CREATING A BETTER WORLD
SPATIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE
“ I invite you to join Johanna and our other talented students, faculty, staff and alumni as we plumb the depths of data to bring out the compelling stories in search of solutions, answers and decisions leading to a more sustainable and healthy planet.� John P. Wilson, Professor and Founding Director, Spatial Sciences Institute Population, Health and Place Ph.D. candidate Johanna Avelar (seated, right) is investigating how access to water, sanitation and hygiene can alleviate the homelessness crisis in the Skid Row of Los Angeles.
TURNING GEOSPATIAL DATA INTO ACTIONABLE INFORMATION Since its founding in 2010, the Spatial Sciences Institute has been using the power of spatial thinking and literacy — the ability to connect place, space and time — to help address our most challenging global issues, including those connected with population growth, urbanization, environmental sustainability and human well-being. Through our innovative research and academic programs, we educate and empower today’s and tomorrow’s spatial problem solvers to deploy spatiotemporal perspectives and insights across every possible discipline and industry. Members of our internationally-recognized faculty contribute to the rapidly-evolving body of geospatial knowledge and technology. From our home base in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, we collaborate with faculty colleagues throughout the University of Southern California and with other prestigious institutions around the world on funded research that links SSI faculty and students with decision makers and citizens and combines knowledge with action. We promote the analysis, modeling and visualization of location-based data through interdisciplinary use-inspired and integrated research and teaching.
We harness geospatial science and technologies to foster collaboration, build consensus, reach decisions and take actions to create a better world.
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SPATIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE Founded July 1, 2010 FY20 BUDGET
BY THE NUMBERS Funded Projects ($1.364 million)
22 % 23%
238
Publications by faculty with primary appointments in SSI (2010-2019)
Gifts and Sponsorships ($1.365 million)
55 %
Instructional ($3.365 million)
TOTAL= $6.1 MILLION
291
M.S. in Geographic Information Science and Technology degrees awarded 2010-2019
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M.S. in GIST students who have won the prestigious UNIGIS International Academic Excellence Prize
Dr. Gudrun Wallentin of the University of Salzburg (left) on behalf of the UNIGIS International Association presented Nathan Novak (M.S. GIST ’16) (right) with one of the 2017 UNIGIS Academic Excellence Prizes at the GI_Forum in Salzburg, Austria. In his thesis “Predictive Habitat Modeling of Sperm Whale (Physeter macroceaphalus) within the Central Gulf of Alaska utilizing Passive Acoustic Monitoring,” Novak proposed innovative modeling of sperm whale habitats within the Central Gulf of Alaska using a range of geospatial data.
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M.S. in GIST alumni who have completed or are enrolled in Ph.D. programs
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States and countries from which SSI alumni and students hail
Graduate programs with alumni from SSI undergraduate programs include: ●
Aalborg University, Denmark, Master of European Studies
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Columbia University, Master of Public Health
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assachusetts Institute of Technology, Master in City/Urban M and Regional Planning
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Peking University, China, Ph.D. in GIS and Cartography
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Princeton University, Ph.D. in Sociology
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niversity of California, Los Angeles, Master of Urban and U Regional Planning
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niversity of Denver, M.S. in Real Estate and Construction U Management
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niversity of Edinburgh, Scotland, M.Sc. in Environment, U Culture, and Society
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University of Southern California, Master of Planning
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niversity of Southern California, M.S. in Geographic U Information Science and Technology
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niversity of Southern California, Ph.D. in Population, U Health and Place
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Yale Law School, Juris Doctor
Number of SSI Academic Programs:
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Minor in GIS and Sustainability Science
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Minor in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence
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Minor in Spatial Studies
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B.S. in GeoDesign
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B.S. in Global GeoDesign
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B.S. in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence
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Geographic Information Systems specialization in the USC M.S. in Transportation Systems Management GeoHealth concentration in the USC Master of Public Health Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science and Technology
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Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence
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Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Leadership
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Graduate Certificate in Remote Sensing for Earth Observation
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M.S. in Geographic Information Science and Technology
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M.S. in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence
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M.S. in Spatial Data Science
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M.S. in Spatial Economics and Data Analysis
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Doctoral Graduate Certificate in Spatial Analytics
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Ph.D. in Population, Health and Place
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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE: Transforming Geography in the 21st Century For centuries, geography and maps have been a fundamental language for describing and understanding our world. In the digital age, they have been transformed by powerful methods and technologies that acquire, organize, analyze and present geographic information in visually compelling ways. Out of these developments, geographic information science has become its own cross-cutting discipline that contributes to scientific discovery and shares new knowledge through web portals and maps. We are at the forefront of furthering geographic information science, powered by today’s computational capacity, to tackle intractable issues in ways that were not possible before.
