Greetings! You are cordially invited to join our first webinar of the UCGIS webinar series in Spring 2023.
Title: Using movement as a marker to study
behavior responses to environmental disruptions
Presenter: Dr. Somayeh Dodge (University
of California, Santa Barbara)
Moderator: Dr. Qiusheng Wu (University of
Tennessee, Knoxville)
Time:
Thursday, February 2, 2023, 11-12pm Pacific (2-3pm Eastern)
Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fWH-_U9RSTaiTjV3ryEfEA
Abstract: Intentional movement through space
is one of the traits shared by humans and animals to perform activities. These spatial movements are fundamental to the dynamics of ecosystems, cities and environments, and can be utilized as a key to understand and model environmental and behavioral variability
in social and ecological systems. From the lens of geographic information science, this webinar presents a number of cases studies using computational approaches to analyze the effects of environmental disruptions on peoples and animal’s behavior across different
geographic and temporal scales.
Presenter’s Bio: Somayeh Dodge is an Assistant
Professor of Spatial Data Science in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the University Consortium for Geographic Information (UCGIS). She received her PhD in Geography
with a specialization in Geographic Information Science (GIScience) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2011. She is a recipient of
the
2021 CAREER award from the U.S. Science National Foundation (NSF), and the 2022 Emerging Scholar Award of the Spatial Analysis and Modeling
(SAM) Specialty Group of the American Associations of Geographers (AAG). Somayeh's research focuses on developing data analytics, knowledge discovery, modeling, and visualization techniques to study movement behavior in dynamic human and ecological systems.
Somayeh is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS),
and a member of the editorial boards of multiple other geography journals, including
Geographical Analysis, Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS), Journal of Geographical Systems,
and The Professional Geographer.
