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Who are the extraordinary women geospatial scientists of today?
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Doreen Massey
1944-2016
Geographer who worked on space, place and power.
Carolyn J. Merry
1950-2014
A world-renowned scholar in remote sensing and geographic information systems
Diana Sinton
Executive Director of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS).
Karen Kemp
Laura Dangermond
Geospatial; Co-founder of ESRI
Dawn Wright
Geospatial; Chief Scientist at ESRI
Gerri Miller
Associate Program Director for the John Hopkins University Geographic Information Systems programs. In addition Gerri is also a GIS Instructor and Technical Lead at Esri (Environmental System Research Institute)
Cindy Brewer
Geospatial; ColorBrewer ; department head of Geography at Penn State.
Barbara J. Ryan
Secretariat Director of the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr Vanessa Vivienne Lawrence
British business woman and geographer. Formerly, the Director-General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, and held the post for 14 years till April 2014
Dorine Burmanje
Chair of the Executive Board of the Netherlands’ Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency
Ingrid H.J. Vanden Berghe
President of EuroGeographics and member of the board of several research organizations and is a part time lecturer at KULeuven.
Marilyn O'Hara Ruiz
1959-2018
A medical geographer was the director of the Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Illinois
Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Senior Associate Dean of Research & Director of Doctoral Studies. An urban and land change scientist whose central research focus is how urbanization will affect the planet.
Anne Hale Miglarese
Miglarese served as chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coastal Services Center, where she directed the remote sensing and GIS programs of the organization for 10 years. In 2017, she brought top philanthropists and professionals such the Gates Foundation, Omidyar Network, and Amazon together to support Radiant.Earth.
British Geological Survey
Director, Innovation Program, Open Geospatial Consortium
vice provost for international affairs, Cornell
sustainable land use that balances societal needs for food and other necessities with conservation of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, and healthy environments
policies and projects designed to reconcile wildlife (and other resource) conservation with socio-economic development
Eileen Allen
GIS Support Specialist
Plattsburgh
And many, many more.... This list is by no means complete and will continue to grow.
Women and GIS
Women and GIS
A book highlighting the stories of 23 girls who become extraordinary women and made significant contributions to our world.
Designed the Multispectral Scanner
Rachel Carson
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