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Legacy LeadersNavigating Estate Disputes: Strategies for Legal ClarityRon is a trial lawyer with diverse experience in complex commercial litigation matters. He represents clients and tries cases across a broad range of practice areas, including products liability, trucking industry, personal injury, employment litigation, professional malpractice, intellectual property, construction law, healthcare, first amendment claims, insurance and surety claims, government and contract bidding and compliance, antitrust, trusts and estates, federal and state tax litigation and general commercial litigation. Listen to this informative Legacy Leaders episode with Ron Schirtzer about estate disputes.Here is what to expect on this week’s show:...
2024-05-2731 min
Through the Human Geography LensData for Global Food Security Insights with Dr. Michael Humber, University of MarylandOn this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Dr. Michael Humber, Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland’s Department of Geographical Sciences, about his role as data lead within NASA’s Harvest Portal.
00:55 What is NASA’s HARVEST Portal?
- https://harvestportal.org/
02:20 What is GEOGLAM? Is it related to the NASA HARVEST Portal?
- G20 https://www.g20.org/en/about-g20/#members
- Group on Earth Observations https://www.earthobservations.org/index.php
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2023-02-0823 min
Through the Human Geography LensEnvironmental migration in Bangladesh and agent-based modeling developed by Dr. Kelsea BestOn this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Dr. Kelsea Best, a post-doctoral researcher in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland.
01:10 An overview of her research on environmental migration in Bangladesh.
02:30 A description of her agent-based modeling tool and its utility in her research.
An overview of agent-based modeling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_model
04:50 What was the academic path that led to this focus? (from chemical engineering to addressing climate justice through data analysis)
07:20 Out o...
2023-01-2524 min
Through the Human Geography LensWWHGD Event: Climate, Migration, and Human Security SymposiumJoin us next week for our in person event:
Climate, Migration, and Human Security Symposium
15 November 2022
National Museum of American Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C.
If you can't join us in person we will be broadcasting the event via webinar, we look forward to seeing many of you there!
Register Here: https://www.wwhgd.org/events-1/climate-migration-and-human-security-2/form
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2022-11-0702 minThrough the Human Geography LensNexus between human migration, climate change, and conflict with Dr. Chelsea Cervantes De BloisOn this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Dr. Chelsea Cervantes De Blois, lead climate security expert at the US Department of State.
00:55 Defining Human-Environmental Systems
Coupled Human-Environment Systems
Modelling Climate and Conflict
Tracking climate migration patterns at ClimateMigration.org
Report on internal displacement in a changing climate here.
02:20 Migration drivers: Social, political, economic, cultural, demographic, ecological, and sometimes infrastructure.
02:45 Research on ethnic conflict in Kyrgyzstan and the associated "system" relationships
The 2021 PhD dissertation on Kyrgyz...
2022-10-1924 minThrough the Human Geography LensYouthMappers for global good with Dr. Patricia SolisOn this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen talk with Dr. Patricia Solis, Associate Research Professor at the School for Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University, and the Director and Co-Founder of YouthMappers.
00:50 The mission of Youth Mappers
Youth Mappers
01:50 Where did this idea come from?
USAID
GeoCenter at USAID
2015 Kathmandu Earthquake
Humanitarian Open Street Map Team
Kathmandu Living Labs
05:20 Can a student start a chapter of YouthMappers at the...
2022-10-1223 minThrough the Human Geography LensFrameworks for Community Resilience with Dr. John Hummel, Argonne National LaboratoryOn this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Gwyneth Holt and Eric Rasmussen talk with Dr. John Hummel, the program lead for Integrated Resilience Analysis in the Decision and Infrastructure Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory.
01:15 Dr. Hummel's role at Argonne.
Argonne National Laboratory
02:05 Integrated Resiliency Analysis
02:30 Defining "resilience"
United Nations definition of resilience
03:25 The ARISE Framework for assessing resilience - genesis and driving factors
ARISE Framework described on Dr. Hummel's bio. ARISE is free, and distributed through an email to him...
