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3rd NCAR Community Workshop on GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts
October 27-29, 2008
NCAR Mesa Lab
Boulder, Colorado
| Workshop Speakers & Panelists Biographies |
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Marc P. Armstrong is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography, as well as Interim Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Iowa, where he also holds an appointment in the Graduate Program in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences. Armstrong was named a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Collegiate Fellow in 2005 and he served as Interim Associate Dean for Research in CLAS from 1 August 2006 until 15 January 2007. Armstrong's Ph.D. is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A primary focus of his research is on the use of grid computing to improve the performance of spatial analysis methods. Other active areas of interest are in mobile computing, privacy aspects of geo-spatial technologies, and evolutionary computation. Dr. Armstrong has served as North American Editor of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science and Associate Editor of Cartography and Geographic Information Systems . He now serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Geoinformatica and Geographical Analysis . Dr. Armstrong has published more than 100 academic papers including articles in a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals such as Annals of the Association of American Geographers , Environment and Planning A, B & C , Photogrammetic Engineering and Remote Sensing, Geographical Analysis, Geographical Systems, Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Statistics and Medicine, Mathematical Geology, Computers & Geosciences, International Journal of Geographical Information Science , Parallel Computing , Computers, Environment and Urban Systems , and Journal of the American Society for Information Science . |
| Jennifer Boehnert joined the GIS Initiative at NCAR iIn 2003, as the GIS Coordinator. Her role at NCAR is to provide regular consultation to scientists and engineers on numerous projects. She helped to develop a website, which distributes climate change scenario data in GIS format, and marks the first time that users may access any form of NCAR data from the web with standard GIS tools. Ms. Boehnert also co-authored a flip-book of the changing levels of the Aral Sea , which is being published by the World Meteorological Organization. Ms. Boehnert has extensive experience and knowledge of GIS applications and GIS analysis methods. She has been working with a variety of GIS software for the past 10 years. Prior to joining NCAR, as a consultant for ESRI, the world's leading GIS software company, Ms. Boehnert worked with a vast array of clients on a number of projects ranging from database design to custom GIS tool development. |
| Lawrence Buja is currently the acting Director of the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment and a project manager for the Climate Change and Prediction group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder , Colorado . Lawrence joined NCAR in 1990 as a member of NCAR's Community Climate Model core development group. Most recently, Lawrence and his group carried out over 5,000 years of high-resolution, state-of-the-art, climate model simulations using both NCAR's Community Climate System Model (CCSM) and the Parallel Climate Model (PCM). In partnership with the US Department of Energy, these detailed simulations of the earth's past, present and future climate made up the US NSF/DOE submission to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report. Together with the CCSM runs carried out on the Japanese Earth Simulator, these CCSM runs were the largest data submission to the IPCC AR4 effort by any modeling center in the world. In addition to carrying out the NCAR CCSM climate simulations for the IPCC, Lawrence is a contributing author to both the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report (AR3) and the breakthrough 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) . |
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John del Corral has been working as a scientific programmer in the climate sciences for over 20 years. His activities have included atmospheric modeling, field experiments, data management, and web site planning and management. He has worked for PI's Julius Chang, 'Ram' Ramanathan, Nick Graham, and Natalie Mahowald at NCAR, Scripps, and UCSB. John is currently working for Benno Blumenthal at Columbia University . He is on the technical staff of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society's (IRI) Data Library. His work focuses on GIS, SQL and triple-store databases, and Semantic Technology. |
| Julie Demuth is an Associate Scientist with the NCAR Societal Impacts Program. Her current research primarily is focused on studying decision making related to hazardous weather events, communication of forecasts and warnings of hazardous weather, and communication of uncertainty in weather forecasts. In addition to her research, Julie also organizes and implements the annual Weather and Society * Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) workshops and related WAS*IS efforts. Prior to joining NCAR, Julie was a Program Officer with the National Research Council (NRC) Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) in Washington, DC, where she managed congressionally mandated and agency-requested scientific studies . Julie is currently a member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Board on Society Impacts. She has a master's degree in atmospheric science from Colorado State University and a bachelor's degree in meteorology from the University of Nebraska. |
