Ph.D. Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1994
M.A. Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1992
B.S. Geography, National Taiwan University, 1987

Primary Research Area

Representation of dynamic geographic phenomena in support of spatiotemporal query, analysis, and modeling:

Process-based representation for geospatial data, including remotely sensed imagery, GIS data, and survey data;
Geospatial knowledge representation, information query analysis, and information inference;
Geospatial data mining and knowledge discovery to support high-level information computing and spatio-temporal analysis (such as events, processes, and change analysis).

Expertise and Research Interests

May's research interest is in temporal GIS, geographic representation, spatiotemporal information modeling, and applications of geographic information technologies to dynamic systems. Her research projects center on representation models, algorithms for spatiotemporal analysis, and understanding of dynamics in geographic phenomena, such as wildfires, rainstorms, air-pollution plumes, and behavior and activities in complex social systems. She explores multiple perspectives of dynamics, analyzes the drivers and outcomes of geographic dynamics, extracts spatiotemporal patterns and behavioral structures of dynamic systems, and draws insights into the system development and evolution to derive an integrated understanding, interpretation, and prediction of activities, events, and processes in dynamic geographic systems.

Courses taught

GEOG 2453 Computer Mapping

GEOG 3353, Cartography

GEOG 4230, Geomorphology
GEOG 4453/5453, Geographic Information Systems

GEOG 5623, GIS Design
GEOG 4553/5553, GIS Applications

GEOG 6820 GIS Seminar

AGSC 4970 GIS and Mapping

Books

Yuan, M. and K. Stewart. 2008. Computation and Visualization for the Understanding of Dynamics in Geographic Domains: A Research Agenda. CRC/Taylor and Francis.

Stewart K. and M. Yuan (eds.). 2008. Understanding Dynamics in Geographic Domains. CRC/Taylor and Francis.

Refereed Publications and Book Chapters

Plutar, E. F., T. J. Cova, M. Yuan, and M. F. Goodchild. Accepted. EDGIS: A dynamic GIS based on Space Time Point. International Journal of Geographic Information Science.

Yuan, M. Accepted. Mapping Text. In Spatial Humanities. Edited by David Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor Harris. To be published by Indiana University Press.

Cheuk, M. L. and M. Yuan. 2009. Assessing spatial uncertainty of LiDAR-derived building model: a case study in downtown Oklahoma City. Photogrammetry Engineering and Remote Sensing: 75(3): 257-270.

Yuan, M. 2009. Knowledge discovery of geographic dynamics in spatiotemporal data. In Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2ed) edited by H. Miller and J. Han. To be published by CRC/Taylor and Francis.

Basara, H. G. and M. Yuan. 2008. Community health assessment using self-organizing maps and geographic information systems. International Journal of Health Geographics (http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/7/1/67)

Myint, S., M. Yuan, R. S. Cerveny, and C. P. Giri. 2008. Comparison of remote sensing image processing techniques to identify tornado damage areas from Landsat TM data. Sensors, 8:1128-1156.

Myint, S., M. Yuan, R. S. Cerveny, and C. P. Giri. 2008. Categorizing Natural Disaster Damage Assessment Using Satellite-Based Geospatial Techniques: using Satellite-based Geospatial Techniques. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 8: 707-719.

Madsen, H., Helène Carabin, Don Balolong, Veronica L. Tallo, Remigio Olveda, May Yuan, Stephen T. McGarvey, 2008. Prevalence of Schistosoma japonicum infection of Oncomelania quadrasi snail colonies in 50 irrigated and rain-fed villages of Samar Province, the Philippines. Acta Tropica 105: 235-241.

Yuan, M. 2007. Adding Time. Handbook of Geographic Information Science, J. Wilson and S. Fotheringham, editors, published by Blackwell Publishing. P. 169-184.

Goodchild, M. M. Yuan, and T. Cova. 2007. Towards a general theory of geographic representation in GIS. International Journal of Geographic Information Science; 21(3):239-260.

McIntosh, J. and M. Yuan. 2005. A framework to enhance semantic flexibility for analysis of distributed phenomena. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 19(10): 999-1018.

McIntosh, J. and M. Yuan. 2005. Assessing similarity of geographic processes and events. Transactions in GIS. 9(2): 223-245.

Yuan, M. 2005. Beyond Mapping in GIS Applications to Environmental Analysis, The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 86(2): 167-180.

Yuan, M., D. M. Mark, M. J. Egenhofer, and D. J. Peuquet, 2004. Extensions to Geographic Representations. Chapter 5 in R. B. McMaster and E. L. Usery (eds.), A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 129-156.

Yuan, M., B. Buttenfield, M. Gehagen, H. Miller, 2004. Geospatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Chapter 14 in R. B. McMaster and E. L. Usery (eds.), A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 365-388.

Kaspari, M., P. S. Ward, and M. Yuan. 2004. Energy gradients and the geographic distribution of local ant diversity. Oecologia 104(3): 407-413.

Kaspari, M., M. Yuan and L. Alonso. 2003. Spatial Grain and the Cause of Regional Diversity Gradients in Ants. American Naturist. 16(3): 459-477.

