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Faculty & Teaching Specialists

Paul Bolstad

"The University of Minnesota's MGIS program features distinguished faculty from a variety of disciplines including geography, forest resources, computer science, urban affairs, and soil, water, and climate. Our teaching specialists are leading GIS professionals who teach many of our technology courses."

Paul Bolstad
Professor of Forest Resources, doing field work in the Smoky Mountains

Faculty News

  • Craig inducted into URISA's GIS Hall of Fame

    Will Craig, Associate Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs and MGIS Faculty Member, has been inducted into URISA's GIS Hall of Fame. The GIS Hall of Fame was established by the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) in 2005 to recognize and honor the most esteemed leaders of the geospatial community. For more information on Dr. Craig's impressive achievements, visit http://urisa.org/hall/craig.

     September 17th, 2009

  • Knight appointed to MGIS Graduate Faculty

    Knight_SWAC.jpgDr. Joe Knight, Assistant Professor of Forest Resources, was recently appointed to the MGIS graduate faculty. He specializes in the application of geospatial information technologies such as remote sensing, image processing, geographic information systems (GIS), and the global positioning system (GPS). For more information on Dr. Knight, visit his web page.

     September 17th, 2009
Faculty Research Interests
Marvin Bauer
Professor, Department of Forest Resources		 applications of digital remote sensing to the mapping and monitoring of natural resources and the environment
Jay Bell
Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate		 applications of GIScience for pedology and land assessment, digital terrain analysis, soil landscape modeling
Paul Bolstad
Professor, Department of Forest Resources		 ecological applications of GIScience, measurement, analysis, modeling, and error propagation in studies of ecological phenomena at broad spatial scales
William Craig
Adjunct, Department of Geography		 urban GIS, societal dimensions of GIS, public policy analysis
Rob Edsall
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography		 cartography, geovisualization, spatial analysis
Francis Harvey
Associate Professor, Department of Geography		 GIS implementation in local government, societal dimensions of GIS
Joseph Knight
Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Resources 		application of geospatial information technologies such as remote sensing, image processing, geographic information systems (GIS), and the global positioning system (GPS)
Stephen Lime
MGIS Graduate Faculty, Department of Geography		 Internet GIS, Mapserver developer
Mark Lindberg
Senior Cartographer, Department of Geography		 digital cartographic production, quantitative methods and spatial analysis, map design
Timothy Loesch
MGIS Graduate Faculty, Department of Geography		 GIS programming, applications development, hydrologic modeling
Robert Maki
MGIS Graduate Faculty, Department of Geography		 spatial data administration, data modeling, systems design, project management, spatial and traditional technology integration
Steven Manson
Associate Professor, Department of Geography		 agent-based spatial modeling, spatial statistics and analysis
Robert McMaster
Professor, Department of Geography		 digital cartography and spatial analysis, environmental risk assessment, GIS and society
Susanna McMaster
Associate Director, MGIS, Department of Geography		 environmental applications of GIScience, data quality and uncertainty, professional GIScience education
Roger Miller
Associate Professor, Department of Geography		 Scandinavia, urban, historical, geographical methodology, social theory, planning history
Shashi Shekhar
Professor, Department of Computer Science		 spatial databases, data and knowledge engineering, spatial data mining
Roderick Squires
Associate Professor, Department of Geography		 environmental quality, public land policy, real estate
Teaching Specialists Technology Courses Taught
Brian Fischer
Houston Engineering 		GIS and the Internet
Catherine Hansen
Teaching Specialist 		Desktop Mapping
Timothy Loesch
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources		 GIS Programming
Steven Lime
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources		 GIS and the Internet
Kurt Wood
Minnesota Department of Agriculture 		Spatial Data Administration
David Zenk
Minnesota Department of Transportation		 Surveying and GPS