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Professional Preparation
M.S. - Statistics The Pennsylvania State University - 1985
Ph.D. - Geography University of Toronto - 1978
M.A. - Geography Indiana University of Pennsylvania - 1972
B.S. - Mathematics Indiana University of Pennsylvania - 1970
Geographic sampling of urban soils for contaminant mapping: how many samples and from where, Environmental Geochemistry and Health, forthcoming 2008 - Publication
(with M. Fischer) Modelling spatial autocorrelation in spatial interaction data: An application to patent data in the European Union, J. of Regional Science, forthcoming. 2008 - Publication
(with B. Berry and M. Tiefelsdord) From spatial analysis to geospatial science, Geographical Analysis, forthcoming. 2008 - Publication
Spatial filtering-based contributions to a critique of geographically weighted regression (GWR), Environment & Planning A, forthcoming. 2008 - Publication
(with M. Millones, M. Vincent, D. Johnson, and A. Hunt) Impacts of positional error on spatial regression analysis: A case study of address locations in Syracuse, NY, Transactions in GIS, 11: 655-679. 2007 - Publication
(with W. Thayer and G. Diamond) Geography of asbestos contamination near the World Trade Center site, Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment, 21: 461-471. 2007 - Publication
(with M. Tiefelsdorf) Semi-parametric filtering of spatial autocorrelation: the eigenvector approach, Environment & Planning A, 39: 1193-1221. 2007 - Publication
Spatial structure and spatial interaction: 25 years later, The Review of Regional Studies, 37, #1: 28-38. 2007 - Publication
Appointments
Summer school visiting lecturer Department of Mathematics and Statistics [2006–2006]
Professor The University of Texas at Dallas [2005–Present]
Leverhulme visiting professor The University of Cambridge [2004–2004]
Professor University of Miami [2003–2005]
Consultant Ministerio de Educacin del Per [2000–2001]
Consultant Syracuse Research Corporation [1998–2003]
1-month visiting professor University of Rome "La Sapienza" [1995–1995]
Chair Syracuse University [1995–1997]
Director Syracuse University [1993–1995]
Visiting Professor Erasmus University, Rotterdam [1992–1992]
Projects
Free U. of Amsterdam, Exploratory spatial data analysis
1992–1992Department of Regional Economics, (European Urban and Regional Spatial Analysis Network funded workshop)
Institut de Mathematiques Economiques
1992–199226th Annual Colloquium, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Groupe de Contact F.N.R.S. en Geographie Theoretique et Quantitative
1992–1992Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve
Remote sensing and GIS research cluster
1992–1992Department of Geography, U. of Sheffield, (NATO Scientific Affairs funded workshop)
Capital District ArcInfo User's Group
1992–1992New York State Museum, Albany
Additional Information
AWARDS, HONORS, AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS
Awards
2010 AAG Distinguish Research Honors recipient
2009 elected fellow of the Regional Science Association International (featured in Richardson Neighborsgo, 12/4/2009)
2006 Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from Indiana U. of Pennsylvania
2005 Fulbright Senior Specialist (with invitation to the U. of Alberta, CA)
2005 visiting researcher, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Rostock (Germany)
2005 (1st) Center for Ecosystems Science and Policy (CESP) fellow, U. of Miami
2004 Leverhulme Trust (UK) visiting professorship to the U. of Cambridge
2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship (http://www.gf.org/01fellow.html)
1999 distinguished geographer of the year, Pennsylvania Geographical Society
1998/9 ASA/USDA-NASS Research Fellow
1997 "Second Prize, Best Software 1996" for , from Microcomputer Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
1994 "First Prize, Best Software 1993" for , from Microcomputer Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
1992/93 Fulbright Research Fellow to Canada
1980 J. Warren Nystrom doctoral dissertation award, Assn. of American Geographers
1972-76 U. of Toronto Open Fellowship
1971/summer Foreign Area Research Grant through Indiana U. of Pennsylvania
1967-70 PHEAA Scholarship
1966-70 Hempfield Council PTA Scholarship
Honors & Recognitions
2007 elected founding fellow of the Spatial Econometrics Association
2007 listed in 61st edition of Marquis Who's Who in America (1st listed in 1994)
2007 listed in 25th Silver Anniversary edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World (1st listed in 2002)
2004 elected a visiting fellow, Fitzwilliam College, U. of Cambridge
2000 elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences
1996/97 president, North American Regional Science Council
1996 inducted into Sigma Xi (Syracuse Chapter)
1995 (1st) Department of Geography outstanding alumnus, U. of Toronto
1994 elected to the New York Academy of Sciences
1994 listed in 4th edition of American Men and Women of Science
1993/94 listed an "International Man of the Year" in the International Biographical Centre's 16th edition of Men of Achievement
1993, 1998 listed in 23rd & 27th Dictionary of International Biography
1993 listed in 4th edition of Who's Who in American Education.
