We are delighted to announce that Aman Bhogal will be joining BioMedware as a Data Science Intern this summer. Aman brings a unique blend of passion for health equity and neuroscience, aligning seamlessly with BioMedware's commitment to leveraging geospatial...
Vesta Workshop May 31-June 1, 2025 We are excited to announce the upcoming workshop, "Introduction to Geospatial Temporal Analysis with Vesta," scheduled for May 31 to June 1, 2025, at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, CT. This two-day event precedes the...
We’re excited to announce the release of Vesta 2.6—an update that takes BioMedware’s proprietary GIS software to the next level. Vesta 2.5 introduced time plots, indicator Kriging, and categorical variables in Variography and Kriging. This version makes powerful...
BioMedware Chief Scientist Dr. Pierre Goovaerts will present his talk, titled “Finding water service lines with hazardous material using a geostatistics-informed machine learning approach,” at the 2025 AAG Annual Meeting on March 24th at 10:10AM EST. Learn more about...
The wait is over. BioMedware just dropped the highly anticipated Vesta 2.5 update! The brilliant minds behind this geospatial analysis tool have been busy at work, crafting a release packed with new features, fixes, and improvements designed to make your data...
The National Institutes of Health has selected BioMedware for a Technical and Business Assistance (TABA) Needs Assessment Report for the project titled “Software for Geostatistical Smoothing and Joinpoint Regression Modeling of Time Series of Compositional Variables...
The National Library of Medicine awarded BioMedware’s Principal Investigator (PI), Dr. Pierre Goovaerts a 2-year SBIR Phase II grant titled “Geostatistical software for Non Parametric Geostatistical Modeling”. With a ~$2M budget, the grant kicked-off on September 1,...
BioMedware Chief Scientist Dr. Pierre Goovaerts will present his talk, titled "Finding water service lines with hazardous material using a compositional approach and geostatistics-informed machine learning," at Geostats 2024 (12th International Geostatistics Congress)...
BioMedware Chief Scientist Dr. Pierre Goovaerts will join the “Plenary Panel: Digital Twin and Spatiotemporal Data Science” for the International Symposium on Spatiotemporal Data Science to be held at Virginia Tech Research Center. The Symposium will be held at the...
In her letter dated May 29, 2024, U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell congratulates BioMedware Chief Scientist Dr. Pierre Goovaerts for receiving a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The grant titled “Software for Geostatistical...
Dr. Pierre Goovaerts, Principal Investigator, and BioMedware have been awarded a new SBIR Phase I grant titled “Software for Geostatistical Smoothing and Joinpoint Regression Modeling of Time Series of Compositional Variables in Epidemiology.” This grant will...
February 22, 2024 | 7PM EST | Virtual BioMedware President Geoffrey Jacquez is teaming up with the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association for an in-depth discussion on his journey to reach a negative carbon footprint. Last year was the hottest year globally since...
BioMedware is delighted to announce the release of Vesta 2.0, a state-of-the-art geospatial analysis software funded with grants from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. Vesta is an acronym for “Visualization and...
BioMedware is delighted to share the article recently published by our Chief Scientist and colleagues titled "Space–Time Distribution of Trichloroethylene Groundwater Concentrations: Geostatistical Modeling and Visualization". Appearing in the journal Mathematical...
Introduction to space-time joinpoint regression and change of support with applications to geospatial cancer data in the Vesta software Oct. 23, 2023 | 2pm EST | Virtual BioMedware is teaming up with NAACCR for a webinar on October 23 titled, “Introduction to...
Dr. Pierre Goovaerts to Present at the 28th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment Oct. 19-21, 2023 | Virtual Dr. Pierre Goovaerts will present a talk titled: "Geospatial Estimation of the Impact of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Plant Oiling...
In September 2023, BioMedware’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Pierre Goovaerts, received the grant “Geostatistical Software for Non-Parametric Geostatistical Modeling of Uncertainty”. Funded by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, this new...
Together with Ann Arbor SPARK, the Eastern Michigan University Center for Digital Engagement offers a paid Digital Summer Clinic internship. This program helps students and recent graduates find careers in the digital space. These internships are available to all...
BioMedware has been awarded a SPARK Business Accelerator Grant to fund professional services for marketing by Merithot Creative Marketing and for sales by Maximus Ventures. The goal is to accelerate consumer adoption of BioMedware’s new product, Vesta. The proposal...
Dr. Pierre Goovaerts to Present at GeoHab 2023 Date: May 8-12, 2023 Dr. Pierre Goovaerts will present a talk titled: "Geostatistical Mapping of Seabed Sediment Type and BenthicCommunities: Review of Common Challenges and Solutions" at the GeoHab 2023 conference held...
Dr. Pierre Goovaerts talk at the NEA Workshop in France Date: November 29 - December 1, 2022 Venue: NEA premises, France Dr. Pierre Goovaerts will present a talk titled: "Case Studies on Use of Geostatistical Techniques to Facilitate Decommissioning Decision-Making”...
