Upcoming Sessions
I-GUIDE's virtual consulting office (VCO) showcases innovative research and education. The VCO addresses the ongoing needs of pertinent communities and partners. Click the cards for additional information and registration.
December 17, 2025 11:00 am
Pursuing Ethical Geospatial Data Science and AI: The I-GUIDE Data Ethics Toolkit
Peter Darch · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
January 21, 2026 11:00 am
Bridging the Risk Perception Gaps around Hazards
Summer School 2025 Team 1 ·
January 28, 2026 11:00 am
Predicting and Mapping Floods through Geospatial Data Fusion and Machine Learning
Team 5 - Summer School 2025 ·
Past Sessions
Recordings are available for all past I-GUIDE sessions. Click on the cards below for additional information on each VCO as well as recordings.
December 10, 2025 11:00 am
I-GUIDE Platform: Geospatial AI Features and Open Office Hours
Yunfan Kang · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jimeng Shi · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
December 3, 2025 11:00 am
Introduction to Mapping and Visualizing Social Data with R
Kate Vavra-Musser · University of Minnesota
November 19, 2025 12:00 pm
GeoAI for Burn Area Analysis and Fire Risk Mapping in the Pantanal Wetlands
Bikas Chandra Gupta · University of Texas at Arlington
Daniel Dominguez · Colorado State University
Esmaeel Adrah · Kent State University
Fatemeh Kordi · Clark University
Jiyeon Kim · University at Buffalo
November 12, 2025 1:00 pm
Harnessing OpenStreetMap Data for Roof Material and Shape Prediction
Julian Huang · University of Chicago
Yue Lin · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
November 5, 2025 11:00 am
I-GUIDE Platform: Registering and Getting DOI for your Datasets
Erick Li · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Furqan Baig · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
October 29, 2025 11:00 am
Geospatial Simulation of Fire Ecology with DeepEarth
Qin Huang · Arizona State University
Brandon Voelker · University of Houston
Lance Legel · ecodash.ai
October 15, 2025 11:00 am
Bridging High-Performance Computing and Geospatial Workflows: OGC Standards Implementation for Scientific Computing Infrastructure
Gérald Fenoy · GeoLabs
October 8, 2025 11:00 am
TorchSpatial: A Location Encoding Framework and Benchmark for Spatial Representation Learning
Qian Cao · University of Georgia
Nemin Wu · University of Georgia
October 1, 2025 11:00 am
Building Spatial Workflows with Open Data in R
Kate Vavra-Musser · University of Minnesota
September 24, 2025 11:00 am
Mapping Wildfire Risk to Transportation Infrastructure with Spatial AI
Shaun Williams · CNA Corporation
Carey Whitehair-Conde · CNA Corporation
Jeremiah Huggins · CNA Corporation
September 17, 2025 11:00 am
The Geography of Human Flourishing
Stefano Iacus · Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Devika Jain · Center for Geographical Analysis, Harvard University
August 20, 2025 11:00 am
GeoMapCLIP, a Fine-Tuned GeoCLIP to Geolocate Satellite Imagery
Jungha Woo · Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University
Elham Barezi · Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University
August 13, 2025 11:00 am
Visualization and Story Telling
Matthew Turk · Department of Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
July 30, 2025 10:00 am
The Science of Urban Networks
Geoff Boeing · University of Southern California
July 23, 2025 11:00 am
From Fragmented to Findable: Navigating the SDOH Data Landscape with Integrated Discovery Ecosystem
Pengyin Shan · National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Shubham Kumar · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Adam Cox · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
July 16, 2025 11:00 am
A look inside OldInsuranceMaps.net, a crowdsourcing platform for georeferencing historical fire insurance maps
Adam Cox · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
July 9, 2025 11:00 am
Introduction to the I-GUIDE Platform
