Rate My Professor Mark Kumler

Mark Kumler is Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Geographic Information Science at the University of Redlands, a position he has held since 2004. He earned a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an M.A. in Geography from Michigan State University, and a B.A. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. Earlier in his career, Kumler served as Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Geography at California State University, San Bernardino from 1997 to 2004, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1992 to 1997, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College in 1992, research scientist at the Geospatial Research Centre New Zealand, and held sabbatical appointments at the University of Auckland and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

His research interests include map projections, spatial coordinate systems, digital terrain representations, and GIS applications. Kumler teaches undergraduate courses on foundations of spatial thinking, fundamentals of GIS, and Mapping World Soccer, as well as graduate courses on communicating geographic information, GIS project management, map projections, and coordinate systems. He has designed and directed three GIS laboratories and supervised more than 150 students in the university's master of GIS and master of science in GIS programs. He has received over $8 million in external grants and contracts, including two from the National Science Foundation. Select publications are McKenzie, Z., M. Kumler, R. Ma, K. Williams, and W. Hayes (2023) “Eyes from the Sky: Application of Satellite-Based Indices to Assess Vegetation Casualty on Grand Bahama Island One Year Post–Hurricane Dorian” Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 32: 101044; Kumler, Mark P., Joseph Stoddard, and Melodi C. King (2017) “Gerrymandering in Redlands, California: The Fairest Districting Depends on Your Point of Hue” Our House: Articles, Poems, Posters, Presentations, and Short Stories; Bernardini, W., A. Barnash, M. Kumler, and M. Wong (2013) “Quantifying Visual Prominence in Social Landscapes” Journal of Archaeological Science 40(11): 3946–3954; Kumler, Mark P. (1994) “An Intensive Comparison of Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs) and Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)” Cartographica 31(2): 1–99; and Kumler, Mark P., and Waldo R. Tobler (1991) “Three World Maps on a Möbius Strip” Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 18(4): 275–276.