Transformations
Todd Bryant is the academic technology liaison for the foreign language departments at Dickinson College. He also teaches or guest lectures occasionally in the German department. His work focuses on emphasizing the social aspect of language learning through technology.
Born in Spain and raised in suburban America, Jon Caris is trained as a geographer and environmental planner. In previous incarnations Jon was a solid waste planner in southeast Vermont before bootstrapping himself into a GIS professional. During the transition from garbage to maps, Jon spent fours years as president and co-founder of Cartographic Technologies, Inc., a small innovative GIS company in Vermont. He also served as the first private-sector board member, appointed by Governor Howard Dean, to the Vermont Center for Geographic Information. Despite numerous warnings about the health effects of practicing GIS for over 15 years, Jon continues on learning how much he really doesn’t know about GIS or any other related technologies. As the current GIS Specialist and Coordinator of the Spatial Analysis Lab at Smith College, he encounters this conundrum daily. Hope lies with his young daughter, Hannah, who learned her XYZ’s before her ABC’s. Jon can be reached at jcaris@email.smith.edu.
Mary Ann Cunningham is an assistant Professor of Geography at Vassar College with primary interests in landscape ecology, conservation, and biogeography. She teaches GIS, cartography, and courses in conservation, land use planning, and environmental science; all these courses involve some level of spatial analysis of environmental and social problems. Her research has focused on spatial and statistical analysis of habitat use by grassland and woodland birds, habitat in farmland set-aside programs, urban land use and environments, and urban transportation infrastructure.
Jeremy Donald, M.S.L.S., is a Reference/Instruction librarian at Trinity University's Coates Library, where he serves as the liaison to Communication, Economics, Political Science, and Urban Studies. He also serves as the Government Documents and GIS librarian.
Carol Ekstrom teaches geology at Rhodes College. She started the Geology Program at the college in 1975, and in 1989 developed the Earth System Science minor. She chairs the Geographic Information Systems committee and currently teaches the introductory GIS course. She has been active in science and environmental education outreach programs with the neighboring public schools and is presently the Principal Investigator for Education for a HUD COPC grant. Her environmental work has been supported in the past by grants from the EPA, ACS, and Congressionally Directed grants. She holds a B.S. from Beloit College and an M.S. from The George Washington University.
David Kahle is the Director of Tufts Academic Technology and oversees Tufts University’s central AT initiatives, which include technology education for faculty, instructional technology design and development, and research computing administration. Prior to coming to Tufts, David served as Head of the Instructional Technology Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and as project manager at MIT’s Center for Advanced Educational Services. David’s experience includes the planning and development of networked learning environments in support of higher education, informal adult learning, and public outreach initiatives. His current research and development activities focus on the creation of information systems and cognitive tools designed to increase access to and comprehension of digital information. David serves on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, teaching courses on the design and development of online learning environments and software.
Sarah Lohnes, a Connecticut College graduate, worked for three years on the staff of the Center for Educational Technology (CET), a predecessor of NITLE, based at Middlebury College. Lohnes provided instructional and developmental support for technology programs, including multimedia production and web authoring, with an emphasis on languages and pedagogy.
Sarah is now at Teachers College, Columbia University, completing a doctorate in Communication and Education, while serving as a Research Assistant for the CTELL project. She also consults for NITLE, teaching workshops on computer-mediated communication and social software in education and working with the social software users group. Her interests include blogs and education, youth culture, social software, and the technology practices of liberal arts college students.
To contact or learn more about Sarah, please visit her website, http://www.sarahlohnes.com/.
Jamie D. Mitchem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Science at California University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include natural hazards and emergency management, flood mitigation, and meteorological conditions that favor severe weather. He currently serves as Project Leader for the Three Rivers HAZUS User Group (3RiversHUG) which strives to bring academia and the public and private sectors together to improve flood mitigation practices in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Lawrence L. Moses has over 40 years of teaching and consultant experience across multiple disciplines. In 1985, he established the Earth Systems Application Laboratory. As co-director of the laboratory, he facilitated the development of a Geographic Information System laboratory and a computer applications laboratory for the geo-sciences.He has taught both web-based and distance education courses. Dr. Moses has published a number of textbooks and instructional materials for the earth sciences. He holds degrees from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Science), The Pennsylvania State University (Masters of Education), and the University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D. in Geography). His professional interests include mapping science, atmospheric science, the regional planning process, and the application of technology to the planning process. His public service includes community service projects, workshops, and seminars for local public officials. Dr. Moses served in the military with the United States Army Reserves (active) for 22 years as a weather officer. He retired with the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 4. He is Chairperson and Professor of Earth Science at California University of Pennsylvania.
Thomas R. Mueller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Science at California University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Director of the CalU Crime Mapping Center.The Crime Mapping Center serves as a repository for data storage; as a site for data analysis, including spatial analysis of data and the production of crime maps; and as a training site for police and others involved in crime prevention, investigation, and enforcement. Studies are completed by Dr. Mueller and his students. His research interests include spatial aspects of crime and issues in geo-spatial technology education.
Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger is the GIS Research Specialist in Academic Technology at Tufts University. She is also a Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, where she teaches introductory and advanced GIS courses. She holds a Ph.D. in geography from Clark University. Yelena is very interested in interdisciplinary applications of geospatial technology and is currently collaborating with faculty from the Biology Department and Veterinary and Medical Schools on several GIS projects. She regularly gives guest lectures and teaches hands-on workshops about geospatial technology at different departments throughout the University and has many opportunities to observe how learning can be enhanced by the rich visual environment and analytical capabilities of geospatial technology. Prior to joining the Tufts faculty, she was a visiting assistant professor at Mount Holyoke College and has also taught in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Russia. As a participant in the NASA-funded project on predictive modeling of land-use change in southern Mexico, she directed the GIS and remote sensing research group. She has published several book chapters and journal articles in English, Spanish, and Russian.
Glen Ross is an assistant professor of economics at Morehouse College and the Director of the Economic Studies Abroad Program in South Africa, a joint initiative between the economics departments at Georgia State University and Morehouse College. Ross’ research interest focuses on issues related to urban economics, economic development, and economic pedagogy. He is currently using GIS to help examine trends in poverty concentrations in urban areas. He has also begun to introduce GIS in his teaching.
Roger C. Schonfeld is Manager of Research for Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization closely affiliated with JSTOR, ARTstor, Portico, Aluka, and NITLE, that is helping academia transition to an increasingly electronic environment. Roger’s current research interests focus on how this digital transformation is altering teaching, learning, scholarship, and scholarly communications. Present projects include a series of user, usage, and citation studies; surveys of faculty and librarians; research into the role of legacy print collections; and an examination of the history of book survivability over time. While at Ithaka, Roger has written "The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals" (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004), a study of the economics of the digital transformation of the library, and collaborated on a parallel study of journal publishers. With Brian Lavoie of OCLC, Roger conducted the most comprehensive analysis of the system-wide library collection conducted to date. He is also the author of JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), which documented the development and growth of JSTOR as a self-sustaining archive of digitized journal literature. Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He can be contacted at rcs@ithaka.org.
Meg Stewart is the GIS Consultant at Vassar College and is a member of the Academic Computing Services group. She has held that position since 1998.Prior to joining Vassar, Meg worked as a geologist in an environmental consulting firm. She has a Master’s degree in geoscience from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In May 2004, she and Mary Ann Cunningham co-wrote a GIS workbook called Exploring Environmental Sciences With GIS: An Introduction to Environmental Mapping and Analysis. The workbook was published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Meg can be reached at mestewart@vassar.edu.
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