Dr. Qiusheng Wu just published a new blog post – Creating satellite timelapse with Streamlit and Google Earth Engine. Check it out.
Blog: https://blog.streamlit.io/creating-satellite-timelapse-with-streamlit-and-earth-engine
Web App: https://streamlit.gishub.org
GitHub: https://github.com/giswqs/streamlit-geospatial
Professor Ron Kalafsky just published a new book titled “Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies“. It is co-edited by Drs. John Bryson and Vida Vanchan.
This insightful book explores smaller towns and cities, places in which the majority of people live, highlighting that these more ordinary places have extraordinary geographies. It focuses on the development of an alternative approach to urban studies and theory that foregrounds smaller cities and towns rather than much larger cities and conurbations.
Here is the link to the book on Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=SXg8EAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Dear Students,
Professor Yingkui Li is offering two courses in Fall 2021 that may be of interest to you. Please see the flyers below. Feel free to email Professor Li if you have any questions.
Geospatial Field Methods of UAVs, Lidar, and GPS
Interested in learning how to fly drones (UAVs) and use LiDAR? Want to learn how to apply these technologies to create interesting, 3-dimensional maps? GEOG 313 is the class for you! In this course, we will explore the applications of drones, LiDAR, and GPS to obtain process, and analyze geospatial data.
Landform Analysis and Landscape Planning
Interested in surface processes and natural disasters related to landscape planning, such as landslides, flooding, sediment transport, soil erosion, and human impact on environment? GEOG 433 is the class for you. This course helps you understand the scientific knowledge of surface processes, learn the principles and methods to mitigate natural disasters and human impact on environment, and acquire “real-world” techniques for landscape planning.
Dear Students,
Prof. Madhuri Sharma is offering two courses this Fall 2021 that may be of interest to you in terms of contents as well as in terms of fulfilling several required majors, etc. for you. Please see the flyers in this pdf. Note that GEOG 340 is for UG but 442 can be taken by grads and undergrads both. Feel free to email Dr. Sharma if you have any questions.
Economic Geography-Core Concepts
Urban Spaces/Urban Society
Professor Shih-Lung Shaw just published a new book titled “Mapping COVID-19 in Space and Time: Understanding the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of a Global Pandemic”. It is co-edited by Dr. Daniel Sui.
Here is the link to the eBook: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-72808-3. The print version of the book https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030728076 will be available in about 2-3 weeks. Please feel free to contact Professor Shaw if you have any questions about this book.
About this book:
This book describes the spatial and temporal perspectives on COVID-19 and its impacts and deepens our understanding of human dynamics during and after the global pandemic. It critically examines the role smart city technologies play in shaping our lives in the years to come. The book covers a wide-range of issues related to conceptual, theoretical and data issues, analysis and modeling, and applications and policy implications such as socio-ecological perspectives, geospatial data ethics, mobility and migration during COVID-19, population health resilience and much more.
With accelerated pace of technological advances and growing divide on political and policy options, a better understanding of disruptive global events such as COVID-19 with spatial and temporal perspectives is an imperative and will make the ultimate difference in public health and economic decision making. Through in-depth analyses of concepts, data, methods, and policies, this book stimulates future studies on global pandemics and their impacts on society at different levels.
Professor Kelsey Ellis just received a grant from the UTK Institute for a Secure & Sustainable Environment (ISSE). Her project is titled “Beat the heat: Building adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations in Knox County to combined stressors from climate change and urban heat“. Her collaborators on the project include Jennifer First (Social Work) and Kristing Kintziger (Public Health).
UTK Geography Professor Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw has been elected President-Elect of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), which is a non-profit organization that creates and supports communities of practice for GIScience research, education, and policy endeavors in higher education and with allied institutions. It is the professional hub for the academic GIS community in the United States, with partnerships extending this capacity abroad.
It will be a three-year service and Dr. Shaw will serve as President-Elect, President, and Past President of UCGIS. We thank Dr. Shaw for his service and leadership in GIS. Congratulations!
UTK Geography graduate student Jamie Alumbaugh received a research grant from the Paleoenvironmental Change specialty group at the April 2021 meeting of the American Association of Geographers. The grant will support her dissertation research using ancient sedimentary DNA along with other evidence in lake sediment cores to understand long-term patterns of environmental change and human-environment interactions in the Andes mountains of Ecuador.
UTK Geography Professor Sally Horn received the Karl and Elisabeth Butzer Award for Lifetime Achievement in the study of Paleoenvironmental Change at the April 2021 meeting of the American Association of Geographers. Presented to Sally by the Paleoenvironmental Specialty Group, this award is named after the late Karl Butzer, a geographer who specialized in the study of sedimentary and archaeological evidence of past environments, and his wife and research partner, Elisabeth Butzer, whose continuing research focuses on archival evidence of environmental change. Sally received the award in recognition of her efforts, along with dozens of collaborators and graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Tennessee and elsewhere, to document the long-term environmental history of the circum-Caribbean region, South America, and the southeastern U.S. based on lake sediments and other natural archives.
Congrats to recent UTK Geography alum Emily Craig whose cartographic and GIS work helped establish the Cumberland Scenic Byway in East TN. Check out her maps at https://arcg.is/1Oi14n. More maps for the
conference are at https://tngic-map-gallery-enrgis.hub.arcgis.com
