S3C is excited to welcome Jakub “Kuba” Wabiński as a visiting scholar to the lab as part of his Fulbright Junior Research Award. During his 6-months stay at University of Oregon he will be investigating the relation between cartographic signs used on tactile maps and the information ...

Assistant Professor Henry Luan was recently awarded the seed grant through the Data Science Initiative’s Seed Funding Program at UO (read about here at Around the O). Luan and his PhD student, Insang Song, along with two professors from Yale University and Johns Hopkins University, respectively, ...

S3C is excited to welcome 3 new graduate students. Nathaniel Douglass will be pursuing a Master’s Degree and will be advised by Dr. Carolyn Fish. Before joining the department he was previously cartographer at Apple. Michala Garrison will be pursuing a Master’s Degree and will be ...

Members of S3C were in attendance at this year’s International Cartography Conference held in Tokyo between July 16th-20th. Dr. Amy Lobben and Bill Limpisathian presented their research titled “Representations of Place in the Human Brain,” co-authored with S3C alum Dr. Megan ...

Assistant Professor Carolyn Fish was recently awarded the NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) Innovators Program Grant. Fish and incoming graduate student Michala Garrison will spend the next two summers working in Boulder, Colorado with NCAR scientists and a cohort of eight other ...

Dr. Cindy Brewer, professor and head of the geography department at Penn State will be visiting the department and S3C on May 9 & 10. Dr. Brewer is best well known for her ColorBrewer tool, which has helped countless cartographers and data scientist with perceptual color schemes for ...

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. ...

S3C is excited to announce that our very own Amy Lobben was elected Vice President in the 2019 AAG election! Her term will begin on July 1, 2019. See official AAG announcement

AAG has recently released this year’s ballots and information on the candidates.  Amy is running for the position of Vice President! Visit AAG’s election webpage to learn more about the process as well as the candidates.

Amy Griffin will be visiting the S3C lab and the Department of Geography the week of February 11-14, 2019. On Thursday February 14 Dr. Griffin will be giving the Department of Geography Tea Talk on Navigating Uncertain Census Estimates: Mapping Experiments with Urban Planners at 4pm in 106 Condon ...