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HARNESSING THE POWER OF SPATIAL THINKING SPATIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE

“ I invite you to join with our faculty, researchers, students, and alumni as we plumb the depths of data to bring out the compelling stories in search of solutions, answers, and decisions leading to a more sustainable and healthy planet.�

John P. Wilson, Professor and Founding Director, Spatial Sciences Institute

Since its founding in 2010, the USC Spatial Sciences Institute has been using the power of spatial thinking and literacy — the ability to connect place and space — to help address global challenges, including those connected with population growth, urbanization, environmental sustainability, and human well-being.

Through its innovative academic programs, the Spatial Sciences Institute educates and trains today’s leaders capable of deploying the “science of where” across every possible discipline and industry. Members of our internationally recognized faculty create new knowledge, tools, and approaches.

From our home base in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, we collaborate with faculty colleagues throughout the University of Southern California and with other prestigious institutions around the world on funded research that links SSI faculty and students with decision makers and citizens and knowledge with action. We promote the analysis, modeling, and visualization of location-based data through interdisciplinary use-inspired and integrated research and teaching.

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SPATIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE Founded July 1, 2010 FY15 BUDGET

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Gifts and Sponsorships: $1,745,220

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Sponsored Projects: $463,765

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Total Graduate Certificates in Geographic Information Science and Technology awarded 2000-2015

Instructional: $1,809,145

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Total number of faculty publications (2010-2015)

GIST GRADUATES BY YEAR 70 65 60 55 50

Total Masters of Science in Geographic Information Science and Technology awarded 2010-2015

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Total academic awards, honors, conference presentations, and articles published by GIST graduate students

The article “Planning and visualising 3D routes for indoor and outdoor spaces using CityEngine” by Drs. KyoHyouck Kim and John P. Wilson received the Best Professional Paper Award for 2014 from the editorial board of the Journal of Spatial Science.

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Vrije University Professor Niels van Manen and GeoDesign students Morgan Link and Sarah Ellis work on a plan to propose a mixed-use green space for the Amstelland region using the Phoenix touch table, a cutting-edge technology that allows spatial science professionals and community members to collaborate digitally to identify alternative design scenarios for a given project.

Educating Spatial Leaders

As the hub of spatially related academic programs at USC, the Spatial Sciences Institute is unique in offering interdisciplinary courses and degrees at every higher educational level.

Undergraduate Programs Through our large general education courses, we foster the next generation of spatially-literate thinkers: > by exploring concepts of quantitative reasoning and the importance of maps in understanding and presenting data in Numbers and Maps; > by utilizing social analysis to tackle sustainability challenges and demonstrating principles of global citizenship in Sustainability Science in the City; and > by investigating the hydrologic cycle and role of water from economic, legal, political, institutional, engineering, and biological perspectives in The Water Planet.

Designed to leverage any USC major with skills in spatial thinking, analysis, modeling, and mapping, our minor in Spatial Studies differentiates USC undergraduates in the marketplace and in graduate studies.

Dr. Daniel Warshawsky uses maps to teach second graders at Baldwin Hills Elementary School about our planet’s water cycle.

The B.S. in GeoDesign major, the first undergraduate interdisciplinary program of its kind in the world, combines curriculum taught by faculty from the Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute, the School of Architecture, and the Price School of Public Policy, to enable students to address complex issues of environmental sustainability and human well-being. Students gain valuable experience in field-based research, in collaborative studios, and in technology-enriched classrooms as they prepare for professional work and graduate studies.

In the summer “Problems Without Passports” International GeoDesign course, Dr. Darren M. Ruddell takes USC undergraduates to the Netherlands, globally recognized for its land use policies and practices, where they work with leading Dutch geodesign practitioners and faculty. Students apply the innovative adaptive reuse, environmental mitigation, reclamation, and sustainability principles they learned in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and the Amstelland region to develop strategies to improve Los Angeles neighborhoods.

“ GeoDesign is the ideal major for me because it pulls three diverse interests of mine together in an interdisciplinary package. I am confident that with my GeoDesign major, I will have the skill sets that I can apply to almost any career or use to pursue my interests in the environment and natural resources.”

