People
Members of S3C at a lab social in February 2020
Faculty
Dr. Amy LobbenAmy is a Professor of Geography and faculty member of the S3C Lab. Her research areas are in neurogeography (specifically, behavioral and neurological correlates of geospatial cognition) as well as accessibility (mobility, individual differences, and accessible geospatial representations and technologies). Her research approach involves conceptual and analytical modeling, geospatial technologies, psychological measurement, and neuroimaging. Email: lobben@uoregon.edu Education PhD,…
Dr. Carolyn FishCarolyn is an Assistant Professor of Geography and faculty member of the S3C Lab. Her research centers at the intersection between cartography and climate change communication. Her research involves the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis to identify how to best communicate complex aspects of climatic change. Her current…
Dr. Henry LuanHenry is an Assistant Professor of Geography and faculty member of the S3C Lab. His research focuses on advancing probabilistic inferences in geospatial data analysis. He is particularly interested in applying Bayesian statistics to explore the spatial and spatio-temporal patterns of health and crime as well as their associations with urban environments. He also uses…
Research Affiliates
Joanna MersonJoanna is the Cartographic Developer of the InfoGraphics Lab. Her primary duties are to design and build web/mobile mapping and other spatial data applications to support academic activities. Joanna also instructs Web Mapping as part of the Spatial Data Science Major and assists with the production of print cartography products. Email: jmerson@uoregon.edu
Postdoctoral Researchers and Visiting Scholars
There are currently no visiting scholars to the lab.
Graduate Students
Insang SongInsang [IN-SAHNG] is a Ph.D. student who joined in S3C lab from Fall 2019. His research interests encompass spatio-temporal analysis of health outcomes, imputation of missing data in geographic data, and space-time dynamics in causal modeling. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in Geography from Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Email: isong@uoregon.edu…
Justin MenkeJustin is a Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. Amy Lobben in S3C. His research examines the behavior of visitors in parks and protected areas (such as National Parks). He is also working with the InfoGraphics Lab on the forthcoming Atlas of Yellowstone, 2nd Edition. Previously, Justin designed public spaces as a landscape architect and spent…
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Arielle and LodenArielle Alferez and Loden Donahoo are undergraduate research assistants working on DuckMaps, our accessible mapping project. They are designing and producing tactile maps through the 3D signage printer as well as microcapsule paper. They’re also both Spatial Data Science majors!
Alumni
Antoine NzeyimanaAntoine was a Ph.D. student in S3C working with Dr. Amy Lobben. His primary research interests are in the area of spatial data science with focus on machine learning. He holds a masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.Sc.Eng degree in Computer Engineering and Information Technology from University…
Bill Limpisathian"Bill" P. William Limpisathian graduated with his PhD in 2022. His advisor was Dr. Amy Lobben. He is now Assistant Professor of Cartography + Geovisualization at UW-Madison. His primary research interest is in neuro-cartography, where he investigates the neurological role of visual contrast in mediating map and spatial cognition using fMRI neuroimaging methodologies. He was…
Dr. Dongmei ChenDongmei earned her Ph.D. in June, 2019. She was advised by Dr. Christopher Bone and Dr. Daniel Gavin. Currently, she is looking for opportunities in environmental research and education, while she is completing her other research projects at the university in Summer 2019. Her dissertation research on the complex coupled human-natural systems of large-scale forest…
Dr. Megen BrittellMegen earned her PhD from the Department of Geography in 2018. Her research interest was in the effectiveness of interfaces to geospatial data. She investigated the influence of map reading strategies and cartographic abstraction processes on the communication of geospatial data and concepts across multiple perceptual modalities. Email: megen@uoregon.edu
Dr. Michael NelsonMike was a Postdoctoral Research associate in the Geography department whose research at the University of Oregon focused on the influences of climate change and anthropogenic forces on the spatial spread of an invasive plant pathogen (Phytophghora ramorum). In his previous research, he utilized a variety of empirical and modeling approaches to study the population…
Dr. Nick PerdueNick earned his PhD in Geography in 2016, working with Amy Lobben and Chris Bone. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Geography at Humbolt State University where he teaches classes in Cartography and Advanced Cartography. His research interests include urban mobility, transportation systems, accessibility, and placed based human-environment relations. His newest project proposes new…
Dr. Yang LiYang Li was a visiting researcher from China Center for Modernization Research, Chinese Academy of Science where she is an Assistant Professor. Her research interests focus mainly on human-environment interactions, geospatial analysis of population distribution, internal migration, and urbanization process in China. While visiting, she is working on a project around the modeling and…
Jakub WabińskiJakub joined S3C lab as a courtesy research assistant for a six months internship as a part of Fulbright Junior Research Award. During his stay at University of Oregon he investigated the relation between cartographic signs used on tactile maps and the information value these maps present. He comes from Poland and is a PhD…
Michala GarrisonMichala was a master's student in the S3C lab working under the guidance of Dr. Carolyn Fish. She is interested in the power cartographic narratives have in telling stories of climate change around the world. She does this by using a mixture of cartographic design, participatory cartography, and atmospheric and oceanic data. Michala completed her…
Mohammad EshghiMohammad graduated with a Ph.D. in 2022. He worked with Dr. Amy Lobben. His research interests are in the area of Spatial Data Science with a primary focus on semi-supervised learning for geospatial data. He also obtained a master's degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of…
Nathaniel DouglassNathaniel was a master's student in the S3C Lab, working with Dr. Carolyn Fish. His primary interest is in cartography and how maps can be used to communicate climate change processes in recreational guides and maps. Other interests include mental mapping, cognitive cartography, and spatial decision making. Nathaniel received his BA in Geography from Humboldt…
Shiloh L. DeitzShiloh graduated with a PhD in 2021. She worked with Dr. Amy Lobben. Her primary research interests centered around conducting spatial data science for social equity. Her focus was on creating a personalized accessible map routing application. She holds master's degrees in Sociology and Geography and previously worked as a researcher for the Paul Simon…