Thomas Cova, Ph.D.
Tom Cova is an associate professor of Geography at the University of Utah where he directs the GIScience Certificate Program and the Center for Natural & Technological Hazards. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon and an M.A. and Ph.D in Geography from the University of California Santa Barbara where he was an Eisenhower Fellow. His research and teaching interests are in hazards, transportation, and geographic information science. He currently serves as the Program Chair for GIScience 2008, the Chair of the AAG GIS Specialty Group and was the Chair of the UCGIS Research Projects Committee from 2004-2007.