PSU 2005 May 29-June 11, 2005: University Park, PA
Workshop Agenda
This tentative agenda is intended to give applicants an idea of the general format and content of the workshop. It will be modified periodically to provide more detail on the workshop content, instructors, and participants. Note: All PDF documents are password protected.
Week One
Sunday, May 29
Morning - Afternoon: 8:30am - 5:00pm
Arrival - Memorial Day weekend, plan accordingly
Evening
Welcome Reception - Group Assignments (Groups A, B, C & D formed)
Group A - Ernesto Amaral, Agbessi Amouzou, Rhonda BeLue, Henry Carretta, Jeronimo Muniz, Diem Tran
Group B - Mathew Creighton, Maren Andrea Jimenez, Baochang Liu, Seth McKee, Kelvin Pollard, Melissa Scopilliti
Group C - Amy Bailey, Katherine Bartley, Jason Fletcher, Everett Henderson, Vladimir Canudas Romo, Tse-chuan Yang
Group D - Gniesha Dinwiddie, Laryssa Mykyta, Tom Owuor, Dean Steger, Laura Tach, Andrew TimleckWelcome Presentation
(357kb) - Stephen Matthews
Monday, May 30
Morning: 8:30am - 12:00pm
Introductions - Stephen Matthews
Short Introduction
Resources and Starting Places
Group A Presentations (9:30am)
"Spatial approaches in health care utilization and fertility research"
Group B Presentations (11:00am)
"Spatial perspectives on poverty, race/ethnicity, inequality"
Discussants: Stephen Matthews & PRI colleaguesReminder - Memorial Day
Afternoon: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Group C Presentations (1:30pm)
"Spatial methods in migration and health research"
Group D Presentations (3:00pm)
"Spatial perspectives on social inequality, community and health"
Discussants: Stephen Matthews & PRI colleagues
Evening
Breakout Groups for instructors (and faculty) to participate
Tuesday, May 31
Morning: 8:30am - 12:00pm
Introduction to ArcGIS 9.x - Beth Fletcher King assisted by Alistair Geddes.
Exploring GIS Concepts
Displaying Data
Afternoon: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Introduction to ArcGIS 9.x - Beth Fletcher King assisted by Alistair Geddes.
Querying your database
Working with spatial data
Evening
Breakout Groups for instructors (and faculty) to participate
Wednesday, June 1
Morning: 8:30am - 12:00pm
Introduction to ArcGIS 9.x - Beth Fletcher King assisted by Alistair Geddes.
Working with tables
Editing data
Afternoon: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Introduction to ArcGIS 9.x - Beth Fletcher King assisted by Alistair Geddes.
Working with geo-referenced data
Presenting data
Evening
Breakout Groups for instructors (and faculty) to participate
Coupling ethnography and GIS in Family and Neighborhood Research - Stephen Matthews (7:30pm)
Background Reading (password protected):
Viewing People and Places: Coupling Geographic Information Analysis Techniques with Ethnographic Research
Figures for reading above
Thursday, June 2
Morning: 8:30am - 12:00pm
Geospatial Data Sources - Stephen Matthews
Links and Data Sources
Cartographic Theory/ Geovisualization - James Macgill
Afternoon: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
GeoVista Studio Lab - James Macgill
Evening
Confidentiality and Spatially Explicit Data
Background Reading (password protected):
Geographically Masking Health Data to Preserve Confidentiality
Conflicting Demand
Friday, June 3
Morning: 8:30am - 11:30pm
Data Sources and Access - Deborah Balk (CIESIN)
Background Reading (password protected):
A Spatial Analysis of Childhood Mortality in West Africa
The Distribution of People and the Dimension of PlaceSpatial Analysis: A Roadmap
Afternoon: 12:30pm - 5:00pm
An Introduction to GPS - Michelle Zeiders (In preparation for the geocaching tour on Sunday.)
CSISS Tools: Software Overview - Stephen Matthews
GeoDa
Individual Exploration of Data and Software Tools - A.N. Other and/or Stephen Matthews
Taking Stock and Thinking Ahead
Evening
Free Time
Saturday, June 4
Morning - Evening
Free Time
Week Two
Sunday, June 5
Morning - Afternoon: 8:30am - 5:00pm
Geocaching Team Competition (using GPS)
Evening
BBQ
Monday, June 6
Morning: 8:30am - 12:00pm
Spatial Analysis and Statistics - Michael Goodchild
Goodchild PresentationBackground Reading (password protected):
Query, measurement, and transformation
Descriptive summary, design, and inference
Spatial modeling with GISA Spatial Approach for Malaria Risk Assessment - Marcia Caldas de Castro
Afternoon: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Lab Exercises
Point Pattern Analysis - Marcia Caldas de Castro
Background Reading (password protected):
Agricultural Colonization and Malaria on the Amazon Frontier
Local Spatial Autocorrelation Statistics: Distributional Issues and an Application
The Analysis of Spatial Association by use of Distance Statistics
Spatial Analysis in Epidemiology: Nascent Science or a Failure of GIS?
Evening
Invited Speaker (TBA)
Tuesday, June 7
Morning: 8:30am - 12:00pm
Issues, Limitations, and Problems - Michael Goodchild
Areal Interpolation and Spatial ConvolutionBackground Reading (password protected):
The future of GIS and spatial analysis
Afternoon: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Individual Projects - In lab all afternoon
Group A Consultation - 1:00pm
Group B Consultation - 3:00pm
Evening
Breakout Groups for instructors (and faculty) to participate
Wednesday, June 8
Morning: 8:30am - 12:00pm
Individual Projects - In lab all morning
Group C Consultation - 9:00am
Group D Consultation - 11:00am
Afternoon: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Individual Projects - In lab all afternoon
Thursday, June 9
Morning: 8:30am - 12:00pm
Mini-Demography Conference on Spatial Demography - Participant-led presentations
Session I - "Spatial perspectives on social inequality, community and health"
(8:30 - 10:00am)Session II - "Spatial methods in migration and health research"
( 10:30am - 12:00pm)
Afternoon: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Mini-Demography Conference on Spatial Demography - Participant-led presentations
Session III - "Spatial perspectives on poverty, race/ethnicity, inequality"
(1:30 - 3:00pm)Session IV - "Spatial approaches in health care utilization and fertility research"
(3:30 - 5:00pm)
Friday, June 10
Morning: 8:30am - 12:00pm
Mini-Demography Conference on Spatial Demography
Making Sense of Location: Space in Social Science Research
Background Reading (password protected):
Immigrant Enclaves and Ethnic Communities in New York and Los Angeles
Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools: Impacts on Minority Children in the Boston Region
Neighborhood Mechanisms and the Spatial Dynamics of Birth Weight
Variations in Immigrant Incorporation in the Neighborhoods of AmsterdamSpatial Inequality: A Comparative, Subnational Approach
Background Reading (password protected):
Continuity and Change in Place Stratification
Macrolevel Theory and Local-Level Inequality
The Emerging Roles of County Governments in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas
Public Employment, Welfare Transfers, and Economic Well-Being across Local Populations
Afternoon: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Mini-Demography Conference on Spatial Demography
Amazonian Deforestation and the Structure of Households: Methodological and Practical Considerations
Background Reading (password protected):
Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon
People and the Environment
Land Use Patterns on an Agicultural Frontier in Brazil
Theories Underlying the Study of Human-Environment InteractionAwards Ceremony for Best Participant Presentations and Certificates of Completion from PRI and ESRI.
Wrap-Up
Evening
Final Reception
Saturday, June 11
Morning
Departure Day