Alex Michels · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
June 25, 2025 12:00 pm
Open-Source Spatiotemporal Geovisual Analytics with CyberGIS-Vis: A COVID-19 Case Study
Su Yeon Han · Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University
June 11, 2025 11:00 am
A Transformer-based Multi-task Deep Learning Model for Urban Livability Evaluation by Fusing Remote Sensing and Textual Geospatial Data
Wen Zhou · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
June 4, 2025 11:00 am
Green stormwater infrastructure: Effects on mosquito habitats and West Nile Virus prevalence in the United States
Caylee Chan · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
May 28, 2025 11:00 am
Calculating Spatial Accessibility in Python with the I-GUIDE Platform
Alex Michels · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
May 14, 2025 11:00 am
Reproducible Mapping Workflows with IPUMS NHGIS and R
Kate Vavra-Musser · University of Minnesota
May 7, 2025 11:00 am
Building Interactive Jupyter Notebooks with the I-GUIDE Platform
Becky Vandewalle · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
April 23, 2025 11:00 am
Rethinking Spatial Composite Indicators with the Lens of Machine Learning
Seda Şalap-Ayça · Brown University
April 16, 2025 11:00 am
Digital Twin Framework with Spatiotemporal Vision Transformers for Heat Resilience
Xinyue Ye · Texas A&M
April 9, 2025 11:00 am
Introduction to the R Spatial Notebooks: Automating IPUMS USA Data Extraction and Management Workflows in R
Kate Vavra-Musser · University of Minnesota
April 2, 2025 11:00 am
Resilience Through Connection: Adaptive Capacity in Telecoupled Human and Environmental Systems
Iman Haqiqi · Purdue University
March 19, 2025 12:00 pm
Convergence Curriculum for Geospatial Data Science: Overview and Q&A
Eric Shook · University of Minnesota
March 11, 2025 12:00 pm
Extracting Location Descriptions from Disaster-Related Messages using Geo-Knowledge-Guided GPT Models
Yingjie Hu · University at Buffalo
March 5, 2025 12:00 pm
I-GUIDE’s Platform: Open Office Hours
I-GUIDE's Core Cyberinfrastructure Team ·
February 26, 2025 11:00 am
Introducing Transfer Learning: Bridging ImageNet Innovations with Geospatial Analysis on the I-GUIDE Platform
Nattapon Jaroenchai · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
February 19, 2025 11:00 am
GeoAI-enhanced Community Detection on Spatial Networks Using Graph Neural Embeddings
Song Gao · University of Wisconsin - Madison
February 12, 2025 11:00 am
Exploring OpenStreetMap Data on the I-GUIDE Platform
Alexander Michels · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
January 28, 2025 12:00 pm
Discover and Leverage the I-GUIDE Platform
Core Cyberinfrastructure Team · I-GUIDE
January 15, 2025 12:00 pm
Introducing R Spatial Notebook Series: Supporting Reproducible Geospatial Analysis for the Social Sciences in R
Kate Vavra-Musser · University of Minnesota
December 18, 2024 11:00 am
Discover and Leverage the I-GUIDE Platform
Core Cyberinfrastructure Team · I-GUIDE
December 10, 2024 12:00 pm
The I-GUIDE Spatial AI Challenge: Learn and Participate
Shaowen Wang · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
December 4, 2024 11:00 am
Estimating Blue Water Footprint of a Reservoir in the Transboundary US-Mexico Region
Maryam Sahraei · South Dakota State University
Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam · Virginia Tech University
Kanak Kar · University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Mohamed Awaad · University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Pravin Gamage · University of Central Florida
Ruixuan Ding · The Ohio State University
Santosh Palmate (Team Lead) · Texas A&M University
November 20, 2024 11:00 am
I-GUIDE Platform 101: Exploring the Essentials of the I-GUIDE Knowledge Sharing Environment
Anand Padmanabhan · University of Illinois
November 13, 2024 11:00 am
A Machine Learning Approach To Study The Cooling Effects Of Urban Green Spaces (UGS) in the Southeast U.S.
