Yifei receives a Goodchild Fellowship in Geographic Information Science for Summer 2025. This fellowship recognizes her outstanding academic achievements and commitment to advancing research in Geographic Information Science. The Goodchild Fellowship, generously established by Michael and Fiona Goodchild, honors excellence among geography doctoral students at UC Santa Barbara. Congratulations, Yifei!

Collegium Helveticum Workshop on Movement Analytics in the Era of Big Data and Open Science June 19–20, 2024 Irchel Campus, University of Zurich The research on movement data is developing fast, with applications spanning from health, mobility and sustainability research to movement ecology and climate change. Extensive technologies and data are available that facilitate developing new analytical methods ...

February 2022–Somayeh receives the 2022 Emerging Scholar Award from the Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. SAM Business Meeting at the AAG Annual Meeting, 26 February 2022. Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group Newsletter VOLUME 42 ISSUE 1 2022 (FEBRUARY)

Evgeny Noi and Seonga Cho defended their PhD dissertations in December 2024. Congratulations to Dr. Noi and Dr. Cho! Noi moved to a PostDoc position at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Cho is a postdoc at EPFL in Switzerland

Rongxiang Su defended his PhD dissertation titled “Sensing Human Activity and Interaction Patterns through Movement Observations” in December 2023. Congratulations Dr. Su! Dr Su starts a new PostDoc position at the MIT Senseable City Lab.

Grad students Seonga Cho and Zijian Wan received travel awards from the Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group of American Association of Geographers (AAG). Congratulations! MOVE is attending the AAG 2022 Annual Meeting virtually. Find us in the following sessions (Times are displayed in US Eastern Time and Pacific Time): Symposium on Scale in Spatial Analytics and ...

Mapping and Visualization of Motion This research focuses on understanding how humans perceive movement visually. Movement is realized in both a three- (or four-) dimensional space (i.e. location and time) and a multidimensional attribute space (i.e. context variables). The syntheses of these two spaces need new effective tools for dynamic visualization of the traversal of a ...

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 ...

Rongxiang wins the Best Paper Award for his presentation at ACM SIGSPATIAL HANIMOB workshop 2021 2 November 2021: Rongxiang presented a paper on “A time-geographic approach to quantify the duration of interaction in movement data“, at HANIMOB’21: the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Animal Movement Ecology and Human Mobility. He received a best paper award ...

The UCSB Department of Geography seeks a graduate student to design and conduct a cognitive study to evaluate visualization of movement data. To apply and for more information, please contact Dr. Somayeh Dodge (sdodge@ucsb.edu). The MOVE Laboratory (http://move.geog.ucsb.edu) at the Geography Department at UC Santa Barbara is seeking a research assistant with a background in Spatial Cognition, ...