Name: Applied Geography Conference AGX 2023
Start: 2023-10-25T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-10-28T23:59:00-04:00
Location: Drury Plaza Hotel

Applied Geography Conference AGX 2023

from Wednesday, October 25, 2023 (12:00 AM) to Saturday, October 28, 2023 (11:59 PM)

Monday, October 23, 2023
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
2:00 PM Esri Special Workshop
Esri Special Workshop
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault
Contributions

2:00 PM Discovering Patterns of Behavior and Demographics with ArcGIS Business Analyst Web - Joseph Kerski (ESRI)
4:00 PM Climate
Climate
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault
Contributions

4:00 PM Exploring Drought Effects on Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) Observation Densities in the American Southwest: The Integration of Citizen Science Data into Applied Geography. - Dustin Sanchez (1. Texas State University)

4:20 PM Conservation Planning in Multiple States: Geospatial Data Lessons Learned from the Youghiogheny River Conservation Plan - Richard Hoch (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

4:40 PM Research Problems, Findings, and Implications of the Second Golden Age of Natural Disaster Movies - Tim Dolney (Penn State Altoona)

5:00 PM Towards Resilient Cities Through Inclusive Approach: Contribute to Achieving SDG 11 - MD TORIQUL ISLAM (NGO Forum for Public Health)
Undergraduate & Graduate
Undergraduate & Graduate
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Main Vault
Contributions

4:00 PM Dollar Store Locational Strategy: National Trends and Micromarket Contexts - Naomi LaDuke (SUNY Geneseo)

4:20 PM Automated mapping of urban trees with LiDAR - William Fei (1. Purdue University, 2. West Lafayette Jr./Sr. High School)

4:40 PM Analyzing the Impacts of Turkish Dam Building on Downstream Iraqi Farmlands - Anna Baskin (University of Pittsburgh)

5:00 PM The Geographic Implications of Rising Temperatures on Great White Shark Home Rages. - Nick Drees (Youngstown State University)

5:20 PM Macroinvertebrate Diversity as a Water Quality Indicator in East Palestine. - Hailey Taylor (Youngstown State University)

5:40 PM Creating Open Access Agricultural Maps and Ground truth Data to Better Deliver Farm Extension Services - Ravi Thapaliya (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
7:00 PM AGX 2023 Reception
AGX 2023 Reception
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault
Thursday, October 26, 2023
8:30 AM Business & Retail
Business & Retail
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Main Vault
Contributions

8:30 AM Mapping Terrains of Food Access in St. Louis, MO - Stacey Brown Amilian (SIUE)

8:50 AM A Bestiary of Strips: Their genesis and typological diversity - Darrell Norris (SUNY College at Geneseo)

9:10 AM Leveraging Location Data for Climate-Resilient Business Continuity: Building Sustainable Strategies - Michael Erskine (Middle Tennessee State University)

9:30 AM Fighting Big Oil and Winning: The Rise and Fall of Harold Geiger - Mailey Geiger (SUNY Geneseo)
Energy & the Environment
Energy & the Environment
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - First Floor Meeting Room
Contributions

8:30 AM Collaboration in renewable energy siting: the role of NGOs in renewable energy development in the Wind Belt - Claire Burch (University of Oklahoma)

9:10 AM Beyond a Critical Mass: The Spatial Configuration of Preserved Farmland in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - Amy Lynch (West Chester University)
Poster
Poster
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault
Contributions

8:30 AM Drought Dynamics in the Canadian River Basin, United States of America - Priyanjali Bose (Texas State University)

8:50 AM Accessibility or Environmental Conservation? Evaluating relationship between Environmental Protection and Hiking Trails Accessibility via LiDAR & UAV - Zhanchao Yang (Binghamton University)
10:00 AM Business & Retail
Business & Retail
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Main Vault
Contributions

10:00 AM Using ACS Data to Complete an Employment Shift-share Analysis and Location Quotient at the Municipal Level - Brett Lucas (City of Cheney)

10:20 AM Exploring the Impact of Spatial Big Data on Retail Location Decision-Making: Insights from Canadian Retailers - Joe Aversa (Toronto Metropolitan University)

10:40 AM Error Volatility in Commercial Demographic Data - William Graves (UNC Charlotte)
GeoEd
GeoEd
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - First Floor Meeting Room
Contributions

10:00 AM The Re-immergence of Cartographic and GIS Services at the University of Pittsburgh Library, 2017-2022 - Boris Michev (University of Pittsburgh)

10:20 AM The Concept of "Powerful Geography:” Its Evolution, Relevance, and Importance in Geographic Education - Denise Blanchard (Texas State University)

10:40 AM Community Geography Partnerships for the Next Generation of Science - Alicia Thornton (Citizen Science GIS) Erika Eichelberger (Virginia Wesleyan University, University of Central Florida) Timothy Hawthorne (University of Central Florida)