1992 listed in 24th edition of Who's Who in the East.
1991 special guest of the Institute of British Geographers, by request of the Quantitative Methods Study Group, for the annual meeting.
1982 outstanding alumnus of Indiana U. of Pennsylvania
1972 inducted into Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society in Education.
1969/70 elected to Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.
1969 inducted into Gamma Theta Upsilon International Honorary Geography Society.
Professional Recognitions
2007-10 editorial board (Associate Editor), Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences
2004-present editorial board, Journal of Geographical Systems
2000-present Article Review Board member, URISA J.
2007 invited participant, "Science without boundaries," Institute Para Limes, The Netherlands
2006 invited panelist, Association of American Geographers special session entitled "Status and trends in spatial statistics in geography," in honor of Honorary Geographer J. Keith Ord
2006 review panelist, Small Business Innovation Research, National Science Foundation
2005 (with M. Fischer) Regional Science Association dissertation competition judging
2005 review panelist, special joint Divisions of Mathematical and Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences competition, National Science Foundation
2001 invited nominator, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program
2000-2002 review panelist, "Methods, Measurement & Statistics," National Science Foundation
2000-2002 Scientific Advisory Board member, 5th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in a Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
2000 review panelist, "NSF/EPA Environmental Statistics," National Science Foundation
1998 review panelist, GEOID Networks of Centers of Excellence proposal, NSERC (Canada)
1998 invited workshop participant, "Status and trends in spatial analysis (the Varenius project)" of the National Science Foundation National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Santa Barbara, California.
1997 invited lecturer, "Spatial Genomics Workshop" convened by the NSF National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Castine, Maine.
1996-97 Scientific Advisory Board member, 3rd International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
1991 human geography citation centurion [Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 1116: 26-27
1991 review panelist, "Geosciences, Geography and Mathematical Sciences," National Science Foundation, May.
1991 invited lecturer, "Initiative #7 experts meeting" of the National Science Foundation National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Castine, Maine.
July 1989 1988 National Science Foundation project selected for inclusion in an NSF funded 2-weeks National Center for Supercomputing Applications Education Workshop, U. of Illinois/ Champaign-Urbana.
1988 invited lecturer, "Initiative #1 experts meeting" of the National Science Foundation National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, UCSB.
1985, 1987 recipient, Experienced Faculty Travel Award, New York State/UUP
1985-87 editorial board member, Annals, Association of American Geographers.
1983-86 member, NATO Scientific Affairs Division Advisory Board.
Societal Research Recognitions
Flight #93 memorial design assessment quoted in The Tribune-Review, Thursday, July 20, 2006; Flight 93 memorial design critique for the National Parks Service, 2007 (with citations in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Johnstown Tribune-Democrat)
Syracuse pediatric lead poisoning project featured in The Post-Standard, Monday, December 2, 2002, front page & p. 4.
quoted in The Post Standard about counting crowds (Friday, November 23, 2001, pp. C1, C3)
Syracuse pediatric lead poisoning project included in Congressional briefing on GIS, January
Syracuse pediatric lead poisoning project maps included in the 1997-1998 Consolidated Plan for the City of Syracuse submitted to HUD, June
Syracuse pediatric lead poisoning project poster invited for displayed during the "Reuniting the Family Conference," Nottingham High School, November
Syracuse, NY, pediatric blood lead study featured in the Syracuse Record, the SU Alumni News, and the Syracuse Herald-J. (August 30, 1996), Syracuse University Magazine (Vol. 13, #1, Fall 1996, pp. 38-39)
Computer Software Design
Spatial autocorrelation simulation game; review in The Professional Geographer, 39 (1987), 234-235; described in the AAG Microcomputer Specialty Group newsletter, February, 1989.
