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I-GUIDE Forum 2024

Convergence Science and Geospatial AI for Environmental Sustainability

October 14-16, 2024

Jackson, Wyoming, USA


Monday, October 14, 2024

Time (Mountain Time)

Activities

7:00 am - 8:00 am Registration, Check-in and Breakfast
8:00 am - 9:50 am

Hands-on Workshops and Tutorials: Session 1

Chair: Venkatesh Merwade, Purdue University

  • Build Geospatial Web Apps with Python and Open-Source GIS in the Tethys Platform (Tutorial) - (Room: Timberline One)
    Dan Ames, Jianting Shi, and Nathan Swain
  • Geospatial Approaches to Remodeling America’s Food Supply Chains (Workshop) (Room: Timberline Two)
    Rachel Opitz and Marge Cole
  • Harnessing Future Climate Data: Creating Automated Pipelines with R/Python Using University of Wyoming Open Data APIs (Tutorial) (Room: Summit Two)
    Shannon Albeke
  • I-GUIDE Platform User Environment (Tutorial) (Room: Grand Room)
    Erick Li, Yunfan Kang, Furqan Baig, Anand Padmanabhan, and Shaowen Wang
9:50 am - 10:10 am Morning Break
10:10 am - 12:00 pm

Hands-on Workshops and Tutorials: Session 2

Chair: Venkatesh Merwade, Purdue University

  • Build Geospatial Web Apps with Python and Open-Source GIS in the Tethys Platform (Tutorial) - (Room: Timberline One)
    Dan Ames, Jianting Shi, and Nathan Swain
  • Geospatial Approaches to Remodeling America’s Food Supply Chains (Workshop) (Room: Timberline Two)
    Rachel Opitz and Marge Cole
  • Building Interactive Jupyter Notebooks with the I-GUIDE Platform (Tutorial) - (Room: Grand Room)
    Rebecca Vandewalle and Shaowen Wang
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch (Provided)
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Hands-on Workshops and Tutorials: Session 3

Chair: Zhe Zhang, Texas A&M University

  • Hands-on Tutorial: CyberTraining on Geospatial Data Processing using Python (Tutorial) (Room: Timberline One)
    Jibin Joseph and Venkatesh Merwade
  • Geospatial Life Cycle Assessment to Predict Site-Specific Carbon Footprints (Workshop) (Room: Timberline Two)
    Marie-Odile Fortier
  • Learn How to Instantly Map Surface Water Dynamics Harnessing Earth Observations and Open Science Capabilities (Tutorial) (Room: Summit Two)
    Adnan Rajib, Bikas Gupta, and Shihab Uddin
  • Collaborative Science in the Grand Tetons (Mobile Workshop - In the field)
    Jeff Hamerlinck, et. al.
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Afternoon Break
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Hands-on Workshops and Tutorials: Session 4

Chair: Zhe Zhang, Texas A&M University

  • Hands-on Tutorial: CyberTraining on Geospatial Data Processing using Python (Tutorial) (Room: Timberline One)
    Jibin Joseph and Venkatesh Merwade
  • Geospatial Life Cycle Assessment to Predict Site-Specific Carbon Footprints (Workshop) (Room: Timberline Two)
    Marie-Odile Fortier
  • Embedding Ethics in Geospatial Data Science Work Practices: Introducing the I-GUIDE Data Ethics Toolkit (Workshop) - (Room: Summit Two)
    Peter Darch and Ivan Kong
  • Gridded Economic Responses to Climate and Environmental Changes: Telecoupling Land, Water, and Labor Through Agricultural Markets (Workshop) (Room: Grand Room)
    Iman Haqiqi, Rajesh Kalyanam, Lan Zhao, and Nick Manning
  • Collaborative Science in the Grand Tetons (Mobile Workshop - In the field)
    Jeff Hamerlinck, et. al.
5:30 pm Wrap-up of Tutorial/Workshop Sessions 
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Welcome Reception 
Location: TBD

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Time (Mountain Time)

Activities

7:00 am - 8:00 am Registration, Check-in and Breakfast
8:00 am - 8:20 am Welcome and Introductions

  • Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Gabrielle Allen, University of Wyoming
8:20 am - 9:20 am Keynote: The State of I-GUIDE
Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Chair: Clifford Jacobs, Independent Consultant

9:20 am - 10:00 am

Session: Frontiers in Data-Intensive Geospatial and Convergence Sciences

Chair: Jack Liu, Michigan State University

Paper presentation (20 mins each including Q/A)

  • Data-Intensive Convergence Science for Analyzing Place-Based Spatial Accessibility
    Alexander Michels and Shaowen Wang
  • Heat, Yield, and Risk: Adapting Global Corn Supply to Climate Change
    Iman Haqiqi
10:00 am - 10:30 am

Morning Break

10:30 am - 11:05 am

Lightning Talk (5 mins each)

Chair: Carol Song, Purdue University

  • I-GUIDE Summer School 2024 Winners: Assessing the Economic Impact of Wildfire on Building Losses in Texas
    Yoonjung Ahn, Jinyi Cai, Sobia Shah, Harman Singh, Yan Xie, Xiaoyu Xu, Zhenlei Song, and Zhe Zhang
  • Inter-Provincial Spatial Coupling of Paddy Fields in China Has Accelerated the Expansion of Croplands and Water Consumption in Northeast China
    Wenguang Chen, Wencai Zhang, Ming Lei, Ruqian Zhang, Zhenting Zhao, Enyi Xie, and Xiangbin Kong
  • The Asymmetric Transboundary Impacts on Resources, Environment, and Socio-Economics Across International Migration Metacoupling
    Chao Feng, Yu-Qi Liu, Jun Yang, and Jianguo Liu
  • Building Blocks for Geospatial Software Education Using the I-GUIDE Platform
    Rebecca Vandewalle, Alexander Michels, Zhiyuan Li, Nattapon Jaroenchai, and Shaowen Wang
  • Water Savings Induced by Agri-Food Trade in a Metacoupled World: Model and Applications
    Yanling Long, Xiuzhi Chen, and Yunkai Li
  • Trade-offs of Generalization
    Kyra Abrams and Peter Darch
11:05 am - 11:40 am

