GIS Day 2025
The University of South Florida Libraries will celebrate GIS Day with an in-person conference on November 19, 2025. The event will take place in the Tampa campus USF Library at 4101 USF Apple Drive, Tampa, Florida, 33620.
GIS Day brings together interdisciplinary scholars to share their work on innovative applications of geographic information system (GIS) technology in analysis and visualization for gaining insights into geospatial data. The GIS Day 2025 theme is "Where Spatial Meets Everything"—celebrating the limitless ways geography and spatial thinking touch our world and showcasing how GIS connects people, places, and problems across every discipline.
| Time | Presentation Name | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome | Denise Wright, Tampa Bay GIS User Group |
| 9:15 a.m. | Interpolating an Eigen-Decomposed Aedes aegypti Swimming Pool Habitat for Implementing “Seek and Destroy” Larval Source Management in Los Angeles County, California | Sasha Mosich |
| 9:35 a.m. | Natural Disasters and Human Migration in the United States: Insights from Automated Machine Learning and Explainable AI | Xiang Li |
| 9:55 a.m. | GIS for Financial Inclusion: Mapping "Financial Deserts" and Strategic Growth for Federal Credit Unions in Tampa Bay | Stephanie England |
| 10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break | --- |
| 10:25 a.m. | Creating Interactive Web Maps with Python | Rebecca Vandewalle |
| 10:35 a.m. | GIS for Historical Preservation: Mapping Florida’s Past | Jah'niyah Lys |
| 10:45 a.m. | Setting Baseline Conditions for Land Cover Change Analyses Through Digitization of Symbology on Historical Mid-20th Century USGS Topographic Maps | Dhrubo Barua |
| 10:55 a.m. | Lightning Talk Q&A | --- |
| 11:05 a.m. | Coffee Break | --- |
| 11:15 a.m. | Python Toolbox for Turning Raw NEXRAD Radar Rainfall Data Into Flood Model Input | James Cunningham |
| 11:25 a.m. | Historical Wetland Mapping Utilizing Readily Available Geospatial Datasets | Bethany O'Donnell |
| 11:35 a.m. | Historical Wetland and Lake Mapping from Mid-20th-Century Grayscale Aerial Imagery: A Comparative Study of Classical and GeoAI-Based Automated Approaches | Zamil Ahamed Limon |
| 11:45 a.m. | Lightning Talk Q&A | --- |
| 11:55 a.m. | Closing Remarks | Ben Mittler |
| 12:00 p.m. | Adjournment | --- |
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