Geography, Planning, and Sustainability News
Professor Narins talk at USC U.S.-China Institute about Belt and Road Initiative
Professor Narins discusses the Belt and Road Initiative at USC's US-China Institute, exploring its global impacts and implications.
Assistant Professor Rui Li Uses GIS to Reconstruct 1877 Tragedy at Albany Rural Cemetery
Geography and Planning Assistant Professor Rui Li and former adjunct Kurt Swartz used Geographic Information Systems and spatial analysis to create A GIS Supported Reconstruction of an 1877 Tragedy for the Albany Rural Cemetery. Watch the video.
AVAIL ‘Visualization Wizardry’ Produces Data Source to Aid Region's Nonprofits
When a consortium of leading Capital Region community groups went looking for a clear and accessible platform to help nonprofit social-service organizations get the local statistical profiles they needed, they had no problem visualizing where to turn.
Albany Visualization and Informatics Lab Cited for Work on MitigateNY
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.
A Geographer Explores a More Humane Path to Border Enforcement
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.
MRP Studio Receives APA Award
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).
Professor Lapenas' interview with National Public Radio
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.
UAlbany's Geography and Planning to offer digital tours through Albany Rural Cemetery
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.