2022-10-0528 minThrough the Human Geography LensProtecting and Preserving Cultural Property with Dr. Laurie RushOn this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Dr. Laurie Rush, the Cultural Resources Manager and Army Archaeologist at Fort Drum, New York.
00:35 Upcoming WWHGD Webinar on Cultural Heritage and Human Geography scheduled for October 19th, 2022.
Register here.
00:50 Defining "cultural heritage" and "cultural property".
Cultural heritage
Cultural property
01:05 Unique, powerful, and sensible definition from Dr. Rush.
01:30 The Hague definition.
The Hague Convention on protecting cultural property in armed conflict
02:00 Describing her...
2022-09-2819 minThrough the Human Geography LensHuman Geography and why it matters with Elizabeth LyonOn this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Elizabeth Lyon, Deputy Director for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Support Team at U.S. AFRICOM. Liz is a passionate Geographer who talks to the importance of place and human geography and why human geography can be so hard to map.
01:00 What's your role now as a Deputy Director with NGA at AFRICOM?
02:20 Looking at places that aren't yet well-mapped.
03:30 How to be effective with a geographic separation between a physical workspace and an area o...
2022-09-2125 minThrough the Human Geography LensConservation criminology with Dr. Meredith GoreOn this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Meredith Gore, an Associate Professor within the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Gore is a convergence researcher and social scientist who shares her work in conservation criminology, restorative justice and participatory mapping techniques in Madagascar.
00:45 What is a convergence researcher? - a discussion of system science and sorting wicked problems
https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/learn/research-types/learn-about-convergence-research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
2022-09-1422 minThrough the Human Geography LensWhy accurate statistical data matters for Human Geography with Tom FitzwaterOn this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Tom Fitzwater, Chief of the Demographic and Economic Studies Branch within the International Program Center at the US Census Bureau.
01:10 Tom's role at the Census Bureau, his training for the position, and the history of the International Program Center.
https://www.census.gov/en.html
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/international-programs.html
03:10 His current work on the US decadal census, describing the value and complexity of this (and eve...
2022-09-0722 minThrough the Human Geography LensThe What3Words Addressing SystemOn this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Gwyneth Holt and Eric Rasmussen talk with Clare Jones, Chief Commercial Officer at What3Words. What3Words is an alternative geospatial coordinate system based on a remarkable bit of computational wizardry. Using a supercomputer and a clever algorithm, W3W has divided the entire surface of the planet into 3 meter x 3 meter squares and named each square using 3 common words. For example, atomic.chairs.talent identifies the walk-in door into the Emergency Department at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The app is free for personal use. More information is...
2022-08-3123 minThrough the Human Geography LensAmerican Geographical Society, geography in education, and the Earth’s population featuring Dr. Chris TuckerOn this episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt talk with Dr. Chris Tucker, Chair of the American Geographical Society (AGS).
01:55 What is the American Geographical Society?
https://americangeo.org/
03:00 The upcoming annual meeting of "Geography 2050" on The Future of Food.
https://www.geography2050.org/
04:50 What is your role in the AGS, and how does AGS as an organization bring benefit and insight to those who need geography?
07:35. How did you discover your passion for geography?
10:15 What skills will be needed b...
2022-08-2426 minThrough the Human Geography LensHBCU students with Dr. Sumanth Reddy on their tour of National Parks supported by the American Association of Geographers (AAG)On this week’s episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, Dr. Sumanth Reddy, Assistant Professor of Geography within the Department of History and Government at Bowie State University, an HBCU in Maryland, shares his experience leading students on a cross-country trip to explore our national parks.
In May of this year, Dr. Reddy and nine of his students embarked on a 10-day, 1800-mile exploration through five national parks after receiving a grant from the American Association of Geographers. Dr. Reddy is also joined in the studio by two of the students from the trip, Ayen Kuol, a c...
