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Advancing Movement Data Science (AMD’21) At the 11th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2021), 27 September 2021, Virtual workshop AMD 2021 workshop is the 4th workshop in the pre-GIScience conference AMD workshop series, co-organized by Dr. Dodge. This workshop pursues three aims. First, to provide a platform to discuss the state of the art in this ...

Somayeh Dodge received a Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation from the National Science Foundation for the project titled CAREER: Modeling Movement and Behavior Responses to Environmental Disruptions. This interdisciplinary project will transform research and education in geographic information science by integrating information on both spatial and temporal change using ...

Spring 2021 announcements: As we approach the end of the 2020-2021 academic year, we wanted to share recent news about members of our lab. It’ll be a busy and productive summer for everyone! MOVE Lab undergraduate research assistant Jovany Cota has been awarded a summer internship from the UCSB California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) undergraduate research ...

June 22, 2021, IJGIS Webinar Series Somayeh and her co-authors Harvey Miller, Jennifer Miller, and Gil Bohrer were invited to present a webinar featuring their 2019 paper titled “Towards an integrated science of movement: converging research on animal movement ecology and human mobility science” at IJGIS Webinar Series: A monthly seminar featuring IJGIS authors. . The ...

IEEE VIS 2020 workshop on Information Visualization of Geospatial Networks, Flows and Movement (MoVis) 26 October 2020, Virtual workshop View the recorded live stream on YouTube Workshop Schedule We are one of many exciting workshops at IEEE VIS which will be held on Monday, October 26th, 2020. Our workshop starts at 12:00 pm (US Mountain Time) and ends at 3:15 pm ...

Invitation to participate in research study “Understanding Maps of Movement” We are currently running a research study focused on the cartography of movement and visualization of tracking data, supported by the National Science Foundation Award # 1853681. We would appreciate your participation in the study. Responses to this survey will be used to develop a better understanding ...

Jovany’s poster presentation at the CAMP Summer Intern Poster Colloquium 12 August 2021: Jovany presented a poster on his summer internship research project on “Exploring Impact on Mobility in Wildfire Impacted Areas During the COVID-19 Pandemic”.   Crystal’s presentation at the ICA Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization 6 May 2021: Dr. Crystal Bae presented work-in-progress at the Workshop on ...

Somayeh Dodge recently gave a talk entitled “WhereNext: Towards a Cartographic Framework for Movement” at AutoCarto 2020 on Wednesday, November 18, 2020. See Dr. Dodge’s talk here: Extended Abstract Slides Video Recording AutoCarto 2020 (cartogis.org/autocarto) was the 23rd International Research Symposium at the intersection of cartography and GIScience, presented by the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS). The meeting was ...

The full recording of the IEEE VIS Workshop on Information Visualization of Geospatial Networks, Flows and Movement (MoVIS 2020), held on October 26th, 2020, is now available to watch on-demand. View the recording here on YouTube. Researchers frequently access and visualize data that represent spatial connections. These include GPS trajectories, migration movement, mobile phone-based movement, social ...

Modeling of the effects of NPIs in COVID-19 transmission Browse visualizations here: covid19-mobility-vis MOVE starts a new interdisciplinary collaboration with the UCSB Geography, Computer Science, Statistics and Applied Probability Departments, and the Information Systems and Modeling Group of the Los Alamos National Lab. The research is funded by VCR COVID-19 Seed Grants Program. The aim is to ...