11:00 AM The Tale of the Elusive and Ephemeral Sprites - Dennis Edgell (University of North Carolina at Pembroke)
Poster Presentation
Poster Presentation
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault
Contributions

10:00 AM Place-Based Media Analysis of Disinformation in Rochester, NY - Christopher Badurek (SUNY Cortland)

10:20 AM Modeling visibility and perception in the Shikoku landscape: Higuchi’s indices and geospatial - Jesse Rouse (Coastal Carolina University)

10:40 AM Exploring Local Voices in an Immersive Virtual Landscape - Susan Bergeron (Coastal Carolina University)

11:00 AM GIS-based Comparison of Redlining Impacts on Urban Forest Composition in Syracuse and New York City - Christopher Badurek (SUNY Cortland)
11:30 AM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Business & Retail
Business & Retail
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Main Vault
Contributions

1:30 PM Mixed-use retail and urban change: insights from the transformation of Toronto’s Waterfront - Tony Hernandez (Toronto Metropolitan University)

1:50 PM Major Shopping Centre Redevelopment Patterns in Canada - Christopher Daniel (Toronto Metropolitan University)

2:10 PM Examining the Impact of the City of Los Angeles “Mansion Tax” - Thomas Dwyer (Bank of Hope)
Regional Planning
Regional Planning
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault
Contributions

1:30 PM Regional Planning Roundtable: Single-Layer Sub-State District Census Data - Thomas Christoffel (Regional Intelligence-Regional Communities, LLC)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - First Floor Meeting Room
Contributions

1:30 PM Signposts: Self Examining Your Career Goals - Dawna Cerney (Youngstown State University)
3:00 PM Human Condition & Urban Transformation
Human Condition & Urban Transformation
3:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Main Vault
Contributions

3:00 PM Applied Geography and Planning: A President, two Professors, and 7 Graduate Students - John Frazier (Binghamton University)

3:20 PM Spatial Pattern and Determinants of Poverty: A County-Level Analysis of the United States, 1990-2020 - Ling Zhang (University of Central Arkansas)

3:40 PM Ethnic Migration Behavior of Chinese Immigrants in the New York-Newark-Jersey City Metropolitan Area - Jonathan Comer (Oklahoma State University)

4:00 PM Mapping Displacement: The Application of Geographic Thought in Eviction Research - Amanda Beavin (Syracuse University)

4:20 PM Title: Fostering Interdisciplinary Synergy: Achieving Sustainable Cities and Communities through Collaborative Pedagogy in the University of Pittsburgh - Roberta Mendonca De Carvalho (University of Pittsburgh) Susan Lucas (University of Pittsburgh)
Generative AI
Generative AI
3:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault
Contributions

3:00 PM Alignment of generative AI best practices in academia, government, and industry for applied geographers. - Clayton Whitesides (Coastal Carolina University)
5:00 PM AGX Board Meeting
AGX Board Meeting
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Main Vault
Friday, October 27, 2023
8:30 AM GIS & Spatial Analysis
GIS & Spatial Analysis
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Main Vault
Contributions

8:30 AM Horizontal Accuracy Variability in Drone-Based Photogrammetric Orthophoto Mosaic Derivation Methodologies: Terrestrial Ground Control versus Onboard Real-Time Kinematic Procedures - John Benhart (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

8:50 AM Spatiotemporal Analytics: Finding Clusters of Geographic Objects or Events - Jay Lee (Kent State University)

9:10 AM Where is Western New York? An Ontology-based Modeling of Vague Places using Social Media Data - Yifan Wang (SUNY University at Buffalo)

9:30 AM Tracking the global changes of human mobility behavior and resilience in the early and late stages of COVID-19 pandemic - Xin Sun

9:50 AM Raising public awareness of invasive forest pests with online ArcGIS dashboard - Songlin Fei (Purdue University)
Student Roundtable
Student Roundtable
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault
Contributions

8:30 AM Understanding community-led economic development in resource-poor communities - Aurora Slovensky (University of Pittsburgh) Dawna Cerney (Youngstown State University) Piper Narendorf (University of Pittsburgh) Sophie Koza (University of Pittsburgh) Susan Lucas (University of Pittsburgh)
10:00 AM Economic Geography/Regional Economics
Economic Geography/Regional Economics
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - First Floor Meeting Room
Contributions

10:00 AM The cross-section of Economic Geography, Regional Economics and Regional Science within an evolving Data Driven Landscape - Brett Lucas (City of Cheney) Heather Stephens (West Virginia University)
10:10 AM GIS & Spatial Analysis
GIS & Spatial Analysis
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Main Vault
Contributions

