The American Association of Geographers (AAG) held its annual meeting for the latest research and applications in geography, sustainability and GIScience. The GEF IEO participated in the following sessions:
Land systems science - Research frontiers and challenges at the intersections of remote sensing and qualitative social-scientific approaches and methods
Chair: Martin Lukas
Panelists:
- Hannah Friedrich*, Oregon State University, Remote sensing time series analysis for monitoring agriculture to assess food security and temporality of settlements of internally displaced peoples (IDPs)
- Betsy Breyer*, University of Illinois, Green spaces of disinvestment: Integrating property market dynamics with land cover change in Cleveland's historically redlined area
- Anupam Anand*, Global Environment Facility, World Bank Group, Geeta Batra, Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility, World Bank Group, Integrating remote sensing analysis with qualitative assessment for evaluating international development interventions
- Izabela Delabre*, University of Sussex, Anthony Alexander, University of Sussex, Pedram Rowhani, University of Sussex, Alexander Antonarakis, University of Sussex, Politics and power in managing data on zero deforestation: Lessons and challenges for integrating multi-disciplinary natural and social science methods
- Samayita Bandyopadhyay*, Oklahoma State University, Land-Use/Land Cover Change and Livelihoods Amidst Landslides - Survival and Vulnerabilities in Kurseong, India
Sustainable Development Goals
Date & Time: 4/3/2019 from 4:30 - 6:10 PM
Chair: Juha Uitto
Panelists:
- Yingshi Shang*, Shuguang Liu, Tutor, Chunyu Liu,co-worker, Fuzzy Evaluation on Sustainability Performances of Selected Pacific Islands Countries
- Di Shi*,University of Kansas, Xiaojun Yang, Florida State University, Feilin Lai, Florida State University, Use of Remote Sensing to Derive Indicators for Sustainable Development Assessment in Urban Areas
- Anlu Zhang*, The Effect of Resource-saving Policy on Urban Areas' Total Factor Productivity Growth in the Wuhan Metropolitan Area, China
- Liang WANG*, Quantitative evaluation of Tibet's resources and environmental carrying capacity: state and limitation
- Juha Uitto*, Global Environment Facility, Indran Naidoo*, United Nations Development Programme Local, national, global: Evaluative evidence of scaling up the SDGs
Mainstreaming biodiversity conservation
Date & Time: 4/4/2019 from 3:05 - 4:45 PM
Chair: Juha Uitto
Panelists:
- Mark Higgins*, USAID BRIDGE Project, Biodiversity Integration at USAID
- Yoji Natori*, Conservation International - Washington, DC, The GEF-Satoyama Project: Global Mapping of Important Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes
- Ryan Orgera, The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Juha I Uitto, Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility
- Mark Zimsky*, GEF, Biodiversity Mainstreaming In Practice
GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Spatial-Temporal Modeling and Data Mining II
Date & Time: 4/4/2019 from 5:00 - 6:40 PM
Chair: Diep Dao
Panelists:
- Yuchuan Huang*, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, Ying Song, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, Investigating Relationships between Bike-sharing and Public Transit: A Spatial-Temporal Approach
- Diep Dao*, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs, Jean-Claude Thill, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, Mining for Spatial Associations in Urban Residential Auto Theft Analysis
- Fernando Sanchez-Trigueros*, University of Arizona - Geography & Development, Evolving a genetic algorithm to solve a multiple knapsack optimization problem with allocation frictions, and its application to maximizing spatial accessibility to services with minimal reallocation costs
- Daniel Runfola*, The College of William and Mary | AidData, Geeta Batra, Global Environment Facility, Anupam Anand, Global Environment Facility, Causal Trees: Exploring Causal Linkages using Machine Learning and Spatial Data
- Seth Goodman*, College of William and Mary, Daniel Runfola, College of William and Mary, A Comparison of Landsat 7 Gap Filling Methods for Convolutional Neural Network Applications
Landscapes, peace and war: Understanding land transforamtion in Colombia after the peace agreement
Date & Time: 4/5/2019 from 8:00 - 9:40 AM
Chair: Laura Schneider
Panelists:
- Paulo Murillo*, Geography and Geospatial Science, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA, Kristina Van Dexter, Department of Environmental Science & Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Geography and Geospatial Science, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA, Robert Kennedy, Geography and Geospatial Science, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA, The Immediate Impact of the Colombian Peace Agreement on Forest Conversion
- Dohyung Kim*, Office of Innovation, UNICEF, Anupam Anand, GEF, Detecting the extent of mining in a global biodiversity and conflict hotspot
- Ximena Rueda*, Uniandes, Maria Velez, Uniandes, Lina Moros, Uniandes, Luz Rodriguez, U Javeriana, Beyond proximate and distal causes of land-use change: Linking Individual Motivations to Deforestation in Colombia
- Laura Schneider*, Rutgers University, Dolors Armenteras, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Departamento de Biologia, Henry Rumbo-Fonseca, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Departamento de Biologia, Landscapes in an era of post-conflict: Mapping the spatial configuration of landscapes in the Orinoquía region of Colombia.
- Stephen Aldrich Indiana State University