Fall 2025

Recent Activities & Items of Interest

AGSG Business Items

  • Board Meeting: The AGSG board held its first fall meeting on September 12th, 2025, to review the business meeting activities held in Detroit, MI and plan for the 2026 annual meeting.
  • AGSG 2026 Business Meeting: The AAG 2026 annual meeting will be hybrid (both in person and virtually), therefore, the AGSG business meeting will be hybrid in conjunction with the AAG Annual Meeting. More details will be announced soon.

AAG Annual Meeting

  • The AAG 2026 Annual Meeting will take place March 17-21, 2026, in San Francisco, California, and will be a hybrid meeting with both virtual and in-person options. For more information, please click on the link: https://www.aag.org/events/aag2026/
  • Note that there are two separate registration options: in-person or virtual, depending on how you would like to attend. The abstract (Paper and Posters) submission deadline is October 30th, and the session deadline is December 4th, 2025.
  • The AGSG is interested in sponsoring sessions. If you have organized or plan to organize a session and would like AGSG to sponsor, please email Rebecca Loraamm (rloraamm@ou.edu) before the session deadline.

Awards & Opportunities

  • Anderson Medal: The Anderson Medal Competition is open and accepting applications. Nominations for the 2025 competition are due October 1, 2025. Visit the Anderson Medal webpage for more information and eligibility requirements for the Anderson Medal. If you have any questions, please reach out to the committee Chair, Dr. Jerry Dobson at dobson@ku.edu
  • Annual Meeting Awards: Look out for conference travel awards call at a later date on the AGSG discussion board. Application will be open soon with a January 10th deadline for all members of the specialty group who are presenting in any research-related capacity at the meeting both in-person and virtually. Applicants must be due-paying members of the AGSG to be eligible for consideration. Multiple awards will be granted.
  • Board Member Nomination: Are you ready to lead, inspire, and shape the future of AGSG? The 2026–2029 Board Nomination is open, and this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact by nominating yourself or someone else. All positions are open for a three-year term, and eligible members in good standing will be considered for all roles they’re nominated for. Whether you're passionate about innovation, community, or advancing the field, now’s the time to step forward. The nomination form is live, and the deadline to submit is November 7th. Please use this form for nominations.

Fun Stuff & Good Reads/Listens from AGSG Members

Excited to see the amazing things our members are doing, below are publications, grants, and awards from some of our members.

Publications

  • Williams, H. (2025). Impact of Urbanization on Rainfall-Runoff Relationships in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan Area, 1990–2020. Papers in Applied Geography, 1-12.
  • Nsude, C. C., Connelly, S., Demir, F., Shi, D., & Tsetsura, K. (2025). Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review. Energy Research & Social Science, 125, 104092.
  • Burch, C., Loraamm, R., & Nsude, C. (2025). When beyond compliance is the expectation: the realities of environmental planning and permitting for renewable energy projects in the great plains of the United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 125, 104108.
  • Kim, H., Kim, M., & Lee, S. (2025). Spatial inequalities and driving factors in food accessibility: Integrating online and offline grocery services in South Korea. Applied Geography, 185, 103777.
  • Liu, L., Wu, Y., & Shi, K. (2025). Urban ascent with sustainable human development: Extensive cultivated land conservation and urban population capacity growth supported by hillside urban expansion. Applied Geography, 185, 103775.
  • Qiu, X., & Wu, S. S. (2025). Examining county-level factors of Democratic versus Republican shifts between 2016 and 2020 presidential elections in the US. Papers in Applied Geography, 1-16.

    Upcoming Opportunities & Events 

    Publishing Opportunities

    • Applied Geography Journal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/applied-geography
    • Geo-Humanities Special Issue: The inaugural Special Issue of “Geo-Humanities” invites new and emerging geo-humanities and geographic scholarship situated at the crossroads of key themes, including Solidarities, Humanitarianism, and Scholarship-Activism as regards the political and/or creative entanglements of these concepts with wider issues of social justice. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by October 6, 2025. The Editor will consider all abstracts by December 15, 2025, and invite a selection to submit full papers for peer review. https://buff.ly/zt8LYcF

    Upcoming Conferences

    Training Opportunities 

    • https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/join-mission/training.
      • NASA ARSET hosts virtual trainings introducing remote sensing resources. Follow the link for a list of upcoming trainings and to access freely-available training archives.
    • https://www.esri.com/training/mooc/.
      • Esri MOOC Program: Massive open online courses show how to apply geospatial thinking and create data-driven insight that improves organizations, communities, and the world. To see upcoming courses see link above.

    Internship & Job Openings

    • NASA Internships: https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/internship-programs/. NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) offers paid internships for high school through PhD students to contribute to the agency’s mission to advance science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration. These internships offer students an opportunity to gain practical work experience while working side-by-side with mentors who are research scientists, engineers, and individuals from many other professions. Internships may be full time or part time on a NASA center or facility. They offer three sessions annually - 2026 Internship Application Deadlines: Spring 2026: September 12, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET, Summer 2026: February 27, 2026, 11:59 p.m. ET, Fall 2026: May 22, 2026, 11:59 p.m. ET
    • Esri Internships: https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/careers/student-jobs. Work on projects that matter, such as creating an app to speed emergency aid or conducting research for a marketing campaign. Each year Esri hires interns to work at their Southern California headquarters and regional offices across the US. They offer full-time, paid internships, and the program is open to third- and fourth-year undergraduate students, graduate students, and PhD students. Esri generally accepts applications from September 1 through December 31 each year for the following summer 12-week term. Explore openings here: https://app.ripplematch.com/v2/public/company/esri?tl=b96b5944
    • Planet – Program Director, Hyperspectral. The Program Director, Hyperspectral is responsible for realizing the full commercial potential of Planet’s Hyperspectral business line (aka Tanager). As the best-in-class commercial hyperspectral imager, Tanager data has significant commercial value and has only just started its journey to commercial success. The Program Director must deliver a positive financial ROI while expanding the global climate impact potential that this data has. They will achieve this aim by coordinating teams and resources across the company to ensure that the capabilities delivered by the program meet the needs of the market and with a viable business model and GTM strategy. The Program Director must be able to mobilize the salesforce, set the strategy for new hyperspectral products, and enlist the teams that will establish plans, programs and teams that maximize the chance of success. Tanager-1 launched in August 2024 and is reaching full commercial capability, thus the hyperspectral business line requires a skilled business leader to execute strategy across sales, marketing, product, finance, and legal while ensuring that Planet’s spacecraft production, ground infrastructure, data processing continues to operate a high level of performance.
    • Planet – Associate, Collection Planning. Your mission will be to support day-to-day operations, which includes collection performance analysis, order monitoring, performing feasibility studies and the development of our operational tools. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, quick learner, good communicator, and has the ability to switch contexts quickly. You will be working in a close collaborative environment, and will gain first-hand experience in numerous fields related to managing satellite image acquisition planning, geospatial data analysis, process automation by supporting our operations team.
    • AMA Inc. – Enterprise Application Developer. AMA is seeking an Enterprise Application Developer to support our on-going and growing digital transformation efforts.  High-level tasks include building-out web applications and integrating with AMA’s ERP and SharePoint Systems.   The ideal candidate would be well-rounded enough to support any task in the development chain (user-research, architecture, design, coding, testing) and would excel at development/coding.

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