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Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
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in Geography-Cartography with a minor in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968. He is the recipient of the Carl Mannerfeld Gold Medal from the International Cartographic Association, the Meredith Burrell Award from the Association of American Geographers, and the James Anderson Award in Applied Geography.
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Max J Egenhofer is the director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the University of Maine, the Libra Professor of the College of Engineering, professor in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, and cooperating professor in computer science.
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He has been a faculty member at The Pennsylvania State University since 1998, and his research interests include geographic information science (GIS) , visualization, semantic models of geography, geocomputation, digital remote sensing, artificial intelligence tools, spatial analysis, Voronoi diagrams, databases, and qualitative reasoning.
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His publications include the two-volume text Geographic Information Systems: Principles and Applications. He currently is a member of the Geographical Sciences Committee and formerly served as chair of the National Research Council's Mapping Science Committee.
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Over the past 25 years, he has served on various committees of the Royal Geographical Society and the Geographical Association. He is also a past council and management committee member of the Association for Geographic Information.
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From 1984 to 1988, Dr. Abler was director of the Geography and Regional Science Program at the National Science Foundation, where he coordinated the establishment in 1988 of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.
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While at the National Academies, Mrs. Campbell worked on studies involving coal waste impoundments, geographic information for sustainable development in Africa, and the U.S.
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