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Members - Faculty


GeoVISTA Directors:

Director

Alan MacEachrenAlan MacEachren
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Interests: Geographic Visualization, Cartography, Environmental Cognition, Geographic Information Science
Professor-Geography
Education:
Ph.D., M.A., University of Kansas
B.A., Ohio University

Faculty Associates:

Todd Bacastow

Todd Bacastow

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Associate Professor Education:
Ph.D., Geography, Penn State; M.S., Geography, Penn State; B.S., Engineering, U.S. Military Academy
Justine Blanford

Justine Blanford

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Interests:
GIS, spatial analysis, spatial and temporal ecology of disease, application development, environmental monitoring and management

Research Associate: Geography

Education:
Ph.D., Imperial College
Cindy Brewer Cindy Brewer

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Interests: Cartography; Map Design; Color Theory; Symbolization; Census Mapping; Epidemiological Mapping
Professor: Geography
Education: Ph.D., Geography, Michigan State; M.A., Geography, Michigan State; Hons. B.A., Fine Arts, Univ. of Guelph, Canada
Guoray Cai Gouray Cai

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Interests: Human-GIS Collaboration; Geog. Information Retrieval; Spatial Databases
Assistant Professor: Information Sciences & Technology (IST)
Education: Ph.D., Info. Science, Univ. of Pittsburgh; M.A., Geography, West Virginia Univ.; B.S., Elec. Engr., Tianjin University, China
Fred Fonseca Fred Fonseca
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Interests: Ontologies;
Spatial Cognition; Interoperability; Info. Integration; Environmental Systems
Assistant Professor: Information Sciences & Technology (IST)
Education: Ph.D., Spatial Info. Science & Engr. Univ. of Maine; M.A., Public Admin., Comp. Science, the Gov't School of Joao Pinheiro Found., Brazil; B.S., Mech. Engr., Catholic Univ., Minas Gerais, Brazil

Frank Hardisty

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Interests:
Geographic visualization, epidemiology, usability analysis, cartography, spatial analysis, geocomputation, demography
Research Associate: Geography
Education:
Ph.D.,Geography, Penn State;, M.A.,
Geography, the Ohio State University, B.A. with a concentration in English Literature from The Evergreen State College.
Deryck Holdsworth Deryck Holdsworth

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Interests:
Historical Geog.; Urban Historical Geog.; GIS
Professor: Geography
Education:
Ph.D., M.A., Univ. of British Columbia, Canada; B.A., Univ. of Newcastle, Tyne, UK
Coming in January

Krzysztof Janowicz

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Interests:
Knowledge representation and organization, semantic similarity measurement, semantic web & web 2.0, semantic interoperability, (geospatial) ontologies
Assistant Professor: Geography
Education:
Ph.D. Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Munster, Germany

Alexander Klippel

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Interests:
Spatial Cognition, Qualitative Spatial Reasoning, Visual Representations, GIScience
Assistant Professor: Geography

Education:
Ph.D., Informatics, Univ. of Bremen, Germany; Diploma (M.A.), Physical Geography, Trier, Germany
Derrick Lampkin Derrick J. Lampkin

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Interests:
Cryosphere Processes; Remote Sensing; Snow Hydrology
Assistant Professor: Geography
Education:
Ph.D., Philosophy-Geography, Minor: Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis, University of Arizona; M.A., Geography, The Ohio State University; B.S., Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University
Henry Lin Henry Lin

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Interests: Geospatial analysis, data mining and knowledge discovery, GIS & env. modeling, online mapping
Assistant Professor -
Hydropedology/Soil Hydrology, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences
Education:
Ph.D., Soil Science, Texas A&M University; M.S., Soil Science, Nanjing Institute of Soil Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; B.A., Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Fujian Agricultural University.
Michael McNeese Michael McNeese

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Interests:
Geo-Collaborative Tech.; Human Comp.Interaction; Visuo-Spatial Cognition
Associate Professor- Information Science & Technologies (IST)
Education:
Ph.D., Cognitive Science, Vanderbilt University; M.A., Experimental-Cognitive Psych., Univ. of Dayton; B.A., Psych., Univ. of Dayton; A.A.S., Eng. Design, Sinclair College, Ohio
Doug Miller

Doug Miller

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Interests:
Land Surface Processes; Remote Sensing; Decision Support Systems; GIScience
Assistant Professor: Geography
Education:
Ph.D., Soil Science, Penn State; M.S., Agronomy, Penn State; B.S., Earth Science, Penn State

Prasenjit Mitra

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Interests:
Database Systems, Semantic Web, Digital Libraries, Data Communications, Computer Networks, Data Security, Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence
Assistant Professor: Information Sciences and Technology

Education:
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; M.S., Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin; B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Brian Orland Brian Orland

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Interests:
Spatial Data Mining;
GIS; Spatial Databases;
Remote Sensing
Professor: Landscape Architecture
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Donna Peuquet Donna Peuquet

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Interests:
Spatial Cognition;
GIS Design; Spatial Analysis Methodologies
Professor: Geography

Education:
Ph.D., B.A., SUNY, Buffalo
Anthony
Robinson


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Interests: Geovisualization, Cartography, Epidemiology, Interface/Interaction Design
Research Associate: Geography

Education:
Ph.D., Geography, Penn State, 2007
M.S. Geography, Penn State, 2005
B.S. Applied Geography, East Carolina University, 2002

Ian Turton

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Interests: Computational Geography, the application of artificial intelligence methods to large and complex data sets.
Senior Research Associate: Geography
Education: Ph.D. Geophysics, University of Edinburgh