Working with Students to Reproduce COVID-19 Research to Establish the Credibility of Findings and Accelerate Policymaker Adoption
- Peter Kedron and Joseph Holler will showcase the findings or outcomes of their project thus far as a Geospatial Fellow for advancing COVID-19 research and education.
- Shaowen Wang will provide concluding remarks for the Geospatial Fellows Program.
Peter Kedron
Arizona State University
Joseph Holler
Middlebury College
Shaowen Wang
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Peter Kedron Arizona State University
Working with Students to Reproduce COVID-19 Research to Establish the Credibility of Findings and Accelerate Policymaker Adoption
Our understanding of COVID-19 remains in constant flux because the SAR-CoV-2 virus responsible for the disease has impacted the human population for only a short time. Facing this novel threat, scientists have produced a deluge of research which medical professionals, government officials, and policy makers are using to continually revise their response to the pandemic. To make the best possible decisions, we must know more than the results of recent COVID-19 research. We must also be able to assess the credibility of those results in order to weight findings when making decisions about pandemic response. Typically, the credibility of research is established by conducting independent reproductions and replications. However, the novelty and widespread impacts of COVID-19 have limited the opportunity to use reproductions and replications to assess what we think we know.
Our work uses reproductions of geographic research on COVID-19 to directly assess the reliability of that work. In collaboration with students at ASU and Middlebury College, we reproduced/replicated six geospatial analyses of COVID-19. Those reproductions include the work of geospatial fellows. We also developed related infrastructure for those wishing to conduct their own reproduction independently, or using CyberGISX. We hope that demonstrating that findings are reproducible will increase the likelihood of this research improving pandemic response and broadly impacting society.
Peter Kedron is an Associate Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and a core faculty member of the Spatial Analysis Research Center at Arizona State University. His research focuses on understanding how interacting processes create persistently uneven spatial patterns, developing new methods of spatial analysis, and using those methods to address economic, social, and environmental problems. His most recent work examines reproducibility and replicability in the geographical sciences.
Joseph Holler Middlebury College
Joseph Holler is an assistant professor of geography at Middlebury College. He earned his PhD in the geography and GIScience IGERT program at the University at Buffalo. His research focuses empirically on social vulnerability and adaptation to hazards and climate change and methodologically on modelling social vulnerability and processes of planning and implementing adaptation at individual and national scales. Most recently, he has been replicating and reproducing geographic models of social vulnerability and attempting to validate them with new indicators of harm derived from surveys or from new sources of volunteered or crowd-sourced geographic information (e.g. Twitter or OpenStreetMap).
Shaowen Wang University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Shaowen Wang is a Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science; Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar; and an Affiliate Professor of the Department of Computer Science, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He has served as Founding Director of the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies at UIUC since 2013. He served as Associate Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for CyberGIS from 2010 to 2017 and Lead of NCSA’s Earth and Environment Theme from 2014 to 2017. His research has been actively supported by a number of U.S. government agencies (e.g., CDC, DOE, EPA, NASA, NIH, NSF, USDA, and USGS) and industry. He has served as the principal investigator of several multi-institution projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for establishing the interdisciplinary field of cyberGIS and advancing related scientific problem solving in various domains (e.g., agriculture, bioenergy, emergency management, geography and spatial sciences, geosciences, and public health).
Working with Students to Reproduce COVID-19 Research to Establish the Credibility of Findings and Accelerate Policymaker Adoption
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Date: Mon, Aug 23, 2021
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm U.S. Central Time
Status: Event Ended
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