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Christopher A Badurek
Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography and Planning
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
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Christopher
Badurek obtained his PhD in September 2005. His dissertation was
titled “Measuring Change Similarity of Spatial Entities: The
Case of the Criminal History of Place.” He is now a member of
the faculty of the Appalachian State University Department of
Geography and Planning, located in Boone North Carolina.
He held a Research Assistantship at the NCGIA for the NIMA
funded research project Immersive Information Spaces for Data
Access and Dissemination, under Dr. S. Fabrikant of the
Department of Geography at the University of California at Santa
Barbara.
While an RA, he studied spatialization and information
visualization techniques, user interface design for accessing
information from large scale databases, assisted in information
system needs assessments at a federal agency, and attended the
NIMA University Research Initiative Symposium. He was also an
Assistant under his advisor Dr. D. Flewelling for a Cadastral
Geographic Information System Consulting Project sponsored by
the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and UTJ,
Guatemala City, Guatemala in August 2001. He conducted needs
analyses through interviews with Guatemalan government
employees, site visits, database schema evaluation, and document
analysis. He also helped author the preliminary findings report
for the project.
Before arriving at the Department of Geography in 1999, Chris
completed a BA at Cornell University in Biology and Psychology
and a Master's degree from the School of Informatics at the
University at Buffalo. While at the School of Informatics, he
was awarded an NSF funded Research Assistantship at the
Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering and Research
Information Service and an University Service Excellence Award
for contribution to the University Libraries Website Usability
Study. While in the Geography Department, Chris has given over
ten conference presentations and was elected to Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities and Colleges in recognition of
outstanding merit and accomplishments as a graduate student at
the University at Buffalo.
He was also awarded a Dissertation Research Fellowship from the
University at Buffalo and a Travel Award from the Northeast
Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology for best student paper. He also completed the
Advanced Certificate in Educational Technology from the Graduate
School of Education and attended the NSF sponsored Center for
Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) National Summer
Workshop on Map Making and Visualization of Spatial Data in the
Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
in 2001. Chris was also a selected Participant with Travel Award
for the US-Japan Workshop on Image Annotation, sponsored by the
NCGIA. In recognition of excellence in teaching for GIS courses
taught or co-taught while at UB, he was also awarded the
Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award from The Graduate
School this past spring.
His research interests in GI Science include qualitative
spatiotemporal reasoning, cognitive approaches to designing
spatial information systems, human computer interaction,
information visualization, and knowledge discovery in spatial
databases. Specific domain interests include crime analysis
methodologies, urban geography and cadastral GIS, metadata
standards, systems analysis, and digital libraries. Dissertation
research focuses upon integrating qualitative spatiotemporal
reasoning approaches with crime modeling methods under the
direction of Dr. Flewelling. He examined these methods for
analysis of crime data from Sao Paulo, Brazil and the City of
Buffalo with Dr. P. St. Jean of the Department of Sociology. |
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