San Diego State University GIS Education Programs

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San Diego State UniversityGIS Education Programs

• Department of Geography
• B.S. Emphasis in Geographic Information Science
• M.S. Concentration in Geographic Information
  Science
• M.S. Concentration in Watershed Science.
• Joint Doctoral Program in Geography with UCSB.
• Department of Geography and Computer Science
• Geographic Information Science Certificate (a
  joint program of geography and computer science
  departments (27 units, open for both
  undergradaute and graduate students at SDSU).
• Concurrent M.S. program in Geoinformatics (GIS)
  (??? underdevelopment now).

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San Diego State UniversityNew Faculty in 2005
Fall

• Dr. André Skupin (GIS)
• Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo
• Associate Professor at University of New Orleans.
• Areas of Interest
• GIS, Cartography, information visualization,
  visual data mining.
• Dr. Li An (Landscape Ecology)
• Ph.D. Michigan State University, (East Lansing).
• Postdoc at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Areas of Interest
• Landscape ecology, human-environment
  interfactions, modeling of complex systems,
  statisitcs, GIS.

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San Diego State UniversityNew Faculty in 2006
Spring

• Dr. George Christakos (The Stephen and Mary
  Birch Foundation Endowed Chair)
• Ph.D. Harvard University
• Professor at University of North Carolina at
  Chapel Hill.
• Areas of Interest
• Statistics,
• Geostatistics,
• Environmental/ecological/health and mathematical
  modeling.

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San Diego State UniversityGIS Facilities

• Richard Wright Spatial Analysis Laboratory (SAL)
• The main teaching lab. (Introductory GIS, remote
  sensing and cartography)
• Dell Precision Workstation Dual 3.2Ghz (27)
• Macintosh G3 (1), Plotter, Digitizer, etc.
• Can be used for GIS courses and workshop.
• The Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research
  (CESAR)
• The main research lab (for gradaute students and
  research projects)
• A state-of-the-art image processing/GIS center
• Server Groups (Enterprise Servers)
• Workstations (Unix, Mac, Windows)
• Plotters, printers, scanners, etc.
• Current used for hosting our Department web
  server.
• (http//geography.sdsu.edu

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Common Ground Watershed Management Project(City
of San Diego) 3 years
Http//www.sdbay.sdsu.edu
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National Science Foundation projectAdopting
Web-based GIS for the Development of a Scalable
GIS Education Program (3 years - integrate GIS
education between high schools/community
colleges/university)
Http//geoinfo.sdsu.edu/hightech