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James Frew

Associate Professor
Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131

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James Frew is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and a principal investigator in UCSB's Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS).

His research interests lie in the emerging field of environmental informatics, a synthesis of computer, information, and Earth sciences. Trained as a geographer, he has worked in remote sensing, image processing, software architecture, massive distributed data systems, and digital libraries. His current research is focused on geospatial information provenance, discovery, and curation, using remote sensing data products generated by his Environmental Information Laboratory as operational test beds.

Dr. Frew received his Ph.D. in Geography from UCSB in 1990. As part of his doctoral research, he developed the Image Processing Workbench, an open-source set of software tools for remote sensing image processing, currently used for instruction and research at UCSB and elsewhere. He has served as both the Manager and the Acting Director of UCSB's Computer Systems Laboratory (ICESS' predecessor), and as the Associate Director of the Sequoia 2000 Project, a 3-year $14M multi-campus consortium formed to investigate large-scale data management aspects of global change problems. He was a co-PI on the Alexandria Project (part of NSF's Digital Libraries Initiative), where he directed the development of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) testbed system. Dr. Frew also served on the National Research Council's Committee on Earth Science Data Utilization (CESDU).

Dr. Frew currently leads the Earth System Science Server (ES3) project, and serves as President of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners. During the 2005-2006 academic year he was a visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh's Digital Curation Centre.

Contents

Research Interests

Environmental/geospatial information management; digital archiving and curation; scientific computing environments; information provenance.

Education

All degrees in Geography at University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A. 1977  
M.A. 1980 (thesis: Remote sensing of snow surface albedo)
Ph.D. 1990 (dissertation: The Image Processing Workbench)

Employment

2004-current: Associate Professor, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara.

2004-current: Affiliated Faculty, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.

2004-current: Affiliated Faculty, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.

2005-2006: Visiting Professor, Digital Curation Centre, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

1997-2004: Assistant Professor, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara.

1993-1997: Specialist, Institute for Computational Earth System Science and Center for Computational Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1991-1993: Research Engineer, Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.

1988-1991: Computing Resources Manager, Computer Systems Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1988: Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1986-1988: Programmer/Analyst, Computer Systems Laboratory and Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1983-1986: Research Assistant, Computer Systems Laboratory and Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1980-1981: Lecturer, Department of Geography and Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Awards and Honors

1992: Group Achievement Award, NASA Climate and Land Data System Operations and Development Team.

Professional Service and Special Appointments

National Research Council

2002-2004: Committee on Environmental Satellite Data Utilization, Space Studies Board

2002: invited presentation, Workshop on Coping with Increasing Demands on Government Data Centers

2001: Workshop on Intersection of Geospatial Information and Information Technology

Professional Societies

2005-current: steering committee, International Conferences on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM)

2004-2005: chair, 17th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2005)

2003-current: Charles S. Falkenberg Award Committee, American Geophysical Union

2002-current: Data Archiving and Distribution Technical Committee, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

2001: local demonstrations chair, ACM SIGMOD 2001 Conference

U.S. Government Agencies

2004-2005: member, Evolution of EOSDIS Elements Study Team, NASA Earth Science Enterprise

2002-2003: vice-chair, Executive Committee, ESIP Federation

2000-current: consultant, Strategic Evolution of ESE Data Systems (SEEDS), NASA Earth Science Enterprise

1999-current: (chair 1999-2000) Interoperability Committee, ESIP Federation

1998-2000: consultant, New Data and Information Systems and Services (NewDISS) Team, NASA Earth Science Enterprise

1998-1999: vice-chair, Executive Committee, NASA Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Federation

1995-2000: National Spatial Data Clearinghouse Working Group, Federal Geographic Data Committee

1993-1998: EOSDIS Panel, NASA EOS Investigators Working Group

1991-1994: User Working Group, EOSDIS Distributed Active Archive Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

1988-1993: Science Working Group, NASA Pilot Land Data System

University of California, Santa Barbara

2007-current: Advisory Committee, Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS)

