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Selected media coverage of the lab's research — from deepfake geography and the early COVID-19 dashboard to social-media studies of climate, air pollution, and Black-owned restaurants.
2026
2025
- UW Geography
Announcing Our 2025 Halmo Geography Scholars!
- UW Geography
2025 Awards, Honors and Achievements
2024
- UW Geography
GeoAI Prompt Contest 2024
- UW Geography
Humanistic GIS Lab Research Internship Opportunity
- UW Geography
2024 Awards, Honors and Achievements
2023
- UW Geography
Announcement: Winners of the GeoAI Prompt Contest
- UW Geography
GeoAI Prompt Contest: Visioning Grand Challenges for Humanity and Earth
- UW Geography
Thousands of Amazon staffers are pouring into its Seattle offices. Will it restore the downtown's fortunes?
- UW Geography
Announcing Our 2023 Halmo Geography Scholar: Kels Rizzo!
- UW Geography
Humanistic GIS Lab Brings Together Students and Faculty for Innovative Research Opportunities
2022
- TheGrio
Does the 'Black-owned' label help or hurt Black businesses?
- UW Geography
In 2020, consumers turned to Black-owned businesses. But where has that support gone?
- Seattle Times
Boost in support for Black-owned restaurants short-lived, UW study finds
- King 5 / CNBC
UW study finds Black-owned restaurants were disproportionately impacted during pandemic
- UW News
Black-owned restaurants disproportionately impacted during pandemic
- UW Geography
2022 Awards, Honors and Achievements
- UW Geography
Announcing Our 2022 Halmo Geography Scholars!
2021
- Le Monde
Deepfakes géographiques : l'intelligence artificielle menace-t-elle la crédibilité de l'imagerie satellite ?
- Wired
Deepfake Maps Could Really Mess with Your Sense of the World
- The Verge
Deepfake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat, warn geographers
- The Hindu
Question Corner: Can there be fake satellite images?
- Yahoo / TechCrunch
Deepfake tech takes on satellite maps
- GeekWire
Why 'deepfake geography' presents significant risks — and how researchers are detecting it
- UW News
A growing problem of 'deepfake geography': How AI falsifies satellite images
- UW Geography
Announcing Our 2021 Halmo Geography Scholar: Elizabeth Theirl!
- UW Geography
New Publications from Geography Faculty and Graduate Students!
- VOA
Deepfakes Are Getting Harder to Detect, But Reliable for Voiceovers
2020
- UW Geography
First Annual GIS Day at UW Is a Resounding, Remote Success!
- Northwest Asian Weekly
UW Professor Zhao maps the coronavirus
- BBC
Coronavírus: os sites em tempo real que mostram dados de mortes, curvas de contágio e mutações
- National Geographic
Los mapas y gráficos de infección del coronavirus en todo el mundo
- Anadolu Agency
Coronavirus Infection Map
- UW News
UW Produces Dynamic Coronavirus Map
2019
2017
- Terra (Oregon State)
The Great Escape: Migration spurred by rising seas could reshape the country
- Foreign Policy
The convenient disappearance of climate change denial in China
- CEOAS News
The Message in a Map
2014
- ScienceDaily · BBC World News
Fighting air pollution in China with social media
2013
- 凤凰网 · Phoenix New Media
西安历史地理信息系统 (Xi'an Historical Geographic Information System)
2011
- 华商网 · HuaShang Media
微博打拐地图 (Helping Chinese child-street-beggars using web maps)
2009
- Microsoft Virtual Earth
Visualizing Swine Flu on Virtual Earth