Rate My Professor Mark Kumler

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.