Roth, E. D. and M. Yuan, 2003 The Importance of Reporting the Geodetic Datum with Geographic Coordinates for Collection Localities and Natural History Observations. Herpetological Review 34(3): 195-197.

Yuan, M., M. Dickens-Micozzi, M. A. Magsig. 2002. Analysis of Tornado Damage Tracks on the May 3rd Tornado Outbreak Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and GIS. Weather and Forecasting, American Meteorological Society, 17:382-398.

Yuan, M. and J. McIntosh. 2002. A Typology of Spatiotemporal Information Queries. Mining Spatiotemporal Information Systems. K. Shaw, R. Ladner, and M. Abdelguerfi (eds.). Kuwer Academic Publishers. PP. 63-82.

Yuan, M. and C. E. Duchon, 2001. Estimation of Daily Area-Average Rainfall in Central Florida Using Kriging and Arithmetic Averaging. Physical Geography, 22, 1: 42-58.

Yuan, M. 2001 Representing Complex Geographic Phenomena with both Object- and Field-like Properties. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 28(2): 83-96.

Yuan, M. 2001. Geographic Data Structure. Geospatial Technology Manual. J. D. Bossel, J. R. Jensen, R. B. McMaster, and C. Rizos eds. (by Taylor & Francis). Pp. 431-449.

Yuan, M. 2000. Representing geographic information to support queries about life and motion of socio-economic units. In Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units edited by A. U. Frank, J. Raper, and J. P. Cheyland. European Science Foundation (ESF) Series ( London: Taylor and Francis). Pp. 217-234.

Yuan, M. 2000. Representation dynamic geographic phenomena based on hierarchical theory. Proceedings: 9^th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling Spatial Data Handling, P. Forer Eds. Pp. 2a.19-2a.29.

Mass, D. S. and M. Yuan. 1999. Analyzing Dispersal Dynamics of Golden-cheeked Warblers (Dendroica chrysoparia) Using Remote Sensing, Global Positioning System, and Geographic Information System Technologies. Applied Geographic Studies. Volume 3 (2): 77-95.

Yuan, M. 1999. Representing Geographic Information to enhance GIS support for complex spatiotemporal queries. Transactions in GIS, 3(2):137-160.

Yuan, M. 1998. Representing Spatiotemporal Processes to Support Knowledge Discovery in GIS databases. Proceedings: 8^th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling Spatial Data Handling, T. K. Poiker and N. Chrisman, eds. Pp. 431-440.

Yuan, M. and D. R. Perault. 1998. Measuring the Fractal Dimensions of a Temporal Forest Landscape. Applied Geographic Studies, 2(2): 131-144.

Yuan, M., 1997. Knowledge acquisition for building wildfire representation in Geographic Information Systems. The International Journal of Geographic Information Systems, 11(8):723-745.

Yuan, M., 1996. Modeling semantical, temporal, and spatial information in geographic information systems. Geographic Information Research: Bridging the Atlantic, edited by M. Craglia and H. Couclelis ( London: Taylor & Francis), pp. 334-347.

Yuan, M. and J. Albrecht, 1995. Structural analysis of geographic information and GIS operations: from a user’s perspective. In Spatial Information Theory, edited by A. Frank and W. Kuhn ( Berlin: Springer-Verlag), pp. 107-122.

Encyclopedia Entries

Yuan, M. Accepted. Self Organizing Maps. Encyclopedia of Geography. Barney Warf (ed.). SAGE Reference.

Yuan, M. Accepted. John Wilson. Encyclopedia of Geogrpahy. Barney Warf (ed.). SAGE Reference.

Yuan, M. Accepted. Temporal GIS and Applications. Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science. S. Shekhar and H. Xiong (ed.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Yuan, M. Accepted. Visualization and Modeling of Geographic Dynamics. Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science. S. Shekhar and H. Xiong (ed.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Yuan, M. Accepted. Challenges and critical issues for temporal GIS research and technologies. Encyclopedia of Geoinformatics. H. Karimi (ed.) Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA. USA.

Yuan, M. 2007 Discrete vs. Continuous Phenomena. Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science. K. Kemp (ed.) Sage Publications. P. 111-114.

Yuan, M. 2007. Representation. Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science. K. Kemp (ed.) Sage Publications. P. 368-372.

Yuan, M. 2006. Computational Models of Space. Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Pp. 56-57, Barney Warf, editor in chief. Sage Publications.

Book Reviews

Yuan, M. 2004. A Book Review on The Representation of Space and Time by D. Peuquet. Economic Geography 80(2), April 2004

Yuan, M. 2000. A Book Review on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Information Systems (Spatial Information Systems) by M. J. Egenhofer and R. G. Golledge eds. Transactions in GIS. 4(2).

Yuan, M. 1999. A Book Review on Exploring Spatial Analysis in Geographic Information Systems by Y. H. Chou. Cartography and Geographic Information Science.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Yuan, M. Dynamics GIS: Recognizing the Dynamic Nature of Reality. ArcNews. Spring 2008 (http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/spring08articles/dynamics-gis.html)

Conference Papers

Yuan, M. 2007. GIS approaches for geographic dynamics understanding and event prediction. SPIE Defense Transformation and Network-Centric systems II. Special Session on Predictive Analytic Modeling. April 8-13, 2007. Orlando, Florida.

