Anderson started following the work of Shaun Belcher, Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design.
Anderson started following the work of 3 people.
Anderson started following the work of David Peterson, Idaho State University, Anthropology.
Graduate Student, History/Geosciences
Graduate Research Assistant
Arts and Letters/Science and Engineering
Thesis Title: British Travel Accounts and Maps: Space in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
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J.B. Owens
Daniel P. Ames Kevin Marsh |
About
http://www.andersonsandes.com
I am pursuing a second Master’s in Idaho State University's program in Geographic Information Science under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Daniel P. Ames (project manager of open-source GIS software MapWindow), and acquiring a solid background in remote sensing, web programming and GIS programming. One of my papers, “Defining a GIS from the perspective of users” has been accepted for the FOSS4G 2011 conference in Denver, Colorado, United States.
I have completed my first Master’s in Idaho State University’s innovative, Historical Resources Management program, which is based on the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for research and teaching in historical studies. Information about the program can be obtained at the URL:
http://www.isu.edu/departments/history/gradprogram.shtml
My first master's thesis is a GIS-based examination of how space shaped the account of British traveler Henry Koster, "Travels in Brazil." Henry Koster traveled through Brazil from 1809 to 1815 and recorded both the social and physical landscape about which he wrote. "Travels in Brazil" was published upon his return in 1816, and has been the object of study by historians ever since. Koster's account of Brazil is one of the most valuable documents of that era, and is virtually unique in its detailed observations of people and societies in pre-independence Brazil.
I work as a graduate research assistant in the Geographically-Integrated History Laboratory at Idaho State University (USA), which is directed by Prof. Dr. J. B. Owens. Prof. Owens is the lead Principal Investigator (PI) for a collaborative research project entitled “Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS” [acronym: SOCNET], which is administered by U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI). In support of the project for four years, NSF provides $1,761,897, of which Idaho State University’s portion is $1,290,704 (OCI-0941371) and that of the University of Oklahoma is $471,193 (May Yuan, PI; OCI-0941501). The award is part of NSF’s Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) program.
Prof. Owens’ “Dynamic Complexity of Self-Organizing Cooperation-Based Commercial Networks in the First Global Age” [acronym: DynCoopNet], in which I am also a member, is funded by the NSF, Award Number SES-0740345 ($394,000; 2007-2010). An attractive, heavily illustrated booklet (aka Brochure), which includes Professor Owens’ article on the DynCoopNet Project, is available for a free download from the “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading” web site: http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/programmes/tect.html
Among my activities as a graduate research assistant is writing a GIS manual for historians and historical social scientists with my supervisor, Prof. Dr. Barbara Stephenson, and my colleague, graduate student David Dixon.
My background is in GIS, cartography, remote sensing, environmental studies, web programming, GIS programming (in progress), history, Portuguese (morphology, semantics, syntax, lexicology) and literature.
I have a Bachelor degree in Letters and extensive training and experience in the teaching of English as a foreign language.
As a scholar of space, my goals are to (1) demonstrate to individuals how GIS can help them understand the impact of space in the shaping of their lives, (2) promote the use of GIS in historical research, and (3) highlight the contributions from historians and historical social scientists to GIS. For a more detailed explanation of how historians can contribute to GIS, please see Prof. Owens' article "What historians want from GIS." The article can be viewed from Prof. Owens' page:
http://idahostate.academia.edu/JBJackOwens/Papers/88812/What_Historian
I will continue conducting research on how space shapes important historical, societal and human events, regardless of whether I remain in academia as a Ph.D student or if I gain employment in a corporation or organization.
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