🌟 New publication from the NSF I-GUIDE Team! "Assessing global sustainability performance, imbalance, and coordination over space and time"! Read the full paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🌍 5 days to submit your abstract! The Spatial AI Challenge 2025–26 is back and underway! Hosted on the NSF I-GUIDE Platform, this global challenge invites FAIR, open, and reproducible #AI solutions. 🔗 i-guide.io/spatial-ai-c... #GeoAI #Geospatial #SpatialAI

🧭 Learn how to make #geospatial data science and #AI more ethical, transparent, and accountable! This hands-on session introduces the I-GUIDE Ethics to help assess project risks and improve documentation, uncertainty reporting, and reproducibility. 📅 Dec 17, 11am CT 🔗 i-guide.io/i-guide-vco/...

🗺️ Join us Dec 3, 2025 (11 AM CT) for Introduction to Mapping and Visualizing Social Data with R! Learn to build reproducible R workflows using open datasets make clear, effective maps. 🔗 Register: i-guide.io/i-guide-vco/... #GeoAI

🔥 Explore how #GeoAI can improve #wildfire prediction in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands! Learn how land use and climate extremes shape burn dynamics and risk mapping! 📅 Nov 19, 2025 · 12 PM CT 🔗 Register: i-guide.io/i-guide-vco/...

🌟 Deadline Extended! Apply now for the 2025–26 #UCGIS I-GUIDE Community Champions program! Design instructional materials integrating #SpatialAI and open, FAIR, reproducible science using the I-GUIDE Platform. $3,000 stipend available! Apply by Nov 17, 2025 👉 i-guide.io/community-ch...

📣 Paper Abstracts Due Soon! AAG 2026 Symposium on #Spatial AI and Data Science: Frontiers and Applications Join us at AAG 2026 to explore how advances in #AI and #cyberGIS are transforming research and addressing global challenges in #sustainability. Learn more here: i-guide.io/aag-2026-sym...

🌟 New publication from the NSF I-GUIDE Team! "A Video Machine Learning Framework for Spatiotemporal Analysis of Complex Urban Dynamics" by Fangzheng Lyu of Virginia Tech, Daniel Kiv and Shaowen Wang of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Read the full paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tgis...

🌟 I-GUIDE Platform Knowledge of the Week! For the week of October 27, 2025 Jupyter Notebook: Correlations is the knowledge element of the week. This resource provides an overview of correlations, #spatial correlations, and LISA. 🔗 Access it here: platform.i-guide.io/notebooks/54...

🌍 Less than 20 days to submit your abstract! The Spatial AI Challenge 2025–26 is back and underway! Hosted on the NSF I-GUIDE Platform, this global challenge invites FAIR, open, and reproducible #AI solutions. 🔗 i-guide.io/spatial-ai-c... #GeoAI #Geospatial #SpatialAI

🔥 Learn how DeepEarth, a #geospatial #AI model, powers fire ecology simulations! Join Qin Huang, Brandon Voelker, and Lance Legel as they share how they built training pipelines and ran experiments to support future firewise landscape design. 🔗 Register: lnkd.in/eM6fxjbm

🌟 I-GUIDE Platform Release Notes! v.0.7.9 (September 2025) Changes include multiple profiles support added, updates to various features for quality, and bug fixes! Read the full release notes here 👉 platform.i-guide.io/docs/release... Link to I-GUIDE platform: platform.i-guide.io

🌍 The Spatial AI Challenge 2025–26 is back and underway! Hosted on the NSF I-GUIDE Platform, this global challenge invites FAIR, open, and reproducible #AI solutions. 🏆Submit your abstract and join the challenge! 🔗 Learn more and apply: i-guide.io/spatial-ai-c... #GeoAI #Geospatial #SpatialAI

September will be filled with super interesting ways to connect geospatial analyses with computing and AI! Check out these upcoming virtual consulting office sessions hosted by @i-guide.bsky.social . All info and registration at i-guide.io/i-guide-vco/ #GIS #geospatial #GeoAI #spatialAI

Coupling data visualization with storytelling is a key combo for scientific communication. Join us this Wednesday August 13 at 11am Central as Matthew Turk shares his thoughts on this important topic! Registration at i-guide.io/i-guide-vco/... #datavis #scicomm #datascience #dataviz #visualization

Do you work with Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) data? Join us today (Weds July 23, 11am Central) to learn about the SDOH & Place Project (sdohplace.org) and the important roles that data discovery tools play! More details and registration at i-guide.io/i-guide-vco/ #SDOH #GIS #geography

July is filled with exciting opportunities to learn with I-GUIDE! More details on these and other online sessions at i-guide.io/i-guide-vco/.

Going to the #Sustainability #Research & Innovation Congress in Chicago next week (sricongress.org)? Check out these FREE workshops & tutorials! A full slate on Tuesday June 17. Details, registration at i-guide.io/forum/forum-... #geoAI #GIS #dataviz #cyberGIS @futureearth.bsky.social

Register here: i-guide.io/forum/forum-... for Workshops and Tutorials @ the Forum!

