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Updated November 19, 2007
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AGS Council Members
Dr. Braden R. Allenby
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University after many years as Vice President for Environment, Health, and Safety for AT&T, where he also served at times as a telecommunications regulatory attorney and an environmental attorney. Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, an adjunct professor at Virginia’s School of Engineering, and a visiting lecturer at Princeton Theological Seminary.
William
E. Derrenbacher
Director, Professional Services Division, Environmental Systems Research Institute;
member, NASA Earth Science Enterprise Steering Committee; currently directing
design and development of internet mapping component for U.S. Census Bureau's Data
Access and Dissemination System for public access to Year 2000 census data; directing
development of system for managing and maintaining automated land-base records of
Bell South Communications for nine-state region; also overseeing ESRI projects for
Raytheon in Brazil and for a consortium of international oil companies in the Niger
Delta.
Chris Duncan
is the Chief Operating and Financial Officer of The McCart Group. The McCart Group is an Atlanta based,
privately held property casualty, benefits, and HR outsourcing company serving medium to large companies across the US. He has had a varied
career in diverse companies (entrepreneurial and large public companies), with leadership positions in senior management, finance, operations,
risk management and insurance, as well as on boards of for-profit and not-for-profit entities. His background includes Chief Operating Officer
of a public company in the alternative energy development arena, managing director of Marsh in Atlanta, Georgia, VP Finance and the airline
industry's first Chief Risk Officer at Delta Air Lines, and multiple finance and risk management positions within the PepsiCo companies of
Frito-lay (Dallas) and KFC (Louisville, KY). He started his career at Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan, and also held early career
positions in consulting with Coopers & Lybrand, and Towers Perrin (a risk management consulting firm). He is also the co-founder, former CFO and
a current board member of Navigational Sciences Inc., a private company based in Charleston, SC, dedicated to developing tracking and monitoring
products for intermodal and marine transportation marketplace and secure wireless communications. He also is a board member of Project Open Hand
(Atlanta-based meal delivery non-profit delivering over one million meals annually in the Atlanta metro area to the disadvantaged, sick, and
recovering needy of the area), and The American Geographical Society, the nation's oldest professional geography organization, based in New York.
Mr. Duncan has a B.A. degree in Business Administration and an M.B.A. in Finance and Risk Management, both from the University of Georgia, and
was named Alumnus of the Year (2003) for the Terry College of Business Risk Management and Insurance Program, the University of Georgia.
Dr. Larry Ford
Professor of Geography at San Diego State University. He is a specialist on comparative urbanization, urban design, historic preservation, and cultural geography. He has written about cities in North America, Europe, Latin America, and East Asia and has had lecture positions as a Fulbright scholar in Indonesia and Italy. He has published five books, including Cities and Buildings, The Spaces Between Buildings, America's New Downtowns, Metropolitan San Diego and Southern California Extended. He has published over 65 articles and book chapters on cities throughout the world. He has won several outstanding teaching and service awards and loves to talk about places.
Dr. John W. Frazier
Co-Chair, Department of Geography, director, GIS Core Facility, and director, Graduate Program
at Binghamton University- State University of New York; founder and past CEO, GeoDemographics, Ltd;
creator and past co-director, Applied Geography Conference; author of books, chapters, and articles
focused on demographic, environmental, housing, and economic development issues.
Dr. Susan Hardwick
Professor of Geography and Education Project Director, College of Arts and Sciences,
University of Oregon; president, National Council for Geographic Education; ethnic geographer,
also prominent in geographic education and in work on gender issues; author of Russian Refuge:
Religion, Migration, and Settlement on the North American Pacific Rim (1993), etc.; “Statewide
Outstanding Professor Award” from California State University System (1995) and numerous other
awards for excellence in teaching.
Dr. John A. Kelmelis
Chief Scientist for Geography, U.S. Geological Survey. Past cartographer, Defense Mapping Agency;
did environmental work for State of Connecticut; former land surveyor and engineering
technician in private sector; served in U.S. Air Force in Korea and Vietnam.