McPherson, W. G., M. Yuan, and N. Benson 2007. Devising an online collaborative decision-support GIS for climate monitoring site selection. 23^rd Conference on IIPS. 87^th annual meeting of American Meteorology Society. San Antonio, Texas. January 15-18, 2007.

Howard, D. and M. Yuan. 2007. A continuous field approach to using GIS to model weather RADAR terrain occultation. 23^rd Conference on IIPS. 87^th annual meeting of American Meteorology Society. San Antonio, Texas. January 15-18, 2007.

McPherson, W. G. and M. Yuan. 2006. GIS analysis and modeling for spatial decision support to NOAA’s environmental Real-Time Observation Network (NERON). 22^nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology in American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 29 January-2 February, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia .

Bothwell, J. and M. Yuan. 2006. Exploring climate patterns embedded in global climate change datasets. 22^nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology in American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 29 January-2 February, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia .

Cheuk, M. L., M. Yuan, and P. Klein-Kastner. 2006. Coupling Geographic Information Systems and Urban Dispersion Model: An Example of ArcGIS and QUIC. Sixth Urban Environment Symposium in American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 29 January-2 February, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia .

McPherson, W. Jr. and M. Yuan. 2006. GIS Analysis and Modeling for Spatial Decision Support to NOAA’s Real-Time Observation Network (NERON). 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, 29 January-2 February, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia .

Basara J., B. G. Illston, P. Klein, and M. Yuan. 2006. The Oklahoma City Urban micronet project: transitionining from vision to reality. Sixth Urban Environment Symposium in American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. January 2006.

Yuan, M. 2005, A temporal GIS conceptual framework for complex queries about geographic dynamics, GISPlanet 2005. May 30-June 2, 2005. Lisbon, Portugal .

Yuan, M. 2005. The Roles of GIS in Building the Earth Information System. 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, January 12, 2005. San Diego, California. Available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/Annual2005/techprogram/paper_86983.htm

McPherson, W. Jr., M. Yuan, D. Giuliano, K. Tapp, and J. Rush, 2005. Siting New England: a GIS prototype for site selection for the NWS Modernized Cooperative Network. Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), January 12, 2005. San Diego, California. Available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/Annual2005/techprogram/paper_86229.htm

Brian, S.J., M. Brown, J. Ching, M. L. Cheuk, M. Yuan, W. S. Han, and A. T. McKinnon 2004. Urban Morphological Analysis for Mesoscale Meteorological and Dispersion Modeling Applications: Current Issues. American Meteorological Society Fifth Conference on Urban Environment. 23-27 August, Vancouver, BC, Canada .

Yuan, M. and J. McIntosh, 2004. Data retrieval based on spatiotemporal characteristics of weather events. The 84^th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Seattle, WA. Available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/84Annual/techprogram/paper_72531.htm

Yuan, M. and J. McIntosh. 2003. Weather Intelligence: A GIS Approach to Enrich Weather/Climate Databases. The 83^rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society.

Cunningham, K., M. Yuan, and J. Adams, 1999. Measuring the effects of reservoir operations using GIS. Accepted to be presented in the First International Symposium on GIS in Fishery Sciences.

Yuan, M. 1997. Development of a Global Conceptual Schema for Interoperable Geographic Information. The International Specialist Meeting on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems, sponsored by NSF and OpenGIS . December 5-6, Santa Barabara, CA. http://ncgia.ncgia.ucsb.edu:80/conf/interop97/program/

Yuan, M. and I. Butler, 1997. On Developing an Integrated Information System for the Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory: The Biological Data Atlas. Paper to be published in the Proceedings: Conference on Scientific and Technical Data Exchange and Integration . December 15-17, 1997. Bethesda, Maryland. The National Research Council on the U.S. National Committee for CODATA .

Yuan, M., 1997. Representing Geographic Information to Support Spatiotemporal Queries. Proceedings: GIS AM/FM Asia'97 & GeoInformatics'97: Mapping the Future of Asia Pacific , May 26-29, Taipei, Taiwan , ( Taipei, Taiwan : Chinese Geographic Information Society, published in English).

Yuan, M., 1996. GIS Data Schemata for Spatiotemporal Information. Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling edited by M. Goodchild (CD-ROM).

Yuan, M., 1994. Wildfire conceptual modeling for building GIS space-time models. Proceedings: GIS/LIS '94, pp. 860-869. Re-printed in Temporal Data in Geographic Information Systems , compiled by Andrew Frank, Wener Kuhn, and Peter Haunold, 1995. Department of Geoinformation, Technical University of Vienna. pp. 47-56.

Yuan, M. and D. M. Mark, 1994. Eliciting experts' knowledge for wildfire data modeling in GIS. Proceedings, 1994 ESRI Users Conference , pp. 1179-1191.