Update as of September 2022: BioMedware has received a notice of award that its research in creating accurate models of environmental exposure will continue with payment of the second and last tranche of grant funds of $868,000 from the National Institute of...
Vesta: Visualization and Exploratory Space-Time data Analysis software This project is pursuing the development and release of new software, Vesta, funded by SBIR grants from NIEHS and NCI to Pierre Goovaerts at BioMedware. Future blog updates will cover some of the...
14th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications Date: June 22-24, 2022 Venue: University of Parma - Parma, Italy Dr. Pierre Goovaerts will present a talk titled: "Geospatial Model of Composition of Water Service Lines in Flint, MI:...
BioMedware has started a new line of research into creating accurate models of environmental exposure. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has awarded a $224,910 Phase I SBIR grant BioMedware to create more accurate models of environmental...
NAACCR/IACRVancouver, British Columbia, Canada INTRODUCTION TO METRIC 1.0 SOFTWARE TO MEASURE THE CANCER HEALTH ENVIRONMENT This preconference course will introduce METRIC to the cancer research, control and surveillance community. BioMedware, in collaboration with...
4th ANNUAL LSUS REGIONAL STUDENT SCHOLARS FORUM Date: Friday, March 15, 2019 Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Venue: LSUS University Center Keynote Speaker: Dr. Pierre Goovaerts, renowned expert on Medical Geography and Geostatistics. Dr. Goovaerts studies how spatial disease...
Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez - Sept 16-19th, Attending Health 2.0 12th Annual Fall conference https://fall2018.health2con.com/
Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez will speak on the "Use of Residential Histories in Exposure Reconstruction and Space-Time Cancer Clustering", Special session "Finding Home: Advances in Residential History Data". June 12-14 NAACCR Annual conference, Pittsburgh, presenting June...
Dr. Goovaerts will give a talk titled: “Flint drinking water crisis: a first attempt to model geostatistically the space-time distribution of water lead levels” at School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University in Nanjing, China.
Dr. Goovaerts will present a talk titled: “Geostatistical Prediction of Water Lead levels in Flint, Michigan: a Multivariate Approach” at the 13th International Symposium of Spatial Accuracy in Beijing. Read more about the symposium:...
After a short reminder of basic concepts in geostatistics (i.e., variogram computation and modelling, univariate and multivariate kriging), this course will focus on advanced geospatial techniques to tackle three topics: change of spatial support (upscaling,...
The METRIC project has been accepted to the NIH-CAP (NIH Commercialization Accelerator Program). This highly competitive program was established and administered by the NIH. The program is described here. It is run by Larta, an organization focused on innovation,...
BioMedware has started new research into taking geographic information into better account when analyzing temporal trends in cancer incidence and mortality rates. The National Cancer Institute has funded a $204,574 grant to BioMedware for this work. BioMedware’s Chief...
Two proposal tips We write a fair number of research proposals, with most of them going to the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and surveillance. We also submit proposals to the National Science Foundation and NASA. For those...
Due to an interrupted flight, Dr. Jacquez's presentation was delivered via video at the CRCSI annual conference in Perth, Australia in November, 2014. The vision addresses opportunities at the forefront of wearable sensors and the genome+, exposome and behavome.
The 43pl consortium operates a unit trust which facilitates participation in the CRCSI by a large number of small to medium sized enterprises. Founded in 2003, the CRC for Spatial Information (CRCSI) is a research organisation funded by Australia's Cooperative...
BioMedware announces the award of a contract from the National Cancer Institute titled "METRIC Software to Measure Cancer Health Environment". This is an SBIR Phase 1 contract with a 9 month performance period beginning September 12, 2014. The Principal Investigator...
Friday 22nd August 2014 12:30pm - 2:00pm (Perth, Australia) The CRCSI invite you to attend a short presentation from Geoffrey followed by discussion and networking with colleagues in the Health Program. Geoffrey Jacquez has been the Science Director of the CRCSI...
Download a Free 14-day evaluation of SpaceStat SpaceStat 4.0 represents a major reworking of the underlying architecture of the application. Multithreading has been introduced improving the performance of many methods. A LePace-Sage estimator for spatial-error...
Source: CRCSI Newsletter Representatives from the CRCSI were invited by Future Position X to attend the GeoLife Research Program Roundtable in Gavle, Sweden. The group participated in an intense series of discussions and meetings over four days to advance the...
Landcare Research scientists are using mobile spectroscopy to analyse soil, allowing geostatisticians to create better soil maps.From Our Changing World, 9:20 pm on 21 November 2013 Dr. Pierre Goovaerts, from BioMedware, explained how the complex...
In conjunction with CRCSI and WALIS Forum 2013, Dr. Goovaerts will conduct a short course November 6th and 7th. The course will increase your understanding of geostatistics and its application to several disciplines. After completion of this course you will be well...