2022-08-1724 min
Through the Human Geography LensCoastal Communities, Sea Level Rise, and Human Security featuring Dr. Curt Storlazzi, U.S. Geological SurveyIn this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Gwyneth Holt and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Curt Storlazzi, a research geologist and oceanographer with the US Geological Survey’s Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, who’s also a researcher with the UC-Santa Cruz Institute for Marine Sciences.
01:20 Focus of past and current research on coral reefs and the impact of wave circulation.
https://www.chasingcoral.com/
02:15 Island infrastructure vulnerability to sea level rise.
03:10 The threat of more frequent “overwash events” from sea level rise.
https...
2022-08-1025 min
Through the Human Geography LensAcute Food Insecurity and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network featuring Dr. Kiersten JohnsonIn this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Kiersten Johnson, the Team Leader for the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS Net), Risk Analysis Division, within USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.
00:45 What is the Famine Early Warning System Network?
https://fews.net/
04:55 What kinds of data are collected and by whom?
07:35 Access to the raw food security data within the FEWS Net Data Center
https://fews.net/data
07:55 Food Security Integrated Phase Classification definitions
https://fe...
2022-08-0327 min
Through the Human Geography LensEric Frost - Director of the Visualization Center at San Diego State UniversityIn this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Eric Frost, Director of the Visualization Center at San Diego State University.
01:30 Current topics in geospatial visualization (focused on Ukraine).
05:10 What does the SDSU Visualization Laboratory do?
- https://vizcenter.sdsu.edu/vizcenter/about/
07:30 Supporting General Honore’s requests for data on maps.
08:15 Young people thinking spatially and the impact of smartphones on expectations
09:50 Making geospatial data useful, usable, and used.
10:50 Establishing Trust and recognizing Trusted Agents for data di...
2022-06-2931 minThrough the Human Geography LensRyan Engstrom - Director of the Data Science Program, Department of Geography, George Washington UniversityIn this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Ryan Engstrom, Director of the Data Science Program within the Department of Geography at George Washington University.
00:50 Professor Engstrom’s research interests
01:35 Defining “deprived areas”
Kuffer, Thomson, D. R., Boo, G., Mahabir, R., Grippa, T., Vanhuysse, S., Engstrom, R., Ndugwa, R., Makau, J., Darin, E., de Albuquerque, J. P., & Kabaria, C. (2020). The Role of Earth Observation in an Integrated Deprived Area Mapping “System” for Low-to-Middle Income Countries. Remote Sensing (Basel, Switzerland), 12(6), 982–. https://doi.org/10.3390...
2022-06-2222 minThrough the Human Geography LensJessica Block - Wildfire Data from the University of California - San DiegoIn this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Eric Rasmussen sit down with Jessica Block, senior wildfire data scientist from the University of California - San Diego.
01:45 The 2009 Australian Black Saturday wildfire analysis
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/black-saturday-bushfires
#wildfire
03:10 Immersive human-sized VR cave for environmental wildfire risk assessment
https://www.kpbs.org/news/science-technology/2019/09/02/virtual-reality-cave-offers-three-dimensional-expe
#VR, #immersion, #cave
04:30 WiFire imagery analysis from San Diego County mountaintops
https://wifire.ucsd.edu/
05:45 HPWr...
2022-06-1520 minThrough the Human Geography LensMarie Urban - Group Lead for Human Geography at Oak Ridge National LaboratoryIn this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Marie Urban of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
02:20 Role at Oak Ridge (Group Lead for Human Geography)
04:30 LANDSCAN to understand populations and population movements.
05:50 Population assessment methodologies, proxies, and gap-fillers.
08:50 Prior technical methods and the iterative changes from 10-meter resolution to now.
11:10 Three types of LANDSCAN data sets.
13:20 Specific data fusion requirements for seamless integration
15:02 Trends in population movement during the COVID lockdown.
Sparks, Kevin, et al...
2022-06-0823 minThrough the Human Geography LensDan Opstal and Jordan Beauregard from US Geological Survey’s Civil Applications CommitteeIn this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Dan Opstal and Jordan Beauregard from US Geological Survey’s Civil Applications Committee.
