June 6 Breakout Session 2

June 6, 2009

1:30pm - 3:00pm
Breakout Sessions

Breakout Room 1
West Nile Virus

Delineating West Nile Virus Transmission Cycles at Various Scales: The Nearest Neighbor Distance Time
Debarchana Ghosh
University of Minnesota Dept of Geography
Minneapolis, MN 

Using GIS to Locate Abandoned Pools in New Orleans: A Fish Story
Ken Brown
City of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA 

Rainfall as a Factor in Predicting Outbreaks of West Nile Virus
Marilyn, Ruiz
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL

Breakout Room #2
GeoWeb

Using the GeoWeb to Study Interactions Between Human Cancer, Communities and Environment
David Levine and Janet Hock James W. Sewall Company
Martinsburg, WV
(90 minute Panel)

GIS has been gaining much greater core importance in cancer epidemiology and related areas. Organizations like North American Association of Central Cancer Registries and the CDC cancer programs, as well as state cancer registries are formally adopting GIS as an important tool. Standards have been developed for capturing cancer patient data so that address geocoding produces a high hit rate enabling spatial epidemiology to more accurate, comprehensive and relevant. Papers in this session provide a look at how widely Cancer GIS is being pursued.

Geographic Cluster Evaluation of Female Breast Cancer: Does Scale Matter?
Nancy Tian
Texas State University - San Marcos
San Marcos, TX 

Exploratory Temporal Visualization of Massachusetts Breast Cancer Data Archives
Alex Brown
University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, MA 

Lung, Colorectal, Prostate, Breast, Thyroid, Melanoma and Pediatric Cancer Pattern
Nicole Vanosdel
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 

Modeling vector distributions for CCHF in Kazakhstan with ecological niche modeling and GIS.
Ospanov

Combining GIS and ecological niche modeling approaches to improve distribution estimates for plague reservoirs in Uzbekistan
Foster

Mapping sero-prevalence of Brucellosis in Southern Kazakhstan
Kazakov