The CyberInfrastructure and Geospatial Information (CIGI) Laboratory researches and develops cutting-edge cyberinfrastructure to advance geospatial sciences and technologies. Current research centers on the following themes:

• Computationally intensive spatial analysis and modeling
• Cyberinfrastructure-based geospatial problem-solving environments and applications
• Distributed geospatial systems and their interoperability
• High-performance and collaborative GIS
• Large- and multi-scale geospatial problem solving
• Parallel and distributed computing

• CFP: IJGIS special issue on CyberGIS
• Geography professor taps into the power of supercomputers to rethink maps and spaces
• CyberGIS Speaker Series: Imaging the Earth's deep interior: a statistical perspective
• HPDGIS'2011 on Nov. 1 in Chicago
• Guofeng Cao will present his PhD dissertation work on Oct. 28 at the Department of Geography Colloquium
• CIGI awarded over 3 million hours of supercomputing time by NSF for advancing geospatial sciences and technologies
• The NSF CyberGIS project will hold its first annual meeting at ORNL during Sept. 28-30, 2011
• CyberGIS Speaker Series: Culturomics 2.0
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CIGI includes a number of faculty, staff, and students from multiple institutions who have diverse disciplinary expertise such as Computational and Information Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Geography, Hydrology, Plant Biology, and Statistics. Dr. Shaowen Wang is CIGI founder and director.