Yuanquan Li · UNICEF
Ruowei Liu · University of Georgia
Maria Gorret Nabuwembo · University of Arkansas
Wenxin Yang · University of California, Santa Barbara
November 6, 2024 1:00 pm
Assessing the Economic Impact of Wildfire on Building Losses in Texas
Jinyi Cai · University of Iowa
Zhenlei Song · Texa A&M University
October 23, 2024 11:00 am
GeoAI Applications to Predict Field Scale Actual Evapotranspiration
Laurel DiSera · Columbia University
Eshita Eva · The Ohio State University
Ehsan Foroutan · Oklahoma State University
Kelechi Igwe · Kansas State University
Manoj Lamichhane · South Dakota State University
Sushant Mehan · South Dakota State University
Musab Waqar · Virginia Tech
Ola Wasik · Kent State University
October 2, 2024 11:00 am
I-GUIDE Platform – The Basics
Anand Padmanabhan · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
August 14, 2024 11:00 am
Creating Spatial Data Infrastructure that Supports the Development and Evaluation of Policy
Peter Kedron · University of California Santa Barbara
June 19, 2024 11:00 am
Reexamining Geoprivacy: From Anonymity to a Harm-Based Approach
Yue Lin · University of Chicago
May 22, 2024 11:00 am
Supporting Teaching and Learning in Geospatial Data Science: A Curriculum Evaluation Tool
Forrest Bowlick · University of Massachusetts at Amherst
May 8, 2024 11:00 am
Spatial Decision Support Systems in the Era of Big Data and Disaster Science
Zhe Zhang · Texas A&M University
March 13, 2024 11:00 am
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of a Meta-Coupled World
Kate Brandt · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maryam Torkashvand · University of Iowa
Jinwen Xu · Florida International University
February 14, 2024 11:00 am
Characterizing the Spatiotemporal Changes of Wildland Urban Interface in the United States
Jiwon Baik · University of California at Santa Barbara
Denise Chavez · Kansas State University
Eric Jensen · Desert Research Institute
Debayan Mandal · Texas A&M University
January 31, 2024 11:00 am
Introduction to the GeoAI Foundation Model and Its Application
Yanhong Huang · University of New Mexico
Salar Jarhan · University of Wyoming
Jiyoung Lee · Louisiana State University
Claire Simpson · University of Colorado Boulder
Yalin Yang · University of Texas at Dallas
January 17, 2024 11:00 am
The I-GUIDE Cyberinfrastructure Platform: Supporting Open, Reproducible Convergence Science at Scale
Jeff Horsburgh · Utah State University
November 29, 2023 11:00 am
Panel Discussion with Past UCGIS I-GUIDE Community Champions
Zeynab Jouzi · Cornell University
Shakil Kashem · Kansas State University
Peter Kedron · University of California, Santa Barbara
July 18, 2023 12:00 pm
The Geospatial Knowledge Hypercube
Zhaonan Wang · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
June 27, 2023 12:00 pm
Thinking Evaluatively, Graphically, and Visually Through Conceptual Maps in I-GUIDE
Rodney Hopson · University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Ramya Kumaran · University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Askshit Sharma · University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
June 12, 2023 10:30 am
Realtime Weather Information Visualization using MetPy’s Simplified Plotting Interface
Ryan May · UCAR
Drew Camron · NSF Unidata Program Center
June 6, 2023 12:00 pm
Geospatial Transfer Learning on I-GUIDE Platform
Nattapon Jaroenchai · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
May 9, 2023 12:00 pm
Advancing Transparent and Reproducible Science Using HydroShare (And what’s in it for you!)
Jeff Horsburgh · Utah State University
Tony Castronova · CUAHSI
Irene Garousi-Nejad · CUAHSI
April 4, 2023 12:00 pm
An Overview of Cartograms and Gastner’s Flow-based Algorithm
Adam Tonks · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
February 28, 2023 12:00 pm
The I-GUIDE Cyberinfrastructure Platform for enabling integrative discovery
Rajesh Kalyanam · Purdue University
February 21, 2023 9:00 am
Understanding Remote Connections: A Gentle Introduction to Telecoupling, Metacoupling, and the Telecoupling Toolbox
Nan Jia · Michigan State University
Nick Manning · Michigan State University
February 7, 2023 12:00 pm
Convergence Curriculum for Geospatial Data Science
Eric Shook · University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities
January 24, 2023 12:00 pm
SIMPLE-G: A multiscale framework for integration of economic and biophysical determinants of sustainability
Iman Haqiqi · Purdue University
November 14, 2022 2:00 pm
The Convergence Curriculum for Geospatial Data Science: Open Resources for You and your Learners
Eric Shook · University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities
November 2, 2022 3:00 pm
CyberGIS-Compute: Enabling Simplified Access to High Performance Computing for your Geospatial Computation
Anand Padmanabhan · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Alex Michels · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
October 12, 2022 2:00 pm
Communicating Science: Identifying What You Want and How to Get It
Sue Nichols · Michigan State University
August 30, 2022 11:00 am
GeoEDF: A Framework for Designing and Executing Geospatial Research Workflows
Rajesh Kalyanam · Purdue University
July 27, 2022 11:00 am
CyberGIS-Compute: Geospatial Middleware for Simplifying Access to High-Performance Computing
Anand Padmanabhan · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Alex Michels · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign