| | Jerome Dobson
University of Kansas
|  | Dr. Jerome E. (Jerry) Dobson is a Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas and President of the American Geographical Society. He will spend academic year 2009-2010 as a National Academy of Sciences Jefferson Science Fellow at the U. S. Department of State. In 2009, the Geographic Information Systems and Science Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers honored him with its Robert T. Aangeenbrug Distinguished Career Award. In 2008, the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) honored him with its first ever Distinguished Career Award for lifetime achievement, and he was inducted as an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and previously served as Chair of the Honors Committee of the Association of American Geographers. Dobson=s principal contributions include the paradigm of automated geography, his instrumental role in originating the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), his leadership of the effort to advance remote sensing methods for large-area change analysis as part of NOAA's Costal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP), and his leadership of the LandScan Global Population Database, which has become the de facto world standard for estimating populations at risk during natural disasters, wars, and terrorist acts (including biological and chemical agents). His current research includes testing a new system for mapping minefields without walking on them; designing and promulgating a new world standard for cartographic representation of landmines, minefields, and mine actions; and leading four AGS Bowman Expeditions to conduct fieldwork in Mexico, the Antilles, Colombia, and Jordan. |
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