Chou, Y. H. and M. Yuan, 1993. An integrated object-oriented representation of wildland fires in Geographic Information Systems. Proceedings: GIS/LIS'93 , pp. 128-138.

Weber, C. R. and M. Yuan, 1993. Cartographic Sonification: An analysis of subject association of harmonic intervals with various cartographic adjectives. Proceedings: ACSM/ASPRS, Annual Convention and Exhibition. Vol. 1 , pp. 391-401.

Yuan, M. and Hui Lin, 1992. Spatio-temporal modeling of wildfire in Geographic Information Systems. Proceedings: the Symposium of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Systems. pp. 194-200.

Invited PresentationS

Seminar Speaker, GIScience Research: Frontiers and Fundamentals. Department of Geography, National Taiwan University. October 6, 2009. Taipei, Taiwan.

Speaker: From Temporal GIS to Narrative. Presidential Session in Social Science and History Association Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida. Oct 23-26, 2008

Speaker: Temporal GIS, Geographic Dynamics, and Complex Systems. EUROCORES Programme TECT workshop on Cooperation through the Ages: the social and psychological dynamics of cooperation and punishment. Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. 25-27 April 2008. European Science Foundation.

Speaker: Temporal GIS: Representation and Analysis. EUROCORES Programme TECT Joint-Project workshop on Studying Spatially Complex Cooperative Relationships, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, 26-29 March 2008. European Science Foundation.

Panel discussant, Workshop on Advanced Research in Geospatial Information Technologies for Transportation. September 20-21, 2007. Keck Center, U.S. National Academies, Washington DC.

Workshop Speaker: Temporal GIS. Workshop: A Place in Europe: Historical GIS and New Perspectives on European and World History. November 30-December 2, 2007, Barcelona, Spain. Sponsored by the European Science Foundation.

Speaker: Geovisualization Seminar, Temporal GIS for Meteorological Applications: Perception, Representation, Analysis, Visualization, and Understanding. Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University. February 13, 2007.

Speaker, Research Priorities in Areas of Geospatial Intelligence. GEOINTEL Academic workshop on Research Priorities. November 13-16, 2006. Orlando , Florida

Keynote Speaker, Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. GISnet'12 Conference, August 14-18, 2006. Hochiminh city Vietnam.

Keynote Speaker, GIS for Knowledge Discovery of Weather and Climate, April 8, 2006, European Geosciences Union, General Assembly Vienna, Austria.

Seminar Speaker. Spatiotemporal Data Modeling for Knowledge Discovery. National Center for Geocomputation, March 24, 2006. Maynooth , Ireland .

Seminar Speaker, Temporal GIS and Meteorology . National Center for Atmospheric Research, June 30, 2004. Boulder, Colorado.

Seminar Speaker, GIS and Public Health Applications OU Health Science Center. September 29, 2003. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Seminar Speaker, Geographic Intelligence: From Representation to Discovery of Geographic Dynamics in GIS Databases. Geography Colloquium at the University of Southern California , October 10, 2003.

Workshop Speaker, Beyond Mapping: GIS Analysis and Modeling for Environmental Research. UNIDATA Workshop on Expanding Horizons: Using Environmental Data and Model Output for Education, Prediction, and Decision Making, June 23-27, 2003. Boulder, CO.

Seminar Speaker. Representation and Discovery of Geographic Dynamics in GIS Databases. Dangermand Lecture Series at ESRI and Geography, UC-Santa Barbara. December 9-10, 2003.

Seminar Speaker, Geography Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul. December 2, 2001.

Special Session Speaker on GIS Data Schemata for Spatiotemporal Information in The Third International Conference in Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling. Santa Fe, New Mexico. January 21-25, 1996.

Visiting Research Scientist UNIDATA and National Center for Atmospheric Research. June 1 to December 31, 2004. Boulder, Colorado.

Conference Presentations

Yuan, M. 2007. From Static to Dynamic: Temporal GIS Potential to Spatial Analysis. Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers. San Francisco, CA. April 18-21, 2007.

Yuan, M. 2007. Temporal GIS for Agent-based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems. NSF Research Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems. Santa Barbara, CA. April 13-15, 2007.

Yuan, M. 2007. Temporal GIS for Meteorological Application and Representation Models for Dynamic Geographic Phenomena. February 13, 2007. Geovisualization Seminar. Oregon State University.

Yuan, M. 2006. Research Priorities in Areas of Geospatial Intelligence. GeoIntel 2007 Symposium. November 13-16, 2006, Orlando, Florida.

Yuan, M. 2006. From Nature to Nurture: GIS for Knowledge Discovery of Dynamics. UCGIS visits to Intelligence Communities Savage, Maryland .

Yuan, M. 2005. GIS data modeling for Knowledge Discovery. 100^th annual meeting of American Association of Geographers. April 9, 2005. Denver, Colorado.

Yuan, M. 2004. Geospatial Information Science and Technology Program Report. Oklahoma Space Grant Consortium annual review meeting. May 19, 2004. Norman, Oklahoma.

