Every time you check your weather app, navigate with GPS, or track a package on its journey to your doorstep, you’re using the power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). While most people interact with GIS daily without even realizing it, this behind-the-scenes...
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...
In “Sand County Almanac” Aldo Leopold recounts a story of restoration of an aged Wisconsin farm, played out and abandoned, the land worn, furrowed, and unproductive. Over the years, Aldo was able to restore the soil, the landscape and the habitat, turning back the...
A major problem in the geospatial analysis of health events is identifying “true” excesses in health outcomes and disease risk. Most cancers, for example, occur at a “background” rate, often due to the underlying DNA mutation rate. This background mutation rate is...
Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSUS) and BioMedware are pleased to announce a workshop providing FREE in-person training on BioMedware software for GIS data. The software is used for the visualization, analysis, modeling, and interactive exploration of...
There is a certain amount of false information regarding how infectious the Ebola virus is, see, for example, some of the statements by certain Congressman. Mathematical epidemiologists use something called "R naught", the basic reproductive number, to quantify how...
A business venue being explored by Amazon and smaller companies as well is delivery via drones. Interesting to see that the technology for skyjacking drones is already being pursued. If you consider drone piracy to be a business model (and I guess it should be...
by Geoffrey M. Jacquez1,2 and Robert Rommel2 1. Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 2. BioMedware, Ann Arbor MI Introduction: Perhaps one of the greatest challenges and limitations in environmental health and epidemiology is...
Recently, I coined the term “Behavome” as the totality of an individual’s behaviors that mediate exposures (the exposome) and gene expression (the genome). This construct matters because it largely defines the determinants of human health. Figure 1 This schematic...
Quantifying the spatial relationship between bird species’ distributions and landscape feature boundaries in southern Ontario, Canada