2007-2008: Recruitment, Admissions, and Support Committee, Bren School

2006-current: Faculty Steering Committee, Center for Information Techology & Society (CITS)

2006-2008: Executive Committee, Bren School

2006-2008: Committee on Research Policy and Procedures, Academic Senate

2004-current: Academic Technology Planning Group, Office of Information Systems and Technology

2004: chair, Group Projects Selection Committee, Bren School

2003-2004: Santa Cruz Island Reserve representative, Natural Reserve System Advisory Committee

2000-current: chair, Web Committee, Bren School

2000-2001: Bren School representative, Faculty Legislature, Academic Senate

2000: Search Committee, Director, Office of Information Technology

1999-2004: Building Committee, Bren School

1999-current: Computing, Information Technology and Telecommunications Policy Committee, Academic Senate

1999-2002: Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Group on Industry/University Collaborations, Office of Research

1998-1999: Group Projects Selection Committee, Bren School

1997-current: Computing Committee (chair 1997-2000, 2003-current), Bren School

1997-2000: CalREN-2 Implementation Group, Campus Network Committee

Non-Governmental Organizations

2008-current: Science Advisory Board, SciDB Foundation

2006-current: Finance Committee, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners

2002-current: Board of Directors, The New Media Studio

2002-2003: President, Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Foundation

2001: Board of Directors, Peabody Charter School Foundation

1998-1999: Expert Review Team for Electronic Outreach, Monterey Bay Aquarium

Consulting

  • America Online, Inc.
  • EcoAnalysis, Inc.
  • Fortner Software LLC
  • Learning In Motion, Inc.
  • Microsoft Corp.
  • National Space Technology Laboratory
  • Navisoft, Inc.
  • Planet Earth Science, Inc.
  • TRW
  • US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratories

Manuscript Reviews

Program Committees

Proposal Reviews

Membership in Professional Societies

  • American Geophysical Union
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Research Grants and Contracts

Principal Investigator

2004-2007: "Integrating Digital Libraries and Earth Science Data Systems", NSF #IIS-0431166, $672,651

2004-2008: "Creating, Updating, and Distributing Merged Ocean Color Products", NASA #NNG04GE66G, $1,500,000

2001-2004: "Textual-Geospatial Integration Services for NSDL", NSF #DUE-0121578, $449,265

1998-2003: "The Earth System Science Workbench", NASA #NCC5-302, $3,586,952

1999-2001: "Satellite Climatology", Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory #6494539, $55,346

1996-1998: "Digital Libraries as ECS Value-Added Providers", Hughes Information Technology Corp. #300379, $99,195

Co-Investigator

2008-2012: "Beyond Chlorophyll: Implementation and Distribution of Innovative Ocean Color Earth Science Data Records", NASA (award in process), $3,936,125 (PI: S. Maritorena)

2003-2008: "Multi-Resolution Snow Products for the Hydrologic Sciences", NASA #NNG04GC52A, $3,950,000 (PI: J. Dozier)

2002-2006: "Core Integration - Leading NSDL Toward Long-Term Success", NSF, $1,481,064 (PI: T. Smith)

2001-2003: "Core Integration of the National SMETE Digital Library", University Corp. for Atmospheric Research #S02-36644, $489,972 (PI: T. Smith)

2001-2002: "Inquiry in the On-Line Context: Learning from the Past, Informing the Future", UCSB Research Across Disciplines Initiative, $10,000 (P.I.: J. Green)

2000-2006: "Land/Ocean Interactions and the Dynamics of Kelp Forest Communities", NSF, $4,200,000 (PI: D. Reed)

1999-2004: "The Alexandria Digital Earth Modeling System", NSF #IIS98-17432, $5,400,000 (PI: T. Smith)

1997-1999: "Infrastructure for Training and Partnerships - California Water and Coastal Ocean Resources", NASA #NAG5-6478, $395,480 (PI: D. Siegel)

1994-1998: "The Alexandria Project", NSF #IRI94-11330, $4,800,000 (PI: T. Smith)

