Now #DigiGeoLab_AdventCalendar_2023 wishes all of you happy holidays, merry Christmas and cheers to a fantastic new year! ๐
For a full wrap up of our year, see https://blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geography/2023/12/22/wrapping-up-a-successful-and-exciting-year-2023/
Today in #DigiGeoLab_AdventCalendar_2023 ๐คฉ find Robert Klein, our excellent doctoral researcher in the #GREENTRAVEL project!
Robert focuses on mapping #greenery, #seasonality and #exposure during every day travel using #gis and spatial analytics ๐ดโโ๏ธ๐ณ
Today in #DigiGeoLab_AdventCalendar_2023 meet our brilliant conservation scientist, Johanna Eklund
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Johanna is a truly interdisciplinary scholar with broad interest in evaluating the effectiveness of #conservation actions.
The best news: She'll start as associate professor in geography Feb 1st onwards!! ๐
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meet Oleksandr, our ๐ social media and remote sensing data expert!
Currently, Oleksandr disentangles activity locations from various digital footprints to reveal cross-border mobilities of people in the #BORDERSPACE project ๐
Today in #DigiGeoLab_AdventCalendar_2023 is @matabatchi Our doctoral researcher ๐โ, who uses big data and machine learning techniques ๐ค to study human visits in green spaces ๐ถ๐ณ in #MOBICON project.
In his MSc thesis, Matti studied the role of nature for tourists visiting the Canary Islands, making use of #Flickr posts and their contents. Read the thesis here: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/359276
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Meet ๐postdoc @waeiski, King of Databases! He has magical skills & creative approach to handle and analyse all kinds of spatial data for studying human mobility & urban diversity ๐งโโ๏ธ
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Meet Kerli Mรผรผrisepp, a geographer who has dedicated her work to understanding and reducing #segregation & socio-spatial inequalities ๐
Kerli defended PhD on #activityspace segregation and we are super happy she continues her research in the #GREENTRAVEL team ๐
Today in #DigiGeoLab_AdventCalendar_2023 we find @tuomo, our resident linguist and the associate professor in English Language and Digital Humanities. His research focuses on urban multilingualism ๐ซ (project #MAPHEL) and multimodality ๏ธโ๏ธ๐๐ฃ. Tuomo is an expert in #Python, #NLP, #MachineLearning and baking #pizza ๐.
Photo by Veikko Somerpuro.
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