Ben Banet, Candidate, B.S. in GeoDesign and USC Trustee Scholar

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Weidi Cui, Nicole Bosetti, Serhan Ulkumen, and Jeremy Smith construct a regional plan proposal for the Amstelland region as part of their International GeoDesign course in the Netherlands.

Using aerial images captured by an infrared camera attached to a weather balloon and spatial analysis and modeling software, students in SSCI 301: Maps and Spatial Reasoning construct digital mosaic maps, contributing to “citizen science� and the development of volunteered geographic information in fields such as transportation, faciilities management, landscape ecology, planning, disaster response, landscape architecture, renewable energy, and inner-city renewal.

“A month before defending my thesis for the USC GIST Program, I was offered the position of Geographic Analyst with Nokia’s HERE Maps in Los Angeles. A large part of my job is field data collection: finding sources for new and updated map content and ensuring their accurate, real-world representation within the database. In our multi-camera, GPSreceiving vehicles, I’m on a mini-road trip every week!”

“The USC GIST Program was the only one I found that allowed me to master my geospatial knowledge base while still allowing me to grow in my career at Google as Head of Cloud Platform.”

EMILY FRAZIER (M.S. GIST ’14)

DOUG DANIELS (CANDIDATE, M.S. GIST)

“As a senior systems engineer at Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems, I am gaining from my USC GIST education new and different perspectives on the capabilities of the GPS satellites we manufacture at Boeing. Our one-week field study on Catalina Island has been one of many opportunities in which I am finding synergies with my aerospace background.”

DENNIS NAKASONE (GIST GRADUATE CERTIFICATE ‘15)

“I got my dream job as the technical lead epidemiologist for research and mapping with the County of San Mateo Health System because of the USC GIST Program, thanks especially to the cartography and spatial analysis courses and the ability to show my thesis project to the interview committee.”

CORINA CHUNG (M.S. GIST ’14)

Masters Programs

Online Graduate Programs in Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) > The Graduate Certificate in GIST provides the foundation for professional advancement utilizing fundamental geographic information science principles and the latest GIS, GPS, and remote sensing platforms and applications. > Students in the USC online Master of Public Health program can become spatiallyenabled health professionals with the ability to explore how geographical contexts shape health outcomes, trends, and inequalities by enrolling in the GeoHealth track that is supported by the Spatial Sciences Institute’s faculty and server-based technology platforms. > Accredited by the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, our Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence develops career readiness to work in areas such as disaster management, human security, international relief, and many other fields.

USGIF accreditation signifies that the USC GEOINT graduate certificate meets the high academic standards to ensure a pipeline for students with the necessary knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the professional GEOINT workforce. The USC Spatial Sciences Institute also has been designated as a Center for Academic Excellence in Geospatial Sciences by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Geological Survey. > For the GIS manager or those aspiring to leadership positions, our Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Leadership expands the geospatial knowledge and skills base and provides an opportunity to build leadership skills. In the capstone course SSCI 578: The Practice of Geospatial Leadership, students build a personal leadership plan to position themselves to make high-level and strategic decisions in the geospatial field. > In the M.S. in GIST degree program, students tailor their coursework and thesis project to position themselves for long-term professional growth in increasingly diverse occupations and disciplines.

GIST master’s students design and produce a thesis, an original, independent, professional work on a compelling topic of their choice. Students work closely with a faculty advisor who serves as the thesis committee chair and two committee members from among the GIST faculty to produce an abstract and the thesis.

“The USC Spatial Sciences Institute is world-class.”

Keith Masback, CEO, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation

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Teaching the Geospatial Intelligence graduate certificate capstone course SSCI 579: Geospatial Intelligence Tradecraft, remote sensing, and other GIS courses is Dr. Steven Fleming, a retired U.S. Army colonel and professor of the practice of spatial sciences. Prior to joining the Spatial Sciences Institute in August 2015, Dr. Fleming was an academy professor of geospatial information science and deputy head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.

A highly decorated officer, he has operational combat experience with Joint and NATO staffs, twice deploying in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

The GIST thesis topics have covered the full breadth of geographic information science and technology, including novel applications of GIS as well as implementations of web and mobile technology. Specific projects span a wide range of fields, including architecture, biogeography, business, epidemiology, geology, history, human geography, public health, natural hazards, planetary sciences, and sustainability.

