http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/uci_libs_ucgisweek_20/rss Recent eScholarship items from UC GIS Week 2020 Wed, 2 Sep 2026 18:30:39 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8gm677w7 Career Panel - 1 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8gm677w7 Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Greer, Burke Mabanta, Sierra Schafer-Kramer, Jane Yu, David https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4700g3p4 Career Panel - 2 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4700g3p4 Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Denney, Cam Vu, Ceci Morrissey, Martha https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10k9s49v <p>Old Train Maps: The Many Routes of California's Central Pacific Railroad</p><p>The Central Pacific Railroad was an audacious Sacramento start-up in the 1860s. An early challenge for the company was figuring out a feasible route across the Sierra Nevadas. How did the route of the Central Pacific Railroad evolve from a mere concept to the busy, as-built track it is today? We describe our QGIS workflow and the technical challenges in georeferencing 21 historical maps of varying size, scale, and accuracy, across three time periods.</p><p>Space, Place, and Linked Open Data: Digital Gazetteers and Digital Humanities</p><p>This talk outlines methods and theories surrounding digital gazetteers, and highlights the increasing use and importance of Linked Open Data (LOD) in the practice of digital spatial humanities. It explores how a variety of research projects and pedagogical approached can use LOD resources to answer basic research questions, create maps, and view spatial networks.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10k9s49v Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Tobias, Michele Seed, Pat Horne, Ryan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8wg4944r <p>Mapping Hate Crime in the United States</p><p>Hate crime is a national human rights problem. Incidents are rising, but statistics are unreliable. The need for a publicly available resource documenting hate crimes is great, yet accurate data are not available. The Hate Crime Map addresses this need by providing a crowd-sourced platform where victims can report incidents. The map offers data and sophisticated visualizations by state &amp; county of the types &amp; cause (race, gender, religion) of the attacks. This panel will introduce the map.</p><p>Metamap: Building a More Accessible Campus Map</p><p>Metamap is a student-initiated collaborative project to improve the UCLA campus map for people with disabilities. We aim to log accessible assets, routes, and maintenance issues that pose a threat to accessibility. Our project is an example of the synergies between various different campus entities, including student government, to use GIS for the benefit of the entire campus community.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8wg4944r Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Grieman, Pamela Cooper, Sachi https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dt8c7r6 <p>Visualizing Preterm Birth in the Bay Area</p><p>Preterm birth is the leading cause of death under the age of 5, and can lead to lifelong health issues. Its complex causes are associated with genetic, biological, environmental, and sociodemographic factors. We present a geographic data visualization platform to explore rates of PTB and related risk factors in understanding PTB in the Bay Area. This is an essential step for pattern exploration, hypothesis generation, and presents opportunities to increase public and stakeholder involvement.</p><p>Integrated Risk Assessment and Geospatial Analysis for SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater for Vulnerable Populations</p><p>Wastewater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 RNA has been shown cost effective to predict outbreaks of COVID-19 by 2-10 days. The virus recovered in wastewater can sample whole city populations with results in 1-2 days. Monitoring efforts are also being deployed in at least 27 countries and 88 universities but there is lack of a global... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dt8c7r6 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Naughton, Colleen Yang, Jiue-An Oh, Debby https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ps4896f <p>Using the Neighborhood Risk Index for Healthier Children Families and Communities</p><p>Using the Neighborhood Risk Index (NRI), an index comprised of 10 indicators or risk factors, we measure how prevalent social and environmental risk factors are for children in a given city by presenting one dimensional maps of neighborhood risk levels classified&nbsp;by zero, low, medium, and high risk. We also display spatial patterns for each risk factor within city boundaries. These maps identify&nbsp;areas of opportunity in neighborhoods to positively influence child development.</p><p>Spatial Heterogeneity in Telehealth Utilization among Patients with MS in the VHA</p><p>The purpose of this study is to examine spatial disparities in COVID-19 testing and test positivity among Veterans enrolled in Veterans Affairs Healthcare (VA). We calculate and map age-adjusted and race-stratified age-adjusted testing rates for each county in the contagious US separately for White Veterans and Black... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ps4896f Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Pereira, Nicole Magid, Hoda S Hemler, Alyssa Mere, Andre https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6870c958 <p>Monitoring Special Status Species on the Merced Vernal Pools Grasslands Reserve</p><p>The Spatial Analysis and Research Center (SpARC) has worked closely with the campus planning department in maintaining GIS layers and have developed an Esri ArcGIS Collector App which is used to survey and monitor special status species. The Merced Vernal Pool Grasslands Reserve lands are also environmental mitigation lands and are subject to federal and state permit conditions and regulations. A GIS database is maintained to help track research activities and for environmental compliance.</p><p>Daily imaging for Earth science with the Planet CubeSat constellation</p><p>Through our Education and Research program, Planet has more than 5,000 users studying a wide variety of disciplines, including climate change in the cryosphere, terrestrial ecosystems and vegetation dynamics, wildlife biology, threats to coral reefs and other marine habitats, agricultural productivity, and disaster response... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6870c958 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Mutch, Erin Mascaro, Joseph Scudiero, Elia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32s9464n <p>Teaching GIS: StoryMaps &amp; Sustainable Development Goals</p><p>In summer 2020, with all learning moved to virtual, I taught Introduction to GIS, an upper division course required for many majors, at UC Davis.&nbsp; Given the difficulties in giving tests and promoting group work, I chose to emphasize project work.&nbsp; Student learned theory through lectures and practical skills using ArcGIS Pro.&nbsp; I also taught ArcGIS Online and StoryMaps, with final projects worth 45% of the grade and presented using StoryMaps and focused on the Sustainable Development Goals.&nbsp;</p><p>Fieldwork from Afar: Using Storymaps for Site Visits</p><p>As COVID-19 limits our ability to move freely, how can architects, planners, and others produce accessible, comprehensive site analysis documents? Using a storymap developed for a recent student pedestrian safety study, cityLAB researchers will share how storymaps made it possible to conduct informative “site walks” from afar with stakeholders... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32s9464n Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Beardsley, Karen Laborde, Rayne Esposito, Emily https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mk0z9rc <p>Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Developing Neighborhood Environmental Measures to Promote Public Health</p><p>The emerging literature on green space and blue space indicates that these factors are likely to mitigate stress and promote public health. This talk outlines an approach to the application of computer vision and machine learning methods to quantify green ( grass, trees, shrubbery, etc.) and blue (ponds, lakes, rivers, bays, and oceans, etc) spaces for Census block groups. We are planning to use these results to find their association with health outcomes among breast cancer survivors.</p><p>GIS and Public Health: Carving an Undergraduate Path with Passion and Enthusiasm</p><p>“What do you plan to do with Geography?” Being the “different” one as a Geography major and GIS minor among my “pre-med” and life science peers has not been easy. But the rocky start opened me up to a new path of career and skill interests that combines the best of both GIS and Public... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mk0z9rc Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Inamdar, Pushkar Chou, Heather