Simulating central place structures; review in The Professional Geographer, 42 (1990), 246-247 & Mathematical Review; described in the AAG Microcomputer Specialty Group newsletter, October, 1990.
"Spatial regression analysis on the PC: spatial statistics using MINITAB," Discussion Paper #1, Institute of Mathematical Geography, 1989; review in The Professional Geographer, 42 (1990), 499-500; described in the AAG Microcomputer Specialty Group newsletter, February, 1991.
Spatial regression analysis on the PC: spatial statistics using SAS, described in the AAG Microcomputer Specialty Group newsletter, February, 1992.
EXPLORHO Version 2.0.
Book and Computer Software Reviews
Technometrics
1988 Statistical Techniques in Geographical Analysis, 30: 348-349.
Geographical Analysis
1993 Statistics for Spatial Data, 25: 271-275.
1986 Spatial Data Analysis by Example, 18: 372-373.
Annals, Association of American Geographers
1979 Specification and Estimation Problems in Models of Spatial Dependence, 69: 497-498.
2004 The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism, 94: 998-1001.
J. of Regional Science
1993 Spatial Tessellations, 33: 564-567.
Environment and Planning
1997 Interactive Spatial Data Analysis, 29A: 747-752 (review essay)
1993 Applications of the Expansion Method, 20B: 370-371.
1983 European Progress in Spatial Analysis, 15A: 135-136.
International J. of Geographical Information Sciences
2004 Spatial Statistics Through Applications, 18: 207-208.
Economic Geography
1989 Spatial Econometrics, 65: 160-162.
1988 Geographical Systems and Systems of Geography, 64: 396-400.
Dr. Daniel Griffith, professor of geospatial analysis at UT Dallas’ School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, has been selected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to aid a review of the health effects of atrazine, a herbicide used extensively in farming. Griffith, an Ashbel Smith Professor, is one of 19 scientists asked to serve on the Food Quality Protection Act Science Review Board. The board assists in reviews conducted by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP). “I was surprised,” Griffith said of his selection. “I had done some work with the EPA in the early ’90s through its environmental monitoring and assessment program. … I think it’s a real honor, and it also gives me an opportunity to contribute to the country in a scientific way. I think it gives me something that I‘ll feel satisfied about because I’m making a useful contribution.”
The editorship of the top journal in spatial analysis and modeling, Geographical Analysis, is moving to UT Dallas. Beginning July 1, Dr. Daniel Griffith will serve a three-year term as the journal’s editor. Griffith is an Ashbel Smith Professor of Geospatial Information Sciences in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. He will be the first editor in 18 years who is not based at Ohio State University. Griffith was chosen because of his reputation in the area of geospatial analysis, and his appointment is a reflection of the growing strength of UT Dallas’ Geospatial Information Sciences program. UT Dallas GIS Professor Michael Tiefelsdorf will be one of the 32 international scholars on the journal’s editorial board. New clinical assistant GIS professor Yongwan Chun will be Griffith’s editorial assistant.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Dr. Daniel Griffith, a UT Dallas professor of geospatial information sciences, as a Fellow. Dr. Daniel Griffith is being honored in part for his contribution to spatial statistics and quantitative geography. Griffith is being honored for his contributions to spatial statistics and quantitative geography, particularly for his work on spatial autocorrelation, spatial filtering and statistical errors, according to the organization. He was named a Fellow in the geology and geography section. Griffith, an Ashbel Smith Professor in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS), said he was pleasantly surprised. This award is across all the sciences, he said. I think its something that is really pleasing because its not subject specific. Its really nice to be recognized outside your discipline as well as within in it. The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization devoted to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. The group also publishes the journal Science.
