Intended as an inspirational session, the Lightning Talks are a series of delicious, rapid-fire talks on spatially-flavored topics. Each presenter is allotted three minutes to develop a topic. This event is currently organized by Rui Zhu.
Due to Covid-19, 2021’s Spatial Lightning Talks moves online and it has attracted over 300 registers from all around the world. The success of its international debut attributes to our great speakers who come from multiple walks of life and disciplines. They have shared topics including geology, spatial cognition, space and music, remote sensing, disaster response, ecology, and so on. Plus, this year’s event was dedicated to the memory of Paul Wilson, who was one of the Center’s most avid and constant participants of all things spatial.
Michael Goodchild: “You are here” (video) Gabriela Morosanu: “Fine sediments sources and coal mining: Spatial-temporal interference” (video) Menno-Jan Kraak: “How an advertisement made me think about space and time” (video) Anna Lopez-Carr: “Mapping applications for post-disaster learning in Puerto Rico” (video) Xiang Ye: “There is a reason for ‘geospatial’” (video) Ronnie Bailey- Steinitz: “The forest or the trees: Scaling measurements of food availability” (video) Michael Kilburn: “Geosophy” (video) Monica Castelhano: “Exploring real-world schemes: Semantics and functions of everyday spaces” (video) Lexie Kunz: “GPS usage and its effect on spatial navigation” (video) Qingyu Ma: “Satellite maps tell a lot” (video) Ashley Kuder: “Saving birds from window collisions, one building at a time” (video) Alexis Story Crawshaw: “Spatial expression approaches in electro- somaesthetic” (video) Katy Börner: “Human [reference] map” (video) André Skupin: “Human [reference] map” (video) Stephen Hirtle: “Why is it not a cognitive map?” (video) Jayden Schultz: “The norming of space” (video) Andrew Schroeder: “Mobility data for emergency response” (video)
2020’s Spatial Lightning Talks were one to remember. As we munched on Chipotle, our listeners from across campus and the community were regaled with three-minute talks that ran the gamut, and that captured our attention for an hour. Speakers had the challenge to present a new topic to the audience in only three minutes, after a which a loud (electronic) bell would stop their thought in its tracks – because it was question time! Read the full summary of the event here.
Dr. Keith Clarke: “Why Map Rozel Point?” (video) Dr. Clayton Nall: “Why Partisans Don’t Sort” (video) Joel Salzman: “The Best Places to Vote in California” (video) Nick Triozzi: “Drones and Thermal Imagery for Archaeological Survey” (video) Margaret Fisher: “Taking Up Space: Large(st) Animals and the Collective Literary Unconscious” (video) Paul Wilson: “Where Do We Live?” (video) Eduardo Romero: “High Frequency Radar in the Santa Barbara Channel” (video) Louis Graup: “Fire and Water: A Spatial Connection” (video) Dr. Wendy Meiring: “Collaborations Through Time and Space” (video) Thomas Crimmel: “Ancient Real Estate at the Maya Center of El Pilar” (video) Pratik Raghu: “Spaces of Hope Under State Terrorism” (video) Zoe Hinck: “Mapping Professional Networks” (video)
New space, same (but never old!) event, 2019’s Spatial Lightning Talks were one to remember. As they munched on sandwiches and pizza, our listeners from across campus were regaled with three-minute talks that ran the gamut, and that captured our attention for over an hour. Speakers had the challenge to present a new topic to the audience in only three minutes, after a which a loud (electronic) bell would stop their thought in its tracks – because it was question time! Read the full summary of the event here.
John Lee: Race and Space on an American College Campus, 1886-1888 (video) Thomas Hervey: Travel Spaces and their Stories (video) Skona Brittain: Space-Filling Curves (video) Mike Johnson: An R-based Ecosystem for Earth System Data (video) George Legrady: 3D Data Visualization Fundamentals from MAT 259 Course (video) Keith Clarke: Where is Nowhere? (video) Ethan Turpin & David Gordon: An Interactive Fire, Water and Climate Model (video) Dan Montello: Fifty-Four Forty or Fight! (video) Greg Hillis: Mandalas: Buddhist Maps of Perfection (video) Aaron Bagnell: Fuzzy Oceans: Clustering Water Masses to Overcome Local Sampling Bias (video) Ken Dunkley: COOL Terroir: Place and the Character and Quality of Food and Beverages (video) Tom Ekman: Exploring a Watershed with Mexican Youth (video). View all videos on YouTube: