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How NSF Grew an Ecosystem of Institutes to Harness the Data Revolution
What do I-GUIDE and its four companion HDR Institutes have in common? Commitments to data, its science, and application solutions that are enabled by cyberinfrastructure.
Read the full story.
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Hurricane Melissa: Intense and Slow
Deanna Hence, associate professor of Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, contributes to I-GUIDE’s research in extreme events and disaster resilience. When Hurricane Melissa struck the Caribbean in late October, Hence was interviewed by NPR and provides more explanation about the destructive storm in this interview.
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Stay Informed with the I-GUIDE Insider
An easy way to stay in touch with the NSF I-GUIDE Project
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The I-GUIDE Insider is a weekly digest of upcoming events and opportunities from the I-GUIDE project as well as recent publications and news. Sign up for the Insider to stay up to date with the I-GUIDE project!
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Our I-GUIDE Ascender this quarter is UIUC graduate student Nattapon (Nathan) Jaroenchai, who helps create user-centered designs, improve platform usability, and support backend features that make geospatial resources easier for researchers and educators to access. Nathan recently successfully defended his dissertation, and you can read the full interview here!
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Community Champions expand the community reach of I-GUIDE through its annual program with faculty at UCGIS member institutions. This year, the Community Champions will develop a small set of instructional materials (such as a single lab exercise) that involves the use of spatial AI while using the I-GUIDE Platform to host, support, and distribute the content for wider access by the geospatial community. I-GUIDE is excited to announce the 2025-26 cohort. Congratulations to these scholars!
- Alexander Michels, University of Texas at Dallas
- Qiusheng Wu, University of Tennessee
- Siqin Wang, University of Southern California
- Yao-Yi Chang, University of Minnesota
- Yi Qi, University of Southern California
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I-GUIDE VCO
Wednesday, December 10 · 11:00 am CT · Virtual
Presenters
Yunfan Kang · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jimeng Shi · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The I-GUIDE Platform provides an open science and collaborative environment enabled by advanced cyberGIS and cyberinfrastructure. Its focus is geospatial data-intensive convergence research and education focused on sustainability and resilience challenges. In this office hours we will discuss specifically some of the the Geospatial AI features that are available on the I-GUIDE Platform such as smart search. We will also be answering any questions you have about how to access the Platform, getting started, using high-performance computing, generating your own DOIs, and any other questions you may have.
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I-GUIDE VCO
Wednesday, December 17 · 11:00 am CT · Virtual
Presenter
Peter Darch · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This hands-on session will allow you to explore tools from the I-GUIDE Data Ethics Toolkit, designed to make geospatial data science and AI research more ethical, transparent, and reproducible. Tools exist for generating model and dataset documentation, documenting uncertainty, and project management.
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Recent research and publications
from the NSF I-GUIDE Project Team
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Understanding non-stationarity in annual peakflow is vital under climate change and human impact. Analyzing 3,907 U.S. streamflow sites with 80-year median records, one-third showed significant trends—two-thirds decreasing, mainly nationwide, and one-third increasing in the Northeast and Great Lakes. Urbanization and water management were dominant drivers, with agriculture and climate secondary. Urbanization explained up to 62% of variance in Texas-Gulf, while water management, agriculture, and climate influenced other regions. Current climate models poorly capture human interventions.
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