Several department members are chairing sessions, presenting, and serving as panelists at this year's annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco:
Tuesday 3/17
- 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM - Enterprise GIS and Systems Thinking – teaching approaches to workforce readiness - Dr. Forrest Bowlick (session chair; Nob Hill 8 & 9, 6th Floor, Hilton, Tower 3)
- 12:50 PM – 2:10 PM - AI in Geography Education 1: Use, Misuse, and Everything in Between - Dr. Hongyu Zhang (panelist; Golden Gate 2, Lobby Level, Hilton (Tower 1, 2, 3))
- 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM - GISER Symposium: AI & Ethics in Geography Education - Dr. Hongyu Zhang (session chair; Nikko I, 3rd Floor, Nikko)
Wednesday 3/18
- 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM - Teaching Introduction to GIS: Best Practices and Reflections - Dr. Forrest Bowlick (session chair; Golden Gate 5, Lobby Level, Hilton, Tower 1,2,3)
- 12:50pm to 2:10pm - Bureaucratic discretion, political possibility, institutional change, and water federalism - Dr. Eve Vogel (Carmel 1, 3rd Floor)
- 1:00 PM - ESRI Demo Theater: Using ArcGIS Pro in a hybrid format, synchronous/asynchronous, open source curriculum for Introduction to GIS - Dr. Forrest Bowlick (Esri Booth)
Thursday 3/19
- 10:10 AM – 11:30 AM - GISER Symposium: Ethics in GIScience - Dr. Hongyu Zhang (session chair; Golden Gate, 25th Floor, Nikko)
- 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Esri Demo Theater: Using Citizen Science to Improve Streetlight and Hazards on College Campus - Ava Healey (Esri Booth)
- 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM - Digitizing the MacConnell Land Cover Collection: "Not Only What, But Where”. Rediscovering 1950s Land Cover in Massachusetts - Dr. Forrest Bowlick (Grand Ballroom A&B, Grand Ballroom Level, Hilton, Tower 2)
Friday 3/20
- 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM - Holistic Geography : A Case Study of the Multidisciplinary Geography of the Cattails Along the Eel River in Plymouth, MA - Ava Healey (Grand Ballroom A&B, Grand Ballroom Level, Hilton, Tower 2)
- 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM - GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: AI Ethics and Spatial Equity (session) - Dr. Hongyu Zhang, session chair (Peninsula, 25th Floor, Nikko)
- 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM - Spatial Inequality in Young Adult Indebtedness in the United States - Dr. Hongyu Zhang (Peninsula, 25th Floor, Nikko)