Patrick O'Neill
Mining engineer; consultant to mining firms operating in South
and Central America, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Dominican Republic, New
Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia; former president or
chairman of : International Mining Corp., Pata Consolidated
Inc., South American Placers, Inc., Frontino Gold Mines, Ltd., Consolidated Purchasing & Designing,
Inc., Companía Minera Choco Pacífico, Igloo #4
Pioneers of Alaska, Arctic Institute of North America, Joslin Diabetes
Center; numerous publications on mining and dredging of precious metals.
Dr. Jeffrey P. Osleeb
Professor of Geography and Director, Energy and Environmental Policy Studies Program,
Graduate Center-City University of New York; specialist on transportation, energy
(especially the coal industry), and geographic information systems; director of
special interest groups of the Association of American Geographers: "Modeling and
Quantitative Methods" and "Transportation"
Dr.
Clifton W. Pannell
Professor of Geography and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia;
frequent visiting professor at University of Hong Kong, U.S. Military Academy at West
Point; specialist on East Asia, especially China, with particular emphasis on urbanization,
land use, and economics; numerous award winning publications.
Dr.
Deborah Popper
Associate Professor of Geography, College of Staten Island-City University of New York; Associate Fellow, Rutgers Center for
Historical Analysis; specialist in environmental history; co-author of The Buffalo Commons concept; prolific
author and well-known public speaker; Paul P. Vouras Medalist.
Dr. H. Gregory Smith
Chief Scientist for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), also representing NGA on a number of intelligence committees and on the Federal Geographic Data Committee Steering Committee. Prior to start of his government career in 1995, he spent nearly 20 years in senior technical and management positions in industry and academia including research and development, at such places as the Space Sciences Laboratory, Environmental Remote Sensing Applications Laboratory, GTE Corp, Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Corp. among others.
Dr. Rickie Sanders
Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University, received her Ph.D. in Geography from The Ohio State University. Prior to 1996, most of her research had focused on issues of economic development
in Africa and the Third World. Her specific interests were informal activities, environment degradation, and gender. Dr. Sander's research sought
to answer questions of where, why, and "so what?" From 1996-2000, she served as Director of the nationally recognized Finding A Way (FAW) project
funded by the NSF/NCGE, which explored issues of pedagogy and under-representation in geography classrooms. It produced a number of peer-reviewed papers,
institute guides and, most significantly, a video detailing the activities of FAW in Philadelphia. In 2001, Rickie was a Visiting Professor of Women's Studies
at York University/Toronto Canada. She is co-author of Growing Up in America: An Atlas of Youth in the USA.
Dr. Lawrence M. Sommers
Professor and Assistant Provost Emeritus at Michigan State University. Member of the long-range planning committee of the Applied Geography Conferences, 1980 – 1996. National officer of Phi Kappa Phi. Focused on primary industry, development, energy issues, and commerce in many parts of the world. Active in the International Geographical Union Commission on Dynamics of Marginal and Critical Regions.
Dava Sobel
is the author of Longitude (Walker 1995 and 2005, Penguin 1996), Galileo's Daughter (Walker 1999, Penguin 2000) and The Planets
(Viking 2005); editor of Letters to Father (Walker 2001, Penguin Classic 2003) and Best American Science Writing 2004 (Ecco 2004);
co- author, with William J. H. Andrewes, of The Illustrated Longitude (Walker 1998 and 2003). She is the 2006 Vare Nonfiction Writer in Residence at
the University of Chicago, and has received the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board (2001), the Bradford Washburn Award
from the Boston Museum of Science (2001), the Harrison Medal from the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (2004), the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from
the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1997), a Christopher Award (2000), and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1999).
Dr. Juha I. Uitto
Evaluation Adviser and Team Leader for Programme Evaluation in the Evaluation Office of the UN Development Programme;
formerly with UN University in Tokyo, Finnconsult Ltd, Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, and International Fund for Agricultural
Development in Italy; prolific author on sustainable development, water resources, hazards, coastal and marine environment; visiting
lecturer at universities in Japan, Finland, and U.S.; worked widely in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific.
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