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Research Interests:Geographic Information Science BiographyI am currently a Lecturer in the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences at the University of New South Wales @ADFA, where I teach both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in GIScience. I completed my PhD at the GeoVISTA Center in the Department of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University in 2004. TeachingI currently teach an undergraduate unit on Environmental Hazards, a general education unit called Mapping the Sports Geography of Australia and a postgraduate unit on customizing GIS applications with programming languages. ResearchMy research has two thrusts: (1) Geographic Information Science, with a focus on theoretical aspects of visual representation; and (2) human-environment interactions, particularly taking a complex systems science view of both chronic and infectious disease drivers. Geographic Information Science:
I am also interested in several other aspects of perception and cognition with maps and am in the process of planning research projects in these areas. Human-Environment Interactions: Another current project with colleagues from the School of ITEE at UNSW@ADFA and CSIRO involves using agent-based models to investigate the recent equine flu outbreak in Australia. Grants and Awards
Select PublicationsPeer Reviewed Publications:Bhowmick, T., Griffin, A. L., MacEachren, A. M., Kluhsmann, B. and E. Lengerich. (2008). 'Informing Geospatial Toolset Design: Understanding the Process of Cancer Data Exploration and Analysis', Health & Place, in press. Scheyvens, R., Griffin, A. L., Jocoy, C., Liu, Y. and M. Bradford. (2008). 'Experimenting with active learning: Dispelling the myths that perpetuate resistance.' Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 32(8): 51-69. Banos, A. and A. L. Griffin. (2007). 'A methodology for exploring urban neighbourhood shapes and sizes.' Proceedings of the 15th European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, Montreux, Switzerland, September 7-11. Griffin, A. L. , MacEachren, A. M., Hardisty, F., Steiner, E. and B. Li. (2006). 'A comparison of animated maps with static small-multiple maps for visually identifying space-time clusters.' Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 96(4): 740-53. Griffin, A. L. (2002). 'Feeling it out: The use of haptic visualization for exploratory geographical visualization.' Cartographic Perspectives. 39:12-29. Harrower, M., MacEachren, A. M. and A. L. Griffin. (2000). 'Developing a geographic visualization tool to support earth science learning.' Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 27(4): 279-294. Book Chapter:Griffin, A. L. (2007). 'Visual Variables.' In Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science. Kemp, K. (Ed.).Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. pp. 506-9. Service and Professional Society Memberships:
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