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Ben Domenico is Unidata Director of Development and Outreach. Ben establishes and maintains key Unidata relationships with external organizations, especially those in the international standards, earth science and education communities. In that role, he represents Unidata at major national and international conferences and on technical committees of international data system standards organization. Specifically he is the UCAR representative on the Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee. He provides organizational leadership for several Unidata projects that include outside organizations, e.g, THREDDS and GALEON. He is responsible for maintaining collaborative relationships with the hydrology, oceanography, air quality, and human impacts communities and coordinates Unidata developments with organizations working on data system development that complement Unidata, e.g., Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, the international Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal, NASA standards-based catalog services, the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , NCAR Community Data Portal, the Dutch ADAGUC (Atmospheric Data Access for the GIS User Community), the Marine Metadata Interoperability project, and others. He is also the primary liaison to projects such as NSDL and the Data In Education Workshops project and is a founding member and secretary of AGU Earth and Space Science Focus Group. He has also served as Deputy Director of Unidata and DLESE and Acting Director of Unidata. |
| Johannes Feddema is a climate scientist investigating the interactions between human activities at the Earth's surface and climate. This interest developed at a young age when, growing up in the Europe, Africa and Asia , he observed first hand the impacts of climate on society. Presently a professor in the department of Geography at the University of Kansas , he obtained a B.A. degree in Biology and Geography, an M.S. degree in Geography and a Ph.D. degree in Climatology from the University of Delaware . Early in his career he used water balance models to simulate climate impacts on water resources, and studied the climate impacts of land-use change and human induced soil degradation. To better understand the feedbacks in the coupled human climate system he began to conduct similar experiments in Global Climate Models (GCMs). He is now working to create models and databases to assess the impacts of anthropogenic land cover change, urbanization and soil degradation on climate in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Global Climate Models. He has published in a variety of journals including Climate Research , Climate Dynamics , Climatic Change and Science and was a contributing author to the fourth IPCC report. Since 2006 he has held an Affiliate Scientist appointment with NCAR and was recently appointed to the Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy advisory group by the Governor of Kansas. |
| Josh Foster manages CCAP's Urban Leaders Adaptation Initiative, designed to equip U.S. partner cities and counties make effective policy and investment decisions to increase their resiliency to the impacts of climate change. Josh has 13 years of experience working on climate adaptation at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Science Program Office as a manager for climate research applications and services. His work focused on decision support, drought and water resources management, local urban preparedness, and engagement with the private sector. He was the project manager for NOAA's Climate Resilient Communities project from 2005-08 in collaboration with ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability. In the past he has also worked on NOAA's Regional Integrated Climate Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations Development Program, and the White House Office on Environmental Policy. Josh holds Masters in International Relations and Environmental Management from Yale University, and Bachelors in International Relations and Environmental Policy, Minor in Latin American Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. |
| Peter Fox is a Chief Computational Scientist at the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Fox's research specializes in the fields of solar and solar-terrestrial physics, computational and computer science, information technology, and grid-enabled, distributed semantic data frameworks. This research utilizes state-of-the-art modeling techniques, internet-based technologies, including the semantic web, and applies them to large-scale distributed scientific repositories addressing the full life-cycle of data and information within specific science and engineering disciplines as well as among disciplines. Fox is currently PI for the Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory, the Semantically-Enabled Scientific Data Integration, Semantic Provenance Capture in Data Ingest Systems and the CEDAR database projects. Fox has spent over 22 years bridging science and distributed data and information systems to support community activities utilizing use case driven design. Fox leads working groups for: Virtual Observatories for the Electronic Geophysical Year, semantic web for NASA technology infusion as well as the Earth Science Information Partnership federation, is chair of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Union Commission on Data and Information and the AGU Special Focus Group on Earth and Space Science Informatics, is an associate editor for the Earth Science Informatics journal, is a member of the editorial board for Computers in Geosciences and lead editor for the AGU monograph Virtual Observatories in Geosciences. Fox recently served on International Council for Science's Strategic Committee for Information and Data. Fox also currently serves as President for the not-for-profit Open source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP). |
