On September 26th, 2024, the Clark’s Center for Geospatial Analytics (Clark CGA) hosted an interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop that brought together faculty, students and staff. The workshop was aimed at exchanging knowledge and ideas on methods in geospatial analytics. Speakers presented their projects, highlighting the challenges they faced and solutions they applied in their research. Bringing together professionals from Clark CGA and the wider Clark geospatial community served as an opportunity to bolster collaborations and cross pollination. The Q&A as well as the meaningful discussions were instrumental to this goal.

The workshop featured nine key speakers, a mix of graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and the Clark CGA team, who presented on a range of diverse topics. These included “Metrics to Measure Change and Error,” “Novel Methods to Characterize Spatially-Explicit Patch Dynamics on a Landscape,” “Asheville Urban Development II,” “Modeling Storm Water at CU,” “Moore Aquaculture and Verra UDef-ARP Research,” “Enhancing Digital Memory: Geospatial Analysis of Rwandan Refugee Journeys & Mass Violence in the Congo,” and “Addressing Inconsistencies in Map Comparison Using Google Earth Engine for Visualization.”

This event was a great example of how the various departments at Clark University work on geospatial analytics projects through innovation and problem solving and how they can come together to push boundaries and from each other in geospatial research.