University of Georgia, Ph.D.,1973; Concentrations: Climatology, Cartography,
Quantitative Methods, and Ecology. Dissertation: "Dynamics of Moisture Status
in the Southeastern United States"
Student in the Organization for Tropical Studies program under National
Science Foundation funding Summer 1970, eight weeks of study in Costa Rica
in a course entitled "Atmospheric Energy Considerations in a Tropical Environment"
University of Maryland, College Park, M.A., 1966 Thesis: "A Geographical
Study of Selected Flooding Characteristics in the Potomac River Basin"
Indiana University, BA, 1958; Major: Geology
May 2005 - Emeritus Professor of Geography (retired)
July 2002 - Professor of Geography and Graduate Coordinator for the
Hydrogeology Program, Geography/Geology Department, Illinois
State University
July 1996 - Professor of Geography and Graduate Coordinator for the
Hydrogeology Program, Geography/Geology Department, and Director, Laboratory
for Integrated Learning and Technology, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois
State University
July 1993 - Professor, Geography/Geology Department, Illinois State
University
July 1990 - July 1993: Director, Academic Computing, Illinois State
University and Professor, Geography/Geology Department
Sept. 1985 - July 1990: Associate Director for Research and Academic
Computing, University of Tennessee Computing Center and Associate Professor
/ Professor of Geography and member of the faculty of the Graduate Program
in Ecology
Jan. 1972 – September 1985: Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate
Professor Geography Department and member of the faculty of the Graduate
Program in Ecology , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
1984 - 1985 Consultant, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg,
TN. Duties: To advise and help develop a geographic information system
for use in the Park.
1980-1981 - Consultant, HDR Environmental Sciences, Knoxville, TN. Duties:
To develop techniques for analysis of the environmental impact of siting
the MX missile system under the racetrack basing mode.
June 1974 - Sept. 1974: Consultant, Office of Tributary Area Development,
T.V.A., Knoxville Duties: To design and implement an address matching-line
printer mapping Geographic Information System in COBOL for application
in Johnson City, Tennessee
Sept. 1968 - Dec. 1971: Graduate Assistant, Geography Department, University
of Georgia
Sept. 1962 - Sept. 1968: Geographer, Branch of Cartography, Topographic
Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. Duties: Varied over
the period; included research of name selection and use on all maps of
the Federal government, compilation and editing of Alaska Place
Names and Delaware Place Names, and research on the applications
of computer processing to this work
Jan. 1961 - June 1962: Cartographic Assistant, Cartographic Laboratory,
Geography Department, University of Maryland (Joseph Wiedel, Director)
Apr. 1959 - Aug. 1960: Engineering Aid, Indiana Flood Control and Water
Resources Commission, Indianapolis, Indiana Duties: Plane table mapping
of flood plains; establishing second-order vertical control