The Donald Danforth Plant Science Centerhas won a $1.5 million competitive Build to Scale grant from the US Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA) to support theCenter for AgTech and Applied Location Science and Technology (CATALST). The...
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U of I Leads New $15 Million Institute to Understand Climate Change and Disasters
Institute will focus on innovative cyberGIS and cyberinfrastructure A new national initiative to enable geospatial data-driven scientific discovery will create a $15-million institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to better understand the risks and...
SLU, NGA Host Geo-Resolution 2021 Conference
Geo-Resolution 2021: Building a 21st Century Geospatial Ecosystem From Hard Problems to Opportunities was co-hosted by Saint Louis University and the National Geospatial Agency (NGA). The conference returned to the Wool Ballrooms at Busch Student Center on SLU campus...
College Students Map North St. Louis, Develop Geospatial Skills at GeoHornet Mapathon
The OpenStreetMap program has a more detailed and accurate depiction of north St. Louis, thanks to 12 Harris-Stowe State University students who participated in the GeoHornet Mapathon March 19, hosted by Harris-Stowe State University with participation by Maxar and...
SLU Researchers Develop App to Track COVID-19 Symptoms
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, researchers pondered the spread of the disease and what the risks of individual and community transmission rates were in various locations. To address this, SLU researchers Enbal Shacham, Ph.D., a professor of...
Nadia Shakoor Wants to Change the Face of Farming with Drones
Several years ago, Nadia Shakoor went looking for something that didn’t exist. As a breeding and genetics researcher at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Shakoor was measuring how crops grew under specific conditions. She sent students with clipboards into...
Research Links Sinking Land to Regions of High Groundwater Demand
Images indicate the estimated rate of land subsidence in areas with high groundwater use in the western U.S. Excessive pumping from underground aquifers can cause the surrounding land to sink and lead to damage to streets, bridges and other infrastructure, reduced...
Harris-Stowe State University, NGA Partner to Train STEM Educators
Harris-Stowe State University and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have teamed up to develop future science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educators. The local university and government agency announced the partnership Monday, saying in a release...
Mizzou Engineers, Physicians to Help Rural Missouri Plan Ahead for Pandemic: Geospatial Big Data is Key
Planning ahead for a pandemic—or any disaster situation—is costly and complex. Now, Mizzou researchers are hoping to take the guesswork out of it for Missouri’s smaller communities. The catalyst for the research is COVID-19. In spite of a months-long statewide...