Students have produced thesis projects of publishable and award-winning caliber. For his thesis “Geosocial Footprint,” Chris Weidemann developed a novel geospatial application called Twitter2GIS to analyze what locational information Twitter users may inadvertently give away and investigated how third parties could make use of this information. For his work, Weidemann was the first place winner of the 2014 Robert Raskin Mashup Mapping Competition sponsored by the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group. Under the direction of Dr. Jennifer Swift, his work was published in the International Journal of Geoinformatics.

Bridging the spatial sciences and computer science worlds is Craig A. Knoblock, research professor of computer science and spatial sciences and associate director of the Program in Data Informatics in the Viterbi School of Engineering, a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a Distinguished Scientist of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), President and Trustee of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), and past President of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). He has published Generating Abstraction Hierarchies (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993), along with more than 200 journal articles, book chapters and conference papers. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Artificial Intelligence and the Journal of Web Semantics.

For her thesis “Integrating Landsat and California Pesticide Exposure Estimation at Aggregated Analysis Scales: Accuracy Assessment of Rurality,” Trang VoPham was awarded second place in the UNIGIS 2014 Academic Excellence Prize. VoPham, who has a Ph.D. in epidemiology and currently is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, conducted the first epidemiologic study examining pesticides and hepatocellular carcinoma using GIS. This work was recently published in Applied Geography.

M.S. IN SPATIAL INFORMATICS The faculty from the USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Department of Computer Science have joined together to offer this groundbreaking program which focuses on spatial data analytics and the domains that apply informatics skills to critical organization missions and real-world challenges created by large location-based data environments. Location-based data coupled with spatial analytics and maps are revolutionizing all industries and disciplines, including healthcare, marketing, social services, human security, education, environmental sustainability, and transportation.

Students in this program complete a core set of courses to provide a foundation in spatial thinking, information engineering, data science, spatial analytics, and modeling, and combine this with their choice of electives to optimize their preparation for their preferred career path and unique professional opportunities this will provide for them. Students will assemble a digital portfolio of work product throughout their coursework which is intended to help them demonstrate their capabilities and skills for the job market.

“All data is location data.”

Gil Elbaz, Founder and CEO, Factual, and 2015 USC Spatial Sciences Institute Los Angeles Geospatial Summit opening keynote speaker

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Doctoral Programs With a Graduate Certificate in Spatial Analytics, USC doctoral students learn how spatial computing, analysis, and modeling can be deployed and used to conduct some or all of their research through a spatial lens.

In the innovative interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Population, Health and Place, faculty from the USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute, the USC Dornsife Department of Sociology, and the Keck School of Medicine of USC Department of Preventive Medicine provide training for careers in research, teaching, and applied work at the intersection of sociology (population), preventive medicine (health), and the spatial sciences (place). Students complete two core courses that focus on the geography of life and death as well as courses in spatial computing, analysis and modeling, biostatistics, environmental health and exposure, epidemiology, demographic methods, and social demography, with additional course work required according to specialty area and/or dissertation topic.

The two core courses also will show how spatial approaches facilitate interdisciplinary research and how the successful integration of the contributing disciplines can advance our understanding of place and human well-being.

Students completing this program will be able to work in the academic, public, private, and not-for-profit sectors to conduct research and create the policies and programs needed to promote human well-being and environmental sustainability.

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES PROGRAM Spanning the Institute’s academic and research agendas is our new post-doctoral research associates program, which provides one or two years of support for recent doctoral recipients from any academic discipline who have applied spatial concepts and technologies in their academic research and have exhibited exceptional ability with a strong record of independent research. The post-doctoral research associates are selected based on an evaluation of their promise as future academic leaders. They will carry out both independent and collaborative research with Spatial Sciences Institute faculty members.

The inaugural post-doctoral research associates for 2015-1016 are: Noli B. Brazil Ph.D., Demography, University of California, Berkeley, PostDoctoral Associate, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, Yale University. Research interests: neighborhood effects, education, formal demography and quantitative methods, migration patterns.

Loraine A. Escobedo Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of Southern California.

Research interests: spatial epidemiology, disease mapping, cancer clusters, translation of cancer surveillance data to cancer prevention.