Lightning Talk (5 mins each)

Chair: Steve Manson, University of Minnesota

  • On-Road Traffic Detection and Tracking Framework Based on High-Performance Deep Learning Cyberinfrastructure
    Nanzhou Hu, Zhe Zhang, Dayong Wu, Diya Li, and Jikun Liu
  • Generation of Coastal Area Dems Using Oblique Stereo Imagery from Non-Metric Cameras with SFM Techniques
    Mona Hajiesmaeeli, F. Antonio Medrano, and Philippe Tissot
  • Strengthening Resilience in 4D: Geospatial Digital Twins for Navigating Urban Flood Dynamics
    Debayan Mandal, Rohan Singh Wilkho, Abhinav Wadhwa, and Lei Zou
  • What Can We Do Together with Geospatial AI for Environmental Sustainability
    Marge Cole and Mark Korver
  • Exposure to Compound Climate Hazards Transmitted via Global Agricultural Trade Networks
    Pat Keys, Elizabeth Barnes, Noah Diffenbaugh, Thomas Hertel, Uris Baldos, and Johanna Hedlund
  • A Global Geospatial Economic Dataset of Crop Supply Elasticities for Land and Water Sustainability Analysis
    Iman Haqiqi
11:40 am - 12:00 pm Conference Photo
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch (Provided)
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm Keynote: From Pattern Diagnostics to Machine Learning in Probabilistic Estimation of Precipitation from Multi-satellite Observations with Emphasis on Extremes and Uncertainty Quantification
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California, Irvine

Chair: Venkatesh Merwade, Purdue University

1:50 pm - 2:50 pm

Session: Inclusive Education and CyberGIS Innovation

Chair: Anand Padmanabhan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Paper presentation (20 mins each including Q/A)

  • Communicating Uncertainty and Cataloging Bias in Geospatial Data Science Education
    Peter Kedron and Jiahua Chen
  • Data with Notebooks: A Convergence Framework for Integrating CyberGIS Education and Research on I-GUIDE Platform
    Fangzheng Lyu, Furqan Baig, Yunfan Kang, Zhiyuan Li, Anand Padmanabhan, and Shaowen Wang
  • Understanding Complex Socio-Environmental Systems with Spatial Agent-Based Models
    Rebecca Vandewalle, Alexander Michels, Furqan Baig, and Shaowen Wang
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm Afternoon Break
3:20 pm - 4:40 pm Poster Introductions (1-2 mins each)

Chairs: Nick Manning, Michigan State University; Mohan Ramamurthy, Unidata

All accepted posters

4:40 pm - 5:00 pm Poster Setup
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Conference Reception and Poster Presentation

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Time (Mountain Time)

Activities

7:00 am - 8:00 am Registration, Check-in and Breakfast
8:00 am - 8:05 am

Welcome & Recap of First Day

Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

8:05 am - 8:30 am Invited Talk: Title TBD
Cheryl Eavey, National Science Foundation

Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

8:30 am - 9:20 am Keynote: GeoSpatial Artificial Intelligence: Advances and Challenges
Arindam Banerjee, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

9:20 am - 9:50 am Morning Break
9:50 am - 11:10 am

Session: Geospatial AI and Data Science for Environmental Sustainability

Chair: Patricia Solis, Arizona State University

Paper presentation (20 mins each including Q/A)

  • Conditional Diffusion Model for Weather Prediction with Uncertainty Quantification
    Jimeng Shi, Bowen Jin, Jiawei Han, and Giri Narasimhan
  • Statistical Downscaling of Climate Datasets with Deep Generative Model and Bayesian Inference
    Guiye Li and Guofeng Cao
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Interpret Spatially-Explicit Impacts of Future Climate Change on Species Distribution
    Lei Song, Amy E. Frazier, Peter Kedron, Diogo S. A. Araujo, Brian J. Enquist, Brian Maitner, Cory Merow, Gabriel M. Moulatlet, Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos, and Patrick R. Roehrdanz
  • Identifying Invasive Species Sightings from GeoAI-Validated Social Media Posts
    Nathan Fox and Derek Van Berkel
11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Panel with I-GUIDE EAB Members

Chair: Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara

Panelists: Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California, Irvine
Clifford A. Jacobs, Independent Consultant
Michael A. Tischler, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Michael Zentner,  Independent Consultant

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch (Provided)
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm Keynote: Current Federal AI Policies and Practices
Michael Tischler, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Chair: Deanna Hence, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

1:50 pm - 2:50 pm

Panel with Partners

Chair: Michael Zentner,  Independent Consultant

2:50 pm - 3:20 pm Afternoon Break
3:20 pm - 4:30 pm

Panel: Convergence Science in Practice

Chair: Jeffrey D. Hamerlinck, University of Wyoming

Open remarks: Erwin Gianchandani, NSF Assistant Director of the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships

Discussants: Ed Seidel, President, University of Wyoming
Mike Freeman, CEO, CO-WY Climate Resilience Engine

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Wrap up and Adjourn
6:30 pm No-Host Dine-Around Event (Optional)

Sign up for a pre-reserved table at one of several restaurants within a short walk or drive. Restaurant options will be confirmed at registration desk on Tuesday morning, including student-focused group. No need to worry about where to eat after the conference ends. Continue your networking. Low effort, lots of fun!

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