Name: AGX Applied Geography Conference 2025: Geographic Confluences
Start: 2025-10-22T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-24T23:59:00-05:00
Location: T-REX

AGX Applied Geography Conference 2025: Geographic Confluences

from Wednesday, October 22, 2025 (12:00 AM) to Friday, October 24, 2025 (11:59 PM)

Monday, October 20, 2025
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

12:00 PM Registration
Registration
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
2:00 PM Building a Dynamic Mentorship Culture at AGX
Building a Dynamic Mentorship Culture at AGX
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Building a Dynamic Mentorship Culture at AGX Part 1 - Amanda Barney (Texas State University) Dawna Cerney (YSU)
3:00 PM Building a Dynamic Mentorship Culture at AGX
Building a Dynamic Mentorship Culture at AGX
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Building a Dynamic Mentorship Culture at AGX Part 2 - Amanda Barney (Texas State University) Dawna Cerney (YSU)
4:00 PM Break
Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM Strictly Social/AGX 25 Reception
Strictly Social/AGX 25 Reception
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Thursday, October 23, 2025
8:30 AM Spatial Analytics and Geovisualization
Spatial Analytics and Geovisualization
8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Represent Tropical Cyclone Wind Impact Areas from Wind Radii at Discrete Center Points in the National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 - Yijie Zhu (Florida Atlantic University)

8:50 AM New Construction Activity Detection and Classification via Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning - Doren Walker (Reveal Global Consulting) Dwarakh Nayam (Reveal Global Consulting) LEI PENG

9:10 AM Sensemaking in Protected Areas: Task-Based Research Using a Geovisualization Tool - Wendy Zeller Zigaitis (US Government)

9:30 AM Mapping Influence: GIS Reconstruction of Nicholas Jarrot's Estate in Early 19th-Century Cahokia - Stacey Brown Amilian (SIUE)
9:50 AM Break
Break
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM Climate, Environment, and Geomorphology
Climate, Environment, and Geomorphology
10:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Contributions

10:00 AM Calculating Scope 3 Emissions using Campus Study Abroad Air Travel Data and Web GIS - Christopher Badurek (State University of New York at Cortland)

10:20 AM Towards Weather Information Fusion Framework for Climate-Resilient Smallholder Agriculture - Daniel Waktola (Austin Community College)

10:40 AM Local environmental responses to regional climatic changes during the Holocene: a case study from Palmetto State Park, Texas - Amanda Barney (Texas State University)

11:00 AM Quantification of social vulnerability to power outage: PCA-AHP Vs. SoVI and CDC SVI - Qingmin Meng (Mississippi State University)
Scaling Local Voices: GIS, Trust, and Community Engagement Roundtable Part 1
Scaling Local Voices: GIS, Trust, and Community Engagement Roundtable Part 1
10:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Contributions

10:00 AM Scaling Local Voices: GIS, Trust, and Community Engagement Roundtable - Dawna Cerney (Youngstown State University) Susan Lucas (University of Pittsburgh)
11:20 AM Break
Break
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Map This: Places That Need Mapping and How It’s Being Accomplished
Map This: Places That Need Mapping and How It’s Being Accomplished
11:30 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Map This: Places That Need Mapping and How It’s Being Accomplished - Garet Couch (President and CEO Tribal GIS) Lynn Moorman (Mount Royal University) Rashmi (Government Ripudaman College, Nabha)
12:50 PM Break
Break
12:50 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM General Poster Session
General Poster Session
1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Intercomparison of NASA GLOBE Observer Land Cover Data with Satellite-Derived Products in 2020 - Yaqian He (Indiana University Bloomington)

1:20 PM Land Cover Change Analysis of Restoration of the North Aral Sea, Kazakhstan, 2000 to 2014 - Christopher Badurek (State University of New York at Cortland)

1:40 PM Visually Accessible Cartography: A Case Study in St. Louis, Missouri - Alyssa Hoog, M.Sc. (City of St. Louis, Office of the President of the Board of Public Service)

2:00 PM Geospatial Determinants of Boil Water Notices: A Block-Level Analysis - Tanmoy Malaker (Graduate Student)

2:00 PM Lidar and GIS Terrain Analyses of Subsidence related to Historic Salt Mining in Central New York - Christopher Badurek (State University of New York at Cortland)

2:00 PM Priority Sites for Colorectal Cancer Screening at Health Centers in Texas, 2024 - Benjamin Zhan (Texas State University)
Scaling Local Voices: GIS, Trust, and Community Engagement Roundtable Part 2
Scaling Local Voices: GIS, Trust, and Community Engagement Roundtable Part 2
1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Scaling Local Voices: GIS, Trust, and Community Engagement Roundtable - Dawna Cerney (Youngstown State University) Susan Lucas (University of Pittsburgh)
Student Poster Competition
Student Poster Competition
1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Flood Risk and Socioeconomic Inequality in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County - Fiorente Pampena (University of Pittsburgh)