| Susanne Grossman-Clarke is an Assistant Research Professor at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. She received a Masters degree in Physics from Humboldt University Berlin (Germany) and a Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam (Germany) in the field of Geoecology. Her current work emphasizes the improvement of the physical representation of urban surfaces in mesoscale meteorological models in order to enhance weather and climate modeling for cities as well as the application of the models to support studying social implications of the influence of urbanization on weather and climate. Before joining Arizona State University, Dr. Grossman-Clarke worked as a Research Scientist at the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany) on modeling the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations on the energy and water exchange between plant canopies and the atmosphere and crop growth. In previous appointments at the Academy of Science (former East Germany), she developed and implemented software supporting modeling, analysis and simulation of ecosystems. Dr Grossman-Clarke is currently a visitor with the Land Surface Modeling group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. |
| Dr. Ted Habermann works at NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) in Boulder Colorado. He has recently been working on a number of projects that integrate geospatial databases, metadata and internet mapping. The NGDC internet mapping site draws over 200,000 maps / month using ESRI's Internet Map Server (ArcIMS) and Open Geospatial Consortium standards. The NOAA Observing System Architecture (NOSA) database and website ( http://nosa.noaa.gov <http://nosa.noaa.gov/> ) brings together information and maps on all of NOAA's observing systems as well as several International observing efforts that NOAA is involved in. The Satellite Product End-to-End Documentation System (SPEEDS) will create a metadata "value-chain" that traverses the NESDIS product life-cycle from user request to archive. His primary interests are at the confluence of metadata standards, relational databases, GIS, and the World Wide Web and in organizational dynamics of information technology partnerships. |
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Sharon L. Harlan is a sociologist who studies patterns, processes and outcomes of class, gender, and ethnic inequalities in contemporary U.S. society. Her recent research and publications are on interdisciplinary problems of social and environmental inequity brought about by rapid urbanization in the Phoenix , AZ region. She is the principal investigator of a project that examines urban vulnerability to climate change as a dynamic feature of coupled natural and human systems that differentially place landscapes and people at risk from heat-related health problems in urban neighborhoods. She is a co-principal investigator of the Central Arizona - Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Project, director of the Phoenix Area Social Survey, and Associate Professor in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change. |
| Mary Hayden is a postdoctoral fellow and visiting scientist at NCAR's Institute for the Study of Society and Environment and a Guest Researcher with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her research interests are societal impacts and climate change, particularly climate and health related links, community participatory research, and social mobilization. Currently, Mary is working on projects related to dengue fever transmission – an environmental health pilot investigating the role of waste tires in the potential for dengue fever transmission at the TX-MX border, a study in San Juan , PR focusing on anomalous dry season transmission of dengue fever, and a pilot in Guayaquil , Ecuador investigating environmental determinants of dengue transmission. Additionally, she is investigating patterns of societal risk and vulnerability to extreme heat. Hayden holds a BA in Islamic Studies from the University of Kiel, Germany and a BA from Metropolitan State College, Denver in German and Meteorology. She earned an MA in Geography (Climatology) at the University of Colorado , Boulder and completed her Ph.D. in Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado , Denver . |
| Steve Linger
is a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) with 17 years of experience developing geospatial applications. At LANL, he collaborates on modeling and simulation capabilities related to national defense. The models represent a variety of disciplines, including energy infrastructures, water systems, atmospheric science, population, and geoscience. Steve has also worked closely with electric utilities. |
Rebecca E. Morss is a Scientist II at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder , CO , with a joint appointment in the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division and the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment. She studies meteorological, socioeconomic, and public policy aspects of weather forecasts, floods, hurricanes, and related topics. Her recent research includes studies of meteorological and oceanographic observing network design; the interface between weather and climate information and decision making; scale interactions in atmospheric predictability; and communication of uncertainty in weather forecasts. Through disciplinary and interdisciplinary work, she aims to integrate atmospheric science and socioeconomic/policy perspectives to provide information for the benefit of society.
