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Mark has advised or co-advised 18 completed Ph.D. students and more than 40 Master's. Counting his advisees, mark has served on the PhD advisory committees of more than 100 Doctoral students. Mark also has written or co-authored almost 230 publications, including more than 80 refereed articles, 5 edited books, 30 book chapters, 69 conference proceedings articles, and more than 40 technical reports. He has made almost 230 academic presentations, almost three-quarters at professional meetings, and the others as invited talks at universities and government agencies. He was awarded the UCGIS Research Award in 2004. Mark was involved in the founding of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, and later served as President of the UCGIS (1998). He also has chaired the UCGIS Research Committee and Policy and Legislation Committee. Previously, Mark served as Vice-chair (1987-88) and Chair (1988-89) of the Geographic Information Systems Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers and Chair of the Technology Interest Group, Canadian Cartographic Association (1987-89). He also has served on numerous international editorial boards and program committees, and was program co-chair for Auto Carto 10 (1991), COSIT'99, COSIT'05, and GIScience 2000 and 2002. Mark's research interests have involved digital elevation models, hierarchical data structures, navigation and wayfinding, qualitative spatial reasoning, and geographic cognition. For more than 20 years his work has focused on cultural and linguistic variation in geographic concepts, more recently in the context of ontology and indigenous geographies. |