Modeling the Next Big Thing: A Seminar Series in Spatial Biochemical Monitoring and Prediction

The Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (College of Arts and Sciences), Department of Geography and the Environment (Maxwell), and the Syracuse University Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence will host a series of seminars focusing on the application of geospatial technologies to spatial biochemical monitoring and prediction. Geospatial analyses encompass spacial, biological, environmental, cultural, social, and political factors. Leveraging this requires interdisciplinary teams to work with multiple diverse datasets and methods where the effectiveness of tracking is dependent upon the quality of data, a manner to leverage large data sets and the incorporation of the data into a meaningful geospatial analysis framework.

The first event will feature a presentation by David Larsen, associate professor of public health in Falk College, titled  “Preparing for the next pandemic: Establishing the New York State wastewater surveillance network,” and a talk by John A. Olson, librarian for government and geo-information in Bird Library, titled “Geospatial Resources.”