Research Interests Include:
- Urban Revitalization and Resilience
- Globalization and International Development
- Landscape Ecology
- Affordable Housing
- Remote Sensing, GIS, and Spatial Statistics
- Global Carbon Cycle
- Hazardous Materials Transport
- Industrial Innovation
- Navigation System Design
- Augmented Reality Applications in GIS
- Global Political Economy
Recent News
The Albany Visualization and Informatics Lab (AVAIL), a data science and planning laboratory at the University at Albany directed by Geography and Planning associate professor Catherine Lawson, partnered with the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services to transform the state’s hazard mitigation plan from a static, linear, 2,000-page document into a living, data-forward, nonproprietary, web-based planning platform called MitigateNY.
Students received award for Saratoga Springs Natural Resource Inventory project (L to R: Mark Castiglione, MRP Alumni, Marcia Kees, instructor, Karthik Soundara Rajan, MRP student).
There is no more contentious issue globally among national political parties and the general public than border enforcement, centering today on construction of physical barriers, militarization of border zones and arrests of illegal immigrants.
But Kate Coddington, assistant professor of Geography & Planning, and a colleague from the University of Arizona are examining the effectiveness of a less expensive and less controversial method of regulating transnational migration: the public information campaign, or PIC.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a new report that dives into land use and how it relates to climate change.
It's GPS — but for a cemetery.
A group of faculty and students at the University at Albany Department of Geography and Planning unveiled the Albany Rural Cemetery Explorer program Saturday, which will allow visitors to take a digital tour through the iconic, 178-year-old cemetery.
ARCE currently has mapped out dozens of gravesites of notable people buried at the cemetery, like former Albany mayor Erastus Corning 2nd or Chester Arthur, the 21st president of the United States. It also features the locations of people who participated in the Revolutionary War.
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