Dr. Morss has co-authored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications and has co-organized a number of workshops and symposia. She received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in atmospheric science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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Dr. Timothy Nyerges is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington where he specializes in teaching and research related to public participation GIS and coastal GIS. He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1980 specializing in database management languages for GIS. For the past fifteen years he has had a steady stream of research funds to explore development and evaluation of networked GIS for stakeholder participation in environmental decision support. From 2005-2008 he was the research committee chair of University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). He is currently president-elect of UCGIS and coordinating the Geographic Information Science Knowledge Web initiative. |
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Brian O'Neill is a Scientist III in the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (ISSE) at NCAR. He also leads the Population and Climate Change (PCC) Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. He holds a Ph.D. in Earth Systems Science and an M.S. in Applied Science, both from New York University. Brian's research interests are in the field of integrated assessment modeling of climate change, which links socio-economic and natural science elements of the climate change issue in order to address applied, policy-relevant questions. Particular areas of focus include the relationship between demographic change and greenhouse gas emissions, the characterization of uncertainty and its role in decision analysis, and scenario analyses linking long-term climate change goals to shorter-term actions. He has worked as a member of the science staff of the Environmental Defense Fund in New York, and as an Assistant and Associate Professor (Research) at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. In 2004, he received a European Young Investigator (EURYI) award which provides principal funding for the PCC Program at IIASA. He has published in a variety of journals, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science – USA, and Population and Development Review. He has also served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report in a volume on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (Working Group II), and for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) in a volume on Scenarios. |
Patricia Romero Lankao is interested in the interface of the human dimensions of urban atmospheric emissions. Her work analyzes how population density and size, lifestyles, governance and other societal factors affect cities' current and future emissions, as well as the ability of urban populations, transportation systems, water systems and industries to cope with (i.e. adapt to) climate change impacts. She is social scientist at the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (ISSE) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). She was Tenure Professor at the Autonomous Metropolitan University , Xochimilco, in Mexico-City , Mexico , where she taught graduate and postgraduate students for 14 years. Along-side her work in academic institutions in Mexico , Germany and US, she has contributed to a number of international networks of interdisciplinary research projects. For instance, she is member of the scientific committee of the Global Carbon Project; she was convening author of Chapter 7 Industry,
Settlement and Society, as well as lead author of the Summary for Policy Makers and Technical Summary of IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. She is also a fellow of the Aldo Leopold Program and of the International Program Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD). |
| Darren Ruddell is a PhD candidate in the School of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State University . His research interests center on geographic information science, urban hazards, human health and vulnerability to extreme heat, spatial analysis, and mixed-methods research. A forthcoming book chapter utilized GIS and atmospheric modeling to investigate the physical distribution and social vulnerability to extreme heat in the Phoenix ( Arizona , USA ) metropolitan area. Ruddell is currently involved in an interdisciplinary research project examining urban vulnerability to climate change. Ruddell is also affiliated with Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-term Ecological Research (CAP LTER); the Phoenix Area Social Survey (PASS); and the Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC). |
| Stephan R. Sain is the head of the Geophysical Statistics Project in the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He received undergraduate degrees in mathematical sciences and statistics as well as a masters and PhD in statistics from Rice University in Houston, TX. Before coming to NCAR in 2006, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver. His research area involves nonparametric function estimation, spatial statistics, statistical computing, environmental statistics, and applications in the geosciences. As a co-Pi on the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP), he is responsible for the development of statistical methodology to assess and quantify uncertainty in addition to other statistical issues that arise in the design of the NARCCAP experiments and the analysis of the model output. |
| Isabelle Ruin: "I grew up in the French Alps that is probably why I became very interested in geology and natural
hazards. My background led me to graduate in applied geology (MSc). Though I love stones and
geomorphology and the story they may tell, 4 years of working experience in environmental
education also gave me the itch to better understand the complex relationship between society
and environment.
