board member nominee
Dr.
Mackay obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Toronto (Graduate
Department of Civil Engineering). He was a faculty member in the Department of
Forest Ecology and Management and with the Institute for Environmental Studies
at UW-Madison before joining the Department of Geography at SUNY Buffalo in
2003. He is currently an Assistant Professor, researcher with the NCGIA, NSF
IGERT GIScience faculty member, and Director of Graduate Studies for the
Department of Geography. His research focuses on spatiotemporal variability of
evapotranspiration in forests, hydroecological processes in watersheds,
hydrological and ecological modeling, and spatial aggregation issues in process
models. His research relies heavily on development of custom GIS tools, remote
sensing analysis, spatial statistics, and numerical models. Dr. Mackay has
published 23 refereed journal articles and numerous book chapters, given
numerous invited lectures at universities, and received major funding from NASA,
EPA, and NSF. Findings from one of his recent NASA-funded projects were featured
on the cover of Global Change Biology (December 2002). He is currently an
Associate Editor of Water Resources Research, an editorial board member of
Transactions in GIS, and formerly an Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology.
Dr. Mackay has been an active member of UCGIS for many years, serving as a
delegate for UW-Madison and for SUNY Buffalo, as a Board member (one-year term),
and as current Chair of the Research Projects Committee.