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Catherine Dibble recieved her MA in Economics from the University of Rochester and her PhD. in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She serves on the International Steering Committee for the GeoComputation Conference Series and is an expert at designing spatial evolutionary algorithms and relevance filters. In addition to spatial algorithms, researchs interests include: theoretical and computational geographic science, economic geography, agent-based computational laboratories and epidemiology of infectious diseases. Her current research uses the GeoGraph computational laboratory to look at conflict, innovation, diseases and more.
A personal webpage is available.
Charles Christian recieved his MA in Geography and his PhD. in Urban/Social/Population Geography from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests include population geography, ethnic and racial communities in metropolitan America; historical and contemporary geographies of conditions of African Americans in the U.S.; and social, economic and racial geographies of Baltimore, Maryland.
More information is available online.
Martha Geores received her BA in Sociology from Bates College, her JD from New York University, and her PhD. in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include natural resource definition, common property, landscape meaning and human dimensions of global change. She uses GIS technology in her recent project examining the effects of deforestation and global warming on tropical rainforests.
More information about the project mentioned above is available online.
Ruth DeFries received her PhD in Geography in 1980 from Johns Hopkins University. Current research interests include the relationships between human activities, land surfaces, and the processes that regulate Earth's habitability. DeFries is also interested in examining the effects of ecosystem services through remote sensing.
A personal webpage is available.
Tim Gulden is a post-doctoral research fellow with the Center for International and Security Studies (CISSM) at the University of Maryland and an adjunct professor in the UMD Department of Geography. He received a PhD. in Policy Studies from the UMD School of Public Policy in December 2004 with a dissertation entitled "Adaptive Agent Modeling in a Policy Context." His current work involves the application of adaptive agent modeling techniques in the areas of conflict studies and economic geography. Before coming to UMD in spring 2000, Gulden spent ten years as the technical director for geographic information systems for the county of Westchester, New York.
Steve Wendal is a faculty research assistant under Dr. Catherine Dibble in the Department of Geography.
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