To combine both aspects I chose geography for my PhD research. I graduated from Grenoble
University (France) in 2007. As an NCAR ASP post-doc my research focuses on human vulnerability to flash
flood specifically looking at how people and mostly motorists react to warnings and behave in heavy
rains and flash flood conditions. The originality of my research besides relying on both qualitative
and quantitative methods is to use time and space scales to integrate physical and social data. This
type of work requires a strong interdisciplinary partnership that I particularly appreciate." |
| Soren Scott
is the GIS Specialist at the National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the lead developer for the U.S. Drought Risk Atlas, The Drought Monitor Decision Support System and the Drought Impact Reporter v2. Before joining the NDMC, Soren was a developer for the AGWA (Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment) tool, a joint project with the U.S. EPA, USDA-ARS and the University of Arizona. |
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Alex de Sherbinin is a Senior Staff Associate for Research at Columbia University 's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), an environmental data and analysis center within The Earth Institute at Columbia University specializing in the human aspects of global environmental change. He serves as deputy manager of the NASA-funded Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), and also serves as co-Coordinator of the Population-Environment Research Network (PERN), a global network of 1,500 social and natural scientists researching population-environment relationships that is sponsored by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). He is part of the joint Yale/Columbia team that developed the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) and the Environmental Performance Index (EPI). Mr. de Sherbinin is a geographer whose research interests focus on the human aspects of environmental change at local, national and global scales. He has written peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and reports addressing population dynamics and the environment; urban sustainability; climate change vulnerability; U.S. population policy; consumption-environment linkages; environment and security; environmental indicators; land-use and land-cover change; remote sensing applications for environmental treaties; social science applications of remote sensing; and community-based natural resource management. Prior to joining CIESIN, Mr. de Sherbinin served as a USAID-funded Population-Environment Fellow with the Social Policy Program of IUCN-The World Conservation Union ( Gland , Switzerland ), and a Population Geographer at the population Reference Bureau (PRB, Washington , DC ). From 1984-1986 he served as an agricultural extension agent with the U.S. Peace Corps in Mauritania , West Africa . Mr. de Sherbinin has Masters and Bachelors degrees in geography from Syracuse University and Dartmouth College , respectively. |
| Dr. Scott Shipley received a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from Beloit College, and his MS and PhD degrees in Meteorology from the Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison. He worked for NASA at the Langley Research Center for 6 years, then moved to private industry in 1986. His 20+ years of experience with private industry includes STX, Hughes, Raytheon, Earth Resources Technology, and now WxAnalyst LTD. Dr. Shipley joined the Department of Geography at George Mason University in 1991, and was appointed Research Professor in 2007. He founded WxAnalyst LTD in 2007.
