Through the Human Geography Lens
A podcast by the World Wide Human Geography Data Working Group.
Episodes
On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Dr. Michael Humber, Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland’s Department of Geographical Sciences, about his role as data lead within NASA’s Harvest Portal.
00:55 What is NASA’s HARVEST Portal?
- https://harvestportal.org/
02:20 What is GEOGLAM? Is it related to ...
On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Dr. Kelsea Best, a post-doctoral researcher in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland.
01:10 An overview of her research on environmental migration in Bangladesh.
02:30 A description of her agent-based modeling tool and its utility in her research.
An overview of agent-based modeling: https://en.wikipedia.org/...
Join us next week for our in person event:
Climate, Migration, and Human Security Symposium
15 November 2022
National Museum of American Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C.
If you can't join us in person we will be broadcasting the event via webinar, we look forward to seeing many of you there!
Register Here: https://www.wwhgd.org/events-1/climate-migration-and-human-security-2/form
On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Dr. Chelsea Cervantes De Blois, lead climate security expert at the US Department of State.
00:55 Defining Human-Environmental Systems
Coupled Human-Environment Systems
Modelling Climate and Conflict
Tracking climate migration patterns at ClimateMigration.org
Report on internal displacement in a changing climate ...
On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen talk with Dr. Patricia Solis, Associate Research Professor at the School for Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University, and the Director and Co-Founder of YouthMappers.
00:50 The mission of Youth Mappers
01:50 Where did this idea come from?
GeoCenter at USAID
On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Gwyneth Holt and Eric Rasmussen talk with Dr. John Hummel, the program lead for Integrated Resilience Analysis in the Decision and Infrastructure Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory.
01:15 Dr. Hummel's role at Argonne.
02:05 Integrated Resiliency Analysis
02:30 Defining "resilience"
On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Dr. Laurie Rush, the Cultural Resources Manager and Army Archaeologist at Fort Drum, New York.
00:35 Upcoming WWHGD Webinar on Cultural Heritage and Human Geography scheduled for October 19th, 2022.
Register here.
00:50 Defining "cultural heritage" and "cultural property".
On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Elizabeth Lyon, Deputy Director for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Support Team at U.S. AFRICOM. Liz is a passionate Geographer who talks to the importance of place and human geography and why human geography can be so hard to map.
01:00 What's your role now as a Deputy Director with NGA at AFRIC...
On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Meredith Gore, an Associate Professor within the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Gore is a convergence researcher and social scientist who shares her work in conservation criminology, restorative justice and participatory mapping techniques in Madagascar.
00:45 What i...
On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Tom Fitzwater, Chief of the Demographic and Economic Studies Branch within the International Program Center at the US Census Bureau.
01:10 Tom's role at the Census Bureau, his training for the position, and the history of the International Program Center.
https://www.census.gov/en.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-su...
On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Gwyneth Holt and Eric Rasmussen talk with Clare Jones, Chief Commercial Officer at What3Words. What3Words is an alternative geospatial coordinate system based on a remarkable bit of computational wizardry. Using a supercomputer and a clever algorithm, W3W has divided the entire surface of the planet into 3 meter x 3 meter squares and named each square using 3 common words. ...
On this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Dr. Chris Tucker, Chair of the American Geographical Society (AGS).
01:55 What is the American Geographical Society?
https://americangeo.org/
03:00 The upcoming annual meeting of "Geography 2050" on The Future of Food.
https://www.geography2050.org/
04:50 What is your role in the AGS, and ...
On this week’s episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, Dr. Sumanth Reddy, Assistant Professor of Geography within the Department of History and Government at Bowie State University, an HBCU in Maryland, shares his experience leading students on a cross-country trip to explore our national parks.
In May of this year, Dr. Reddy and nine of his students embarked on a 10-day, 1800-mile exploration through five national parks...
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Gwyneth Holt and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Curt Storlazzi, a research geologist and oceanographer with the US Geological Survey’s Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, who’s also a researcher with the UC-Santa Cruz Institute for Marine Sciences.
01:20 Focus of past and current research on coral reefs and the impact of wave circulation.
https://www.chasingco...
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Kiersten Johnson, the Team Leader for the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS Net), Risk Analysis Division, within USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.
00:45 What is the Famine Early Warning System Network?
04:55 What kinds of data are collected and by whom?
07:35 Access to the raw ...
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Eric Frost, Director of the Visualization Center at San Diego State University.
01:30 Current topics in geospatial visualization (focused on Ukraine).
05:10 What does the SDSU Visualization Laboratory do?
- https://vizcenter.sdsu.edu/vizcenter/about/
07:30 Supporting General Honore’s requests for da...
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Ryan Engstrom, Director of the Data Science Program within the Department of Geography at George Washington University.
00:50 Professor Engstrom’s research interests
01:35 Defining “deprived areas”
Kuffer, Thomson, D. R., Boo, G., Mahabir, R., Grippa, T., Vanhuysse, S., Engstrom, R., Ndugwa, R., Makau, J., Darin, E., de Alb...
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Jessica Block, senior wildfire data scientist from the University of California - San Diego.
01:45 The 2009 Australian Black Saturday wildfire analysis
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/black-saturday-bushfires
#wildfire
03:10 Immersive human-sized VR cave for environmental wildfire risk assessment
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Marie Urban of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
02:20 Role at Oak Ridge (Group Lead for Human Geography)
04:30 LANDSCAN to understand populations and population movements.
05:50 Population assessment methodologies, proxies, and gap-fillers.
08:50 Prior technical methods and the iterative changes from 10-meter resolution to now.
11:1...
In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Dan Opstal and Jordan Beauregard from US Geological Survey’s Civil Applications Committee.
0:48 Defining the Civil Applications Committee
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2022/3002/fs20223002.pdf
2:07 Defining the Triple Junction positioning of the CAC
2:40 The CAC and its Human Security tasks
4:00 Open-source data...
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