Geographic information science (GIScience) is the study of entities that can be tagged with geographic coordinates, such as features, events, measurements, organisms, and observations. Originally developed for cartography, GIScience now has applications in transportation, law enforcement, military, public health, emergency management, and social and environmental systems monitoring. Dawn J. Wright helped pioneer the application of GIScience to oceanography and seafloor mapping. Wright is the chief scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute in Redlands, California, and an affiliate professor of geography and oceanography at Oregon State University. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021, Wright spoke with PNAS about the current state of GIScience and the need to incorporate ethics, empathy, and equity into the field.
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