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We aspire to create a new generation of scientists who are conversant with large data sets as well as varied modeling and computational approaches and can apply them to population and health problems in meaningful and predictive contexts.

Actionable Research

Our research strives to accomplish not only the ordinary—creating new knowledge, tools, and approaches—but also the extraordinary —by linking wherever possible knowledge to action. Spatial perspectives are inherently integrative and work best when they are embedded in collaborative, interdisciplinary, use-inspired research and in settings in which we have the opportunity to train students and educate tomorrow’s leaders across a wide array of disciplines and application domains.

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Creating Healthy and Sustainable Places We explore the physical, biological, and cultural character of specific places and spaces, how human activities are organized, and how our behavior and cultural development affect local understanding and use of the environment. As we document the origins, character, and meaning of specific places and spaces, we also examine threats to the environment, human health, and well-being. By designing new places and spaces that promote environmental sustainability and human well-being using geodesign principles, we can optimize location, orientation, and other elements of projects on many scales.

In a Time op-ed article, Dr. Darren M. Ruddell asks, “What if cities had chief resilience officers? With geodesign, we could anticipate environmental disasters, not just clean them up.” Ruddell challenges: Let’s engineer resilience and start investing in critical infrastructure and services to prepare for the disasters we know will happen.

SSI researchers have developed new methodologies to track the distribution of endangered butterfly species, such as this El Segundo blue butterfly.

Dr. Travis Longcore, assistant professor of architecture and spatial sciences, explains a map of the historical ecology of the Ballona Wetlands that he and an interdisciplinary team of collaborators created to inform current management actions.

Dr. Longcore’s work brings spatial tools and analysis approaches to urban ecology, meeting the needs of local, state, and federal agencies seeking to conserve and restore rare and endangered species and to create and manage urban landscapes that provide multiple environmental benefits.

“ Professor Travis Longcore’s research on the historical ecology of rivers and wetlands exemplifies the way in which Spatial Sciences Institute faculty engage local issues with far-reaching implications for how we understand and manage our natural resources.”

Steven Lamy, USC Dornsife Vice Dean for Academic Programs

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photo credit Jonathan Alcorn

Unlocking Maps USC Dornsife associate professor of history Lon Kurashige calls the work of Dr. Yao-Yi Chiang “map magic.” In a Los Angeles city archival basement, Dr. Kurashige found a Los Angeles city precinct map of January 1920, key to his quest to analyze the voting results of the 1920 election in which 75% of California voters approved the Alien Land Law, preventing Japanese immigrants from owning land. But matching up precinct demographics and voting record data within the precinct boundaries by hand would have been nearly impossible.

Enter the “magic” of Dr. Chiang ’s GIS computer program, Strabo, which extracts information from historical maps, and constructs and uses maps to help organize and visualize information in spatial decision support systems. Using Strabo, Chiang quickly produced a map which combined voting records with the precinct racial and economic makeup, which allowed Kurashige to confirm his theory that white, working-class neighborhoods on the This map shows how flow paths can be constructed on top of a triangulated irregular network or TIN, in which the direction of the arrows indicate the aspect and the length of each arrow measures the slope of the triangular facet.

south side of Los Angeles supported the Alien Land Law, but African-American and wealthy neighborhoods opposed it. “With the click of a button, I can see all those percentages,” Kurashige said. “I wouldn’t have been able to make any of these claims without that image.”

Strabo works by first grabbing a map image from a web map services. It then processes the image to extract the text to identify the location of the text from the map.

For example, a map can show the location of factories, mines, quarries, and gas works, all sites of potential or likely contamination. By quickly processing millions of “labels” in historical Ordnance Survey maps covering the entire United Kingdom over the past 100 years, Chiang’s program is making possible the modeling of existing environmental hazards that impact contemporary land uses.

Chiang and his spatial computing team also are working with the USC Shoah Foundation’s Institute for Visual History and Education to map the places mentioned by Holocaust survivors in their testimonies. Chiang explained, “We are going back in time to recreate the survivor’s physical world. When he crossed over the border from Germany into Poland, where was that? If she crossed through a forest, where was the forest, and does it still exist?

By extracting this information from historical map archives, we can bring a whole new dimension to the survivors’ testimonies.”