Scott is known for his work in lidar (co-inventor of the High Spectral Resolution Lidar) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He assisted NOAA's National Weather Service in its development of ASOS, NEXRAD and AWIPS, and served as Raytheon's Program Lead for NPOESS Ground System algorithms, calibration and validation. Current interests include applications of Virtual Globes (VG) and extension of GIS functionality into the VG user environment. Scott has published NEXRAD occultation patterns using KML and COLLADA modeling for public use and benefit. He is also Chairman of the AMS IIPS Conference Session on Virtual Globe Applications. |
| Viviane Silva is a Brazilian-born American citizen. She finished her undergraduate studies in Meteorology at the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil . After graduating, she worked for four years at the Brazilian National Weather Service (INMET) in Brasilia , the capital of Brazil . In 2004 she graduated from the University of Maryland with a Master of Science degree. Since then, she has been working at the NOAA/Climate Prediction Center. She started as a contractor working with Dr. Wayne Higgins on precipitation related research, and participating in the CPC GIS product development team. She recently became a federal employee, and her new tasks include monitoring crops over the Southern Hemisphere and participating on teams to design and develop the NOAA Climate Service Portal. |
| Raymond Sluiter (NL) is researcher GEO-ICT at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). He coordinates the implementation and use of GIS within KNMI. His research is focused on geospatial data infrastructures on both national and international level (INSPIRE) and on spatialization of climatological and meteorological variables. He obtained an MSc (1999) and PhD (2005) degree from Utrecht University (NL) in Physical Geography and Remote Sensing. His PhD research subject was modeling and monitoring Mediterranean land cover change using GIS and multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing. During his PhD he was lecturer in several GIS and remote sensing courses. After obtaining his PhD he worked 1.5 years as earth observation specialist at the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes (NIVR). He coordinated the National User Support Programme (NUSP/GO) and the space related activities within the European Union 7th Framework Programme (GMES, Space Science and Galileo). He participated as an expert in the Dutch delegation of the FP7 Programme Committee Space in Brussels . In addition to his passion for remote sensing images he is an enthusiastic photographer. He is married. |
| Wim Som de Cerff (NL) is senior ICT researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). He obtained his university degree in computer science in 1997 ( University of Twente ). He worked at KNMI since 1997 on several data dissemination and exploitation projects, most of them related to Satellite data. Metadata and metadata models played in important role in these projects. He also worked on computer and data Grid projects, as developer and project leader. Recently he lead a team at KNMI which estimated the impact of the INSPIRE directive at KNMI and is involved in providing feedback to INSPIRE. He is KNMI representative in the INSPIMET working group (Eumetnet). Wim is an enthusiastic windsurfer. He is married and has one son (born May 2008). |
| Deborah Thomas
is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Denver, where she is also affiliated faculty with the Doctoral Program in Health and Behavior Sciences. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina in 1999, specializing in hazards and health geography, and has over fifteen years of experience working with geographic information systems ( GIS ) in a variety of social science application areas, including hazard management and environmental health. Her research interests focus on the use of technologies in support of hazards management and issues of vulnerability as they relate to both natural and human-induced hazards and environmental health hazards. C ollaborating with people in various disciplines and local/state agencies defines her work (for example, the Altitude Research Center at UCD, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver Health, Kaiser-Permanente), resulting in numerous publications and presentations. In 2005, she had the opportunity to expand these collaborative networks internationally on a Fulbright Scholarship to Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and again in 2007 and 2008 as a field instructor in Endulen, Tanzania. |
| Tiffany C. Vance is a geographer currently working on applying GIS and visualization techniques to fisheries research. She earned a PhD in Geography and Ecosystem Informatics at Oregon State University . Her research interests include the integration of multidimensional in situ and modeling data in GIS, three-dimensional habitat characterization, and integrating GIS with visualization tools. She is also interested in working with historians to explore the use of geographic approaches for understanding the spatial and temporal patterns of scientific research. Recent projects have included the development of tools to visualize and analyze the output of particle tracking models and the use of Java and VTK to integrate soundings of water properties and fisheries data. |
| Olga Wilhelmi
is a project scientist in the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Her research focuses on environment and society interactions; extreme weather and climate events; and the use of GIS in atmospheric sciences. She is particularly interested in combining quantitative and qualitative research methods in a GIS framework for assessing societal risk and vulnerability to extreme weather events and climate change. Olga is a principal investigator and a leader of NCAR Geographic Information Systems (GIS) strategic initiative - an interdisciplinary research effort that integrates atmospheric, environmental and social sciences through spatial analysis and interoperability of georeferenced information. |
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