The Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE) is an interdisciplinary institute supported by the National Science Foundation that brings together people who are working on a wide variety of geospatial problems. I-GUIDE combines geospatial-related expertises and resources to achieve things that couldn’t be done individually.
There are many challenges to working with geospatial data. These challenges involve handling data, computing, finding people with the know-how to work with the data, getting ideas together, and figuring out what insights and solutions can be pursued. Geospatial problem solving is inherently interdisciplinary — it’s basically anything that’s got a geographic or spatial component. That’s the cool thing about this area: We are all doing geospatial work but using very different methods and data sources. This allows us to tackle these challenging problems because we have people looking at them with different perspectives.
To learn more about I-GUIDE visit our website.
Apply to I-GUIDE Undergraduate student research Opportunity.
What is this undergraduate student research opportunity?
In simple terms, this is an opportunity for students to develop geospatial data science skills by collaborating on collaborative projects with postdoc and faculty mentors. We expect the students to work closely in a team of 4-5 students and their faculty and postdoc mentors. This semester we have identified two projects human-environment relationship of aging dam infrastructure and the geospatial knowledge hypercube for geoAI. Here is some information about each of the projects.