- New publications in PLoS Computational Biology, Ecosystems, Diversity and Distributions, Ecology Letters, Journal of Biogeography,and IJGIS - CAGIS receives NSF funding to study landscape dynamics of interacting disturbances between forest disease, fire, and drought. - CAGIS receives USDA FS funding to develop an advanced Web GIS-enabled science delivery system for the management and distribution of spatiotemporal GIS data for the Santee Experiment Forest - Tomas Vaclavik won the 2011 PhD Student Paper Competition of the Association of American Geographers Biogeography Specialty Group (BSG) - Sarah Haas won the P.E.O. Scholar Award from the Philanthropic Educational Society - Monica Dorning received a full scholarship for GCOE-INeT International Summer School at Hokkaido University in Japan

The Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (CAGIS)

We are an interdisciplinary research center that addresses pressing global resource and sustainability concerns through analysis of human-environment interactions at multiple spatial, temporal, and decision-making scales. We resolve complex questions by integrating theory from the geospatial, natural, and social sciences coupled with advanced modeling techniques and high performance computing.

Our integrated approach – synthesizing field, laboratory, social survey and remote sensing data – allows us to pursue a range of research frontiers including:


   - Complexity in coupled human-natural systems

   - Landscape epidemiology of emerging diseases

   - Urban growth and land change dynamics

   - Biological invasions and species distribution modeling

   - Urban ecology and provision of ecosystem services

   - Earth and environmental science applications

   - Temporal GIS, geocomputation & cyberinfrastructure