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Call for Lightning Talk Speakers
This year’s Lightning Talks will be hosted on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 (time to be determined). This year, since it will be an online session, we welcome anyone to participate sharing his/her ‘spatial’ stories. Find more information here.
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New Webinar Series Explores GeoEthics
The American Association of Geographers (AAG) and its partner UC-Santa Barbara Center for Spatial Studies (spatial@ucsb) is launching a new series of webinars exploring GeoEthics, with support from Esri. You can find out more about our series at https://aag-geoethics-series.secure-platform.com
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NSF Convergence Accelerator Series: Denny Vrandečić
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) tracks A and B of the Convergence Accelerator program are proud to present Denny Vrandečić as the second speaker in their 2021/22 speaker series on Open Knowledge Networks. On Thursday February 11 at 9:00 am, Denny Vrandečić will deliver a talk entitled “Knowledge beyond the Graph: Toward a Multilingual Wikipedia.”
Vision
The vision of the Center for Spatial Studies is that spatial thinking and computing serve all scientific disciplines and support trans-disciplinary problem solving. The Center mission is to engage in interdisciplinary research and education in how people and technology solve spatial problems. To progress toward its vision…
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Research
We strongly support interdisciplinary research projects. We organize research-oriented events, such as the ongoing ThinkSpatial brownbag talks for the local community and our annual Specialist Meetings. Learn more about our Research Resources.
Education
We promote spatial thinking and spatial literacy at the elementary, secondary, graduate, and postgraduate levels, offering a Freshman Seminar in Spatial Thinking and a unique Minor in Spatial Studies, as well as advanced training workshops for on- and off-campus Ph.D. students and researchers. Learn more about our Learning Resources.