The goal of the Virtual Poster Competition will be to showcase the latest research and innovation in convergence science for sustainable development through geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) and data science approaches, with a particular focus on promoting FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) data principles.

This competition is sponsored by the Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of its Harnessing the Data Revolution Big Idea initiative.

• Organized Zoom Meeting: The opening session will include introductions and overall announcements.
• Breakout Sessions: For each topic area, smaller breakout rooms will be arranged to allow for more focused discussions and attendee interaction.
• Interactive Poster Viewing: In addition to the breakout sessions, posters will be hosted on a dedicated LinkedIn page. Presenters are expected to be virtually available during the allocated timeframe to monitor the page and respond to any comments or questions left by viewers.

2:55 pm ET - Check-In

3:00 pm ET - Welcome and Opening Remarks
Presented by Anand Padmanabhan, I-GUIDE Managing Director

3:05pm ET - Session 1: Risk and Resilience
Chaired by Zhaonan Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Vulnerability Assessment of Electric Vehicles and the Charging Station Network During Evacuations
  Eleftheria Kontou and Denissa Purba
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Utilizing Search Engine Data from Two Significant Hurricanes in the United States to Identify Knowledge Deficiencies in Resilience, Aiming to Enhance Community Awareness
  Sukanya Dasgupta and Chandana Mitra
  Auburn University
• PRIME: A CyberGIS Platform for Resilience Inference Measurement and Enhancement
  Debayan Mandel, Lei Zou, Rohan Singh Wilkho, Joynal Abedin, Bing Zhou, Heng Cai, Furqan Baig, and Nasir Gharaibeh
  Texas A&M University
• Convergence of Wildfire and Water Data: An Open Science Model to Harness New Generation Fire Data for Mapping Post-Fire Hydrologic Changes
  Karen Bhattacharjee, Shihab Uddin, and Adnan Rajib
  University of Texas, Arlington
• Leveraging Google Street View for Crime Pattern Analysis in Baton Rouge
  Jiyoung Lee and Michael Leitner
  Louisiana State University

3:30pm ET - Session 2: Floods, Storms, and Water Management
Chaired by Bailey Holdaway, Utah State University

• Forecast-Informed Deep Learning Methods for Flood Prediction and Mitigation
  Jiment Shi, Zeda Yin, Vitalii Stebliankin, Arturo Leon, Jayantha Obeysekera, Zhaonan Wang, Shaowen Wang, and Giri Narasimhan
  Florida International University and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Building a Suspended Sediment Concentration Database Across Earth's Rivers with Landsat
  Punwath Prum, John Gardner, Rajaram Prajapati
  University of Pittsburgh
• Assessing the Spatial Distribution Outstanding National Resource Water Designations of the Clean Water Act
  Jessica Raty
  Northern Arizona University
• Prediction of Storm Surge on Slowly Evolving Landscapes Under Climate Change
  Mohammad Ahmadi Gharehtoragh and David Johnson
  Purdue University
• Influence of Climate Change and Human Intervention on Streamflow: Advocating for Enhanced Incorporation of Human Activities in Climate Models
  Jibin Joseph, Sanjiv Kumar, and Venkatesh Merwade
  Purdue University

4:00pm ET - Session 3: Climate Change and Environmental Impacts
Chaired by Iman Haqiqi, Purdue University

• Spatializing Life Cycle Assessment to Identify Localized Impacts
  Venkat Roy, Sameer Kulkarni, and Fu Zhao
  Purdue University
• Evaluating Changes in Land Cover, Evapotranspiration, and Water Use Across the Great Salt Lake Basin
  Bhuwan Ghimire, Ayman Nassar, and David Tarboton
  Utah State University
• Regional Strategies for Achieving U.S. Net-Zero Emission Target by Integrating Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies with the Energy-Water-Land System
  Parisa Javadi, Patrick O'Rourke, Jay Fuhrman, Haewon McJeon, Scott Doney, William Shobe, and Andres Clarens
  University of Virginia, University of Maryland, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Pedaling Toward Equity: Evaluating Emission Equity in Bike-Sharing Usage
  Yunhe Cui, Xiang Chen, and Chuanrong Zhang
  University of Connecticut
• Leveraging Machine Learning and Satellite Technologies to Optimize Crop Water Management Under Extreme Climate Conditions
  Kelechi Igwe, Vaishali Sharda, and Trevor Hefley
  Kansas State University

4:30pm ET - Session 4: Agriculture and Land
Chaired by Kat Fowler, Northern Arizona University

• Gridded Livestock Density Database and Spatial Trends for Kazakhstan
  Venkatesh Kolluru, Ranjeet John, Sakshi Saraf, Jiquan Chen Brett Hankerson, Sarah Robinson, Maria Kussainova, and Khushboo Jain
  University of South Dakota, Michigan State University, Leibniz Institute of Agriculture Development in Transition Economies, Justus Liebig University, and Kazakh National Agrarian Research University
• Climate Yield Impacts on U.S. Agriculture and Global Spillover Effects: Crop Model GC6 Meets Simple-G
  Elizabeth Fraysse and Kavitha Srikanth
  Purdue University
• Satellite Prediction of Yield and SOC for Smallholder Farmers in India
  Sara Yavas, Shuo Yu, Mark Chechenin Gelfer, Kavina Tara Peters, Sayantan Mitra, and Aparajit Mahajan
  University of California, Berkeley
• International Food Trade's Impacts on Land Use for Crop Production
  Joris Van Zeghbroeck and Jianguo Liu
  Michigan State University
• A FAIR Metadata Standard for Urban Hyperspectral Reference Libraries
  Jessica Salcido and Debra Laefer
  New York University
• Map-Enhanced Decision-Making in Contingent Valuation
  Yuetong Zhang and Klaus Moeltner
  Virginia Tech

5:00 pm ET - Wrap Up
Presented by Iman Haqiqi, Purdue University

All accepted posters will be published in an open access proceeding.  In addition, four selected posters will be invited to the 2024 I-GUIDE Forum October 14-16 in Jackson, Wyoming and will be awarded travel funding provided by I-GUIDE and its partners.  The winners will be notified by early May 2024.

• Open Science Champion: up to $1,500 reimbursement in travel funding
• Convergence Science Catalyst: up to $1,000 reimbursement in travel funding
• Rising Geospatial Data Scientist: up to $1,000 reimbursement in travel funding
• Policy Pathfinder: up to $500 reimbursement in travel funding

Abstract submission for the Virtual Poster competition is now closed.  Poster authors will receive communication and feedback on their poster abstracts by April 19, 2024.