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Tim Nyerges is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of
Washington (UW). He received his BA with distinction (1975), MA (1976), and
Ph.D. (1980) degrees from the Ohio State University. Before joining the UW in
1985, he was a software consultant for five years to several national and
international companies developing new geographic information systems (GIS)
software platforms.He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in GIS, focusing on urban-regional land use, transportation, water resources, decision support, and internet programming topics, many of which have been associated with National Science Foundation and UW curriculum improvement grants.
His research focuses on public participatory GIS-enabled decision support systems for land use, transportation, and water resource applications. He has published dozens of articles, books, and book chapters related to those topics. Tim is in the last year of directing a $2.6M National Science Foundation Information Technology Research project to develop a web portal for analytic-deliberative decision support of transportation improvement decision making. More than 200 people from the central Puget Sound region participated in a large scale, one month long field experiment in the fall 2007 (www.letsimprovetransportation.org). The research group on that project includes 20 researchers spread across three universities.
He is currently the research committee chair of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and a member of the executive committee in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington. He has been chair of the AAG Specialty Group and has held numerous other board level service positions at national and regional levels.
As vice president of UCGIS and member of the executive committee, Tim would like to continue cultivating and organizing diverse research workshop opportunities for all members of UCGIS. He will support the initiatives of the President in whatever way is appropriate as deemed by the President and the Board. He is not shy to ask for your vote.