first national, place-based, and community-informed measure.

Objectives and Activities
This interactive workshop will introduce participants to the SRD Index, designed to evaluate the impact of structural racism across key social dimensions in states and counties over 40 years. Participants will gain insights into the index’s data sources, methodology, and applications. A live demonstration will highlight its interactive data visualization tool, illustrating how to interpret SRD impact scores across dimensions such as residential segregation, housing, income, healthcare, and incarceration. Hands-on activities will enable participants to explore geographical patterns and practical applications in research, policy development, and advocacy.

Expected Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to navigate and utilize the SRD Index tool, interpret its scores, download data, and apply related data in academic research, policy analysis, and advocacy efforts.

Workshop Materials
Participants will need a laptop or a tablet to access the SRD Index tool (link will be provided). Printed or digital handouts summarizing key concepts will be available to support learning.

Authors
Debs (Debarchana) Ghosh, Sabina Bhandari
University of Connecticut, Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies

Devlon Nicole Jackson, Cheryl L. Knott
University of Maryland School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral and Community Health
Monday June 23, 2025 3:30pm - 5:30pm MDT
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6:00pm MDT

Welcome Reception hosted by WyGIS
Monday June 23, 2025 6:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Monday June 23, 2025 6:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
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Tuesday, June 24
 

7:30am MDT

Continental Breakfast
Tuesday June 24, 2025 7:30am - 8:30am MDT
Tuesday June 24, 2025 7:30am - 8:30am MDT
Room 8 (Marriott Hotel) 18-20 Lisle St London, WC2H 7BA, United Kingdom

8:30am MDT

Plenary
Tuesday June 24, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am MDT
Tuesday June 24, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am MDT
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10:00am MDT

Break
Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am MDT
Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:00am - 10:30am MDT
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10:30am MDT

Strategic Breakout: Fostering Spatial Literacy by Teaching Spatial Thinking in General Education Courses
Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Presenters: UCSB Center for Spatial Studies, USC Spatial Sciences Institute, Esri

How would you teach spatial thinking in a general education course to post-secondary students with no formal training in geography? If geographers and GIScientists wish to foster spatial literacy in society this is a question that must be answered. We invite colleagues to contribute to an interactive discussion about how to teach novice learners the central elements of spatial thinking – concepts of space, tools of representation, and processes of reasoning.

An intermittently updated literature discussing concepts and questions related to spatial thinking already exists. Many of those concepts and questions remain the same. However, as new environmental and social challenges emerge and geospatial technologies change, which of those concepts and questions should be prioritized in post-secondary education merits revisiting. Moreover, the existing literature tends to offer abstract, academic treatments of these concepts that are removed from the experiences of non-specialists. This session will draw from and extend that literature by restarting a practical discussion about how to teach spatial thinking with the goal of fostering spatial literacy. Colleagues will be invited to share their own conceptions of spatial thinking, the geographic questions they use to teach key concepts, their pedagogical approaches, and their classroom successes.
Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
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10:30am MDT

Strategic Planning Session
Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Tuesday June 24, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
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12:00pm MDT

Lunch
Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Tuesday June 24, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
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1:30pm MDT

Student Paper Session
Tuesday June 24, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Devon Borthwick: Identifying Post-Disaster Damages in Anna Maria Island, Florida, With Aerial Images and Volunteers
Hailey Nicole Richardson: Modeling Illicit Drug Flow on Interstates using Spatial Interaction Models
Zhijie Zhou: “How Much Can We Trust Your Habitat Maps?” – Uncertainties in Multi-scale Spatial-Explicit Conservation Planning from the Area-of-Habitat (AoH) Mapping Approach
Purna Saud: Time Series Analysis of Delay-Induced Stochastic Oscillations in COVID-19 Case Dynamics
Tianci Guo: PHYIELD: Phenology-integrated Yield Estimation Leveraging Physics Knowledge and Deep Learning
Tuesday June 24, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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1:30pm MDT

Teaching Introduction to Geographic Information Science: Best Practices and Reflections
Tuesday June 24, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
This session will compare practices and discuss methods for teaching introduction to GIS and other geospatial courses, bringing together a diverse group of faculty. The participants will share their experience teaching the course, their format for the course, and what does and does not work in the classroom (projects vs. exams, teaching both lecture and lab vs. teaching lecture with TAs teaching labs, types of projects, working with/around AI, etc., ESRI software vs. others, hybrid vs. face-2-face vs. online, etc.).