Yuan, M. 2004. Oklahoma Geospatial Extension and Outreach Activities. National Geospatial Extensional Specialist meeting. April 13-15, 2004. Kansas City, Kansas.

Yuan, M. 2004. Data retrieval based on spatiotemporal characteristics of weather events. The 84^th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Seattle, WA.

Yuan, M. 2004. Evaluating Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques on Assessment of Tornado Damage Tracks from the Oklahoma City Tornado Outbreak on May 3rd 1999 . AAG 2004 Annual Meeting. Pittsburg, Philadelphia.

Yuan, M. 2003. Weather Intelligence: A GIS approach to enrich weather databases. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, February 10-14, Long Beach, California.

Yuan, M. 2002. Representing Processes in Geographic Information Systems. AAG annual meeting. March 18-22, 2002, Los Angles, California.

Yuan, M. and J. McIntosh 2002. Representing Events in Distributed Phenomena. National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) University Research Initiative Symposium. July 16-17, 2002. Reston, VA.

Yuan, M. 2000 Hierarchy Theory and Geographic Representation. GIScience 2000. Savannah, Georgia . 28-31 October, 2000.

Magsig, M., M. Dicken-Micozzi, and M. Yuan, 2000. Analysis of Tornado Damage on May 3^rd, 1999, Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies Based on High-Resolution Satellite Imagery. The 20^th Conference on Severe Local Storms. Orlando, Florida. 11-15, September 2000.

Yuan, M., J. Canning, and J. McIntosh, 2000. Incorporating intelligence into a GIS to support spatiotemporal query, analysis, and modeling in hydrology. The 3^rd NURI Symposium by NIMA. 16-17, June, 2000. Reston, Virginia.

Yuan, M., Dicken-Micozzi, and M. Magsig. 2000. Analysis of Tornado Damage Tracks on the May 3^rd Tornado Outbreak Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and GIS. National Symposium on the Great Plains Tornado Outbreak of 3 May 1999. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 2-5 May 2000.

Cunningham, K. K., and M. Yuan. 2000. Use of GIS to predict the spatial variation in aquatic vegetation on Lake Chambers, Oklahoma. 130th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, 23 August 2000, St. Louis, Missouri.

Cunningham, K., M. Yuan, and J. Adams, 1999. Measuring the effects of reservoir operations using GIS. The First International Symposium on GIS in Fishery Sciences.

Yuan, M. 1998. Geospatial data, information, and knowledge: the use of GIS databases. Botany Seminar, the Department of Botany, University of Oklahoma, November 5, 1998.

Yuan, M. 1998. On developing an Intelligent Geographic Information System in Hydrology. The American Association of Geographers 94^th Annual Meeting, 25-29 March, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.

Yuan, M. 1997. Complex spatiotemporal queries in a GIS environment. The American Association of Geographers 93^rd Annual Meeting. 1-5 April, 1997, Fort-Worth, Texas.

Ducheon, C. E. and M. Yuan. 1997. Use of kriging and arithmetic averaging to estimate daily area-average rainfall in central Florida. Annual Spring Meeting, the American Geophysical Union. May 1997. Baltimore, Maryland.

Grants and Contracts

Active

2009-2010 Asset Mapping Pilot for Central Oklahoma Economic Development. Central Oklahoma Workforce Investment Board. October 9, 2009-June 30, 2010. PI. $139,793.

2009 Risk Prediction and Event Modeling: from literature review to research agenda development. October 1, 2009-December 31, 2009. Naval Research Laboratory. PI. $39,656

2009-2013 Understanding Social Networks within Complex, Nonlinear Systems: Geographically Integrated History and Dynamics GIS. NSF. September 15 2009 - September 14 2013. PI at University of Oklaoma. $471,191 (OU budget). This is a collaborative research project with Dr. Jack Owen at Idaho State University.

2009-2012 A CyberCommons for Ecological Forecasting. NSF. OU budget $2,999,997. Co-PI (PI: Dr. Paul Risser and 8 faculty). This is a collabroative research project with Dr. Krishatlka at Universty of Kansas.

2009-2010 Data Acquisition and Meta-analysis of Habitat Information from Gulf of Mexico Trophics Studies using Coastal Marine Ecological Classification Systems. NOAA and NatureServe. July 1 2009-March 31 2010. $40,000.

2008-2010 Development of Web-based Geographic Information Services for Oklahoma Capital Improvements Planning Program. Principal Investigator. September 1, 2008 to February 28, 2010. Oklahoma Department of Commerce. $141,000.

2008-2013 Climate Risk Mitigation Program. Co-PI (PI: Dr. Mark Shafer and 8 Co-PIs). September 2008 to August 2013. NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program: $3,849,883.

2008-2010 A Pilot GIS Service Portal to Support Boll Weevil Eradication Program. Principal Investigator. July 1, 2008-June 30, 2010. State of Oklahoma, Boll Weevil Eradication Organization. $95,978.

2006-2010 Geo-Referencing Maintenance for the Oklahoma Voter Registration System. Principal Investigator. Co-Investigator: Kathryn Hines. July 1, 2007-June 30, 2010. Oklahoma Election Board: $753,141.