1:20 PM The Geography of Risk: Crash Data Disparities in Philadelphia - Sophia Bottiglieri (University of Pittsburgh)

1:40 PM A New Alliance? Geospatial Analysis of Russian Influence in Egypt - Shamari Long (Harris-Stowe State University)

2:00 PM Geospatial Analysis of water retention and soil type to develop an Irrigation System Adaptable to Its Environment - Aubree Mitchell (Harris-Stowe State University)

2:00 PM Russian Effects of Energy Projects in the Republic of Congo - Lyana Wilks (Harris-Stowe State University)

2:00 PM Comparative Analysis of Opportunities for Small and Medium Private Sewage Treatment Plants in Wayne and Geauga Counties - Henry Harnar (Youngstown State University)

2:00 PM Mapping Memory: Geospatial Preservation at Homestead Cemetery, Pa. - Emma Coleman (University of Pittsburgh)
2:20 PM Break
Break
2:20 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM "Mapping” a Route Forward: A Discussion with Geospatial Professionals
"Mapping” a Route Forward: A Discussion with Geospatial Professionals
2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM "Mapping” a Route Forward: A Discussion with Geospatial Professionals - Amanda Barney (Texas State University) Elizabeth Skender (Western Land Services) Michael Ratcliffe (Reveal Global Consulting) Susan Lucas (University of Pittsburgh)
3:50 PM Break
Break
3:50 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Student Paper Competition (Graduate & Undergraduate)
Student Paper Competition (Graduate & Undergraduate)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM MULTI-SCALE REMOTE SENSING AND CLIMATE TIME SERIES FOR MODELING ORANGE YIELD DECLINE IN FLORIDA (2007–2023) - Shaibal Ahmed

4:20 PM Quantifying Crop Water Productivity Gaps to Overcome Future Climate-Driven Losses in Indian Winter Wheat Systems - Afshin Shayeghi (University of Oklahoma)

4:40 PM Mapping Sargassum in the U.S. Virgin Islands with High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning - Pause Boden (Saint Louis University)

5:00 PM Evaluation of the Food Environment(s) Surrounding Middle Schools in Madison County, Illinois - Mollie Morrisey

5:20 PM Underutilized Locations for Passenger Train Analysis - Mia Szczawinski

5:40 PM Community GIS and the Missouri Autism Projects - Rachel Riley (University of Missouri)
Friday, October 24, 2025

8:30 AM Future of AGX
Future of AGX
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM Break
Break
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
9:10 AM Publishing Pathways: – Insights from the Editors of Papers in Applied Geography
Publishing Pathways: – Insights from the Editors of Papers in Applied Geography
9:10 AM - 10:50 AM
Contributions

9:10 AM Publishing Pathways: – Insights from the Editors of Papers in Applied Geography - Dawna Cerney (Youngstown State University)
Geographies of Well-Being, Education, and the Built Environment
Geographies of Well-Being, Education, and the Built Environment
9:10 AM - 10:50 AM
Contributions

9:10 AM Geographies of Mortality Inequality - Yehua Dennis Wei (University of Utah)

9:30 AM Spatiotemporal patterns of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Oklahoma and preparing for the next pandemic - Jonathan Comer (Oklahoma State University)

9:50 AM Disparity in Perceptions of OER in Geography Courses - Jia Lu (Valdosta State University)

10:10 AM Policy Change in Ohio: How Failure-to-Pay Driver’s License Suspensions Disappeared… in Seven Short Years - Brian Mikelbank (Cleveland State University)

10:30 AM How Students Can Apply “The Ten Steps of Walkability” to Evaluate Any Downtown - Susan Hume (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
10:50 AM Break
Break
10:50 AM - 11:30 AM

11:30 AM Awards Luncheon
Awards Luncheon
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Break
Break
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Urban and Economic Transformations
Urban and Economic Transformations
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Retail Portfolio Disposition Insights Offered by a Bankrupt Regional Retailer’s Liquidation - Tom Dwyer (Harbinger Real Property Advisors, Inc.)

1:50 PM School-gentrifying community in the making in China: A case of study of Liwang Community in Changchun - WEI SONG (University of Louisville)

2:10 PM The best of times, the worst of times: the department store reshuffle in Canada - Tony Hernandez (Toronto Metropolitan University)

2:30 PM Geographic Analysis of Texas SB 840's Impact on Urban Development Rights and Potential Future Housing Market Development - Sean Crotty (Texas Christian University)
Publishing Pathways: A Roundtable with Editors of Papers in Applied Geography
Publishing Pathways: A Roundtable with Editors of Papers in Applied Geography
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Publishing Pathways: A Roundtable with Editors of Papers in Applied Geography - Dawna Cerney (Youngstown State University) Qingmin Meng (Mississippi State University)
2:50 PM Break
Break
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM AGX Board Meeting
AGX Board Meeting
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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