Analyzing and Modeling the Earth’s Surface Published by WILEY Blackwell in 2018, Environmental Applications of Digital Terrain Modeling by John P. Wilson describes state-of-the-art digital terrain modeling workflows and ways to use digital elevation data to support research and decision making across the earth and environmental sciences.
Acquiring Spatial Data With five faculty members licensed by the FAA for drone operations, we are rapidly expanding our use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in our courses and research. We teach UAS as a collection platform in courses where students autonomously fly collection routes with fixed and rotary wing platforms. With recent extramural support from the Department of Defense, our Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence Lab is a campus leader in developing the autonomous use of drones for 3D change detection, modeling and simulation. Former Naval officer Jason T. Knowles (left), SSI adjunct associate professor of the practice and director for geospatial science and technology with the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), and Andrew J. Marx (right), former Air Force officer and associate professor of the practice with SSI and ICT, demonstrate the collection of drone data for students off Catalina Island as part of SSI’s spatial data acquisition course.
Storytelling For her final project in SSI’s cartography and visualization course, Xin Yu (M.S. Spatial Data Science ’19; Population, Health and Place Ph.D. student) produced this map which shows the routes along the 21st-century silk road (Belt and Road Initiative), with three corridors as examples of the economic and trade development opportunities for participating countries from 2013 to 2017.
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Conserving Species Habitats Wanting Peng (right), visiting scholar with the Spatial Sciences Institute and the USC School of Architecture’s Landscape Architecture program, is integrating biophysical and socioeconomic modeling with spatial analysis to protect the habitat of the threatened black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) as well as human livelihoods in a rural mountainous region of China. Peng is a Ph.D. candidate in Landscape Architecture at Tongji University.
Protecting the Environment USC arborist Michael Wallich (left) worked with GeoDesign majors Samantha Levi (center) and Jenna Gray (right) in testing an app developed by a SSI research team to support the collection of information on street trees in the City of Los Angeles. As part of SSI’s observance of Earth Day 2019, Levi and Gray, officers in the SC Mappers student organization, led volunteers in contributing to the inventory of trees in the USC Village.
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POPULATION, HEALTH AND PLACE: Promoting Human Well-being We draw upon multi-disciplinary sciences to: ●
c onnect genetics, physical and cultural environments and human behavior to clarify the causes of various health endpoints;
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document the human experience over individual lifespans;
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explore the physical and cultural characteristics of places and how they evolve over time; and
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a dd community vital signs to electronic health systems to support precision medicine and improve patient care.
Developing Citizen Scientists
Connecting Physical Activity and Place Population, Health and Place Ph.D. student Li Yi presented his paper “Methodologies for Assessing Contextual Exposure to the Built Environment in Physical Activity Studies: A Systematic Review” at the 2019 Active Living Conference, the premier multi-disciplinary conference for research about activity-friendly communities and one of the most prestigious conferences on physical activity and obesity research. Yi’s research explores how geographic information systems (GIS) accelerometry, global positioning systems (GPS) and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) can be combined to study how exposures to environmental factors such as air pollutants, the built environment and social contexts at multiple spatiotemporal scales influence physical activity behaviors and outcomes.
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In 2016-2017, a team of GeoDesign majors organized elementary school students to gather and analyze data about their sun exposure in playgrounds as part of the university’s “SunSmart” outreach program to reduce the risk of melanoma and skin cancers in young people. Under the direction of Myles C. Cockburn, professor of preventive medicine, dermatology and spatial sciences with the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Darren M. Ruddell, associate professor (teaching) of spatial sciences and Jennifer N. Swift, associate professor (teaching) of spatial sciences, the undergraduate researchers then coordinated a workshop in which the elementary school students contributed their ideas for constructing shade structures.
Estimating Unmet Surgical Needs Faculty, staff and students in SSI’s Wilson Map Lab have modeled the service areas of local hospitals and the impact of the 21 Operation Smile missions on children with oral cleft problems in Madagascar. The global nonprofit Operation Smile has treated 2,872 children there in the past 13 years, but the published estimates of the prevalence of oral clefts coupled with the number of births per year and inventory of local facilities suggest there is still unmet surgical needs in that country.
