Faculty Forum

OSU Geospatial & Geomatics Faculty Forum

April 19 Session 1: “An Afternoon of Geospatial Learning & Discovery”
3-5 PM, Wilkinson Hall 203

Notes

  1. 3:00 – 3:10 Welcome, Introductions & Announcements
  • 3:00 – 3:05 Welcome and introductions – Jim Lerczak and all
  • 3:05 – 3:10 Announcements
    • Geospatial Instructor position full consideration, May 28, 2023– Jamon Van Den Hoek
    • CE also looking for a geomatics instructor – teaching surveying
  1. 3:10 – 4:00 Program Presentations (10 minutes each program) — Short overview presentations about the capabilities and exciting things happening with each program.
  • 3:10 – 3:20 Geography & Geospatial Science in CEOAS – Julia Jones on Geography and Geospatial Science in CEOAS and introduce the online Masters now accepting applications for fall. G&GS undergrad major, on-campus and online, MS on-campus and online starting fall 2023. PhD on –campus.
  • 3:20 – 3:30 GIScience certificate in CEOAS – Kuuipo Walsh on the certificate program and collaborations with OSU-Cascades. GIScience certificate, over 200 students, undergraduates can add cert at any time in the academic career, graduate student need to add early in academic career. Graduate certificate: Add CE 564 – Global navigation satellite system (Jihye Park) Add CE 663 – Geodesy (Jihye Park), Add FE 544 – Forest Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry (Bogdan Strimbu), Drop GEOG 563 – GIScience IV: Spatial Modeling (James Watson)
  • 3:30 – 3:40 Geomatics in CCE– Chris Parrish on geomatics in CCE and introduce the surveying minor that is live. Now 12 faculty. There is now a Geomatics minor, available to students from any major. Chase Simpson. A great deal of equipment including truck-mounted lidar, 3D laser scanners. 32 grad students in geomatics. In Covell Hall.
  • 3:40 – 3:45 Updates from others, FERM, Public Health, – Michael Wing, Bogdan Strimbu, Perry Hystad, FERM has14 grad students. Public Health – spatial epidemiology and GIS. Public Health. Students take certificate. Overlap between environmental health and geospatial methods – education and research. May provide options for NIH funding.
  • 3:45 – 3:50 New Faculty –Jim Thatcher
  • 3:50 – 4:00 Course Updates – Geog 481/584 and Geog 464/564 – Jamon Van Den Hoek
  • Jamon – satellite image analysis GEOG 4/581. Prereq is GEOG 4/580 – moves into coding and automated analysis. Introduces GEE, Javascript API, probably Python in the future coupled with GEE module. Time series analysis, supervised/unsupervised classification, image texture, qualitative image analysis, effective visualization. Projects. Sensor agnostic.
  • GEOG 4/564 also has outside of G&GS enrollment, through the certificate. Only requires some exposure to GIS, but don’t do analysis, instead do readings and active learning exercises. Projects.
  1. 4:00 – 4:35 Round Table discussions:

4:00 – 4:10. Collaborative research center/programs and opportunities

  • NGA Geo-Escon ideas for short courses, research, and other activities – Mike Olsen: Concept papers for proposals. We need to keep trying. 9 universities are members. Research call expected in summer. Research and teaching opportunities. Cory can help create some kind of place for some OSU discussion about GeoEscon and other related topics such as UCGIS (Iguide) and Esri. Email sent to Cory, Chris, Robert, Kuuipo, Michael Olsen. Brooke Marston – may have an NGA connection. Julia will follow up.
  • Esri EIP/UCGIS – Kuuipo Walsh: OSU has special designations. Can feature students research at a high level to share their work. Laurie involves her students in this.
  • OSU belongs to UCGIS. Alternative to accreditation.
  • Professional workshops:drones/PACE- all

4:10 – 4:20 Academic Computing –

RACS – Chris Sullivan / Cory Langhoff

Chris Sullivan – COVID TRACE could have been geospatial.

Cory Langhoff – manager of GIS labs in CEOAS, coordinates Arc GIS online for all of OSU, Esri licensing. Here to help. Is being promoted as lead geospatial scientist for CEOAS, will engage with research. Can be put on grants. Does app map plotting for CEOAS. For the next meeting will do a drone demo.

[Update: Cory Langhoff has been promoted to “Lead Geospatial Scientist” and will be helping bring new geospatial resources around the college as well as being able to work with labs on integration of GIS into research projects.  Cory will also be supporting most of the college academic needs around classes and working with students.]

Cory: helping students and working with Esri licensing and versioning issues and how classes need to be updated.

2 weeks notice for version changes.

  • Oregon Explorer/Dev Summit – Marc Rempel
  • Mark Rempel: Esri dev summit. OSU is part of Esri Development Summit, Palm Springs in March. 2000 people. Mark works more on Web mapping, some version changes are affecting this. There may be a better or additional rep from OSU.
  • Oregon Explorer – collaboration with the Institute for Natural Resources.

4:20 – 4:25. Internship programs and employment opportunities for students, support the area.  (e.g., ODOT rotation program, GIS Pilot Internship Program). – Kuuipo Walsh

4:25-4:30 Student Activities & Connections between programs (e..g, hackathons, soccer matches, mapathon).

  • ASPRS OSU chapter – Selina Lambert – ASPRS chapter president. Had a field trip to NV5 offices. About 20-30 people on the email list, dozen regulars. Most in CCE-geomatics.
  • YouthMappers OSU chapter – Jamon Van Den Hoek
  • starting OSU chapter of YouthMappers for undergrads. Meant to be inter-college. Looking at the non-sponsored club option.
  • Laurie: student groups within CEOAS. Clubs for Geosciences, Environmental Science, Geography, etc. Can we incorporate this into other clubs?
  • PLSO student chapter. – Chase Simpson Public Lands Surveying of Oregon student chapter. Students competed.

4:30 – 4:35 Next Steps: – all

4:35 – 5:00 Reception

May 10: Session 2: “Ignite” session with theme Geospatial Solutionsgenda

  1. 3:00 – 3:05 Welcome – Jim Lerczak, Associate Dean for Research and Professor (CEOAS)
  2. 3:05 – 3:35 Collaborative research opportunities — Short overview presentations about forward-looking ways to fund geospatial research.
  • 3:05 – 3:10 Collaborative Innovation Complex opportunities  – Brady J. Gibbons (COE)Actions and Tuba Ozkan-Haller (CEOAS)
    • Brady Gibbons
      Associate Dean for Research 
      Professor of Materials Science
      College of Engineering
    • H. Tuba Özkan-Haller, Ph.D.
      Dean, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
  • 3:10 – 3:15 ASSURE – Julie Adams, College of Engineering Dean’s Professor
  • 3:15 – 3:20 CIMERS / NGA Geo-EsconLinks to an external site. ideas for short courses, research, and other activities – Mike Olsen
  • 3:20 – 3:25 NOAA Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies (CICOES) – Jim Lerczak
  •  3:25 – 3:35 Others. NVIDIA, Esri, Leica, NASA LCLUC, NASA Disasters – all
  1. 3:35 – 4:00 Research lightning presentations:

4:00 – 4:30 Next Steps –

4:30 – 5:00 Reception

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