GRF Personnel

  • Professor of Geography and GIS
  • Director, Geospatial Research Facility

Research Interests

  • Children's Health and Lifecourse Epidemiology
  • Urban Environments and Population Health
  • Public Participatory GIS
  • Historical GIS & Deep Mapping
  • Deindustrialization and Shrinking Cities
  • Time-Space Integration and Modeling in GIS
  • Demography and Historical Record Linkage
  • Community Development
  • Assistant Director, Geospatial Research Facility

Areas of Expertise

  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Database Development
  • GIS Tool and Process Development
  • Integrating Web, GIS, Database and Analytics Tools
  • Geospatial Research Scientist

Areas of Expertise

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Geostatistical Analysis
  • Lake Superior Geology, Coastal Geomorphology, and Geoheritage
  • GPS, GIS Data Collector Applications, and Mapping Technologies
  • Web-based GIS Data Dissemination and Applications
  • Interdisciplinary GIS Project Management
  • Geospatial Research Scientist III

Education

  • PhD, Industrial Heritage and Archaeology, Michigan Technological University
  • BS, Geology - Earth Science Education, Michigan Technological University 

Research Interests

  •  Industrial Heritage Interpretation
  • Community Based Heritage Management
  • GIS Applications for Heritage Interpretation
  • Great Lakes Mining History
  • Turn-of-the-Century Geologic and Survey Methods in the Great Lakes