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Prof. Reg Golledge | Dr. Dan Jacobson

It is with great personal sadness that I report that Dr. Reginald Golledge, Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, passed away on May 29, 2009.

He was a true fiend, inspirational in much of this work, and a wondeful colleague.

A tribute to Reg can be found here

Dr. R. Dan Jacobson, Associate Professor of Geography
Department of Geography,
University of Calgary,
2500 University Drive NW, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
E-mail: dan.jacobson[at]ucalgary.ca
Web site: http://www.geog.ucalgary.ca/index.cfm?page=people&style=2&this=27

Dan Jacobson joined the MGIS program within the Department of Geography in 2003. Dan completed B.Sc. (Hons.) degrees in Geography and Topographic Science in 1992 at the University of Wales, Swansea. During this period he worked as a land surveyor in London, and later as a GIS consultant in Aberystwyth, Wales. He began his Ph.D. fieldwork in Belfast Northern Ireland, and later at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB). While at UCSB he coordinated an interdisciplinary group of researchers from Departments of Geography, Computer Science, Psychology, Engineering and Music to investigate multi-sensory access to geo-spatial information. His Ph.D. was awarded in 2000 from Queen�s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, titled Geographies of Blindness: Learning, reading and communicating geographic space. In 1999 he was a U.S. Department of Education, National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Mary E. Switzer fellow. He was previously an Assistant Professor in the department of Geography at Florida State University.

Research Interests

Dan's research interests can be broadly conceptualised as "how do individuals understand and represent geographic space". Prior research projects include: understanding geographic space without the use of vision, multimodal zooming in digital geographic information, developing novel access to maps, graphics and graphs for visually impaired people, and off-route strategies in non-visual navigation. Dan�s ongoing research is in developing multi-sensory access to GIS based systems to facilitate ease of access for novel users, and to extended opportunities for advanced users to collect, mine, validate and explore digital representations of geographic space.
- Collaborators
  
  Dr. Mary Hegarty, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Dr. Jack Loomis, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Dr. Sarah Fabrikant, Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Dr. Keith Clarke, Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Dr. Dan Montello, Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara
  
  Dr. Matt Turk, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Dr. Tobias Hollerer, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara
  
  Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Department of Music, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Dr. Stephen Pope, CREATE, Department of Music, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Ken Fields, CREATE, Department of Music, University of California at Santa Barbara
  
  Ching-Wei Chen, Graduate Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara
  
  Dr. Roberta Klatzky, Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University
  
  Dr. Misook Hoo, School of Information Studies, Florida State University
  Dr. Gordon Erlebacher, Department of Computational Science and Information Technology, Florida State University
  David Banks, Department of Computational Science and Information Technology, Florida State University
  
  Dr. Sandra Lewis, Department of Special Education, Florida State University
  Dr. Purvis Ponder, Department of Special Education, Florida State University
  Dr. Rolf Zwaan, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
  Dr. Neil Charness, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
  Dr. Anders Ericcson, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
  
  Dr. Ian Douglas, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University
  
  Dr. Wooseob Jeong, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
  
  Dr. Donal Fitzpatrick, Department of Computer Science, Dublin City University
  
  Dr. Rob Kitchin, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
  
  Dr. Mark Blades, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield
  
  Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
  
  Dr. Stefania Bertazzon, Department of Geography, University of Calgary
  Dr. Nigel Waters, Department of Geography, University of Calgary
- Students
  
  Shawn Mueller, PhD candidate, Geographic Visualization, Department of Geography, University of Calgary
  
  Aileen Zu, MGIS candidate, Web GISc and SVG development, Department of Geography, University of Calgary
  
  Mansa Au, MGIS candidate, Online Interactive Mapping Systems for Municipal Government , Department of Geography, University of Calgary
  
  Smita Tanje, MGIS candidate, 3D GIS Application for Urban Planning, Department of Geography, University of Calgary
  
  Eddy (Wei) Liang, MGIS candidate, Enterprise LAN, Department of Geography, University of Calgary
- Prior Students
  
  Ph.D.
  Wooseob Jeong, (2001) Augmenting geographic information systems with haptic and auditory effects, School of Information Studies, Florida State University
  Brian Bossak, (2203) Climatic influences on tropical cyclone tracks: North Atlantic versus Western North Pacific, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  
  Masters (course based)
  Bryan Piersol (2003) GIS, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  
  Masters (Committee Member)
  Ethan Gibney, (2002) An assessment of potential for economic loss to residential property in United States coastal counties from tropical cyclones using a GIS, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  
  Marc Cooper, (2000) Biomass availability and drought indicators from remotely sensed data. Implications for drought management in Botswana, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  
  Undergraduate Honours
  Darroc Goolsby (2003) Dune Habitat Geomorphology on Dog Island, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  
  Graduate Advisor / Directed Independent Research Projects
  Jeff Ueland, Haptic Soundscapes, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  Arty White, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  Brian Bossak, Climatic influences on tropical cyclone tracks: North Atlantic versus Western North Pacific, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  Kathleen Sherman, Communication of extreme weather events: Implications for evacuation procedures, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  Barry Bitters, Navigation through virtual geographic simulations using auditory and haptic displays, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  Mike Pryce Jones, Digital Divide and web interface issues, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  Thammiah Prasad, Haptic soundscapes, School of Engineering, Florida State University
  Shrinidhi Ambinakudige, Cognitive Issues in GIS, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  Jialing Wang, Java and GIS develepment, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  Erek Borowski, Java programming for auditory and haptic intefaces, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara
  
  Research Assistant
  Shivangi Prasad, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  
  Undergraduate Directed Independent Research Projects
  
  Stacey Odom, Usability Analysis, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  Seneca Holland, Multimodal GIS, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  David Wurdlow, Web Accessibility Development, College of Social Sciences, Florida State University
  Bobbie Clemmons, Internet Accessibilty, Department of Geography, Florida State University
  Scott Greenblaut, Text based web navigation, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
  Shannon Price, Experimental Design in Haptic Soundscapes, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara
  Alicia Lieu, Auditory Interface Design for Haptic Soundscapes, Department of Music, University of California at Santa Barbara
  German Kalinec, Rebecca Winfield, Samantha Carly, Geoffrey Lewis
  Java Programming collaborative reserach project for auditory and haptic intefaces, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara