GRF Personnel

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

Research Interests

  • Environmental Change and Life Course Epidemiology
  • Urban Environments and Population Health
  • Public Participatory GIS
  • Historical GIS & Deep Mapping
  • Spatial Humanities 
  • Deindustrialization and Shrinking Cities
  • Time-Space Integration and Modeling in GIS
  • Demography and Historical Record Linkage
  • Sense of Place and Neighborhood Construction
  • 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
  • Senior Geospatial Research Scientist
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Social Sciences

Education

  • PhD, Industrial Heritage and Archaeology, Michigan Technological University
  • MS, Industrial Archaeology, Michigan Technological University
  • BS, Anthropology and History, Cleveland State University
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Research Interests

  • Industrial and Urban Archaeology
  • Historical GIS
  • Deindustrialization
  • Industrial Landscapes
  • The Archaeology of Brownfields
  • Spatial Analysis of Historical Industrial Pollutants
  • Big Data Approaches to Archaeology
  • Publicly-engaged Scholarship
  • 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
  • GIS Data Librarian

Areas of Expertise

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Geospatial Metadata
  • Cartography
  • Web-based GIS application development
  • Geospatial data management, discovery, and dissemination
Esther Acheampong

Esther Acheampong

  • PhD Student, Environmental and Energy Policy

Advisor

Education

  • MPhil, Integrated Coastal Management, UCC, Ghana
  • BS, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UCC, Ghana

Research Interests

  • GIS and Remote Sensing
  • Environmental and Energy Policy
  • Policy Analysis
  • Coastal Management
  • Climate Change
Chaeyeong Jeong

Chaeyeong Russell Jeong

  • PhD Student, Environmental and Energy Policy

Education

  • MS, Smart City, Dong-Eui University, South Korea
  • BS, Urban Engineering, Dong-Eui University, South Korea
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Research Interests

  • Urban Planning and Design
  • Land Use and Urbanization
  • Smart City
  • Walkability and Sustainability
  • Public Transportation Systems
Grace Griffin

Grace Griffin

  • GIS Analyst

Areas of Expertise

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • GIS Data Collector Applications
  • Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
  • LiDAR Applications
  • Geophysical Applications for Archaeology
  • GIS Analyst
  • PhD Student, Industrial Heritage and Archaeology

Advisor

Education

  • 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