This session will also focus on the future direction of GIS and teaching it, and how we are instructors of GIS courses prepare our students to work within today’s geospatial world while also discussing how our methods have changed over time. Anyone interested is invited to also share their experiences in teaching the course, along with ideas on how to give students the best experience concerning learning GIS.
Moderators
CM

Caroline McClure

Georgia State University
Tuesday June 24, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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3:00pm MDT

Break
Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
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3:30pm MDT

Building Robust Infrastructures for Future GIS Applications: Insights and Innovations
Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Moderators
DJ

Devika Jain

Harvard CGA
Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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3:30pm MDT

Lightning Talks
Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Tuesday June 24, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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6:00pm MDT

Reception and Poster Session
Tuesday June 24, 2025 6:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
Tuesday June 24, 2025 6:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
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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
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8:00am MDT

Continental Breakfast
Wednesday June 25, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Room 8 350 5th Ave New York, NY 10018 USA

9:00am MDT

Plenary Panel
Wednesday June 25, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
Moderators
AA

Aaron Addision

Executive Director, WGIC
Wednesday June 25, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
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10:30am MDT

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

Strategic Breakout: The Role of GIScience in Causal Inference
Wednesday June 25, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
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12:00pm MDT

Lunch
Wednesday June 25, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
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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
hannahw5280@gmail.com
GIS Analyst, Denver Water
Affiliation: Geospatial Professionals Network (GPN)

Austin Stone
Astone@esri.com
Account Manager – Education, Esri
Affiliation: Esri Young Professionals Network (YPN)

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

Armita Kar
akar3@gmu.edu
Assistant Professor, Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University
Affiliation: GISphere

Wednesday June 25, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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1:30pm MDT

Professional Papers: Modeling and Analysis Applications
Wednesday June 25, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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3:00pm MDT

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

Past Presidents' Panel
Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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3:30pm MDT

Professional Papers: Teaching and Learning
Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Wednesday June 25, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
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6:00pm MDT

Anniversary Dinner & Awards Presentations
Wednesday June 25, 2025 6:00pm - 8:30pm MDT

Wednesday June 25, 2025 6:00pm - 8:30pm MDT
Laramie Plains Museum 603 E Ivinson Ave, Laramie, WY 82070, USA
 
Thursday, June 26
 

8:00am MDT

Continental Breakfast
Thursday June 26, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Thursday June 26, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am MDT
Marriott Hotel 229 W 43RD St New York, NY 10036 USA

9:00am MDT

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

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

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

Professional Papers: AI/ML and Geoprocessing
Thursday June 26, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Thursday June 26, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
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12:00pm MDT

UCGIS Council Meeting and Lunch
Thursday June 26, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
Thursday June 26, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm MDT
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1:30pm MDT

1:30pm MDT

Why It Is Important for Geospatial Professionals to Understand Geospatial Law
Thursday June 26, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Geospatial technologies have revolutionized how data about people, places, and the environment is collected, shared, and analyzed. As these technologies continue to evolve, they present significant legal challenges across privacy, intellectual property, liability, and national security domains. Geospatial Law thus plays a vital role in ensuring that the benefits of these innovations are balanced with the need to protect individual rights and uphold societal interests. For instance, businesses increasingly rely on location-based analytics to glean insights into consumer patterns, while governments incorporate geospatial data into planning, public safety, and environmental protection initiatives. The legal frameworks governing data ownership, privacy rights, and data-sharing agreements become critical to maintaining trust, fairness, and accountability. This presentation will highlight the fundamentals of Geospatial Law, demonstrating why it is a pivotal aspect of modern technology governance. By exploring case studies, it will underscore how robust legal structures foster innovation, collaboration, and responsible data practices. Ultimately, Geospatial Law is essential to safeguarding privacy, enabling equitable access to resources, and advancing the ethical use of location-based data, benefiting society at large. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the core issues and future directions shaping this dynamic field.
Thursday June 26, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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3:00pm MDT

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

Closing session
Thursday June 26, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm MDT
Thursday June 26, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm MDT
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5:30pm MDT

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

Vedauwoo Hike and Cookout
Thursday June 26, 2025 5:30pm - 8:30pm MDT
Thursday June 26, 2025 5:30pm - 8:30pm MDT
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Friday, June 27
 

