This week I am venturing out of California for a quick trip to Provo Utah and BYU to deliver the Chauncy Harris Lecture. Chauncy Harris was a pioneer of modern urban geography, with critical scholarship in urban form: "The Nature of Cities" and "A Functional Classification of Cities in the United States". He was a geographer, born in Utah, and every year the Geography Department at BYU hold a lecture in his honor. My buddy Ryan Jensen, son of the famous and fabulous John Jensen, invited me to give this year’s talk - so I am going!

I’ll be talking about my “Mapping for Impact” concept - and how we can use spatial data science to help tackle some of the thorny problems facing us today. I am going to highlight some of my lidar + forest work, the VTM historical ecology project, and of course, drones.

Check out this cute poster they put together for the talk.