• Mia Bennett (University of Hong Kong) and Luis Alvarez León (Dartmouth College) who will discuss the ethical implications and property regimes of remote sensing

• Renee Sieber (McGill University) – who will discuss ethical implications of GeoAI and locational big data

• Jacqueline Vadjunec (Oklahoma State University) – who will discuss ethical dimensions of spatial analyses based on data generated during citizen science projects, an ongoing need for mixed methods research, and implications of both for reproducibility

• An interactive panel discussion hosted by Peter Kedron, Amy Frazier, and Michael Goodchild will follow the remarks of the speakers. We will also introduce a series of follow-up activities, preview forthcoming lectures, and provide further information on how to engage with the ongoing AAG GeoEthics Series

This conversation is the inaugural webinar in our GeoEthics Series and is a joint-event with the annual workshop series of the Spatial Analysis Research Center (SPARC) at Arizona State University.

ASU SPARC Workshop Series https://sgsup.asu.edu/sparc/workshops

Peter Kedron Arizona State University

Peter Kedron Dr. Peter Kedron is an assistant professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University and a core faculty member of the Spatial Analysis Research Center (SPARC). His research interests include geographic information science, spatial analysis, and economic geography. Peter's current research examines epistemological issues in the human environment and geographic sciences with a focus on reproducibility and replicability.

Amy Frazier Arizona State University

Amy Frazier Amy Frazier joined the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning in Fall 2018 as an assistant professor. She received her doctorate in geography from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Frazier’s research interests focus on the integration of remote sensing, GIS, and landscape ecology to study global environmental change. Specifically, she investigates how advances in GIS and remote sensing classification science can be used to overcome the challenges that often result when trying to use remote sensing or aggregated GIS data to study ground-based phenomena.

Michael F. Goodchild UC Santa Barbara, Arizona State University

Michael F. Goodchild Michael F. Goodchild is a global leader in Geographic Information Science who joined ASU’s faculty in 2017. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directed the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis, the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, and the Center for Spatial Studies. Professor Goodchild is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 2007 he received the Prix Vautrin Lud, considered the highest honor in the field of geography.

Mia Bennett University of Hong Kong

Mia Bennett Mia M. Bennett is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. Through fieldwork and remote sensing, she researches the geopolitics of development in frontier spaces, namely the Arctic and along the more remote corridors of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Current research projects include examining Indigenous attitudes to development in Alaska and Malaysia and conceptualizing an agenda for critical remote sensing. Mia also edits a long-running blog on the Arctic at cryopolitics.com.

‪Luis F. Alvarez León Dartmouth College

‪Luis F. Alvarez León Luis is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. He is a political economic geographer with substantive interests in geospatial data, media, and technologies. His work integrates the geographic, political, and regulatory dimensions of digital economies under capitalism with an emphasis on technologies that manage, represent, navigate, and commodify space. Ongoing research projects examine the geographic transformations surrounding the emergence of autonomous vehicles and the industrial and geopolitical reconfigurations resulting from the proliferation of small satellites.

Jacqueline M. Vadjunec Oklahoma State University

Jacqueline M. Vadjunec Jacqueline Vadjunec is a Professor in the Geography Department at Oklahoma State University. Her research interests include the human dimensions of global environmental change, land system science, common property theory, natural resource management, cultural and political ecology, and mixed and participatory research methods. Her research centers on the adaptation and resilience of small farmer and extractivist households in the Americas, and has been funded by NSF, the USDA, and Fulbright. Jacqueline served as an NSF program officer from 2018-2020 for Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS)/Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences (HEGs) as well as a variety of transdisplinary programs such as Navigating the New Arctic (NNA), Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (CNH2/DISES), Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water (INFEWS), Coastlines and People (CoPe), and Signals in the Soil (SiTs).

Peter A. Rogerson University at Buffalo (SUNY)

Peter A. Rogerson Peter A. Rogerson is SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo. His interests are in the areas of population geography, demography, spatial analysis, and spatial statistics. He also holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biostatistics. He is the author of Statistical Methods for Geography, now in its 5th edition. He is also author of Spatial Statistical Methods for Geography, forthcoming from Sage Publications.

Renee Sieber McGill University

Renee Sieber Renee Sieber is an Associate Professor of Geography at McGill University. Her research interests center on the use of information technology by marginalized communities, community based organizations, and social movements.