1994-1997: "End-to-End Problems in EOSDIS", UC Berkeley #08950762, $275,000 (PI: J. Dozier)

Publications

Refereed (Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Conference Proceedings)

  1. Dozier, J. and Frew, J., 1981. Atmospheric corrections to satellite radiometric data over rugged terrain. Remote Sensing of Environment, 11: 191-205. doi:10.1016/0034-4257(81)90019-5
  2. Nichols, D., Frew, J., Marks, D., Lohman, G. and Wallgren, K., 1982. Digital hardware. In: R. Colwell (Editor), Manual of Remote Sensing. American Society of Photogrammetry, Falls Church, VA, pp. 841-871.
  3. Marks, D., Dozier, J. and Frew, J., 1984. Automated basin delineation from digital elevation data. Geo-Processing, 2: 299-311.
  4. Dozier, J. and Frew, J., 1990. Rapid calculation of terrain parameters for radiation modeling from digital elevation data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 28(5): 963-969. doi:10.1109/36.58986
  5. Stonebraker, M., Frew, J., Gardels, K. and Meredith, J., 1993. The Sequoia 2000 benchmark. In: P. Buneman and S. Jajodia (Editors), ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. ACM Press, Washington, DC, pp. 2-11. doi:10.1145/170035.170038
  6. Stonebraker, M., Frew, J. and Dozier, J., 1993. The SEQUOIA 2000 Project. In: D. Abel and B. Ooi (Editors), SSD'93 Third International Symposium on Advances in Spatial Databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Singapore, pp. 397-412. doi:10.1007/3-540-56869-7_22
  7. Frew, J., 1994. Bigfoot: an Earth science computing environment for the Sequoia 2000 Project. In: W. Michener, J. Brunt and S. Stafford (Editors), Environmental Information Management and Analysis. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 113-125.
  8. Frew, J. and Dozier, J., 1997. Data management for Earth system science. SIGMOD Record, 26(1): 27-31.
  9. Frew, J., Freeston, M., Freitas, N., Hill, L., Janée, G., Lovette, K., Nideffer, R., Smith, T. and Zheng, Q., 1998. The Alexandria Digital Library architecture. In: C. Nikolaou and C. Stephanidis (Editors), ECDL '98 Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Heraklion, Greece, pp. 61-73. doi:10.1007/3-540-49653-X_5 (broken)
  10. Frew, J., Freeston, M., Hill, L., Janée, G., Larsgaard, M. and Zheng, Q., 1999. Generic query metadata for geospatial digital libraries, Meta-Data '99 Third IEEE META-DATA Conference, Bethesda, MD.
  11. Hill, L., Janée, G., Dolin, R., Frew, J. and Larsgaard, M., 1999. Collection metadata solutions for digital library applications. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), 50(13): 1169-1181. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:13<1169::AID-ASI3>3.0.CO;2-3
  12. Hill, L., Carver, L., Larsgaard, M., Dolin, R., Smith, T., Frew, J. and Rae, M.A., 2000. Alexandria Digital Library: User evaluation studies and system design. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), 51(3): 246-259. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:3<246::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-6
  13. Frew, J., Freeston, M., Freitas, N., Hill, L., Janée, G., Lovette, K., Nideffer, R., Smith, T. and Zheng, Q., 2000. The Alexandria Digital Library architecture. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2(4): 259-268. doi:10.1007/s007990050004 (broken)
  14. Smith, T., Janée, G., Frew, J. and Coleman, A., 2001. The Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype System. In: E.A. Fox and C.L. Borgman (Editors), JCDL 2001: First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM Press, Roanoke, VA, pp. 118-119. doi:10.1145/379437.379463
