Publications
Chen, Xiang, Aiyin Zhang, Hui Wang, Adam Gallaher, and Xiaolin Zhu. (2021) Compliance and containment in social distancing: mathematical modeling of COVID-19 across townships. Int. Journal of GIS, 35:3, 446-465. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2021.1873999
Wang, Hui, Ran Xu, Shijin Qu, Marlene Schwartz, Aaron Adams, Xiang Chen. (2021) Health inequities in COVID-19 vaccination among the elderly: Case of Connecticut. Journal of Infection and Public Health, 14, 1563-1565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.07.013
Adams, A., Chen, X., Li, W., & Zhang, C.(2020). The disguised pandemic: The importance of data normalization in COVID-19 web mapping. Public Health, 183, 36–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2020.04.034
Awards
2022. Provost’s Award for Excellence in Community Engaged Scholarship (Full Team) link
2021. GIS Day Presentation Award (Ashley Benitez Ou, Aaron Adams)
2021. NESTVAL AAG Council Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper (Aaron Adams)
2021. GIS Certification Institute Map Contest (2nd Place-Student Category) (Ashley Benitez Ou) link
2021. Graduate Outstanding Community Engagement Award (Aaron Adams, Adam Gallaher, Ashley Benitez Ou)
2021. UConn’s President COVID Recognition Award for Geography Department’s COVID-19 Dashboard for the state of Connecticut (Full Team)
2020. CT GIS Day People’s Choice Award (2nd Place-Student Category) (Adam Gallaher)
2020. Graduate Student Outstanding Service Award (Aaron Adams, Adam Gallaher, Ashley Benitez Ou)
Presentations
Aaron Adams, Brendan Campbell, Debarchana Ghosh, Ashley Benitez Ou, Adam Gallaher, Bo Zhang, David Shapiro, Garry Lapidus, Chuanrong Zhang. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Spatial Analysis of Firearm Discharge and Social Vulnerability during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Case of Hartford, Connecticut. 2022.
Aaron Adams, Debarchana Ghosh, Adam Gallaher, Ashley Benitez Ou, Deigo Cerrai, Chuanrong Zhang. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Relation between mobility, extreme weather events, and health: A case study of COVID-19 outbreaks. 2022.
Katerina Dukleska, Aaron Adams, David Shapiro, Maja Regan, Chuanrong Zhang, Garry Lapidus, Kevin Borrup, Jennifer Knod, Brendan Campbell. American Pediatric Surgical Association Conference. Gunfire, Children, and COVID-19: A Contemporary Analysis of the Relationship Between Firearm Discharges and Where Children Attend School and Daycare in Hartford, CT. 2021
Ashley Benitez Ou, Adam Gallaher, Aaron Adams, Debarchana Ghosh. GIS Day, University of Connecticut. A Year of Decisions: A Spatiotemporal Visualization of COVID-19 and Executive Orders in Connecticut. Poster. 2021
Aaron Adams, Debarchana Ghosh, Adam Gallaher, Ashley Benitez Ou, Deigo Cerrai, Chuanrong Zhang. GIS Day University of Connecticut. Relation between mobility, extreme weather events, and health: A case study of COVID-19 outbreaks. Presentation. 2021.
Aaron Adams, Xiang Chen, Weidong Li, Chuanrong Zhang. spatial@ucsb.global2021: Spatial Data Science for a Sustainable Future. Normalizing the pandemic: Exploring the cartographic issues in state government COVID-19 dashboards. Poster (https://event.fourwaves.com/spatialucsbglobal2021/abstracts/bbf810f5-3adb-49ee-8e7b-597493099b1b?fbclid=IwAR37rNKwC6GN-KhxNWrMErw1YRpTt6xqklMV4lwQKg2UR806HCV78e4MQSM). 2021
Aaron Adams, Xiang Chen, Weidong Li, Chuanrong Zhang. UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media. COVID19: Media, Misinformation, and Science Communication. Normalizing the pandemic: Exploring the cartographic issues in state government COVID-19 dashboards. Video Poster. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq6VbDf9Ps0&t=1s). 2021.
Aaron Adams, Debarchana Ghosh, Adam Gallaher, Ashley Benitez Ou, Diego Cerrai. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Can power outages during extreme weather events be responsible for COVID-19 outbreaks? Presentation. 2021.
Xiang Chen, Adam Gallaher. Geospatial Fellows Webinar Series. Modeling COVID-19 Infections across Townships with Social Distancing Metrics. Invited Presentation. 2021
Aaron Adams, Xiang Chen, Weidong Li, Chuanrong Zhang. Connecticut Virtual GIS Day. The disguised pandemic: The importance of data normalization in COVID-19 web mapping. Presentation. 2020.
Adam Gallaher, Aaron Adams, Ashley Benitez Ou, Debarchana Ghosh. CT GIS Day. Town Level Interactive Dashboard to Track COVID-19 in Connecticut. Presentation. 2020.
Media Attention
UConn Today “UConn Researcher Develops Town-Level Model for COVID-19 in Connecticut” January 26th, 2021. Found here
NBC Connecticut “New Haven App Adds New Way to Submit COVID-19 Concerns” April 6th, 2020. Found here
Teaching
The dashboard was used as a community-engaged case study for the following courses and seminars:
UConn: Geography 1000, (Introduction to geography), Geography 3240 (Introduction to Health Geography), and Geography 5530 (GIS for Health and Environment)
Outside UConn: Introduction to GIS for Public Health: (Taught at Hartford Connecticut Children’s Hospital as Pass/Fail 13-week seminar). Here, the dashboard was used as an example, and student’s were taught how to recreate a small part of it.