0:48 Defining the Civil Applications Committee
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2022/3002/fs20223002.pdf
2:07 Defining the Triple Junction positioning of the CAC
2:40 The CAC and its Human Security tasks
4:00 Open-source data availability
4:20 International Charter for Space and Major Disasters
https://disasterscharter.org/web/guest/home;jsessionid=87F1DB8EF0A2ECA8F5728124A8760CB0.APP1
5:30 CAC...
2022-06-0122 minThrough the Human Geography LensLaura Cline from the Department of State (Dos) Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU).In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sat down with Laura Cline from the Department of State (Dos) Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU).
00:59 Laura describes her role at DoS HIU specifically with the Secondary Cities and the Cities COVID Mitigation Mapping (C2M2) program.
1:55 Outreach and mapping initiatives – MapGive. Find mapping opportunities atHIU.state.gov and https://mapgive.state.gov
9:16 The value of partnerships and the Participatory Mapping Partnerships Network
11:51 Join a mapathon!
13:54 Laura shares her perspective on the value of open data.
2022-05-2525 minThrough the Human Geography LensDr. Robert Chen and Dr. Alex de Sherbinin from the Center for International Earth Science and Information Network (CIESEN) at Columbia UniversityIn this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Dr. Robert Chen and Dr. Alex de Sherbinin from the Center for International Earth Science and Information Network (CIESEN) at Columbia University.
1:00 Dr. Chen talks about his career path to CIESIN.
1:42 Early research on the impact of sea-level rise.
3:35 CIESIN is born as an independent consortium.
4:30 Dr. Chen describes his current role at CIESEN.
6:10 CIESIN datasets that are openly available to the community http://www.ciesin.org/ and Socioeconomic Data and Appli...
2022-05-1822 minThrough the Human Geography LensDr. Melinda Laituri from Colorado State UniversityIn this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sat down with Dr. Melinda Laituri from Colorado State University who spoke about her research on Secondary Cities, participatory mapping, and water security.
1:00 Dr. Laituri describes the Secondary Cities project.
2:26 Secondary Cities data https://secondarycities.state.gov/
3:45 Establishing partnerships across the Secondary Cities.
5:35 Where are the Secondary Cities?
7:10 On the ground with Secondary Cities.
8:25 Data resources https://secondarycities.state.gov/ https://hiu.state.gov/
9:05 Secondary Cities methodology used during COVID pande...
2022-05-1017 minThrough the Human Geography LensJim Courson from the International Mission BoardIn this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt speak with Jim Courson from the International Mission Board. Mr. Courson speaks about his work at IMB and discovering, mapping and sharing data on people groups around the world.
00:50 Mission of IMB
2:40 Why Ethnolinguistic Groups Research
3:50 How do you gather data on people groups? Ethnologue: Languages of the World
5:50 How do you map data on people groups?
7:00 Discover people groups data here - People Groups Official Web Site
9:30 What makes the “Dog’s Head”...
2022-05-0422 minThrough the Human Geography LensDr. Budhu Bhaduri from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)In this second episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt speak with Dr. Budhu Bhaduri from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Dr. Bhaduri speaks about his journey to become the Director of the Geospatial Science and Human Security Division, the rich history of ORNL, and the value of partnering with the World-Wide Human Geography Data (WWHGD) Working Group.
5:05 Mission of ORNL and its historical investment in science (https://www.ORNL.gov)
9:10 ORNL’s impact on the Human Geography community
10:50 Value of partnership with the WWHGD W...
2022-04-2522 min
Through the Human Geography LensDr. Debbie Fugate and Dr. Lee Schwartz, World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group CochairsIn this first episode of Through the Human Geography Lens, the hosts, Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt, speak with the cochairs of the World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group, Dr. Debbie Fugate and Dr. Lee Schwartz, about their journeys as cochairs of the Working Group, as well as the origins and history of the Working Group. The hosts, Dr. Fugate, and Dr. Schwartz discuss how the Working Group approaches the study of human geography and why it is such a critical unifying function.
WWHGD website: https://WWHGD.org
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2022-04-2527 min