Linking Place with Chronic Diseases
“ The Geodesign curriculum along with a public health minor gave me a unique framework to look at health disparities that manifested through place, a critical variable that has historically been overlooked in the analytical phases of public health research. As a graduate student in epidemiology, I continue to apply my interest in place and other neighborhood-level variables onto chronic disease outcomes such as obesity and cardiovascular disease. I ultimately hope to build upon current theoretical frameworks and methods in causal inference that allow researchers to better understand how variables act differently at scale and use this information to create more effective and adaptive health policy.” Alex Chen, B.S. GeoDesign ’18; Columbia University, Master of Public Health ’20.
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HUMAN SECURITY AND GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE: Fostering Stable and Safe Communities
Preventing Genocide SSI’s Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence Lab is developing algorithms to process smallsat imagery to quickly detect human rights abuses and violations. The identified imagery can be used to corroborate on-the-ground refugee testimonies of systemic attacks and serve as evidence needed to document patterns of genocide under international law. Under the direction of Andrew J. Marx, associate professor of the practice of spatial sciences and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, this undergraduate student team worked with Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights in documenting the persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar in 2017.
Preparing for Emergencies As a senior GIS specialist with a major utility company, Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence (HSGI) master’s student Elin Henningsson is integrating remote sensing and other geospatial intelligence methodologies to prevent damage to gas pipes before they are compromised in disasters. Her career goals are to protect human populations from environmental and other kinds of threats.
Empowering First Responders At the 2019 U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation GEOINT Foreword in San Antonio, Texas, Elisha Ibanga (M.S. HSGI ’19) addressed how combining artificial intelligence with geospatial intelligence helps with evacuation preparedness ahead of a disaster by reducing loss of life and injury and community recovery time and costs.
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M.S. HSGI student Elin Henningsson (center) talked with Girl Scouts about being a female professional in a STEM science at the 2019 GEOINT Symposium.
Grooming GEOINT Leaders Kevin Mercy (B.A. Interdisciplinary Archaeology, Minors in HSGI and Computer Programming, and M.S. GIST student) is the 2019-2020 recipient of the $10,000 U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) RGi Scholarship for Geospatial and Engineering. Mercy also was one of a number of our students selected by the USGIF to serve as student assistants at its annual GEOINT Symposium. A highlight for student assistants is to present posters of their research and connect with industry and government officials. Mercy and Richard Windisch (B.S. GeoDesign ’18; M.S. GIST ’19) were also selected by the USGIF to participate in its coveted “Golden Ticket” program, which gives young professionals numerous opportunities to get to know and learn from GEOINT leaders.
Supporting National Security James Luttrull (B.A. International Relations, Minor in Spatial Studies ’17; M.S. GIST ’18) discovered the power of spatial sciences taking SSI’s summer International Geodesign course in Amsterdam and thereafter found a natural intersection between his interest in international relations and geospatial data science. After graduating USC with numerous honors and publishing as a contributor with the Small Arms Survey, Luttrull was a Boren Fellow in Indonesia in 20172018 and now works as a researcher with the U.S. government. For his M.S. GIST masters thesis, Luttrull focused on the challenge presented by China’s militarization of artificial islands in the South China Sea to security and freedom of navigation in international waters. He developed a novel methodology using remote sensing and trigonometry applied to imagery of China’s radar construction, allowing for indirect measurement of China’s regional air-defense radar capabilities. His work, co-authored with COL [R] Steven D. Fleming, professor of the practice with SSI and the Institute for Creative Technologies, is being published in Case Studies in the Environment.
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GEODESIGN: Using Design to Create Resilient and Healthy Environments Developing Affordable Housing and Open Space For their practicum capstone project, seven GeoDesign majors proposed and demonstrated a geodesign methodology for locating, siting and visioning open space and affordable housing joint development projects implementing park-related antidisplacement strategies in the Los Angeles area for the Los Angeles Regional Open Space and Affordable Housing (LA ROSAH) collective.
Imagining Urban Renewal Under the direction of John P. Wilson and Jennifer N. Swift, the SSI undergraduate team participating in the inaugural 2019 International Geodesign Collaboration (IGC) was a “popular choice winner” for its analysis of urban renewal in Boyle Heights, El Sereno and Lincoln Heights neighborhoods of Los Angeles and in portions of unincorporated East Los Angeles County. More than 90 university teams from around the world joined together to design and plan responses to the local and global challenges that will affect communities over the next 60 years. Grace Corsi (B.S. GeoDesign; B.A. Jazz Voice ‘19) and her teammates prepared for the 2019 IGC presentation.
