Invited lectures and workshops
2019 Salzburg, Austria
Redefining 'what is special about spatial?' - Spatiality in the Age of Data Science
Opening Keynote at the joint 31st AGIT Symposium, 39th Annual EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories) Symposium and 11th GI_Forum International Conference, Paris Lourdon University
2019 Leuven, Belgium
Making the link between work processes and the automation of geospatial processing
Earth Observation Summit, Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and 111th Open Geospatial Technical Committee Meeting
2019 Karlsruhe, Germany
OR4OSGEO: Operations research for Open Source GIS
Department of Operations Research and Logistics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2019 Heidelberg, Germany
International Conference on Climate Action, ICCA 2019
2019 Heidelberg, Germany
The Geography of Suburban Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg
2018 Heidelberg, Germany
Of Filters and Weights: requirements for a FOSS SDSS
Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg
2018 Salt Lake City, Utah
Pushing the Envelope for a Geographic Thought and Theory Course
Department of Geography, University of Utah
2018 Salzburg, Austria
The Role of Suburbia in the Production of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Department of GeoInformatics, Paris Lourdon University
2018 Villach, Austria
The Role of Suburbia in the Production of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Department of Geoinformation and Environmental Technology, Technical University of Carinthia
2018 Salzburg, Austria
Open Source Foundations of Spatial Decision Support Systems
Keynote at the GI_Forum International Conference, Paris Lourdon University
2017 Borough of Manhattan College, CUNY
Hidden Spatiality in Everybody's Big Data
Invited presentation at workshop on Geography & Spatial Thinking across the Curriculum (GeoSTaC):
Why Place and Geography Matter. 10/27/2017
2015 New York, NY
A Community Based Approach to Understanding and Addressing Structural Poverty
McSilver Symposium, New York University
2015 New York, NY
Homelessness and Place
Department of Homeless Services, City Hall
2014 New York, NY
Place Matters: new social indicators
Meeting of New York City Health and Human Services Commissioners
2014 New York, NY
The importance of acknowledging the role of ‘spatial’ in data for sustainable development indicators
UN SG's Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data Revolution for Sustainable Development (IEAG)
2014 New York, NY
GIS in Support of the Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign
PATTEC /TVRC Foundation, African Union
2014 New York, NY
Community Loss Index: a new social indicator
Silberman School of Social Work, CUNY
2013 Chicago, IL
Expert contribution to a workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics
NSF-sponsored workshop organized at University of Illinois, Chicago
2012 Hamburg, Germany
Quantitative Geography – a perspective from across the pond.
Keynote given at the AK Quantitative Geografie
2011 Santa Barbara, CA
Expert contribution to a workshop on Formalization of GIS Functions
NSF-sponsored workshop organized at University of California, Santa Barbara
2010 and 2009 Santa Barbara, CA
Expert contribution to a workshop on Ecosystem services on an urbanizing planet: What 2 billion new urbanites means for air and water
The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at UCSB
2008 Osnabrück, Germany
From VGIS to Standardized Geo-spatial Process Models.
Festschrift for Prof. Manfred Ehlers.
2003 Istanbul, Turkey
Deconstructing Hate Crime.
Invited workshop given at the European Forensic Science Conference.
2001 Milwaukee, WI
The Future of Digital Earth – framework for a spatial publishing and discovery infrastructure.
Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum ‘IT in the Transformation of the Library’
2000 Christchurch, NZ
Formalising Spatial Information.
Department of Computer Science, Canterbury University
1999 Christchurch and Dunedin, New Zealand
Geography New Zealand, Inc. or the Professionalisation of the New Zealand Geographical Society.
Geography Departments, University of Canterbury and Otago University.
1995 Berlin, Germany
Universal GIS Operations.
Mathematics Department of the Free University of Berlin, Germany.