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COGS Director Sergio Rey Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

COGS is ecstatic to announce that Director Sergio Rey has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Rey is recognized for work as a leading pioneer of the Python Spatial Analysis Library (PySAL), downloaded two million times.

Professor Franklin Shares Invited Perspective in the 50th anniversary year of Journal of Biogeography

I reflect on developments in species distribution modelling, illustrate how embedded the methodology has become in all areas of biogeography and speculate on future directions in the field. Areas of progress in SDM that may become more widely accessible and useful tools in biogeography include genetically informed models and community distribution models

Associate Director Knaap elected to the North American Regional Science Council

The mission of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) is to promote the scholarly exchange of ideas and knowledge that apply to urban and regional phenomena in North America and across the globe.

New Paper by Knaap and Rey Examines Travel Networks and Racial Segregation

In a new paper published in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, SASS scholars Knaap and Rey show the importance of considering features of the built and natural envrironment–especially transportation networks, when measuring racial residential segregation.

New Book by Rey, Arribas-Bel, and Wolf Geographic Data Science with Python by CRC Press.

From the publisher: This book provides the tools, the methods, and the theory to meet the challenges of contemporary data science applied to geographic problems and data. In the new world of pervasive, large, frequent, and rapid data, there are new opportunities to understand and analyze the role of geography in everyday life.

New Paper by VALE Researcher Brooke Rose Published in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Brooke Rose, PhD candidate working with Janet Franklin in the VALE group, published the first chapter of her dissertation in the high-ranking journal Global Ecology and Biogeography, entitled “Rarity, geography, and plant exposure to global change in the California Floristic Province.

SASS Presents New Paper Examining the Link Between Neighborhood and School Boundaries at WRSA

In a (another) special session honoring SDSU’s renowned Professor of Geography Art Getis, SASS researchers will present a new paper at the 2023 annual meeting of the Western Regional Science Association.

The Handbook of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences is Published

The brand new Handbook of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences, edited by COGS Director Serge Rey and Rachel Franklin is published in November. The handbook includes chapters from Director Rey and Associate Director Eli Knaap, as well as several COGS affiliates including Ran Wei, Levi Wolf, Dani Arribas-Bel, Wei Kang, and many more

New Study Classifies the Entire Planet’s Ecosystems for the First Time

A global cross-disciplinary team of scientists, including Janet Franklin, San Diego State University biogeographer and National Academy of Sciences member, led by University of New South Wales, Sydney researchers, has developed the first comprehensive classification of the world’s ecosystems across land, rivers, wetlands, and seas.

COGS Honors the Late Arthur Getis at NARSC 2022

In a special session honoring SDSU’s renowned Professor of Geography Art Getis, COGS researchers will present a new paper based on one of Getis’s most famous contributions to the field: the $G_i$ statistic.