8:00am MDT

Workshop/Field trip: Collaborative Science in the Medicine Bows (Mobile Workshop - In the field).
Friday June 27, 2025 8:00am - 3:00pm MDT
Join us for an immersive mobile workshop in the Medicine Bow Mountains of southeastern Wyoming. We will visit the site of the 2020 Mullen Fire, which burned over 175,000 acres, where researchers from the University of Wyoming and the USDA Forest Service are monitoring the recovery of plant and soil microbial communities. Nearby, in the Snowy Range, the Wyoming State Geological Survey and U.S. Geological Survey are conducting high-resolution airborne geophysical surveys as part of the Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI). We'll explore scenic rock exposures that host minerals essential to modern technologies, including energy production, electronics, and transportation. Both research efforts highlight how geospatial methods are advancing our understanding of Wyoming’s geological and ecological systems.

Includes visits to the site of the 2020 Mullen Wildfire, Critical Minerals study area, and scenic vistas of the Snowy Range

Limited to 18 participants. Please bring a water bottle, jacket and sturdy shoes (some walking on uneven terrain and on gravel paths) .
Friday June 27, 2025 8:00am - 3:00pm MDT
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8:00am MDT

Workshop: Advancing Social Media Analytics with AI
Friday June 27, 2025 8:00am - 3:00pm MDT
This hands-on workshop explores AI-powered social media analytics, focusing on Twitter (X) data collection, analysis, and visualization. Participants will learn to use MongoDB for scalable storage, generative AI for text and image processing, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for enhanced data insights. These techniques are critical for researchers and professionals working in fields such as public sentiment analysis, misinformation detection, disaster response, and urban studies.

By integrating AI and social media analytics, participants will gain practical knowledge in:
  • MongoDB for real-time, scalable data storage
  • Generative AI for automated text and image analysis
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for enhancing search and information retrieval
  • Natural Language Queries and Charting in MongoDB for intuitive data exploration
  • Creating Interactive Dashboards to visualize and communicate findings effectively

Workshop Objectives
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
  • Set up and manage a MongoDB database for social media data
  • Collect, store, and query Twitter (X) data efficiently
  • Apply AI-powered tools for text and image analysis
  • Develop vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
  • Build interactive dashboards for effective data visualization and interpretation

Workshop Timeline
  • 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Twitter API data collection, MongoDB setup, and querying
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: AI-driven text and image analysis using generative AI models
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch break
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: RAG system development, dashboard creation, and visualization
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Discussion, Q&A, and wrap-up

Participation Requirements
Participants should bring a laptop with internet access. Pre-registration for Twitter API access is recommended; demo datasets will be provided for those
Friday June 27, 2025 8:00am - 3:00pm MDT
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8:00am MDT

Workshop: CyberTraining: Broadening Adoption of Cyberinfrastructure and Geospatial Science Research and Workforce for Disaster Management
Friday June 27, 2025 8:00am - 3:00pm MDT
Disasters become prominent global issues that simultaneously pose a threat to multiple countries or regions around the globe. The dynamics of a multi-scale networked society are inextricably entangled with geographical and built environments, where human-environmental interactions shape community resilience under different disaster events. Disaster management is gradually empowered by increasing geospatial big data awareness and growing computing capabilities to produce spatial vulnerability and situational understanding for supporting timely decisions. This CyberTraining workshop shed light on high-performance geocomputational educational concepts important in understanding human-environment interactions in disaster management. The workshop features training modules, ranging from fundamental to advanced levels, covering key concepts in Cyberinfrastructure (CI) and high-performance computing (HPC) to lower barriers to CI adoption in disaster management research. Participants will gain hands-on experience in advanced geospatial data analysis and visualization techniques, enabling them to better understand disaster patterns across diverse spatiotemporal scales.

This project was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberTraining program (Award #2321069). Through this project, we established the International CyberTraining for Disaster Management (CTDM) network, bringing together academic institutions, governmental agencies, hazard research centers, industry, and educational organizations to leverage interdisciplinary expertise in developing training materials for the next-generation workforce in geospatial and disaster science. This CyberTraining project will broaden access to CI for disaster research communities and help enhance workforce development among diverse disciplines such as disaster science, GIScience, engineering, and social science. The project will help disaster research communities strengthen their CI-enabled disaster management and geospatial computing skills, thus improving decision- making capabilities for enhancing community resilience. For more details about this project, please visit our project website: https://dev.ctdm.org/
Friday June 27, 2025 8:00am - 3:00pm MDT
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