The Geospatial Software Institute conceptualization project (https://gsi.cigi.illinois.edu) funded by the National Science Foundation is holding a webinar series to showcase the findings and outcomes of the projects of the Geospatial Fellows for advancing COVID-19 research and education. These webinars are scheduled on selected Mondays between 4-5 pm Central Time through August 2021. Check out the webinar series here: https://aag-geospatialfellows-series.secure-platform.com/.

The next webinar in this series will be held on May 10, 2021 at 4 pm CT. During this webinar, Dr. Song Gao, Director of the Geospatial Data Science Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison will showcase his project findings as a Geospatial Fellow for advancing COVID-19 research and education. Dr. Kathleen Stewart, Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences and Director of the Center for Geospatial Information Science at the University of Maryland, will serve as a discussant for the webinar. Register to attend here: https://aag-geospatialfellows-series.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/16/sessiongallery/1458

Dr. Song Gao will be presenting ​​:​

Mapping Human Mobility Changes and Geospatial Modeling of COVID-19 Spread

To contain the COVID-19 spread, one of the nonpharmaceutical interventions is physical (social) distancing. An interactive web-based mapping platform, which provides up-to-date mobility and close contact information using large-scale anonymized mobile phone location data in the US, was developed and maintained by the GeoDS Lab at UW-Madison. Using the multiscale human mobility origin-to-destination (OD) flow data, a novel mobility-augmented epidemic model was further developed to help analyze the COVID-19 spread dynamics at multiple geographical scales (e.g., state, county, and neighborhood), inform public health policy, and deepen our understanding of human behavior under the unprecedented public health crisis.