Jeremy Mennis, Ph.D. (curriculum vitae )

Jeremy Mennis (PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2001) is an Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado from 2001-2004. Jeremy has theoretical research interests in the computational representation and analysis of spatio-temporal phenomena, as well as applied research interests in the spatial analysis of urban health and crime. He has published in journals such as International Journal of Geographical Information Science, International Journal of Remote Sensing, and Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and has received funding from agencies such as NASA, NSF, NIH, and NIJ. Jeremy currently serves on the editorial board of Compass Geography. Jeremy first became involved in the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) as a graduate student in 1999, and he has been a UCGIS delegate since 2001. He led Temple University’s successful UCGIS membership application in 2005. Since 1999 Jeremy has served the UCGIS in a variety of posts: as a member of both the Research Committee and the Communications Committee; as a member of the Program Committee for the UCGIS Geographic Visualization and Knowledge Discovery Workshop (November 18-20, 2005, Washington, D.C.); as a member of the Advisory Board for the UCGIS GIS&T Model Curricula/Body of Knowledge project; as a reviewer for the UCGIS student travel grant competition; as a reviewer for the UCGIS SPACE workshop competition; and most recently as Liaison to the UCGIS for the Association of American Geographers (AAG) GIS Specialty Group.