  15. Frew, J. and Bose, R., 2001. Earth System Science Workbench: A Data Management Infrastructure for Earth Science Products. In: L. Kerschberg and M. Kafatos (Editors), SSDBM 2001 Thirteenth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management. IEEE Computer Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, pp. 180-189. doi:10.1109/SSDM.2001.938550
  16. Janée, G. and Frew, J., 2002. The ADEPT digital library architecture, Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM Press, Portland, OR, pp. 342-350. doi:10.1145/544220.544306
  17. Smith, T., Zeng, M.L., Agapova, O., Buchel, O., Freeston, M., Frew, J., Hill, L., Smart, L., Tierney, T. and Ushakov, A., 2002. Structured models of scientific concepts for organizing, accessing, and using learning materials, Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM Press, Portland, OR. doi:10.1145/544220.544355
  18. Janée, G., Frew, J., and Valentine, D., 2003. Content access characterization in digital libraries, Third ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM Press, Houston, TX.
  19. Ancona, D., Frew, J., Janée, G., and Valentine, D., 2004. Accessing the Alexandria Digital Library from Geographic Information Systems, Fourth ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Tucson, AZ. doi:10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336101
  20. Bose, R., and Frew, J., 2004. Composing Lineage Metadata with XML for Custom Satellite-Derived Data Products, Sixteenth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Santorini Island, Greece, 21-23 June 2004. doi:10.1109/SSDBM.2004.23
  21. Bose, R. and Frew, J., 2005. Lineage Retrieval for Scientific Data Processing: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 1-28. doi:10.1145/1057977.1057978
  22. Janée, G., Frew, J., 2005. A Hybrid Declarative/Procedural Metadata Mapping Language Based on Python. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3652, Sep 2005, Pages 302 - 313. doi:10.1007/11551362_27
  23. Frew, J., Metzger, D., Slaughter, P., 2007. Automatic capture and reconstruction of computational provenance. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. doi:10.1002/cpe.1247
  24. Janée, G., Mathena, J. and Frew, J., 2008. A Data Model and Architecture for Long-term Preservation. ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2008, Pittsburgh, PA. (in press)
  25. Frew, J. and Slaughter, P., 2008. ES3: A Demonstration of Transparent Provenance for Scientific Computation.  Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes,
    Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2008, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June 17-18, 2008. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89965-5_21
  26. Dozier, J. and Frew, J., 2008. Computational Provenance in Hydrologic Science: A Snow Mapping Example. Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society, Discussion Meeting Issue: The environmental eScience revolution, organized by N. S. Badcock, E. A. Garnett, H. C. J. Godfray and R. J. Gurney. doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0187
  27. Dozier, J., Painter, T.H., Rittger, K., and Frew, J., 2008. Time-space continuity of daily maps of fractional snow cover and albedo from MODIS. Advances in Water Resources 31: 1515-1526. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.08.011