“ Think of a map as a spatiotemporal database in image format,” says Chiang.

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The USC Spatial Sciences Institute spatial computing team led by Dr. Yao-Yi Chiang “reverse engineers” the information contained in historic maps, such as this 1920 Los Angeles City precinct map, to rebuild the map image’s SPPT database which computers can then process.

Furthering Spatial Literacy We are at the forefront of pedagogical innovations in online GIS and geodesign education and in the promotion and development of the science and teaching of spatial literacy.

The Institute’s work in improving the online environment for students has been recognized as an example of enhancing student engagement and retention in distance learning. Dr. Katsuhiko Oda has presented on this topic at national conferences, and he with Susan H. Kamei, associate director of the Institute, are featured in a video produced by the University’s Center for Effective Teaching team as a resource for faculty teaching in online programs.

Dr. Darren Ruddell is leading our efforts to build out the world’s first undergraduate Drawing upon her multidisciplinary breadth of expertise, Dr. Karen K. Kemp serves as the advisor for numerous M.S. in GIST theses using innovative methodologies.

geodesign curriculum — one that relies on the spatial sciences as a way to organize and create new knowledge, planning as a trusted framework for collective action, and the design elements of architecture and landscape architecture — so our students can tackle the challenges associated with urbanization, biological conservation, and environmental sustainability.

Dr. Karen K. Kemp played a leading role in developing the groundbreaking NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIS by the University of California, Santa Barbara National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis 25 years ago and in producing the first edition of the GIS&T Body of Knowledge. She also has built an international reputation as a scholar whose work spans spatial literacy, the role of spatial thinking in the humanities, various forms of spatial analysis and modeling, and most recently, the art of teaching cyberGIS. Dr. Kemp is a fellow in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and serves as a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. She also is a fellow of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) and a founding member of its board of directors. Dr. Kemp has returned to the UCGIS board of directors for 2015-2017.

Solving Spatial Problems Dr. John P. Wilson continues to work and publish on a variety of topics connected with GIS, This map illustrates the use of spatial analysis tools to recalculate park service areas and the number of residents served by individual parks if the brownfield identified as Parcel 1 were turned into a new neighborhood park.

spatial analysis, and environmental modeling. He has worked in Australia, China, New Zealand, and the Netherlands in addition to the US and he has published more than 100 books, book chapters, and articles on spatial methods (such as geocoding and terrain analysis tools) and their use in characterizing and solving problems associated with biological conservation, environmental exposures and health outcomes, hydrologic systems, non-point source pollution, the provision of parks and open space, population growth, and urbanization. Dr. Wilson is the founding and managing editor of Transactions in GIS, a past president and fellow of the UCGIS, and the principal editor of the second edition of the GIS&T Body of Knowledge that is currently under development.

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Developing and Deploying New Technologies We develop and deploy new geospatial tools and techniques for gathering, organizing, analyzing, modeling, and visualizing spatially explicit information. Our recent work includes innovations in geocoding, which turns textual place references into geographic coordinates; geomorphometry, which analyzes and interprets landform objects and land surface parameters extracted from digital elevation models; and 3D GIS. With a team of student researchers, we have built a 3D routing service to guide mobility within buildings.

We also are working with students and Esri’s Collector for ArcGIS app to collect and update information about places of worship and their congregations.

Using Esri’s “CityEngine” modeling, visualization, and data integration program, the Wilson-Kim team developed this 3D rendering of the historic Allan Hancock Foundation building on the USC University Park campus.

“ With the 3D visualizations of all of the buildings on USC’s University Park campus which Drs. Wilson and Kim and their students are developing, we will be able to provide critically important emergency responder, disability access, strategic planning, and many other essential services which otherwise would be much more difficult.”

John Welsh, Associate Vice President, USC Facilities Management Services

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Creating a spatial university The Spatial Sciences Institute works tirelessly to promote spatial thinking and the adoption and use of geospatial tools to enrich teaching, learning, research, and campus administration throughout the University of Southern California. We are fostering a spatially-enabled campus by: Including spatial thinking across the curriculum: We teach three large-scale spatiallyinspired General Education courses in the Quantitative Reasoning, Physical Science, Social Analysis, and Citizenship in a Global Era categories, and continuously prepare and place undergraduate and graduate students who can use GIS and other geospatial tools in community-based learning projects and internships.

