GeoVISTA News

2012

Lost in the Library: Rui Li's work featured (02 May 2012)
GeoVISTA at ISCRAM 2012 (24 April 2012)
Alan MacEachren to speak at Ohio State University (10 April 2012)
Paper on geovisual analytics of IED attacks now available online in the Journal of Maps (20 March 2012)
Frank Hardisty presenting at the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (21 February 2012)
GeoVISTA Members at Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting (14 February 2012)

2011
Frank Hardisty presents poster at AGU meeting (07 December 2011)
GeoVISTA at ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (03 November 2011)
Human Factors in GIScience Fall Mini-Lecture Series (27 October 2011)
GeoVISTA at IEEE VisWeek 2011 (26 October 2011)
GeoVISTA at North American Cartographic Information Society annual meeting (14 October 2011)
GeoSocialApp website launched (06 October 2011)
Sen Xu received ESRI student travel award (16 September 2011)
GeoVISTA members at the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (15 September 2011)
Raechel Bianchetti awarded Pennsylvania Space Grant Graduate Fellowship (15 July 2011)
GeoVISTA members participate in the International Cartographic Conference (14 July 2011)
Open position - Postdoctoral Research Associate (27 June 2011)
Student projects from Dynamic Cartographic Representation now available (19 May 2011)
Ken Pelman presents at ISCRAM conference in Portugal (12 May 2011)
GeoVISTA Alum Derek Swingley joining ESRI (04 May 2011)
GeoVISTA members at AAG 2011 (14 April 2011)
Dr. Menno-Jan Kraak visiting GeoVISTA this week (05 April 2011)
Krzysztof Janowicz co-organizing COSIT workshop on Cognitive Engineering for Mobile GIS (30 March 2011)
MacEachren, Klippel, Janowicz give webinar through Directions Magazine (22 March 2011)
Rob Roth to give Coffee Hour talk (17 March 2011)
SensePlace2 website now live (03 March 2011)
Paper featured in upcoming issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (28 February 2011)
GeoVISTA alum Chaoqing Yu featured in Nature (11 February 2011)
Anuj Jaiswal accepts PARC research position (08 February 2011)
Buckingham and Roth Edit Special Digital Issue of Cartographic Perspectives (26 January 2011)
Paper accepted in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (18 January 2011)

2010
Penn State undergraduates participate in GeoVISTA internship on geovisual analytics of IED attacks (21 December 2010)
Spring Course: Classification, Conceptualization & Categorization in Spatial Information Science (10 December 2010)
Context Discovery Application featured by iVAC (09 December 2010)
STempo project website launched (07 December 2010)
Paper accepted in Cartography and Geographic Information Science (19 November 2010)
GeoVISTA members at AutoCarto 2010 (04 November 2010)
Anthony Robinson presenting at NACIS 2010 (14 October 2010)
GeoVISTA at IEEE VisWeek 2010 (04 October 2010)
Raechel Bianchetti gets travel grant (01 October 2010)
GeoVISTA alum Mark Harrower interviewed on public radio (27 September 2010)
New video about CrimeViz available (22 September 2010)
New website for Map Symbology project (15 September 2010)
GeoVISTA Center participants at GIScience 2010 (01 September 2010)
Paper on Malaria in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (18 August 2010)
Geovisual Analytics course offered in Fall 2010 (03 August 2010)
Paper accepted at VAST 2010 (29 July 2010)
Graduate Research Assistantships at GeoVISTA (29 July 2010)
Donna Peuquet awarded grant from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (28 July 2010)
Paper published in Cancer Causes & Control (23 July 2010)
GeoVISTA members presenting at ESRI Conference (25 June 2010)
Alex Klippel edits special issue of Spatial Cognition & Computation (25 June 2010)
Dr. Jin Chen promoted to Reasearch Associate (21 June 2010)
Alan MacEachren participates in National Research Council Workshop (20 May 2010)
Paper in the International Journal of Health Geographics (20 May 2010)
Frank Hardisty receives travel award (30 April 2010)
GeoViz Toolkit highlighted (20 April 2010)
MacEachren receives Faculty Scholar Award (16 April 2010)
GeoVISTA at Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting (15 April 2010)
Alan MacEachren introduces himself on YouTube (01 April 2010)
New website launched for GeoVISTA CrimeViz (26 March 2010)
Alexander Klippel organizing workshop at GIScience 2010 (19 February 2010)
Rob Roth and Kevin Ross participate in TCIP 2010 (19 February 2010)
GeoVISTA Center launches series of microlectures (14 January 2010)
Krzysztof Janowicz joins GeoVISTA (13 January 2010)
Anthony Robinson to give webinar for the CDC (13 January 2010)
GeoVISTA work highlighted on Adobe website (06 January 2010)

