Recent and past collaborators

This page tries to provide current links to some of my research collaborators, and my past students. It also has a partial list of some collaborators from the deeper past.

Anyone wishing to disassociate themselves must apply in person to the History Rewriting Bureau

Recent collaborators

Past collaborators

• Francis Harvey (PhD UW 1996) currently Head of the Department for Cartography and Visual Communication at IfL and Professor for Visual Communication in Geography at the University of Leipzig, Germany. We wrote some things together.
• Jean-Paul Cheylan, UMR ESPACE (CNRS) France (retired), located at CIRAD Montpellier; ex-director of the Cassini research collaboration
• Sergio Sismondo, Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario (collaborated on a paper about Deflationary Metaphysics and the Nature of Maps - abstract)
• Geoffrey Bowker, Informatics, UC Irvine; distributed collective practices, memory; collaboration on PhD supervision (Poore)

Past Students (PhD supervised by Chrisman)

• M. Kate Beard-Tisdale (PhD University of Wisconsin, 1987) Multiple Representations from a Detailed Database: A Scheme for Automated Generalization currently Computing and Information Science, University of Maine, Orono
• Gail (Langran) Kucera (PhD UW 1989) Time in Geographic Information Systems. currently Swiftsure Spatial Systems, Victoria BC
• Ilya Zaslavsky (PhD, Geography 1995) Logical Inference about Categorical Coverages in Multi-Layer GIS. currently at Supercomputer Center, San Diego.
• Daniel Karnes (PhD, Geography 1995) Modeling and Mapping New Metaphors: Towards Pluralistic Cartographies Using Object-Oriented Geographic Information Applications. .
• Francis Harvey (PhD UW 1996) Geographic Information Integration and GIS Overlay currently at University of Leipzig and Leibnitz Institut for Laenderkunde IfL
• Ric Vrana (PhD, Geography 1997) Monitoring Urban Land Use Transitions in GIS.
• Alexandr Perepechko (Ph.D., Geography1999) Russian Electoral History (co-chair).
• Barbara Poore (Ph.D., Geography 2003) Blue lines : water, information, and salmon in the Pacific Northwest

  Other graduate students:

  • Steve Ventura (PhD completion supervised by Niemann), University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Scott Miles (PhD supervised by Timothy Nyerges)
  • David Biggs (PhD in History UW) history of hydrological control in Mekong Delta
  • Mau Ngo (PhD, Geospatial Sciences, RMIT 2016) co-supervised with David Mitchell
  • Muthatha Ramanathan (PhD completion supervised by Jarosz) (construction of knowledge; India)
  • Astrid Cerny (PhD completion supervised by Chan) (Kazakh community, Xinjiang)
  • Eugene Martin (ongoing PhD supervised by Nyerges) (co-founder of CommenSpace, data communities)
  
  

Masters students (just a selected few...)

• Robert Norheim (MA Geography 1996) Is there an answer to old growth mapping? An examination of two projects conducted with remote sensing and GIS. currently UW staff working with Forest Service Research Lab; recent paper
• Molly Vogt (MA Geography 2000) "Tile and Error: Data integration for habitat modeling in the I-90 EIS"; presentation at Banff conference.

Where are they now?

Laboratory for Computer Graphics

The core ODYSSEY team

• R. Denis White, EPA research lab, Corvallis OR (retired)
• Scott Morehouse, ESRI
• James A Dougenik

Others closely related (there were more, not trying to slight anyone)

• Geoffrey Dutton principal, Spatial Effects
• Wm Randolph Franklin RPI, Computer Science (wrote a version of PRISM for PhD)
• Bruce Donald now at Duke in computational biology (worked on LINGUIST, wrote BUILDER; page has lots of details about the Lab's work.)
• Duane Neimeyer now at ESRI, defense projects manager
• Hugh Keegan now at ESRI, benchmarks
• Allan Schmidt, Acting Director of LCGSA for a decade...
• Eric Teicholz, now President of Graphic Systems (facility management technology consultants)
• Brian J.L. Berry (Director of LCGSA 1976-1981)

Wisconsin Land Records and Dane County Project (the other UW, but never a U-dub)

[Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility]

• Ben Niemann, Landscape Architecture, retired.
• Steve Ventura, Soil Science University of Wisconsin
• Jerry Sullivan, Wisconsin Land Information (somewhere)
• Al Vonderohe Civil Engineering

Version of 17 April 2017