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“ SSCI 350 gave me an opportunity to study abroad for the first time and experience the benefits of learning in a different physical and cultural setting. Since taking the course, my desire to study abroad grew exponentially, and I am making cross-national comparisons in my graduate studies. I was awarded a Fulbright award to conduct sociological research in Brazil. Similar to my experience in Amsterdam, I aim to apply what I learn internationally to domestic issues in creative and thoughtful ways.” Alejandro Schugurensky (Minor in Spatial Studies ’18; Ph.D. student in sociology, Princeton University)
Fostering Renewable Energy Sources In the 2019 International GeoDesign course taught by Lecturer Laura Loyola, GeoDesign major Rachel Ablondi (second from right) worked with students from Amsterdam University College to analyze whether solar farms and wind parks could help meet the future energy demands of the city of Amsterdam and where such energy technologies could be located as part of a collaborative European “Smart Cities by Design” initiative. Our summer research-based courses gives students from across the university the opportunity to experience and apply geodesign practice in a variety of international settings.
Promoting Stormwater Capture and Infiltration In support of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s initiative to combat drought conditions, Joanna Wang (B.S. GeoDesign ’18) and her fellow undergraduate researchers developed a story map to promote the use of rain barrels and cisterns to Los Angeles residents. Wang and her teammates presented their analysis and demonstrated their app that combines maps with data, narrative text, images and multimedia content to L.A. business leaders, nonprofit environmental organization representatives and city managers. The stormwater team is one of a number of undergraduate research groups under the direction of SSI Director John P. Wilson and SSI GIS Project Specialist Beau MacDonald that have worked with Mayor Garcetti’s data team on priority initiatives for the city.
“ We continue to be so impressed by the dedication, knowledge and skill level of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute students.” Sari Ladin-Sienne, Chief Data Officer, Data Team, Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Budget and Innovation
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SPATIAL DATA SCIENCE: Finding Answers in Big Data The rise of big data has spawned the new field of spatial data science, which extracts knowledge from geospatial data and translates that knowledge into solutions. Our two new master’s degrees — an M.S. in Spatial Data Science with the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science and an M.S. in Spatial Economics and Data Analysis with Dornsife College’s Department of Economics — focus on advanced spatial data-driven analysis and the potential that results when combining artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning with geospatial infrastructures.
Building Web GIS Capacity The Spatial Sciences Institute is a designated Esri Development Center (EDC), one of a small number of university entities recognized by Esri as having exemplary programs focused on educating students in ways that promote the design and development of GIS applications using Esri’s web, mobile and desktop geospatial technologies. SSI’s Jennifer N. Swift conducts the USC EDC Student of the Year competition and organizes SSI student participation in the annual Esri Developer Summit.
Modeling Plastic Debris in Oceans Orhun Aydin, lecturer of spatial sciences and a product engineer with Esri, has modeled the movement of plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean and its detrimental effect on marine life and coastal health. Plastic debris is hard to detect using satellite imagery, so Aydin has simulated how plastics move in the ocean, using an open-source Lagrangian ocean modeling library integrated into a Python toolbox and using multiple inputs, such as surface winds and ocean currents. Using multivariate clustering and R to analyze and map accumulated plastic debris, Aydin has found that some leatherback sea turtles loitered around plastic islands, leading to the question of whether these turtles are either feeding on plastics or might be caught by the plastics from these plastic islands.
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Using Deep Learning Models for Image Recognition Under an NSF grant, Yao-Yi Chiang, associate professor (research) of spatial sciences, and the SSI spatial computing team are developing a novel map processing system for automated recognition of geographic information from the 200K+ scanned maps in the U.S. Geological Survey Historical Topographic Map Series. The importance of their system is to identify the likely locations of various geographic features which may not currently exist and which may not appear on any other datasets today. Their system builds deep learning networks using training data automatically collected from historical maps (such as graphical representations of railroad lines) with hints from contemporary datasets. This approach helps us understand how landscapes have changed over time, which in turn supports, for example, environmental epidemiological studies of the causes of cancer correlated to long-term exposures to hazards.
Tackling Global Food Insecurity Two SSI spatial data science student teams captured top prizes at a hackathon sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in Los Angeles. One team created a model for the Moroccan fishing industry to visualize the optimal way to distribute fish from major fishing ports to inland cities. Using the Road Graph plugin for QGIS, the team’s model allocated amounts of fish to each city based on population and visualized delivery routes with animated dots moving inland from the ports.