2006-2009 Sales-Tax Calculation Database using GIS Technologies: Maintenance Efforts with School and Career Technical Districts Updates. Principal Investigator. Co-Investigator: Kathryn Hines. July 1, 2007- June 30, 2009. Oklahoma Tax Commission. $740,413.

2003-2010 Geospatial Information Science and Technology (GIST) Program, Oklahoma NASA Space Grant Consortium. Principal Investigator on the GIST program (Dr. V. Duca-Snowden is the PI for the Oklahoma NASA Space Grant Consortium). August 15, 2003-August 14, 2010, NASA. $490,500.

Completed

2006-2009 Data-Model Assimilation at FACE and AmeriFlux Sites Toward Predictive Understanding of Carbon Sequestration at Ecosystem and Continental Scales. Co-Investigator. Principal Investigator: Dr. Yiqi Luo; other Co-Investigator: Dr. Luther White. September 1, 2006-August 31, 2009. DOE: $750K.

2008 Capacity Building for Ecoinformatics Research. NSF EPSCoR. $30,000 equipment grant.

2007-2008 Spatiotemporal Dynamics Data Model. Principal Investigator. Subcontract of $23,311 from Compact Computing Inc., U. S. Army Small Business Innovation Research, Phase I. December 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008. Phase II proposal invited.

2006-2007 Boundary Demarcation for the Muscogee Creek Nation. Principal Investigator. October 15, 2006-February 28, 2007. Muscogee Creek Nation: $8,144.

2006-2007 Phase 2: System Upgrade Development for Oklahoma's Capital Improvements Planning Program. Principal Investigator. Co-Investigator: Katherine Hines. April 1, 2006-March 31, 2007. Oklahoma Department of Commerce: $109,318.

2005 Workshop on Computation and Visualization for the Understanding of Dynamics in Geographic Domains. The workshop was held October 16-18, 2006 (http://www.ucgis.org/dynamics_workshop/workshop_agenda.htm) . Follow-up activities continued to December 2007. Co-Investigators: Dr. M. Yuan and Dr. Kathleen Stewart Hornsby. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and U.S. Intelligence Communities: $91,997.

2005-2007 multicriteria Spatial Decision Support for NOAA Environmental Real-Time Observation Network. Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator: William McPherson, Jr. August 1, 2005-December 31, 2007. NOAA: $663,585.

2004-2006 Collaborative Research: Integration of Geographic Complexity and Dynamics into Geographic Information Systems. PI: $82,000 at the University of Oklahoma. This is a collaborative project with Dr. Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara and Dr. Tom Cova, University of Utah. August 1, 2004-July 31, 2006. NSF: Total amount $250,000.

2004-2005 Development of a Comprehensive GIS Model to Prototype a New National Weather Service COOP Network. Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator: William McPherson, Jr. August 1, 2004-July 31, 2005. NOAA: $213,501.

2004 Field surveys for COOP and LETS locations in New England states. Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator: William McPherson, Jr. July 1 – August 31, 2004. NOAA: $97,311.

2004 GIS-based Selection of Potential National Weather Service COOP sites: A pilot study in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator: William McPherson, Jr. June 1 – August 31, 2004. NOAA: $30,501.

1999-2004 Remote Sensing Internship with Space Imaging Inc. Principal Investigator. Space Image Inc. $323,521.

2000-2002 Extending Geographic Representation to Support Knowledge Discovery in Geographic Information Systems. Principal Investigator. NSF/POWRE. $74,875

2000-2001 The Integration of GIS, Remote Sensing, and Weather Technologies to Develop a 4D Real-time Air Pollution Management System at Tinker AFB. Principal Investigator. Co-Investigators: Dr. Victor DeBrunner, Dr. Mani Chinnaswamy, and David Jahn. Tinker Air Force Base, Department of Defense and Oklahoma State Regents. $498,619.

2000-2001 The Oklahoma Wind Power Assessment Initiative. Co-Investigator. State of Oklahoma, Department of Commerce, US Department of Energy. With T. Huges (Principal Investigator), M. Meo, M. Shafer. $199,711.

2000 A GIS Approach to the Support of EOS Land Validation: A Case Study Using MODIS and AERONET Data. Principal Investigator. NASA Research Initiatives Grant. $18,854.

2000-2002 Research on the Fluxes of Water and Energy at the Land Surface, Element#7: Development of a HydroGIS based on Oklahoma Mesonet. Principal Investigator, NASA-Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). Total award: $162,000 for two years. This is an extension of the 1996-99 project.

1998-1999 National Geographic Society Education Foundation. Windows on the World: Using ArcView GIS to Enhance Geography Curricula. Co-Investigator with Julie Parker (Principal Investigator). Total award: $12,710.

1997 Microsoft University Map Bash Program. Principal Investigator. Software Grant to promote education in computer-based map analysis.

