Geography & GIS faculty and graduate students will share stories and findings from Summer 2024 conference participation, fieldwork, labs, and community engagement activities. Presenters and topics include:
Dr. Sian Butcher: Reading, writing, revising about real estate investment trusts and affordable housing in South Africa
Dr. Julie Cidell: Utilizing Arts and Culture to Mitigate the Negative Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Communities (from the Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity in Baltimore)
ZJ Zhou: Tracking bird/insects with NEXRAD weather radar? A summary from the 4th International Radar Aeroecology Conference and Workshop
GD Kim: The Spatial Dimensions of the Manhattan Project and State Space Restructuring
Catherine Discenza: Measuring Greenspace Access: Best and Current Practices for Healthy Places
Marina Moscoso Arabia: UCLA Freedom School: Housing the Third Reconstruction. Theme: Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property
Andrea Pimentel Rivera: Conference Papers
Matt Hiett: Neighborhoods, urban theory, and interplay between built and social environments