Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment (GISDE)
Faculty
Ronald Eastman, Ph.D.
Professor of Geography
Research Interests/Specialization:GIS, remote sensing, cartography
Robert Gilmore Pontius, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geography
Research Interests/Specialization:Geographic Information Science (GIS), Quantitative Environmental Modeling, Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Land Change Science, Spatial Statistics
Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment
Research Interests/Specialization:
John Rogan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geography
Research Interests/Specialization: GIS, landscape ecology, land cover change monitoring, fire
Jie Tian, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment
Research Interests/Specialization: Geographic Information Science and Systems, Spatial-temporal Analysis, Land use and land cover classification, Climate and global change, Remote Sensing and Image Processing, Spatial Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental Health and Air Quality, Geocomputation and Open Source GIS
Adjunct Faculty
Karen Frey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Geography
Dominik Kulakowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Geography
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Colin Polsky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Geography; Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research and Active Pedagogy
Samuel Ratick, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Geography
Professor, International Development, Community and Environment Department
Christopher A. Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Geography
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Research Faculty
Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: The interactions of feminism, women, militarized culture, war, politics and globalized economics in countries such as Japan, Iraq, the US, Britain, the Philippines, Canada, Chile and Turkey
Richard Ford, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: Resource trends and resource management in Africa, community participation and sustainable development, conflict mediation, community-based planning, monitoring and evaluation
Robert Goble, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: Physics, energy studies, atmospheric transport, risk analysis and management
Barbara Thomas-Slayter, Ph.D.
IDCE Research Professor
Research Interests/Specialization: Local institutions, women and public policy, peasant-state relations, gender issues, non-governmental organizations
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Claire Brill (GISDE '08)
Claire Brill (GISDE ‘08) is now the GIS analyst for the City of Worcester. While a student in the GISDE program, she won second place at the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Student Paper Competition for her project Using GIS to Contrast Perceived Versus Preferred Priorities for Brownfield Redevelopment in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The paper, which came about through her involvement with the City of Worcester’s Mayor’s Brownfields Roundtable, compares the perceived priorities of decision-makers with the stated desires of stakeholders concerning brownfield redevelopment in Worcester.