RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

President, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, 1998/2000

President-Elect, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, 1997/98

Faculty Research Associate, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, 1996 -- present.

Co-Director, West Virginia GIS Technical Center, 1995 - present

Professor of Geography, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, August 1994 - present.

EDUCATION

M.Sc. in Geographical Information Systems, November 1987, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Department of Geography. Dissertation: "Design and Implementation of Quadtree Encoding on a Relational Database."

Ph.D., May 1979, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography. Dissertation: "Coal Transportation in Pennsylvania: A Maximum Likelihood Approach."

M.S., November 1974, Pennsylvania State University Department of Geography. Thesis: "Urban Accessibility: Relative Location in Minneapolis-St. Paul Area."

B.Sc., June 1972, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, First Class Honors, Geography.

SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Casper M., Barnett, E., Halverson, J.A., Elmes G. A., Braham, V.E. and others (1999) Heart Disease in Women: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Mortality, in cooperation with the CDC, Office for Social and Environmental Health Research, WVU, Morgantown, ISBN 0-9665085-0-6, 225 pages. (Reviewed and cleared for publication by CDC and NCHS).

Barnett, E., Elmes G. A., Braham, V.E. and Halverson, J.A. (1998) Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Trends Among Whites and Blacks - Appalachia and United States, 1980 -1993, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), November 27, 1998, Vol 47, No. 46, pp. 1005 et seq., US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US GPO, Region IV.

Elizabeth Barnett Joel Halverson, Valerie Braham, Gregory Elmes, and Jong Yoel Lee (1998) Heart Disease in Appalachia, Disease Prevention Research Center, Health Sciences Center, WVU, Morgantown. ISBN 0-9665085-0-5, 94 pages. (Reviewed and cleared for publication by CDC).

Elmes G. A. (1996) The Changing Geography of Electric Energy in the United States: Retrospect and Prospect , Geography, October 1996. 81(4), pp. 347-360. Editorially invited paper.

Elmes G. A. and Harris T. M. (1996) Industrial Restructuring and the Changing Geography of the United States Coal-Energy System, 1972-1990, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 86(3), 507-529.

Harris T.M. and Elmes G.A. (1996) "Application of GIS to Industrial Archaeology" Chapter 12 in Payton W. and Kemp E. (eds.) Industrial Archaeology Techniques, Krieger Publishing, Malabar, FL

Elmes G. A., Cai, G. and Twery M.J. (1994) Estimating Spatial Data Error by Inference on a Causal Network. In Advances in GIS Research, Waugh T. C. and Healey R.G. (eds), Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia

Martis, K.M., and Elmes G.A. (1993) The Historical Atlas of State Power in Congress, 1790-1990, Congressional Quarterly Books, Washington DC, 190 pp., ISBN 0-87187-742-2

Harris T.M. and Elmes G.A. (1993) "GIS Applications in Urban and Regional Planning: The North American Experience", Applied Geography, 13, 9-27.

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Co-Investigator with Elizabeth Barnett, "Spatial Analyses of Cardiovascular Disease: A GIS Approach." CDC funding through the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (ATPM) $91,490, (9/30/1997 - 9/29/98). Project extended through 9/29/1999, with additional $195,000; ($28,809 for Dr. Elmes)

Co-Investigator (Elizabeth Barnett, P. I.; Luc Anselin, Co-Investigators) Stroke in the Elderly: Small Area Analyses to Support Prevention Efforts Among Medicare Beneficiaries," West Virginia Medical Institute on behalf of Health Care Financing Administration, (HCFA - Medicare/ Medicaid Funds A & B), $ 353,822, (11/1/96 - 1/31/98).

Co-Principal Investigator with Trevor Harris, and Joseph Sewash, "Developing Dynamic Multimedia-based Educational Outreach Software for Presentation of NSDI Concepts," US Gelogical Survey, $40,000, (9/15/98 - 9/30/99).

Co-Pricipal Investigator with Trevor Harris, Chetan Desai and Joseph Sewash, "Implementing the Foundation of an Operational Framework for West Virginia," US Geological Survey, $100,000, (9/1/98 - 8/31/99)

Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. T Harris, WVU- USGS Innovative Partnership, USGS, 5/5/97 - 7/31/2000, $248,400 + $148,250. Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. T Harris, National and Regional Level Area Integrator Concepts Using Multi-Scale, Feature-Based Digital Transportation Data in WV, USGS, $65,000, 9/29/97- 7/31/2000

Co-principal Investigator with T. M. Harris, "Mineral Mapping Information System: Digital Data Conversion," State of West Virginia through WVGES, renewable for 5 years, $124,730 (3/1/95 - 6/30/97); $375,270 (7/1/96-6/30/97), $402,500 (7/1/97 - 6/30/98),. $325,000 (7/1/98 - 6/30/99), $325,000 (7/1/99 - 6/30/2000)

Co-principal Investigator, with T. M. Harris, "West Virginia GIS Technical Support Center," Through WV Geological and Economic Survey for State of WV, $50 - 95,000 per year (varies), 1995 - 2000

Co-principal Investigator, with T. M. Harris, "Digital Conversion of Tax Parcel Maps for Monongalia County, West Virginia" WV Geological and Economic Survey, $ 20,000, (10/1/96 - 6/30/97).

Co-Principal investigator with T. M. Harris, and J. Sewash, "Establish and NSDI Clearinghouse Node for West Virginia and Advancing Metadata Standards though Education", US DOI/ USGS, $ 34,917, (9/20/96 - 12/31/97)

An Atlas of Community Resources and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Racial / Ethnic Minorities Appalachia, WVU Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, $25,000, "Project Geographer", P.I. Dr. Beth Barnett, Ken Simon, Program Director, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, Steven Wing, Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill.

LANGUAGES

English French - read

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Spent one year in Edinborough, Scotland (1986-87)

Gave conference presentations in Italy, Austria and France

Sabbatical to be spent in South Africa in 2000

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