Faculties and students of S3C were in full force at the AAG annual meeting in DC this year.

• Dr. Amy Lobben and Bill Limpisathian present their talk titled Neurological Correlates of Cognitive Navigational Self-location
  • Dr. Lobben was also elected Vice President of AAG. Her term begins in July.
  • Bill was also elected Student Director of the Cartography Specialty Group (CSG).
  • Bill was also awarded the Environmental Perception & Behavioral Geography (EPBG) Travel Grant.
• Dr. Carolyn Fish presented her talk titled Vivid maps of climate change: Do they make a difference?
  • Dr. Fish also cochaired CSG sessions at the conference.
  • Dr. Fish was also elevated to President of CSG after serving a year as Vice President.
• Dr. Henry Luan presented his talk titled Imputing censored health data at small-area levels: A Bayesian spatiotemporal modelling approach
  • Dr. Luan also chaired the session “Spatiotemporal disease mapping and analysis”.
• Antoine Nzeyimana and Dr. Henry Luan presented their talk titled Representation Learning from Geospatial Data
• Shiloh Deitz presented her talk titled Measuring Geographic Variability in Household Level Inequality
• Dongmei Chen presented her talk titled Climatic Niche of the Mountain Pine Beetle During its Recent Range Expansion in North America
• Mohammad Eshghi presented his talk titled Machine Learning Predictive Modeling for Geospatial Occurrence-only Data
• Recent PhD graduate Dr. Megen Brittell presented her dissertation research titled Sound, Maps, and the Brain