WhoWeAre

Hi! I am Justine Blanford. I am currently at Penn State. I have been in the geospatial field for over 20 years. I started from the application development side of things and now do a lot more applied research and analytics. Much of my work concerns topics related to health and disease where I am interested in three components (ecology of disease, recovery (treatment) and control/prevention (education, policy). From the geospatial side of things I am interested in using spatial analysis to better understand the mechanisms driving patterns, what scale (spatial and temporal) should we use to do so, and how can we use novel technologies and data to do so so that we can make informed decisions. I teach courses in spatial analysis, design and GIS for analysis of health.

GeoSpatialSense

j.i.blanford@utwente.nl

Hello. I am an Associate Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, specializing in geographic information systems, remote sensing, land use and land cover, and human-environment interactions. Much of my research has focused in the neotropics, including Costa Rica, Brazil, and Guyana, although I have also studied historical land changes in the Adirondacks of New York State, USA and more recently working with colleagues on a digital atlas project - Onondaga Lake: Finding a Restorative Center in Digital Space. I was the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Geography from 2014-2018 and am interested in ways to incorporate active learning into the classroom. I teach courses in global environmental change, tropical environments, spatial thinking and geospatial technologies (GIS, remote sensing, UAVs), and spatial storytelling.

GeographySU | jaread@maxwell.syr.edu