The other winning team developed a web application to provide information on farmers’ planting activities by predicting next year’s barley production and consumption and hunger rates across the county. The app also indicates the arable land that has not yet been plowed and compares cultivated land and soil data to find the location of arable lands and sort them by reclamation cost for consumers. The hackathon provided the NGA with creative ways to address global food insecurity.
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IN THE COMMUNITY In her November 16, 2018 article published in The Conversation, Lecturer Jennifer Bernstein makes the case that “yes, GPS apps make you worse at navigating — but that’s OK.” Her article was one of the most-read articles in The Conversation by a USC faculty member for 2018.
An-Min Wu, lecturer, serves as the 2019-2020 president of the California Geographic Information Association, which facilitates coordination, collaboration and advocacy for California’s GIS community.
Every February we present the annual one-day Los Angeles Geospatial Summit, which has become a “must attend” event for the Southland’s geospatial community of practice. Industry leaders, subject matter experts, students, young professionals and scholars network and participate in a content-rich program about how governments, companies and non-profits are using geospatial data to accelerate the impact of their organizations. Accenture Digital Managing Director Manish Dasaur keynoted the 2019 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit.
Karen K. Kemp, professor emerita of the practice of spatial sciences, serves as the president of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) for 20192020. As the professional hub for the academic GIS community in the U.S., the UCGIS creates and supports communities of practice for GIScience research, education and policy endeavors in higher education and with allied institutions.
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The Spatial Sciences Institute is an Education Partner of URISA, a multi-disciplinary geospatial organization committed to the professional development of geospatial professionals. Christina Brunsvold (M.S. GIST ’19) is among the SSI students and alumni who have been young leaders in the URISA Vanguard Cabinet. SSI Managing Director Susan Kamei is serving on the URISA Board of Directors from 2019-2021.
Every year the Spatial Sciences Institute inducts its top students as members of the Nu Theta Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU), which SSI founded at the University of Southern California. The graduate and undergraduate students receiving this honor become lifelong members of the international geographical honor society recognizing geography’s next generation of leaders. GTU recognized SSI’s Nu Theta Chapter with the 2018-2019 Honors Chapter Award.
As chair of the USC Academic Senate Sustainability Committee, Darren M. Ruddell, associate professor (teaching) of spatial sciences, led the development of the USC Sustainability Strategy 2030 proposal. The proposal outlines a campus-wide plan to incorporate sustainability into the university’s education and research, operations, facilities and finances and strengthen its position of leadership in environmental sustainability.
Under the direction of Katsuhiko Oda, assistant professor (teaching) of spatial sciences, SSI graduate and undergraduate students present posters of their research in the Map Gallery of the annual Esri User Conference in San Diego, California. The SSI poster “Superblocks for Los Angeles: Sustainable Urban Alternatives Evaluated with GeoDesign” was voted second place in the “Communicating Science Spatially” category at the 2019 Esri User Conference Map Gallery. (Left to right) Alexandra Motyka (M.S. GIST ’18), Katsuhiko Oda and Adam Araza (M.S. GIST student) celebrate the presentation of their maps in the 2017 Esri User Conference Map Gallery.
Once a year, Elisabeth Sedano, lecturer, visits the Baldwin Hills Elementary second grade classes to explain the role of precipitation, evaporation and condensation in the water cycle. The co-instructor of SSI’s large general education course entitled “The Water Planet,” Sedano conducts an experiment with the second graders so they can better visualize the water cycle and understand the importance of water conservation. At the end of their school year, the second grade classes visit the Spatial Sciences Institute for inspiration and to learn more about the spatial sciences.
