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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

Associate Director

Mark GaheganMark Gahegan
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Interests: GIS, Visualization, Geocomputation, Spatial Analysis,  Databases

Associate Professor-Geography

Education:
Ph.D.,University of Curtin, Australia
B.S., University of Leeds

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
Cindy Brewer Cindy Brewer

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Interests: Cartography; Map Design; Color Theory; Symbolization; Census Mapping; Epidemiological Mapping
Associate 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
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

Alexander Klippel

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Interests:
Spatial Cognition, Qualitative Spatial Reasoning, Visual Representations, GIScience

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.
Ray Masters Ray Masters

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Interests:
Visualization; Immersive Technologies; Middleware;
Rapid Prototyping
Education:
M.S., Architectural Engineering; B.S., Architecture
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

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
Rajeev Sharma Rajeev Sharma

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Interests: Multimodal human-computer interfaces, Computer vision, Biometrics
Associate Professor-
Computer Science
Education: Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Maryland

Research Faculty:

Isaac Brewer

Isaac Brewer

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Interests:
Collaboration; Emergency Mgmt., Ecoregions, Cognitive Sys. Engr., Visualization
Education:
Ph.D., Geography, Penn State; M.S., Geography, Oregon State Univ.; B.A., Geography, Pittsburgh State Univ.

Frank Hardisty

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Interests:
Geographic visualization, epidemiology, usability analysis,
cartography, spatial analysis, geocomputation, demography
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.

Etien L. Koua

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Interests: Information Visualization, Geovisualization, Geospatial analysis, Data mining, KDD and computational methods, Usability and Human-Computer Interaction. Education: Ph.D., Geoinformatics, Utrecht University and ITC (the Netherlands); M.S., instructional systems and technology, Twente University(the Netherlands).; B.Sc, Computer Science, National Polytechnic Institute, Ivory Coast

James O'Brien

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Interests: GIS, Visualization, Geocomputation Education: Ph.D., Geography, Penn State; BSc Geographic Information Science (Hons) University of Curtin, Australia

Ian Turton

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

Chris Weaver

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Interests: Exploratory and Collaborative Information Visualization, Geovisualization, Mass Spectrometry Education: Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Wisconsin;
M.S., Computer Science, University of Wisconsin;
B.S., Chemistry and Mathematics, Michigan State University
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