The University of Maryland Center for Geospatial Information Science had a strong presence at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, held virtually from April 7 to April 11, 2021. 

Presentations included (in scheduled session order):

• Guimin Zhu, Ph.D. student, Center for Geospatial Information Science, presented the paper titled, “Geospatial analysis of human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic spread in Florida.”
• Zhiyue (Luna) Xia, Ph.D. candidate, Center for Geospatial Information Science, presented the paper titled “Learning spatiotemporal patterns of drug-related crimes in a major metropolitan area using a random forest model.”
• Jeff Sauer, Ph.D. candidate, presented the paper titled, “A spatio-temporal Bayesian model to estimate spatial patterns of risk for drug-involved emergency department visits in the greater Baltimore-Maryland region.”
• Yao Li, Ph.D. student, presented the paper titled, “Understanding the population risk from malaria using human mobility.”

Additionally, Dr. Kathleen Stewart, Professor and Director of the Center for Geospatial Information Science, served as a panelist on the panel titled, “Spatiotemporal analytics on COVID-19.”