Overview
The Geospatial Advisory Council (GAC) provides guidance on strategies, issues, and priorities related to University Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial hardware, software, and affiliated technologies. Academic/Instructional and Research geospatial assets include campus-wide software site licenses, Enterprise GIS systems, GIS teaching lab desktop hardware and software, virtualized computing resources (MoVE), GPS/GNSS and other field data collection hardware, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), and a wide array of specialized geospatial capabilities.
The GAC will hold formal meetings three times per year near the beginning of each academic semester. Council membership is open to all ODU full-time faculty and staff who have an interest in guiding the future direction of geospatial at ODU. Please contact gmcleod@odu.edu to join the group.
Membership
- George McLeod, Chair, Director, Center for Geospatial, Science, Education, and Analytics
- Thomas Allen, ICAR Program Head for Sea Level Rise and Climate Science and Professor, Political Science & Geography
- Joshua Behr, ICAR Program Head for Social Science and Policy of Coastal Resilience Research and Associate Professor, VMASC
- Yin-Hsuen Chen, Geospatial Data Scientist, Center for Geospatial, Science, Education, and Analytics
- Carol Considine, ICAR Program Head for Flooding and Built Environments and Associate Professor, Engineering Technology
- Chris Davis, GIS Analyst, Center for Geospatial, Science, Education, and Analytics
- Holly Gaff, Professor, Biological Sciences
- Georgeanne Hribar, Assistant Professor, Political Science & Geography
- Hua Liu, Associate Professor, Political Science & Geography
- Andrew Mounsey, Enterprise GIS Manager, Center for Geospatial, Science, Education, and Analytics
- Heather Richter, Research Associate Professor, Office of Research
- Blake Steiner, Geospatial Developer, Center for Geospatial, Science, Education, and Analytics
- Jennifer Whytlaw, Assistant Professor, Political Science & Geography
- Wie Yusuf, ICAR Assistant Director for Education and Associate Professor, Public Service
- Richard Zimmerman, Professor, Ocean & Earth Sciences