By Bob Grant In 2023, Shaowen Wang, Ph.D., was awarded a block grant from the Taylor Geospatial Institute to use geospatial technologies and artificial intelligence to reimagine the ways that water features, such as rivers and streams, are mapped as they wind across...
By Bob Grant The arctic tundra is a surprisingly dynamic ecosystem that at first glance appears to be a windswept, frigid wasteland. But further investigation reveals that it hosts hundreds of plant species—mostly shrubs, mosses, and grasses— that jockey for space...
by Bob Grant During the week of February 26th, TGI announced a new LinkedIn Group to help researchers, administrators, and others share award opportunities, requests for proposals, emerging geospatial technologies, interesting new publications, and more using the...
By Nadine Alameh I’ll start this message the same way I would likely start and end all my communications with the amazing consortium that is the Taylor Geospatial Institute—with a thank you! Thank you for your warm welcome, thank you for your commitment to TGI’s...
by Bob Grant ST. LOUIS — The Taylor Geospatial Institute launched its Geospatial Career Guide Series by welcoming students, professionals, and anyone else interested in exploring geospatial careers to listen and engage in the first installment on September 14, 2023....
ST. LOUIS – A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will create the Taylor Geospatial Institute Regional AI Learning System. Launched in April 2022 and led by Saint Louis University, the Taylor Geospatial Institute brings together eight Midwestern...
One of the earliest projects to ramp up after NCSA launched the Blue Waters supercomputer in 2013 was a project from the University of Minnesota’s Polar Geospatial Center. They wanted to make high-quality digital elevation models, or DEMs, for the polar ice. Their...
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...