GeoVISTA Penn State

New Plos One paper: Augmenting geovisual analytics of social media data with heterogeneous information network mining—Cognitive plausibility assessment journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

... and this story on Geog undergrad Colin Kelly's VR app, supporting Peru study abroad experience news.psu.edu/story/549177/2…

Check out story about football game day safety map -- developed by Fritz Kessler and student Hope Bodenschatz news.psu.edu/story/548906/2…

Clio Andris, colleagues and grads "Sifting through 50 million phone calls for patterns to aid refugees" news.psu.edu/story/544999/2…

In case you have not seen it elsewhere, in addition to recruiting for an Assistant Prof in GIScience (here: psu.jobs/job/83492) Penn State is also recruiting for an Assistant Prof in Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis -- full advert here: psu.jobs/job/83744

GeoVISTA colleagues new paper: Comparison of simulated radioactive atmospheric releases to citizen science observations for the Fukushima nuclear accident sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

PSU Geog MS student modeling / visualizing forest prescribed burn effects: news.psu.edu/story/540853/2…

Just posted: Penn State, Tenure-track faculty position in GIScience (Assistant Professor) -- job advert here: psu.jobs/job/83492

Long time GeoVISTA researcher, Scott Pezanowski (now in IST Ph.D. program) gets NASA Space Grant Grad Fellowship to support his research on Geographical Information Retrieval: news.psu.edu/story/521950/2…

Check out preprint on "viral cartography" (by Anthony Robinson) researchgate.net/publication/32…

Check out the story on research by grads Jiawei Huang and Arif Masrur -- using VR to recreate Myan ruins: news.psu.edu/story/518321/2…

Want to know how to measure social distance? Check out the new paper by Clio Andris @urbanclio on Challenges for social flows: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Sports, Geography & Attraction - west coast and mountains exert more pull than spending on athletics: new paper by @urbanclio Clio Andris, Measuring Geographic Pull Power: A Case Study of U.S. College Athletic Teams: tandfonline.com/eprint/j8dgFP4…

Want to know how to visualize nothing? 🙃 Check out new paper by @A_C_Robinson -- available as a pre-print (to appear in Annals of the AAG): researchgate.net/publication/32…

Chorophronesis Lab produces augmented reality app to reveal the history of each stone in the Penn State Obelisk news.psu.edu/story/501271/2…

New machine/deep learning paper led by Liping Yang: Visually-Enabled Active Deep Learning for (Geo) Text and Image Classification: A Review mdpi.com/2220-9964/7/2/…

Congratulations to @mortezakz for successfully defending his dissertation!

Check out new paper on Raisz's landform mapping ("some of the most vivid images of the physical landscape in the early part of the 20th century"), by GeoVISTA alum Rachael White (Bianchetti) : journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… | for more, see: msu.edu/~raechel/

Looking forward to Coffee Hour today 4pm: Guido Cervone: Citizen Science During Nuclear Emergency; live link here: geog.psu.edu/news/events/co…

Check out new Geovisual Analytics entry in the UCGIS, GIS&T Body of Knowledge: gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-topics/geo… - by Anthony Robinson