UCSB 2010 July 19–July 23, 2010: Santa Barbara, CA

Description | Agenda | Instructors & Participants | Travel & Accommodations | Library

Workshop Coordinators

Donald Janelle (Email: ) is a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is Program Director for the Center for Spatial Studies. He is also Professor Emeritus with the University of Western Ontario, where he chaired the Department of Geography for five years and served as Assistant Vice Provost. Janelle holds a BA in Geography from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and a PhD in Geography from Michigan State University. His research interests include space-time analyses of individual behavior, the time-geography of cities, social issues in transportation, and the role of space-adjusting technologies in structuring new patterns of social and economic organization. He is a recipient of the Edward L. Ullman Award for Career Contributions to Transportation Geography and the 2009 Ronald F. Abler Honors Award for Distinguished Service from the Association of American Geographers. Janelle has authored more than 100 journal articles and book chapters, and has co-edited five books, including Information, Place, and Cyberspace: Issues in Accessibility and Spatially Integrated Social Science. More information about Janelle is available at: http://www.spatial.ucsb.edu/people/executive.php .
Stephen A. Matthews (E-mail: ) is Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Demography (Courtesy in Geography); Director, Geographic Information Analysis Core at the Population Research Institute, Social Science Research Institute, Penn State. His research focuses on families and neighborhoods in diverse community contexts and the application of GIS and spatial methods in demographic, health and social science research. He serves as PI on both an NIEHS funded quasi-experimental study of neighborhood food environments, diet, and health and an NICHD R25 training grant on advanced spatial analysis. Matthews has served on numerous NIH review panels including Community Influences on Health Behavior (CIHB), special panels (e.g., Cancer and GIS; Infrastructure for Data Sharing and Archiving) and on the editorial board of Health and Place (1994-2004) and American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2005-present). He was PI on the initial GIS and Population Science (GISPopSci) training grant (2005-2007). More information about Matthews is available at: http://cairo.pop.psu.edu/CtrPRI/DirBio.cfm?PeopleID=32.

Instructors

Arthur (Art) Getis is Distinguished Professor of Geography Emeritus at San Diego State University. He holds BS and MS degrees in Geography from The Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Washington. Getis has published widely in a range of geography, regional science, and epidemiology journals and his text (with J. Getis and J.D. Fellmann), Introduction to Geography, now in its 11th edition, is the best-selling text in the introductory field of geography. He has produced over 100 refereed papers and seven books. With the statistician, J.K. Ord, his work on local statistics is well known throughout the world. His research in spatial analysis and infectious diseases has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Getis' program of research develops new spatial analytic devices and applications in a number of fields, chief among them is the transmission of infectious diseases and the spatial variability of health. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Geographical Systems. Dr. Getis has considerable experience with workshops, having been the leader of the five summer CSISS workshops entitled "An Introduction to Spatial Pattern Analysis in a GIS Environment." In addition, he has led workshops at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, San Diego State University, and at the University of Costa Rica. More information about Getis is available at:
http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Faculty/getis.html .
John Weeks is Professor of Geography and Director of the International Population Center at San Diego State University. He is also Clinical Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He holds an AB degree in Sociology, an MA in Demography, and a Ph.D. in Demography, all from the University of California Berkeley. Weeks has published widely in a range of social science journals and his text on Population, now in its 9th edition, is the best-selling text in the field of demography. His research on geodemographics has been funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation and currently the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. This program of research investigates the application of remote sensing, GIS, and spatial statistics to issues of spatial variability in health. He is also a Co-Principal Investigator on a NASA REASoN project titled A Border Security Decision Support System Driven by Remotely Sensed Data Inputs (Douglas Stow, PI), and Co-PI on an National Cancer Institute project, Multi-level Assessment of Indoor Tanning Practices (Joni Mayer, PI). Dr. Weeks has considerable experience with workshops, having been an instructor for five summers in the CSISS workshops on "An Introduction to Spatial Pattern Analysis in a GIS Environment," and for the past two years as a presenter in the GIS and Population Science workshops. Weeks also co-coordinated (with colleague Arthur Getis) a very successful SPACE (Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement) workshop, funded by NSF through UCGIS, at San Diego State University during the summer of 2004. More information about Weeks is available at:
http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Faculty/weeks.html.
Jared Aldstadt is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo. His research focus is spatial analysis applied to human health. He received his PhD. from the Joint Doctoral Program in Geography of San Diego State University / University of California, Santa Barbara, holds an M.A. in Geography from , San Diego State University, and a B.A. in Geography, The State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Aldstadt has received both NSF and NIH funding for his research on dengue fever transmission. He has been an instructor of previous CSISS workshops on spatial pattern analysis in a GIS environment and he developed laboratory materials for a Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement (SPACE) workshop. In 2004 Jared was a laboratory instructor at The Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science's Summer Institute in Florence, Italy. More information about Aldstadt is available at:
http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/people/ .
Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography and Director of Center for Spatial Studies (spatial@ucsb) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After 19 years at the University of Western Ontario, including three years as Chair, he moved to Santa Barbara in 1988. Since then, he has served as Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA); Associate Director of the Alexandria Digital Library Project; and Director of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science. He received his BA degree from Cambridge University in Physics and his PhD in Geography from McMaster University. More information about Michael Goodchild is available at:
http://www.spatial.ucsb.edu/people/executive.php .

Teaching Assistants and Project Consultants

Josh Bader
GIS, lab consultant
Department of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Email:
Frank Davenport
Department of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Email:
Indy Hurt
GIS, lab consultant
Department of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Email:
Justin Stoler
Spatial epidemiology lab consultant
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
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Participants

Charisma Acey
Affiliation: Ohio State University
Research Interest: Urban and Regional Planning
Maria Au
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Research Interest: Health Sciences
Matthew Bampton
Affiliation: University of Southern Maine
Research Interest: Geography
Nyesha Black
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Research Interest: Sociology
Suzanne Charles
Affiliation: Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Research Interest: Urban and Regional Planning
Dustin Duncan
Affiliation: Harvard University School of Public Health
Research Interest: Epidemiology
Jennifer Toller Erausquin
Affiliation: Duke University Global Health Institute
Research Interest: Epidemiology
Christopher Franklin
Affiliation: UCI, University of Texas, Dallas
Research Interest: Marketing/Demography
Chris Herrmann
Affiliation: CUNY Graduate Center
Research Interest: Criminology
Sarah Hinman
Affiliation: Idaho State University
Research Interest: Geography / History
Yuxia Huang
Affiliation: Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Research Interest: Computer Science
Raoul Lievanos
Affiliation: University of California, Davis
Research Interest: Sociology
Elia Machado
Affiliation: Clark University
Research Interest: Geography
Yasuyuki Motoyama
Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interest: Urban and Regional Planning
Thomas Ogorzalek
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Interest: Political Science
Manoj Pathak
Affiliation: University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
Research Interest: Statistics
Ioana Popescu
Affiliation: University of Iowa
Research Interest: Health Sciences
Matt Ruther
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Research Interest: Demography
Luis Sanchez
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Research Interest: Sociology
Comilla Sasson
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Research Interest: Health Sciences
Isaac Sasson
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Research Interest: Demography
Sarah Valdez
Affiliation: University of Washington
Research Interest: Sociology
Judith Van der Elst
Affiliation: University of New Mexico
Research Interest: Anthropology
Ling Yin
Affiliation: University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Research Interest: Geography