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Professor Stefan Leyk received a $499,999 grant for the Imola project from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the titled project, "Collaborat ive Research: HNDS-I: Building Long-term, National-scale Spatiotemporal Data Collections from Historical Map Archives" . Collaborators on the project include Associate Professor Yao-Yi Chiang from the University of Minnesota...

Johannes Uhl Stefan Leyk's research team has two new publications. Johannes Uhl is the lead author on both. One is in Nature's Communications Earth & Environment and the other in Earth Systems Science Data . The papers feature the research team's historical settlement data sources and studies on urban development...

The U.S. population has grown 40-fold since 1800 and yet little is known about precisely how or why it鈥檚 grown the way it has. New research from the 麻豆影院, though, provides the most comprehensive look yet. This new research, out today in Science Advances , draws a...

The 2018 Spring Newsletter has been published and is available for viewing. The newsletter is packed with department news, student and faculty articles, and Emily Yeh's final "Message from the Chair" article. Articles include: Message from the chair John Pitlick: Guggenheim in the rearview mirror Stefan Leyk: Extracting Geospatial Data...

Geography Professor Stefan Leyk gave a video talk today titled "Patterns of Human Settlement over Long Time Periods: Historical Spatial Data and Uncertainty Assessment" to the International Land Use Symposium on 鈥淪patial data modelling and visualisation to enlighten sustainable policy making鈥�, held November 1-3 2017, in Dresden, capital of the...

Do you want to enter the job market as a competitive GIS modeler with programming skills? This course will help you get there. It focuses on the extension of geographic information systems (GIS) through programming as well as on the development of algorithms for spatial analysis and information extraction in...

Did your first GIS class create an interest in learning more advanced skills? Are you getting ready to start an undergraduate or graduate research project that requires spatial modeling and analysis, but you鈥檙e not sure how to get started? This class is for you! You鈥檒l extend skills and principles, gain...

Associate Professor Stefan Leyk has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for his project entitled "III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Exploiting Context in Cartographic Evolutionary Documents to Extract and Build Linked Spatial-temporal Datasets". This interdisciplinary collaborative project involving researchers and their students at University of Southern California and University of...

Stefan Leyk has received a new award from the Innovative Seed Program, 鈥淓arth Lab鈥檚 human dimension: Integrating fine-grained data on human activity for advanced understanding of environmental change.鈥� It will become a new node in Earth Lab, one of two major initiatives of CU鈥檚 Grand Challenge. See Earth Lab Grand...

Stefan Leyk and Fernando Riosmena are part of a research team that received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on the distribution and dynamics of the world鈥檚 population, including the modelling of urbanization in the United States, Mexico, and India.