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Hi, I’m Anthony Robinson. I am Associate Professor of Geography and Director of Online Geospatial Education Programs at Penn State. I lead the Department of Geography’s Certificate and Master of Geographic Information Systems programs in the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute. I am also Director of the GeoGraphics Lab hosted within the Peter R. Gould Center for Geography Education and Outreach.

I serve as a board member for the Cartography and Geographic Information Science Society (CaGIS). I am a past-President of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), and I am also the Vice Chair of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Geovisualization.

My research focuses broadly on designing and evaluating geovisualization tools to improve geographic information utility and usability. I’ve done work in epidemiology, crisis management, higher education, and ecology domains. My research efforts have involved characterizing how users assemble and collect their analytical results, studying the use of visualization tools using eye-tracking, and exploring issues related to map symbol standardization in the context of emergency management. In recent work I have explored the geographic dimensions of learner engagement to identify leverage points for spatial analysis and representation in learner analytics, designed methods for representing the presence of absence in big spatial data, and analyzed the design elements of viral maps in social media.

I taught one of Penn State’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera – Maps and the Geospatial Revolution, which drew over 150,000 students from 200 countries.

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