2009
Ian Turton presents at Geocomputation 2009 (14 December 2009)
GeoVISTA members participate in the International Cartographic Conference (01 December 2009)
The GeoVISTA Center hosts Supporting Young Women in Geography (30 November 2009)
Alex Klippel and Rui Li receive award at COSIT (19 October 2009)
Alexander Klippel awarded two NSF grants (13 October 2009)
GeoVISTA Center creates YouTube channel (11 September 2009)

2008
Frank Hardisty speaks at the Pennsylvania Department of Health (30 October 2008)
Hardisty, Klippel receive Gladys Snyder Education (05 September 2008)
Alan MacEachren part of team to win Gates Foundation grant (05 September 2008)
NEVAC wins IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology Challenge (05 September 2008)
Keynote at Visualizing the World (03 May 2008)
Klippel, Hardisty accepted for Conference on Research and Training in Spatial Intelligence (21 April 2008)
New version of GeoViz Toolkit released (21 April 2008)
GeoVISTA members participate in AAG Annual Meeting (16 April 2008)
Alexander Klippel organizing workshop at Spatial Cognition 2008 (27 March 2008)
Ian Turton attends OGC Technical Committee Meeting (27 March 2008)
NEVAC Graduate Students present posters at DHS University Summit (14 March 2008)
Raytheon awards research grant to NEVAC (03 March 2008)
CaGIS features GeoVISTA article (03 March 2008)
Donna Peuquet gives keynote at VGE Conference in Hong Kong (01 February 2008)
Faculty position in GIScience (01 February 2008)
Chris Weaver wins first place in InfoVis 2007 contest (10 January 2008)

2007
Rob Roth wins EMS poster competition (08 November 2007)
Anthony Robinson selected for doctoral colloquium at InfoVis / VAST 2007 (08 November 2007)
Klippel receives best paper award at COSIT (25 September 2007)
Ritesh Agrawal demonstrates his software, Memento (19 September 2007)
Ian Turton presents at Geocomputation 2007 (07 September 2007)
Klippel organizes Doctoral Colloquium at COSIT '07 (06 September 2007)
Tomaszewski presents at CONTEXT07 Doctoral Consortium (03 August 2007)
Alan MacEachren's "list of influences" featured on visualization website (27 July 2007)
GeoVISTA members present papers at the ICA Visualization Workshop (27 July 2007)
Penn State's GeoVISTA Center awarded NGA research grant (11 July 2007)
Frank Hardisty to lead workshop on GeoVIz Toolkit for state cancer programs (06 July 2007)
Chris Weaver attends information visualization conference and summit in Zurich (02 July 2007)
Chris Weaver participates in Dagstuhl seminar on Information Visualization (11 June 2007)
MacEachren participates in DOE/ASCR Visualization and Analytics Workshop (08 June 2007)
Brian Tomaszewski presents paper and facilitates GIScience session at international crisis managemen (22 May 2007)
Scott Pezanowski presenting at Gi4DM conference (21 May 2007)
NEVAC members participate in VAC Consortium Meeting (21 May 2007)
Klippel, Cai invited to present to the Spatial Information Science Research Interest Group (17 May 2007)
Jin Chen, Anthony Robinson present posters at GIS in Public Health Conference (17 May 2007)
103rd Annual Association of American Geographers (AAG) (16 April 2007)
Alexander Klippel to present paper at AAAI Spring Symposium (16 March 2007)
MacEachren presents NEVAC research at DHS University Network Summit (16 March 2007)
NEVAC students present posters at DHS University Network Summit (14 March 2007)
NEVAC featured by Research Penn State (06 February 2007)

2006
GeoVISTA members participate in IEEE VAST Symposium (08 December 2006)
Visiting scholar Dr. Patrick Laube contributess to NEVAC (08 December 2006)
NEVAC researchers present work at VAST 2006 (08 December 2006)
Alexander Klippel joining GeoVISTA (29 November 2006)
Guo, Chen, MacEachren article featured in Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (05 October 2006)
MacEachren co-chairs visualization workshop at GIScience conference (08 September 2006)
Suellen Hopfer presents paper at Visualization, Analytics & Spatial Decision Support Workshop (08 September 2006)
Paper in Environment & Planning B (07 August 2006)
iGEON receives grant to expand to India (04 August 2006)
MacEachren co-edits special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (15 July 2006)
Mark Harrower has feature paper article in IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (10 July 2006)
Frederico Fonseca wins 2006 UCGIS Research Award (10 July 2006)
GeoVISTA members participate in AutoCarto conference (22 June 2006)
Etien Koua receives UCGIS Young Scholars Award (14 June 2006)
Koua, MacEachren published in IJGIS (23 May 2006)
Sven Fuhrmann leads class in unique learning experience (15 May 2006)
Etien L. Koua joins GeoVISTA Center (08 May 2006)
Brian Tomaszewski selected to attend ISCRAM-TIEMS SUMMER SCHOOL (13 April 2006)
Website launched for the North-East Visualization and Analytics Center (23 March 2006)
Brian Tomaszewski published in ArcUser Magazine (15 February 2006)
Department of Homeland Security names Penn State a Regional Visualization and Analyitics Center (20 January 2006)
Anthony Robinson published in C&GIS (18 January 2006)
MapStats for Kids article featured in Journal of Geography (18 January 2006)
Research Scientist/Postdoctoral research opportunity in (Geo)Information Science (10 January 2006)
UCGIS Congressional Breakfast (08 January 2006)
Grad course in GeoVisual Analytics (08 January 2006)
Ian Turton joins GeoVISTA Center (03 January 2006)