The geospatial information sciences(GIS) program in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS) has been named a Center for Academic Excellence as part of a new federal initiative to prepare future workers for fields such as homeland and global security and disaster management. UT Dallas is the only institution in Texas and one of only 17 centers nationwide to be named as a center of excellence by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and U.S. Geologic Survey.
The geospatial information sciences(GIS) program in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS) has been named a Center for Academic Excellence as part of a new federal initiative to prepare future workers for fields such as homeland and global security and disaster management. UT Dallas is the only institution in Texas and one of only 17 centers nationwide to be named as a center of excellence by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and U.S. Geologic Survey.
Affiliations
M. A./Ph. D. Committee member
Barry Glick (Ph. D.)
Chi Sham (Ph. D.)
Peter Rogerson (Ph. D.)
Carl Amrhein (Ph. D.)
Gustav Lundberg (Ph. D.)
Jose Armando Guevara (Ph. D.)
Michael O'Neill (Ph. D.)
Robert Andrle (Ph. D.)
David Wong (Ph. D.)
Susanna McKnight (Ph. D.)
Nestor Vega (M. A.)
Chi-Jien Lin (Ph. D.)
Robine Lewis (Ph. D.)
Bin Li (Ph. D.)
Irena Vasiliev (Ph. D.)
Unryu Suganamu (Ph. D.)
Karen Dhanda (Ph. D.)
Alberto Giordano (Ph. D.)
Rick Annenberg (M. A.)
Thomas Whitfield (M. A.)
Michael Schramm (M. A.)
Brenden McNeil (Ph. D.)
Elvin Delgado (Ph. D.)
Benjamin Jacob, Ph.D., Epidemiology and Public Health
Monqiue Hernandez (Ph. D.)
Adriana Troyo, Ph.D., Epidemiology and Public Health
Ted Beckstead (Ph.D.)
M.A./Ph. D. supervised
Joseph Schirippa (M. A.)
Richard Nicholson (M. A.)
Peter Fellows (M. A.)
Jonathan Hancock (M. A.)
Claire Saint-Rossy (M. A.)
Marco Millones (M. A.)
Matthew Vincent (M. A)
Janis Schubert (Ph.D.)
Melissa Rura (Ph.D.)
George Madrid (Ph.D.)
1994 Ph.D.: Akio Sone, Institute of Socio-Economic Planning, U. of Tsukuba (Japan)
1995 Ph.D.: M. Feng, Director (Oil and Gas Card Modeling), The Associates, Irving, TX
1998 Ph.D.: Zhiqiang Zhang, Arabesque Communications, Redwood Shores, CA 94065
M.S. in Applied Statistics
Jonathan Hancock
Zhiqiang Zhang
Ph. D. outsider reader/external examiner for
Mark Renee (School of Management, SUNY/Buffalo)
Raymond Florax (U. of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)
Sophonie Nshinyabakobeje (Forest Resources Management, SUNY/CES&F)
Mariano Duran (Forest Resources Management, SUNY/CES&F)
Harold D. Reynolds (Department of Geography, U. of Toronto)
Chijien Lin (Faculty of Social Sciences, U. of Joensuu, Finland)
Minfeng Deng (Dept. of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash U., Australia)
Roberto Patuelli (Dept. of Spatial Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Funding
An Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program in Citizenship Security
$2,910,741 - National Science Foundation [2008–2013]
Modeling spatio-temporal distribution of anopheles in rice ecosystems
$90,461 - National Institutes of Health [2008–2013]
Training workshop in spatial filter modeling for environmental, health and social scientists and applied statisticians
$66,794 - National Science Foundation [2007–2008]
Exploring the social dynamics of accessibility, travel behavior, and physical activity by income/race, age, and gender: An inner-city/suburb comparison in the Detroit region
$643,964 - National Science Foundation [2006–2009]
Vector-borne disease control in urban environments
$1,605,302 - Interdisciplinary Exploratory Centers, National Institutes of Health [2004–2007]