Dr Stock gave a presentation at the monthly meeting of the QuakeCoRE Integrated Programme on Disruptive Technologies, about her research on georeferencing of natural language location descriptions, and the Earthquake Early Warning Project. See the slides here.
Category Archives: research
BioWhere Web Site Launched
We have just launched the web site for the new, MBIE-Funded BioWhere project, which will develop methods to georeference biological collection records. Click here to visit the site.
CrisisLab Webinar: Thoughts on Earthquake Early Warning in Southwest Iceland
COSIT Call for Papers
The Call for Papers for the 15TH CONFERENCE ON SPATIAL INFORMATION THEORY has been released. See details below. Kobe, Japan, September 5-9, 2022 THE CONFERENCE We are very pleased to announce that the 15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2022, will be held in Kobe, Japan, September 5-9, 2022. Established in 1993, theContinue reading “COSIT Call for Papers”
Conference on Spatial information Theory (COSIT) 2022 in Kobe, Japan
After a COVID induced break, COSIT will be back in 2022. See web site here. THE CONFERENCE ON SPATIAL INFORMATION THEORY IS BACK! Kobe, Japan, September 5-9, 2022 With Kobe, Japan, as the host city, the 15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2022) will be located for the first time in Asia, continuingContinue reading “Conference on Spatial information Theory (COSIT) 2022 in Kobe, Japan”
PhD Scholarship in Geographic Information Retrieval/Machine Learning for Disaster Applications
We invite applications for a PhD scholarship addressing the topic of extraction of disaster impacts from text-based social media sources; integrating the text data with sensor data and conventional geographic data sets using multi-modal data fusion and explore the use of this data in a question-answering system to support earthquake response. Click here for moreContinue reading “PhD Scholarship in Geographic Information Retrieval/Machine Learning for Disaster Applications”
Indigenous Mapping Conference – Free, starts tomorrow!
The third biennial Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography will focus on the theme of Indigenous mapping. The conference, to be held digitally, is hosted by the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Libraries, which sits on the ancestral land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. Registration is ongoing! The online conference is entirely free andContinue reading “Indigenous Mapping Conference – Free, starts tomorrow!”
Reminder: Two fully funded PhD posts, closing date in one week.
A reminder that applications for our two PhD posts on the BioWhere project close on 24 October. Click here for the full post.
Call for Papers Spatial Data Science Symposium 2021
The Center for Spatial Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara plans to host the 2nd Spatial Data Science Symposium virtually this year with a focus on “Spatial and Temporal Thinking in Data-Driven Methods.” The symposium aims to bring together researchers from both academia and industry to discuss experiences, insights, methodologies, and applications, takingContinue reading “Call for Papers Spatial Data Science Symposium 2021”
Two New Staff Members join Collaboratory
Welcome to Dr Kierin MacKenzie and Ms Niloofar Aflaki, who will both be working on the MBIE-funded He Tatai Whenua project. Kierin completed his PhD from Canterbury on the topic of: A new GIS data model for depicting traditional knowledge of spatio-temporal patterns via motifs, folk thesauri, narratives and accompanying visualisations. Niloofar has just submittedContinue reading “Two New Staff Members join Collaboratory”
Massey Geoinformatics Collaboratory 