Developing a geospatial workforce: We offer a wide array of academic programs in which Closeup of a 3D network model showing corridors in gray, stairs in red, and an elevator in blue.

students can design and customize their own learning pathways. Our courses include several advanced, practice oriented undergraduate studios and graduate seminars as well as opportunities for students with different backgrounds and interests to collaborate on a variety of research projects. Many of these courses are taught in our own collaborative classrooms specially equipped with cutting-edge software and systems, which support students working in small teams with faculty and real-world clients.

Incubating geo-enabled research: As the manager of the Esri campus site license, we have the vantage point to facilitate interdisciplinary research across the university, by connecting faculty, faculty affiliates, students, and staff researchers, and providing geospatial resources and expert help.

Supporting GIS for campus administration: The 21st-century spatially-enabled university campus will use GIS to enhance its planning, operations, maintenance, sustainability, business continuity, and other strategic functions. Our development of a 3D model of the USC University Park campus for planning and emergency response purposes is just one way in which the USC Facilities Management Services and other university units can use GIS to support campus planning operations, maintenance, and sustainability.

Founding member of worldwide university network of online GIS educational programs

Member of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, which has accredited the USC Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence

Recognized as an Esri Development Center Designated by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and U.S. Geological Survey as a Center of Academic Excellence in Geospatial Sciences

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Leadership John P. Wilson Director Susan H. Kamei Associate Director Darren M. Ruddell Director of Undergraduate Studies

Jennifer Swift Associate Professor (Teaching) of Spatial Sciences

Matthew E. Kahn Visiting Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences

Robert Vos Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Spatial Sciences

Craig A. Knoblock Research Professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences, and Director of Information Integration, Information Sciences Institute

Daniel N. Warshawsky Director of Graduate Studies

Daniel N. Warshawsky Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Spatial Sciences

Staff Leilani Banks Fiscal Administrator

John P. Wilson Professor of Spatial Sciences, Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, and Sociology

Beau MacDonald GIS Project Specialist

Wei Yang Lecturer of Spatial Sciences

Andrea Macko Administrative Assistant

Faculty Affiliates

Melissa Salido Events and Office Manager Richard Tsung Systems Administrator Kendrick Watson Student Services Data Coordinator

Faculty

François Bar Associate Professor of Communication and Spatial Sciences

Steven D. Fleming Professor of the Practice of Spatial Sciences Karen K. Kemp Professor of the Practice of Spatial Sciences

Myles G. Cockburn Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Spatial Sciences Elizabeth Currid-Halkett Associate Professor of Public Policy and Spatial Sciences

Su Jin Lee Lecturer of Spatial Sciences

Maged Dessouky Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Spatial Sciences

Travis Longcore Assistant Professor of Architecture and Spatial Sciences

Philip Ethington Professor of History, Political Science, and Spatial Sciences

Laura Loyola Lecturer of Spatial Sciences

Brian Finch Professor (Research) of Sociology and Spatial Sciences

Katsuhiko Oda Lecturer of Spatial Sciences Darren M. Ruddell Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Spatial Sciences Elisabeth Sedano Lecturer of Spatial Sciences

Ann Owens Assistant Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences Mansour Rahimi Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Spatial Sciences

Jennifer A. Ailshire Assistant Professor of Gerontology and Spatial Sciences George Ban-Weiss Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Spatial Sciences

Yao-Yi Chiang Assistant Professor (Research) of Spatial Sciences

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Assistant Professor of History and Spatial Sciences

Meredith Franklin Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Spatial Sciences Thomas Garrison Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Anthropology and Spatial Sciences Jennifer Hook Associate Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences

Faculty, students, alumni, and staff of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute gathered at the Institute’s 2015 Geospatial Summit.

Alexander Robinson Assistant Professor of Architecture and Spatial Sciences Kelly Sanders Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Spatial Sciences Kelly Shannon Professor of Architecture and Spatial Sciences, Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program, Landscape ArchitectureDiscipline Head Emily Smith-Greenaway Assistant Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences Tatiana Tatarinova Associate Professor of Research Pediatrics and Spatial Sciences Editorial direction: Susan H. Kamei Creative design: etchcreative

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