Unrefereed (Magazine Articles, Conference Proceedings, Reports, and Theses)

  1. Simonett, D., Smith, T., Tobler, W., Marks, D., Frew, J. and Dozier, J., 1978. Geobase information system impacts on space image formats. Technical Report 3, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
  2. Frew, J., 1980. Remote sensing of snow surface albedo. M.A. Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
  3. Frew, J. 1981. Remote sensing of snow surface albedo. In: Use of Environmental Satellite Data for Input to Energy Balance Snowmelt Models. NOAA S/T 81-50, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC.
  4. Marks, D., J. Dozier, and J. Frew. 1983. Automated basin delineation from digital terrain data. NASA Technical Memorandum 84984, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
  5. Frew, J., 1984. Registering Thematic Mapper imagery to digital elevation models. In: M. Klepfer and D. Morrison (Editors), 10th International Symposium on Machine Processing of Remotely Sensed Data. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, pp. 432-435.
  6. Frew, J. and Dozier, J., 1986. The Image Processing Workbench - portable software for remote sensing instruction and research. In: T. Guyenne and J. Hunt (Editors), IGARSS '86 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. European Space Agency, Zurich, pp. 271-276.
  7. Dozier, J. and Frew, J., 1989. Rapid calculation of terrain parameters for radiation modeling from digital elevation data, IGARSS '89 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE Computer Society, Vancouver, Canada.
  8. Frew, J., 1990. The Image Processing Workbench. Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 412 pp.
  9. Frew, J., 1991. Difficulties of dealing with large image cubes, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reno, NV.
  10. Fine, J., T. Anderson, M. Dahlin, J. Frew, M. Olson, and D. Patterson. 1992. Abstracts: a latency-hiding technique for high-capacity mass-storage systems. Sequoia 2000 Technical Report 92/11, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
  11. Stonebraker, M., J. Frew, and J. Dozier. 1993. The Sequoia 2000 architecture and implementation strategy. Sequoia 2000 Technical Report 93/23, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
  12. Dozier, J., Stonebraker, M. and Frew, J., 1994. Sequoia 2000: a next-generation information system for the study of global change, 13th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems. IEEE Computer Society, L'Annecy, France, pp. 47-56.
  13. Smith, T. and Frew, J., 1995. Alexandria Digital Library. Communications of the ACM, 38(4): 61-62.
  14. Fischer, C., Frew, J., Larsgaard, M., Smith, T. and Zheng, Q., 1995. Alexandria Digital Library: rapid prototype and metadata schema. In: N.R. Adam, B.K. Bhargava, M. Halem and Y. Yesha (Editors), ADL '95 Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, McLean, VA, pp. 221-241.
  15. Frew, J., Carver, L., Fischer, C., Goodchild, M., Larsgaard, M., Smith, T. and Zheng, Q., 1995. The Alexandria Rapid Prototype: building a digital library for spatial information, ESRI User Conference. Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA.
  16. Andresen, D., Carver, L., Dolin, R., Fischer, C., Frew, J., Goodchild, M., Ibarra, O., Kothuri, R., Larsgaard, M., Manjunath, B., Nebert, D., Simpson, J., Smith, T., Yang, T. and Zheng, Q., 1995. The WWW prototype of the Alexandria Digital Library, ISDL'95 International Symposium on Digital Libraries. University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, pp. 17-27.
  17. Smith, T., Andresen, D., Carver, L., Dolin, R., Fischer, C., Frew, J., Goodchild, M., Ibarra, O., Kemp, R., Kothuri, R., Larsgaard, M., Manjunath, B., Nebert, D., Simpson, J., Wells, A., Yang, T. and Zheng, Q., 1996. A digital library for geographically referenced materials. IEEE Computer, 29(5): 54-60.
  18. Frew, J., 1996. The Sequoia 2000 Project. In: M. Goodchild, L. Steyaert and B. Parks (Editors), GIS and Environmental Modeling: Progress and Research Issues. GIS World Books, Fort Collins, CO, pp. 69-72.
  19. Frew, J., Freeston, M., Kemp, R., Simpson, J., Smith, T., Wells, A. and Zheng, Q., 1996. The Alexandria Digital Library testbed, D-Lib Magazine 2(7/8).
  20. Hill, L., Dolin, R., Frew, J., Kemp, R., Larsgaard, M., Montello, D., Rae, M.A. and Simpson, J., 1997. User evaluation: Summary of the methodologies and results for the Alexandria Digital Library, University of California at Santa Barbara, 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Information Science (ASIS), Washington, DC, pp. 225-243.
  21. Hill, L., J. Frew, and Q. Zheng. 1999. Geographic names: the implementation of a gazetteer in a georeferenced digital library, D-Lib Magazine 5(1).
  22. Marks, D., Domingo, J. and Frew, J., 1999. Software Tools for Hydro-Climatic Modeling and Analysis. ARS Technical Bulletin 99-1, Northwest Watershed Research Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Boise, ID.
  23. Smith, T., Frew, J., Janée, G., and Hill, L. The Alexandria Digital Library Project. NIT2001 12th International Conference on New Information Technology - Global Digital Library Development in the New Millenium, Beijing, China, 29-31 May 2001.
  24. Janée, G. and Frew, J., 2004. Spatial Search, Ranking, and Interoperability, Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Sheffield, UK, 29 July 2004.
  25. Janée, G., Frew, J., and Hill, L.,2004. Issues in Georeferenced Digital Libraries. D-Lib Magazine, vol. 10, no. 5.

