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Theme: GIScience Advances in Climate Change and Environmental Health
Session Description: Advancements in GIScience, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, GeoAI, and Big Data Analytics
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We are pleased to invite submissions for a session titled "GIScience Advances in Climate Change and Environmental Health" at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG).

Climate change represents one of the most urgent challenges facing humanity today. It intensifies environmental hazards and exacerbates public health risks, with vulnerable communities bearing the brunt of these effects. This session seeks to explore how GIScience, along with advances in GeoAI, machine learning, deep learning, and big data analytics, is transforming our understanding of the complex relationships between climate change and environmental health.

The session will highlight emerging methods, tools, and interdisciplinary approaches used to analyze and mitigate health risks, such as respiratory illnesses, heat-related conditions, air pollution, and water-related diseases, which are becoming increasingly prevalent as climate change progresses. By focusing on innovative geospatial approaches, this session aims to uncover insights that support adaptive solutions for environmental health and climate resilience.

We invite research from diverse disciplines and methodological perspectives that demonstrate novel applications of GIScience for climate and health research. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
• GIScience methods for water insecurity monitoring, modeling, and simulation;
• GIScience approaches for measuring and modeling air quality and pollution;
• AI-driven spatial analysis of climate change impacts on public health;
● Evaluating the effects of climate change on environmental hazards (e.g., air and soil pollution, water scarcity);
● Deep Learning for remote sensing in environmental hazard monitoring;
● GeoAI and Big Data integration for real-time environmental health surveillance;
● Environmental Justice and equity under climate change;
● Spatial disparities in health outcomes and climate adaptation strategies.

We welcome contributions that leverage innovative GIScience techniques to advance our understanding of environmental health under a changing climate.
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Submission Details
If you are interested in presenting, please send your PIN and abstract to the session organizers:
• Joynal Abedin | Department of Geography, Texas A&M University | j.abedin@tamu.edu
• Lei Zou | Department of Geography, Texas A&M University | lzou@tamu.edu
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
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Session Organizer and Chair:
• Joynal Abedin, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University

Co-Organizers:
• Lei Zou, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
• Robert V. Rohli, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University
• Yan Lin, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico.

Non-Presenting Participants