New paper from I-GUIDE researchers in the journal Science of The Total Environment! "Spatiotemporal dynamics of coastal dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico over 20 years using remote sensing." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Not sure where to start with the I-GUIDE Platform? Check out our "Getting Started" tutorial walking through the basics:

Join us for next week's VCO: "Digital Twin Framework with Spatiotemporal Vision Transformers for Heat Resilience" featuring Dr. Xinyue Ye from Texas A&M! More info and register here:

New paper from I-GUIDE researchers in the journal Science of the Total Environment! "Compound effects of drought and COVID-19 on soybean production in Brazil: Challenges and policy responses" was lead by Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva!

New paper from I-GUIDE researchers in the Journal of Hydrology: "Analyzing the effects of data splitting and covariate shift on machine learning based streamflow prediction in ungauged basins" lead by Pin-Ching Li!

ONE WEEK LEFT to apply for Summer School 2025! i-guide.io/summer-schoo... This year's topic is "Spatial AI for Extreme Events and Disaster Resilience" and will take place in Boulder, CO on Aug 4-8th, 2025! Participant applications are due Monday April 14th.

New paper from I-GUIDE researchers: "Reducing sand mining’s growing toll on marine biodiversity" lead by Aurora Torres! doi.org/10.1016/j.on...

Join us next week for our VCO on "Introduction to the R Spatial Notebooks: Automating IPUMS USA Data Extraction and Management Workflows in R" This excellent talk will be delivered by Kate Vavra-Musser from the University of Minnesota! More info & register:

New paper from I-GUIDE researchers: "The Russia-Ukraine war reduced food production and exports with a disparate geographical impact worldwide"

Spread the word for the Summer School 2025! i-guide.io/summer-schoo... This year's topic is "Spatial AI for Extreme Events and Disaster Resilience" and will take place in Boulder, CO on Aug 4-8th, 2025! Participant applications are due Monday April 14th.

LAST CALL for I-GUIDE Forum 2025! We can't wait to see your posters, papers, workshops, etc. in June, but you need to get your submissions in today! i-guide.io/forum/forum-... The I-GUIDE Forum 2025 is co-located with the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress in Chicago!

Join us April 2nd at 11am CT for "Resilience Through Connection: Adaptive Capacity in Telecoupled Human and Environmental Systems" with Iman Haqiqi to learn more about SIMPLE-G!

Our #AAG2025 sessions for Friday! More info: go.illinois.edu/aag2025

Our #AAG2025 sessions for Thursday! More info: go.illinois.edu/aag2025

Our #AAG2025 sessions for Wednesday! More info: go.illinois.edu/aag2025

Our #AAG2025 sessions for Wednesday! More info: go.illinois.edu/aag2025

Our #AAG2025 sessions for Tuesday! More info: go.illinois.edu/aag2025

Deadline for the I-GUIDE Forum 2025 has been extended to March 31st! We can't wait to see your posters, workshops, tutorials, papers, and more in Chicago this June! i-guide.io/forum/forum-...

Check out our #AAG2025 sessions: go.illinois.edu/AAG2025

Take a tour of the I-GUIDE Platform:

Don't miss the April 2 VCO where Iman Haqiqi will present "Resilience Through Connection: Adaptive Capacity in Telecoupled Human and Environmental Systems" Iman is a brilliant economist at Purdue who will be discussing the SIMPLE-G model for large-scale spatial analysis!

Very excited for #AAG2025 next week and the AAG 2025 Symposium on Spatial AI & Data Science for Sustainability go.illinois.edu/AAG2025

You don't want to miss tomorrow's VCO: "Convergence Curriculum for Geospatial Data Science: Overview and Q&A" with Eric Shook! Learn more and register:

This is truly an amazing funding opportunity. Travel funding for US-based students to attend @giscience-conf.bsky.social in New Zealand! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Check out the new pre-print: "Building Machine Learning Challenges for Anomaly Detection in Science". This exciting work was lead by the NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution team with contributions from I-GUIDE!

Learn more about what you can do with knowledge elements in this quick I-GUIDE Platform (platform.i-guide.io) tour video:

Next week's VCO (Mar 19th @ 12 CT) is a great talk from Eric Shook on "Convergence Curriculum for Geospatial Data Science: Overview and Q&A" He and the I-GUIDE team have done some amazing work with the Convergence Curriculum, so don't miss this opportunity to learn more!

The I-GUIDE Platform (platform.i-guide.io) is rapidly gaining users and knowledge elements, but we are creating innovative search functionalities to handle the challenge. Keep an eye out for some very exciting updates to search soon and learn a bit about the current search functionalities:

Don't miss "Extracting Location Descriptions from Disaster-Related Messages using Geo-Knowledge-Guided GPT Models" with Yingjie Hu today March 11th at 12pm CT! More info and register here:

The I-GUIDE Platform (platform.i-guide.io) can support a wide variety of knowledge elements---papers, code, data, and more---with connections between them and computational environments to run the workflows! Learn more about Platform's "knowledge elements" in this quick video:

As we wrap up the week, be sure to sign up for next week's VCO: "Extracting Location Descriptions from Disaster-Related Messages using Geo-Knowledge-Guided GPT Models" with Yingjie Hu on March 11th at 12pm CT