1997 NASA/MTPE, Oklahoma Center of Excellence for Applications of Remote Sensing, Co-Investigator: Co-Investigator with Dr. Karen Humes (Principal Investigator) with 12 Co-Investigators (equipment grant, Total award $340,000)

1997-2003 Development of an Intelligent GIS to Support Spatiotemporal Queries, Analysis, and Modeling in Hydrology. Principal Investigator. Co-Investigators: Dr John Canning. Department of Defense, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, $951,474.

1997 Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Model the Effects of Reservoir Operations on Fisheries in Hugo Lake, Oklahoma. Principal Investigator, The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Total award: $4,480.

1996-99 Research on the Fluxes of Water and Energy at the Land Surface, Element#7: Development of a HydroGIS based on Oklahoma Mesonet. Principal Investigator, NASA-Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). Total award: $243,000 for three years.

1996-00 Educational Explorations of the Earth System. Co-Investigator with Drs. John Snow (Principal Investigator), Mark Morrissey, William Beasley, James Kimpel, Susan Postawko, and Linda Wallace, NASA-Sponsored Cooperative University-based Program in Earth System Science Education. Total award: $ 200,000.

1995-96 Hydrological Data Modeling in Geographic Information Systems, Principal Investigator, University of Oklahoma Research Council. total award: $5,000.

1995-96 Environmental Remote Sensing, GIS and the Oklahoma Mesonet. Co-Investigator with M. Morrissey (Principal Investigator), C. Duchon, M. Jakubauskas, S. Stadler, D. Waits, and R. Elliot, NASA, Total award: $125,000.

1995-96 Flood-Zone Delineation Mapping Project for the Town of Slaughterville, Oklahoma, Principal Investigator. The Town of Slaughterville, Oklahoma. Total award: $5,670.

1993 Eciting Expert’s Knowledge for Wildfire Information Modeling. Principal Investigator, under supervision of Professor D. Mark, Environmental Systems Research Institute. Total award: $3,950.

internal funds

2004 Matching funds to NSF grant on Collaborative Research: Integration of Geographic Complexity and Dynamics into Geographic Information Systems. Vice President for Research: $4023.

2004 Travel support to attend American Meteorological Society Summer Policy Colloquium. Dean of Geosciences: $4,000; Vice President for Research: $2,000.

2001 Start-up funds to revive Center for Spatial Analysis. Vice President for Research: $60,000.

Professional development and synergy activities

National committees , BoaRds, and editors

President-Elect, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (2009-2011)
Member, Mapping Science Committee, National Research Council (2009-2012)
Member, Honors Committee, Association of American Geographers (2009 – 2012)
University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (2004-2007)
NSF National Historical GIS Project, University of Minnesota. (2002-2004)
Regional editor (the Americas) for the International Journal of geographic Information science (since 2008)
Editorial board of Annals of American Association of Geographers (since 2005)
Editorial board of International Journal of Geographic Information Science (2001-2007)
Editorial board of Transactions in GIS (since 2001)

Conference and workshop committees

Member of Program Committee, 11^th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2009). September 21-25, 2009. Aber Wrac’h, France.
Member of Program Committee, the 12^th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, June 2-5, 2009, Hannover, Germany.
Organizer, Temporal GIS workshop in the 5^th International Conference on Geographic Information Science. September 23-26, 2008. Park City, Utah.
Member of Program Committee, the 5^th International Conference on Geographic Information Science. September 23-26, 2008. Park City, Utah.
Member of Program Committee, the 11^th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, May 5-8, 2008. Girona-Catalonia, Spain.

Member of Program Committee, the 16^th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), November 5-7, 2008, Irvine, California.

Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Spatial And Spatial-Temporal Data Mining, in cooperation with IEEE ICDM 2007. October 28, 2007. Omaha, NE.
Member of Program Committee, the 15^th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), November 7-9, 2007, Seattle, Washington.
Member of Program Committee, 9^th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2007). September 19-23, 2007.
Member of Program Committee, 10^th AGILE (Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe) International Conference on Geographic Information Science, 8-11 May 2007, Aalborg, Denmark.
Member of Program Committee, GIScience2006. September 20-23, 2006. Munster, Germany.
Co-Organizer, Workshop on Computation and Visualization of Dynamics in Geographic Domains. October 16-18, 2006. Maritime Institute of Technology & Graduate Studies, Washington, DC.
Co-Chair, GISnet'12 Conference, August 14-18, 2006. Hochiminh city Vietnam.
Program Committee Member of Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) 2005, September 14-18, 2005. Ellicottville, New York
Program Committee Member of GISPlanet 2005, May 30-June 2, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal .
Program Committee Member of GIScience 2004. University of Maryland Conference Center, October 20-23, 2004.
Program Committee Member and Panel Speaker to Geospatial Data Mining and Visualization Workshop sponsored by the National Security Council and University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. November 18-20, 2003. The National Conference Center, Lansdowne, Virginia.

