Officers and Councilors of the Society

OFFICERS

John E. Gould, Esq. -- Chairman of the Council
Partner, Thompson Hine; Chairman, New Choral Society of Central Westchester; Secretary, Harvard Club of New York; Past Director, Harvard Law School Association of New York; Past President, Fordham College Alumni Association; Past President, Scarsdale Golf Club.

Dr. Jerome (Jerry) E. Dobson -- President

Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and Corresponding Individual Member of the International Geographical Union. He previously served as a Distinguished Research & Development Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, President of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), Contributing Editor of GeoWorld magazine, U. S. Delegate and Expert to the International Standards Organization, member of the Editorial Advisory Board of GISWorld, member of the Steering Committee of the National Committee for Digital Cartographic Data Standards, Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Geography of Arizona State University, member of the Editorial Board of The Professional Geographer, and member of the Steering Committee of The Applied Geography Conferences. His current research focuses on improving methods and technology for mapping minefields. Previously, he led development of the LandScan Global Population Database which has become the world standard for estimating populations at risk during natural disasters, wars, and terrorist acts. LandScan recently gained widespread acclaim as the only feasible means of estimating populations impacted by the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.

Dr. William P. Doyle -- President Emeritus
Retired Vice President, Texaco Inc. and past President, Texaco's Middle East/Far East Division; formerly Vice President of Exploration and Producing for Texaco Latin America/West Africa, Vice President of Exploration and Producing for Texaco Europe, and Managing Director of Texaco Limited for Exploration and Producing.

Dr. Alexander B. Murphy -- Senior Vice President
Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon; degrees in archaeology (Yale), law (Columbia), and geography (University of Chicago); editorial board, the Geographical Review;chair, Advanced Placement Geography Committee; Past President, Association of American Geogaphers; National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991-1996; extensive publications on the political, cultural, and environmental geography of Europe.

Dr. Marie Daly Price -- Vice President
Professor and Chair, The George Washington University; lecturer for State Department Foreign Service Institute; extensive field work in and publications on Latin America, especially Andean, Central American and Caribbean areas, and on environmental issues; referee for several scholarly journals and for National Science Foundation research proposals.

Dr. Deborah Popper -- Vice President
Pofessor of Gography at the College of Staten Island and Graduate Center of the City University of New York and, with her husband Frank Popper, at Princeton University since 2001. Her work has focused on how regions adjust to environmental pressures and population loss. With her husband, Frank Popper of Rutgers University, she developed the concept of the Buffalo Commons, a metaphor that has served as a guide for a future based on ecological restoration. She is currently working on developing comparable alternatives for other American regions. In addition to serving on the governing board of the American Geographical Society, she is also on the National Center for Frontier Communities board. Dr. Popper is a Paul P. Vouras Medalist.

John J. McCabe -- Treasurer
Senior Vice President, Shay Assets Management Co.; former Chief Investment Officer, Nationar, Inc; former Managing Director, Sterling Manhattan Corp.; President, New York Society of Security Analysts; Fellow, Financial Analysts Federation; Member, National Association of Petroleum Analysts; Adjunct Professor of Finance, Saint Francis College; former Managing Director, Investment Management Group, Bankers Trust Co.

Dr. David J. Keeling -- Assistant Treasurer
Professor of Geography and Department Head, Department of Geography and Geology, Western Kentucky University; specialist in development geography and on Latin America, with twenty years experience working for international business firms in England, Australia, and the U.S.; author of Buenos Aires: Global Dreams, Local Crises (1996) and Contemporary Argentina: A Geographical Perspective (1997), and several book chapters, articles and reviews. David is the AGS Webmaster and a regular lecturer on the AGS Travel Program.

John Noble Wilford -- Secretary
Senior science correspondent, New York Times; author: The Mapmakers (1981), The Mysterious History of Columbus (1991), and numerous other books and articles; winner: two Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting, many other awards and honorary degrees; assignments throughout U.S. and to Europe, former Soviet Union, China, Mongolia, Canada’s Northwest Territories, Mexico, the Amazon, the Caribbean, among others; co-chairman, Mercator Society

Dr. John W. Frazier -- Assistant Secretary 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.

AGS COUNCILORS

Dr. Lawson W. Brigham
Distinguished Professor of Geography and Arctic Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Career U.S. Coast Guard officer (1970-95) including command of the polar icebreaker Polar Sea on Arctic & Antarctic expeditions; served as a research fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; a faculty member of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Naval Postgraduate School; Deputy Director of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission; and, Chair of the Arctic Council’s Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment (2005-09). Cambridge University (Ph.D). Research on the Russian maritime Arctic, Arctic climate change, marine transportation, and polar geopolitics. 2008 signer of the AGS Fliers’ and Explorers’ Globe as captain during Polar Sea’s polar voyages in 1994 ~ the first ship in history to reach the extreme ends of the global ocean.

Chris Duncan
Partner with Mercer Health & Benefits, an international benefits, investments and human capital consulting firm, and is the co-practice leader for benefits brokerage business in the U.S., responsible for leading the Growth & Development function focusing on business strategy and growth initiatives. He has had a varied career in both small entrepreneurial and large public companies, with leadership positions in senior management, strategic planning, finance, operations, risk management and insurance, as well as serving as a board member in profit and not-for-profit entities. His background includes COO/CFO of a regional brokerage, benefits and administration firm, Chief Risk Officer at Delta Air Lines, and multiple positions including strategic planning, finance, and risk/security/insurance management positions within PepsiCo companies of Frito-lay and KFC. He started his career at Ford Motor Company in Detroit Michigan. In addition to the AGS, he is the Vice Chairman of "Open Hand" (Atlanta based meal delivery non-profit delivering over 1.5M meals annually in the Atlanta metro area to the disadvantaged, sick, recovering and needy of the area). He also does volunteer work with Missio Link International in Romania on solutions for children at risk. 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. 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.