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Leadership John P. Wilson Founding Director Susan H. Kamei Managing Director Robert O. Vos Director of Graduate Studies Laura C. Loyola Director of Undergraduate Studies
Staff Dairon Caro Program Specialist Kenan Li Research Scientist Beau MacDonald GIS Project Specialist Andrea Macko Budget/Business Analyst Stephanie Tran Administrative Specialist Richard Tsung Systems Administrator Kendrick Watson Academic Programs Director
Faculty Orhun Aydin Lecturer Jennifer M. Bernstein Lecturer Yao-Yi Chiang Associate Professor (Research)
Andrew J. Marx Associate Professor of the Practice of Spatial Sciences and the Institute for Creative Technologies Ryan McAlinden Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Practice of Spatial Sciences Katsuhiko Oda Assistant Professor (Teaching) Darren M. Ruddell Associate Professor (Teaching) Elisabeth Sedano Lecturer Jennifer N. Swift Associate Professor (Teaching) Christopher Verlinden Lecturer Robert O. Vos Assistant Professor (Teaching) John P. Wilson Professor of Spatial Sciences, Sociology, Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science and Preventive Medicine An-Min Wu Lecturer
Faculty Affiliates
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Yolanda Gil Research Professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences Sophia Gruskin Professor of Preventive Medicine, Law and Spatial Sciences Rima Habre Assistant Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine and Spatial Sciences Jill Johnston Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Spatial Sciences Matthew E. Kahn Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences
Lon Kurashige Professor of History and Spatial Sciences
Myles G. Cockburn Professor of Preventive Medicine, Dermatology and Spatial Sciences
Laura C. Loyola Lecturer
Meredith Franklin Associate Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine and Spatial Sciences
George Ban-Weiss Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Spatial Sciences
Steven D. Fleming Professor of the Practice of Spatial Sciences and the Institute for Creative Technologies
Su Jin Lee Lecturer
Brian Finch Professor (Research) of Sociology and Spatial Sciences
Craig A. Knoblock Research Professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences
François Bar Professor of Communication and Spatial Sciences
Jason T. Knowles Adjunct Associate Professor of the Practice of Spatial Sciences
Laura Ferguson Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Spatial Sciences
Jennifer A. Ailshire Assistant Professor of Gerontology, Sociology and Spatial Sciences
Leilei Duan Lecturer
Karen K. Kemp Professor Emerita of the Practice of Spatial Sciences
Philip Ethington Professor of History, Political Science and Spatial Sciences
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and Professor of Public Policy and Spatial Sciences Maged M. Dessouky Dean’s Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Spatial Sciences Lynn Swartz Dodd Associate Professor of the Practice of Religion and Spatial Sciences
Steven Lamy Professor of International Relations and Spatial Sciences Lihua Liu Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Spatial Sciences Rob McConnell Professor of Preventive Medicine and Spatial Sciences Paulina Oliva Associate Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences Michael Orosz Research Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Spatial Sciences Ann Owens Associate Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences
The students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the Spatial Sciences Institute celebrate the conclusion of the Institute’s 2019 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit.
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Associate Professor of History and Spatial Sciences
Photo Credits: INSIDE FRONT COVER Jose Rico
Ashley Mac Adam, Alexander Matta, Declan Sullivan
Mansour Rahimi Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Spatial Sciences
PAGE 2 UNIGIS International Association
PAGE 10, MIDDLE Lauren Matchison
PAGE 3, TOP Ruth Chen
PAGE 10, BOTTOM Stephanie Tran
PAGE 3, BOTTOM Anne Marie Maltes
PAGE 11, RIGHT Laura Loyola
PAGE 4, LEFT WILEY Blackwell
PAGE 11, BOTTOM Susan Kamei
Stephen G. Sanko Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Spatial Sciences
PAGE 4, MIDDLE An-Min Wu
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PAGE 4, BOTTOM Xin Yu
PAGE 12, RIGHT Jennifer Swift
Kelly Sanders Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Spatial Sciences
PAGE 5, TOP Tongji University
PAGE 13, TOP SSI Spatial Computing Lab
PAGE 5, BOTTOM Susan Kamei
PAGE 13, BOTTOM Blue Compass
PAGE 6, LEFT Li Yi
PAGE 14, TOP, LEFT Mikki Skinner
PAGE 6, RIGHT USC SunSmart Program
PAGE 14, TOP, RIGHT Ruth Chen
PAGE 7, TOP, LEFT Operation Smile
PAGE 14, MIDDLE Ruth Chen
PAGE 7, TOP, RIGHT Wilson Map Lab
PAGE 14, BOTTOM, LEFT Dornsife Communications
PAGE 7, BOTTOM Alex Chen
PAGE 14, BOTTOM, RIGHT Susan Kamei
PAGE 8, TOP SSI Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence Lab
PAGE 15, TOP Stephanie Tran
Alexander Robinson Associate Professor of Architecture and Spatial Sciences
Jefferey M. Sellers Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Spatial Sciences Cyrus Shahabi Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering and Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Spatial Sciences Emily Smith-Greenaway Assistant Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences Gregory F. Treverton Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Spatial Sciences
PAGE 8, BOTTOM, LEFT U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation PAGE 8, BOTTOM, RIGHT Susan Kamei PAGE 9, TOP U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
Editorial direction: Susan H. Kamei Creative design: ETCH Creative
PAGE 9, BOTTOM James Luttrull
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