Invited participant to workshops

GeoSpatial and GeoTemporal Informatics workshop. January 7-9, 2009. Arlington, Virginia, NSF.
Exploring creative approaches for analytical methodologies workshop. April 3-4, 2008. Arlington, Virginia. CENTRA Technology, Inc.
Complicated Features Workshop. November 14-16, 2007. Airlie Center, Virginia. Sponsored by Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

European Collaborative Research on the Evolution of Cooperation and Trading (EUROCORES Progreamme TECT) Launch Conference. July 4-7, 2007. Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary.
Ubiquitous Spatial Computing Workshop, NCGIA, January 25-27, 2007, Portland Maine.
Digital Gazetteer and Practice workshop. December 7-9, 2006. Santa Barbara, California.
Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) Workshop, May 5-6, 2006, Washington, DC.
High Performance Computing for Geosciences, August 25-27, 2006, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
Spatial Perspective on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement (SPACE) planning workshop, December 19-21, 2005. Santa Barbara, CA.
Forum for Geosciences Information Technology, Oct. 6-7, 2005, Washington, DC.
Cyberinfrastructure for Research, Development, and Education in the Atmospheric Science. Southwest Focus Group Meeting, October 15-16, 2003, San Diego, CA.
NASA/USDA joint workshop on Focused Area Working Groups. April 12-14, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana.
FEMA Geospatial workshop, April 19-21, 2005. Indianapolis, Indiana.
Action-oriented Approaches in Geographic Information Science, NCGIA, November 2-4, 2002, Maine.
National Research Council workshop on the intersection of geospatial information and information technology, October 1-2, 2001.
NCGIA-I20 workshop on Interoperating GIS, sponsored by NSF and OpenGIS. December 5-6, 1997. Santa Barbara, California.
GIS workshop in UNIDATA training workshops, June 22-27, 1997. Boulder, Colorado.
NCGIA-I21 workshop on Formalizing Common Sense Geographic Worlds sponsored by NSF. October 30 - November 3, 1996, San Marcos, Texas.
NSF Varenius specialist meeting on Cognitive Models of Dynamic Geographic Phenomena and Representations. 29-31 October 1998. Pittsburgh, PA.
USGS/LASULGC workshop on Future Science Directions of the U.S. Geological Survey: Opportunities for a Federal-University Partnership in the Natural Sciences. 5-6 June 2000. Washington, D.C.

Review Panels or committees

Member, Research Management Committee of the GEOIDE Network (Canadian Centers of Excellence Network of Geomatics for Informed Decision) (since 2008).
EPA NCER Review Panel (2007)
NSF Information and Intelligent Systems Review Panel (2007)
Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Geoinformatics. Editor H. Karimi. To be published by Idea Group, Inc (2006)
NSF IGERT Preproposal Review Panel (2006)
EPA STAR Fellowship Review Panel (2006)
Member of OU Faculty Development Grant committee (2005)
NSF Geography Doctoral Dissertation Research Proposal Reviews (2002-2005)
Member of OU Research Council (2002-2004)
NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (Sites) Proposal Review (2000-2002)
NSF Information Technology Research Proposal Review (2000)
Pre-Med Interview Committee, the University of Oklahoma (since 2002)

Services to professional organizations and the University of Oklahoma

Board member, Center for Applied Social Science Research, the University of Oklahoma (since 2005)
Steering Committee member of Forum for Geosciences Information Technology (since 2004)
External reviewer: Tenure and Promotion of faculty: 2 in 2005, 2 in 2006, 3 in 2007; Promotion of a senior scientist at Naval Research Laboratory, Maine Geosciences Divisions, Department of the Navy (2004)
Faculty Senate, the University of Oklahoma (2003-2004)
Instructor to All-TA training program, the University of Oklahoma (2003-2004)
Secretary of University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (2003-2004)
Director of Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma (since 2001)
Chair of the GIS specialty group of the American Association of Geographers (2002)
Vice chair of the GIS specialty group of the American Association of Geographers (2001)
Team Member of Extensions to Geographic Representation University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), Team leader: Dr. D. Peuquet. (1998)
Coordinator and Delegate, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) at the University of Oklahoma (since 1997)

AWARDS ANDS RECOGNITIONS

Brandt Professor. The University of Oklahoma (since 2008)
Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship. The University of Oklahoma (since 2001)
International Young Scholar in Geographic Information Science. National Science Foundation and European Science Foundation (1995)
First Place, Student Paper Competition conducted by GIS Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers for papers presented at the 1994 annual meeting of the Association. The paper presented was entitled Knowledge acquisition for building wildfire representation in geographic information systems.

STUDENTS RECEIVED GRADUATE DEGREES UNDER MY SUPERVISION

MA: Stephen Dumolt, Josephine Adams, Williams Tanksley, Jason Foreman, Shannon Kuhn, Chad Hall, David Slayter, Karla Sterling, George Standridge, Dustin Howard, Melissa Scott Brown, Christopher Suttle.

Ph.D.: John McIntosh, Mang Lung Cheuk.

Current Advisees

MA: Darrel Kingfield, Jeremy Andrakes, Alexandria McCombs.

Ph.D.: Williams McPherson, James Bothwell, Mathew Collier, Dustin Howard, Trung Tran-Vinh, Chih-Yu Lai, , Semiha Caliskan, Arif Keceli, Rebakah LeBar.