Gilbert Hetherwick
Music consultant and producer (www.grouse-house-productions.com) - Formerly President of Sony BMG Masterworks (Classical and Broadway division). Also formerly General Manager of Angel Records/EMI Classics, as well as SVP of International Marketing for Sony Classical (focus on Asian and European classical markets). Degree in Architecture from Louisiana State University. Songwriter, recording producer and engineer, and a photographer. Has always had an intense interest in Geography, History, and Politics.

Dr. Erwin Levold Born in Königstein im Taunus, Germany, and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Erwin is Chief Archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he has worked for 20 years. He received a B.A in History from Michigan State University, and an M.A. in History and a Ph.D. in German History and Archival Administration from Wayne State University in Detroit. Prior to his arrival at the Rockefeller Archive Center, Dr. Levold was an archivist at the Troup County Archives in Georgia and at the Walter E. Ruether Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University. At the University, he taught courses in modern European history and medieval history and served as a substitute lecturer in Weimar and Nazi History courses. Dr. Levold has recently completed six years service as Chief of the Pocantico Hills Volunteer Fire Department. His professional memberships include the American Historical Association, the Society of American Archivists, the Conference Group for Central European History, the Society of Automotive Historians, and the Mt. Pleasant Fire Chiefs Association.

Dr. Richard A. Marston University Distinguished Professor and Head, Department of Geography, Kansas State University. He specializes in geomorphology, mountain geography and water resource geography. Dick served as the 102nd President of the Association of American Geographers in 2005-06. He has been Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Geomorphology journal since 1999. The American Institute of Hydrology first certified Marston as Professional Hydrologist #488 in 1984. Dick is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Geological Society of America, Explorers Club, and Royal Geographical Society. The Association of American Geographers recognized him in 2003 with the Ronald F. Abler Distinguished Service Honors. Dick pursues geographic studies that separate the effects of human activities on landscapes from changes that would have occurred without human influence. He has studied landform stability and adjustment to environmental change, including the effects of mining, wildfires, deforestation and reforestation, grazing, agriculture, river regulation and military maneuvers. Dick has field experience in France, Brazil, Mexico, the Himalaya of Nepal-India-Pakistan, and in the American West and Great Plains. He has spent six summers mentoring students and conducting research on the Juneau Icefield in southeast Alaska. While serving on independent scientific review panels in Australia and northern California, he examined human impacts on streams, wetlands and related biotic resources. Dick has been awarded over 40 research grants and contracts, and has presented more than 360 papers or posters of research results at professional gatherings. He is co-editor of three books, and author of more than 50 refereed publications and 50 technical or consulting reports.

Dr. Frederick E. Nelson
Professor of Geography, University of Delaware. Field experience in Alaska, northern Canada, Siberia, Mongolia, the Tibetan Plateau, and the tropical Andes. Author or co-author of eight monographs and edited volumes, and more than 120 peer-reviewed papers on permafrost science, periglacial geomorphology, the effects of climate change in the Arctic, and the history of cryospheric science. Past President, U.S. Permafrost Association. Contributing Author (1989, 1995, 2007) and Lead Author (2001) of chapters in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports. Chair of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Cryosphere Specialty Group (2003-2005) and the AAG Archives and Association History Committee (2004-present). National Fellow of the Explorers Club. Previous positions: Rutgers University (Professor of Geography and Director of the Graduate Program in Geography), SUNY-Albany (Professor of Geography and Geology), Cornell University (Visiting Professor of Geology and Physical Geography), University of Wisconsin-Madison (Honorary Fellow), University of Michigan (Visiting Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences).

Dr. Kavita Pandit Dr. Pandit was born and educated in Mumbai, India, receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Bombay University in 1978. Dr. Pandit did her graduate work at the Ohio State University, earning a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning (1981) and a Ph.D. in Geography (1987). Her academic interests are in the areas of international development and immigration. She is the co-editor of Migration and Restructuring in the United States (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999) and Introductory Reader in Human Geography (Blackwell, 2007). In 2006-2007 she served as the elected President of the Association of American Geographers, a scholarly organization with over 10,000 members.

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. 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. Douglas Sherman Dr. Sherman is a geomorphologist interested in fundamental earth surface processes, especially those involving sand transport by wind and waves. His current research projects include the long-term measurement of levee erosion in the Sacramento River delta, wave setup behind a detached breakwater in Italy, wave transformation over a rock platform in NW Portugal, aeolian saltation processes, detection and estimation of shoreline change along the coast of Texas, and sedimentation behind dams and debris basins in southern California. Dr. Sherman also has a general interest in the histories, methodologies, and philosophies of geomorphology.

Dr. Joseph Wood Joseph S. Wood is Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Geography at the University of Baltimore. His publications in cultural geography have explored the New England village as invented tradition, historic preservation of warehouse districts in Midwestern cities, the idea of a National Road in antebellum America, contemporary Vietnamese place-making in American suburbs, and landscapes of civil society. In addition to service on the AGS Council, he has been an AGS Travel Program lecturer in Cambodia and Vietnam, across Canada by train, and, most recently, by ship from Newfoundland into the Great Lakes.