Abstracts

  1. Frew, J., Freitas, N., Hill, L., Lovette, K., Nideffer, R. and Zheng, Q., 1998. The Alexandria Digital Library System Architecture. In: J. Strobl and C. Best (Editors), Earth Observation & Geo-Spatial Web and Internet Workshop '98. Salzburger Geographische Materialien. Instituts für Geographie der Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
  2. Frew, J., 1998. The Earth System Science Workbench: A scalable infrastructure for earth science information providers, AGU 1998 Fall Meeting. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
  3. Frew, J., Bose, R., Duff, J., Duma, C., Fields, E., Miley, S. and Siegel, D., 1999. The Earth System Science Workbench: improving Web-based access to near-real-time satellite imagery, AGU 1999 Fall Meeting. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
  4. Duff, J. and Frew, J., 1999. The Earth System Science Workbench, Earth Observation & Geo-Spatial Web and Internet Workshop '99, Washington, DC.
  5. Janée, G., Frew, J., Hill, L. and Smith, T., 2001. The ADL Bucket Framework, Proceedings of the Third DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on Interoperability and Mediation in Heterogeneous Digital Libraries. ERCIM Workshop Proceedings, Darmstadt, Germany.
  6. Frew, J. and Gallagher, J., 2002. MODster: Peer-to-Peer Sharing for Remote Sensing Standard Products, IGARSS '02 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE Computer Society, Toronto, Canada.

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Ph.D. Students

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Former

M.S. Students

Former

Courses Taught

Lower Division

  • C Programming
  • Fortran Programming
  • Pascal Programming
  • Physical Geography

Upper Division

  • Computational Concepts in Geography
  • Computer Graphics
  • Remote Sensing
  • Techniques in Geographic Data Analysis
  • UNIX System Programming

Graduate

  • Collaborative Environmental Information
  • Computational Requirements: Scientific, Scholarly, and Commercial Perspectives
  • Digital Curation
  • Digital Libraries
  • Environmental Information Networks
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Management of Scientific Data
  • Publishing Environmental Information on the World Wide Web
  • Remote Sensing Software

MESM Group Projects

1998-1999: The Effectiveness of ISO 14001 in the U.S.

1999-2000: Evaluation of Setback Levees on the Sacramento River

1999-2000: Environmental Decision Making in Goleta Old Town Brownfields

2000-2001: A Public-Access GIS-Based Model of Potential Species Habitat Distribution for the Santa Barbara Channel and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary

2001-2002: Analysis of Alternative Watershed Management Strategies Addressing Aquatic Toxicity: A case study of Organophosphate Pesticide Loading in Newport Bay, CA

2002-2003: The Role of ISO 14001 in Environmental Management at U.S. Manufacturing Facilities

2003-2004: Evaluation of Liquefied Natural Gas Receiving Terminals for Southern California

2004-2005: Collaborative Monitoring of the Spiny Lobster in the Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas

2006-2007: Prototyping a Campus Sustainability Management System

2007-2008: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Tourists and Coastal Users in Morro Bay: How Environmental Quality Affects Recreational Behavior

2008-2009: Impacts of Rising Sea Level on Coastal Communities: A Santa Barbara Case Study

Invited Lectures and Seminars

  • Boston University
  • California State University, Fresno
  • Center for Information Technology and Society, UCSB
  • Colorado State University
  • Cornell University
  • Council of Geographic Names Authorities conference (COGNA 2003)
  • e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
  • Geography Department, UCSB
  • Hughes Applied Information Systems
  • Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB
  • International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Massachussetts Institute of Technology
  • NSF Long-Term Ecological Research Program
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
  • Oregon Health Sciences University
  • Pacific Climatology Conference
  • Santa Clara University
  • Stanford University
  • Symposium on Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Information and Modeling
  • TeraScan International Users Conference
  • University of Aberdeen, Scotland
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • University of New Mexico
  • US National Archives and Records Administration
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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