10:10 AM The Purpose of a Map Library in this Digital Age - Boris Michev (University of Pittsburgh) Craig Campbel (Youngstown State University) Dawna Cerney (Youngstown State University) Michael Ratcliffe (U.S. Census Bureau)
11:30 AM Lightening Talk: Pittsburgh Tours
Lightening Talk: Pittsburgh Tours
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault

12:00 PM Keynote and Awards Luncheon
Keynote and Awards Luncheon
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault
1:30 PM Health
Health
1:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - First Floor Meeting Room
Contributions

1:30 PM Spread of COVID-19 in China: Analysis from a city-based epidemic and mobility model - Wei Song (University of Louisville)

1:50 PM The impacts of increasing access to PrEP services in Pennsylvania: How changing dispensing rules might help - Elizabeth Skender (University of Pittsburgh)

2:10 PM Comparison of Coronavirus Pandemic: Topological Data Analysis of 13 Countries - Jia Lu (Valdosta State University)

2:30 PM Urban Sprawl, Intergenerational Mobility and Health Outcomes - Y. Dennis Wei (University of Utah)

2:50 PM A look at infrastructure investment from 2018-2023 in Philadelphia - Richard Quodomine (City of Philadelphia)
Innovations in the Management and Linkage of Geospatial Data in the Census Bureau’s Geography Division.
Innovations in the Management and Linkage of Geospatial Data in the Census Bureau’s Geography Division.
1:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Main Vault
Contributions

1:30 PM Applying Automated Change Detection in the Update and Maintenance of Geospatial Data at the Census Bureau - Elvis Martinez (US Census Bureau)

1:50 PM Building Intelligence into the Management of Geospatial Data for Census Bureau Operations - Andrew Duvall (US Census Bureau)

2:10 PM The Grids Project: Moving Toward Gridded Data Products - Shonin Anacker (US Census Bureau)

2:30 PM The Frames Program: Linking Geospatial Data and Other Foundational Datasets to Improve Census Bureau Operations and Analyses - Michael Ratcliffe (U.S. Census Bureau)

2:50 PM Best Practices and Innovation in Census and Statistics - Linda Peters (Esri)
3:10 PM Race & Justice
Race & Justice
3:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - First Floor Meeting Room
Contributions

3:10 PM Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Using GIS to better understand disparities that emerge at intersections of gender and race, indigenous status, income, and wealth. - Linda Peters (Esri)

3:30 PM The Population Dynamics of Native Canadians - James Saku (Frostburg State University)

3:50 PM Debt-Related Driver’s License Suspensions, Demographics and Social-Needs - Brian Mikelbank (Cleveland State University)

4:10 PM A location analytics for geographical disparity analysis - Qingmin Meng (Mississippi State University)

4:30 PM Using GIS to Examine Local Sustainability and the Effects of Redlining In Pittsburgh - Aurora Slovensky (University of Pittsburgh)
Regional Planning
Regional Planning
3:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault
Contributions

3:10 PM Regional Planning Roundtable Applied Geography Alignment Needed - Thomas Christoffel (Regional Intelligence-Regional Communities, LLC)
Saturday, October 28, 2023
9:30 AM AGX Special Session
AGX Special Session
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Drury Hotel/1-1 - Coin Vault
Contributions

9:30 AM The Challenge and Opportunity of Unstructured Data for Geographers: Genesis for Careers and Research - Chetan Tiwari (Georgia State University) Dawna Cerney (Youngstown State University) Tony Hernandez (Toronto Metropolitan University)
AGX Special Session
AGX Special Session
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Carnegie/1-1 - AGX Workshop Room
Contributions

9:30 AM Intersectionality of GIS and Historical Research - Lukas McCoy (Youngstown State University)
9:50 AM Carnegie Special Workshop
Carnegie Special Workshop
9:50 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Carnegie/1-1 - AGX Workshop Room
Contributions

9:50 AM Snails in Need of GIS: Using Historical Data to Map Land Snails in the US Part 1 - Josh Cannon (David C. Fredrick Honors College, University of Pittsburgh) Susan Lucas (Urban Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh) Tim Pearce (Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
11:00 AM Carnegie Special Workshop
Carnegie Special Workshop
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Carnegie/1-1 - AGX Workshop Room
Contributions

11:00 AM Snails in Need of GIS: Using Historical Data to Map Land Snails in the US Part 2 - Susan Lucas (Urban Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh)
12:30 PM Carnegi Special Workshop
Carnegi Special Workshop
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Carnegie/1-1 - AGX Workshop Room
Contributions

12:30 PM Snails in Need of GIS: Using Historical Data to Map Land Snails in the US Part 3 - Josh Cannon (David C. Fredrick Honors College, University of Pittsburgh) Susan Lucas (Urban Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh) Tim Pearce (Carnegie Museum of Natural History)