2005
Graduate assistantships in Visual Analytics (21 November 2005)
Anthony Robinson receives United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation scholarship (09 November 2005)
New website for ARDA project (02 November 2005)
Visiting Scholar Xiaoyan Liu joins the GeoVISTA Center (31 October 2005)
PhD student Trias Aditya to visit the GeoVISTA Center (31 October 2005)
Mark Gahegan featured at UCGIS Regional Meeting (29 September 2005)
Jin Chen, Alan MacEachren and Diansheng Guo Earn First Place at InfoVis 2005 Contest (18 August 2005)
GeoVISTA Center members participate in the ICA Conference (18 July 2005)
Directions Magazine Article references GeoVISTA work (25 May 2005)
Exploring GeoVisualization is released (05 May 2005)
Anthony Robinson completes thesis, receives awards (20 April 2005)
Ola Ahlqvist accepts position at Ohio State (18 April 2005)
New ConceptVISTA Web Site (15 April 2005)
Gary Sheppard to join ESRI (14 April 2005)
GCCM in the news (06 April 2005)
MapStats for Kids goes live (06 April 2005)
Adrian Cox profile (06 April 2005)
New NSF Grant for GeoVISTA (08 March 2005)
Postdoctoral research opportunity in (Geo)Information Science (16 February 2005)
Alan MacEachren receives E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Professorship (16 February 2005)

2004
USA TODAY: GeoCollaborative Crisis Management at GeoVISTA (29 November 2004)
GeoCollaboration in the news (12 November 2004)
Ola Ahlqvist awarded a 2004 Summer Intergraph UCGIS Young Scholar Award (11 October 2004)
Scott Pezanowski joins GeoVISTA (07 October 2004)
Hongmei Wang awarded a GIScience 2004 Scholarship (07 October 2004)
Chaoqing Yu awarded GIScience 2004 Scholarship (07 October 2004)
Ray Masters to present an overview of the Visualization Tool Kit (VTK) to AERSP 597B (05 October 2004)
Bill Pike receives AT&T Wireless fellowship (15 September 2004)
SIGGRAPH Geovisualization course (14 September 2004)
MacEachren named to National Visual Analytics Center Research Agenda Committee (14 September 2004)
Ola Ahlqvist presents at Swedish Map Days (08 April 2004)
Asianwildlife Consultancy Co.Ltd. communicating on behalf of the clouded leopards (16 March 2004)
Asianwildlife Consultancy Co.Ltd. communicating on behalf of the clouded leopards (16 March 2004)
List of HERO Related AAG Sessions Available Online (09 March 2004)
Redesigned and updated HERO website now online (06 January 2004)

2003
Alan MacEachren presents at CMU Human Computer Interaction Institute (20 November 2003)
Isaac Brewer Invited to Science and Technology Policy Conference (19 November 2003)
Isaac Brewer presents at Air Force workshop, receives award (05 November 2003)
New GeoVISTA News Feed (29 October 2003)
GeoVISTA at Semantic Web workshop (27 October 2003)
GeoVISTA members at COSIT03 (01 October 2003)
Diansheng Guo recieves UCGIS award (15 May 2003)
Questionnaire on new web-based school teaching concepts (08 May 2003)
HEROINE profiled in ITS newsletter (07 April 2003)
Alan MacEachren introduced by Congressman Peterson (25 February 2003)
Frank Hardisty to South Carolina (25 February 2003)
Job Opportunity at the GeoVISTA Center (20 January 2003)
Amy L. Griffin receives dissertation award (14 January 2003)
James Macgill joins GeoVISTA (14 January 2003)
Jin Chen joins the GeoVISTA Center (14 January 2003)
DAVE_G at "On the Horizon Series" (09 January 2003)

2002
Malawi-Atlas design with ColorBrewer (06 December 2002)
"Der Spiegel" reports about DAVE_G (06 December 2002)
Another new book: Representations of Space and Time (19 November 2002)
New Book: Geographic Information Analysis (18 November 2002)
Ola Ahlqvist joins HERO/GeoVISTA (18 November 2002)
IT Roadmap to a Geospatial Future (17 November 2002)
DAVE_G highlighted in Federal Computer Weekly story (09 November 2002)
Cartographic Perspectives issue (05 November 2002)
New NCI Grant: Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis of Cancer Data (05 November 2002)
New GeoVISTA web site online (06 October 2002)
Digital Government Quality Graphics project highlighted (31 July 2002)
Steve Crawford Joins GeoVISTA (31 July 2002)