CV
My full CV can be found here. (updated 12/2023)
A complete list of publications, including downloadable versions, is available through my Research Gate and Google Scholar profiles.
Anthony C. Robinson, PhD
318 Walker Building
Department of Geography
University Park, PA 16802
Education
East Carolina University
B.S. Applied Geography, 2002
The Pennsylvania State University
M.S. Geography, 2005
The Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D Geography, 2008
Positions Held
2019 – Present
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University
2015 – 2019
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University
2014 – Present
Director, Online Geospatial Education Programs, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University
2010 – Present
Assistant Director, GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University
2010 – 2014
Lead Faculty for Online Geospatial Education, John A. Dutton e-Education Institute
2008 – 2015
Research Associate, GeoVISTA Center
Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University
2003 – 2008
Research Assistant, GeoVISTA Center
Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University
Selected Publications
A complete list of publications, including downloadable versions, is available through my Research Gate and Google Scholar profiles.
Robinson, A.C. (2019). Representing the Presence of Absence in Cartography. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 109(1): 286-300.
Robinson, A.C. (2019). Elements of Viral Cartography. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 46(4): 293-310.
Robinson, A.C., Quinn, S. (2018). A Brute Force Method for Multivariate Analysis with Spatial Facet Combinations. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 69: 28-38.
Pezanowski, S., MacEachren, A.M., Savelyev, A., Robinson, A.C. (2017) SensePlace3: A Geovisual Framework to Analyze Place-Time-Attribute Information in Social Media. Cartography and Geographic Information Science.
Griffin, A.L., Robinson, A.C., Roth, R.E. (2017). Envisioning the Future of Cartographic Research. International Journal of Cartography. 3(sup 1): 1-8.
Robinson, A.C., Demsar, U., Moore, A.B., Buckley, A., Jiang, B., Field, K., Kraak, M-J., Camboim, S., Sluter, C.R. (2017) Big Data and Cartography: Research Challenges and Opportunities for Making Maps that Matter. International Journal of Cartography. 3(sup 1): 32-60.
Coltekin, A., Brychtova, A., Griffin, A.L., Robinson, A.C., Imhof, M., Pettit, C. (2017) Perceptual complexity of soil-landscape maps: A user evaluation of color organization in legend designs with eye tracking. International Journal of Digital Earth. 10(6): 560-581.
Robinson A.C., Peuquet, D.J., Pezanowski, S., Hardisty, F.A., and Swedberg, B.* (2017) Design and Evaluation of a Geovisual Analytics System for Uncovering Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Event Data. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 44(3): 216-228.
Robinson, A.C., Long, E., Kerski, J., DiBiase, D., Lee, A., and Luo, H. (2015) Maps and the Geospatial Revolution: Teaching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 39 (1): 65-82.
Griffin, A.L., Robinson, A.C. (2015) Comparing Color and Leader Line Highlighting Strategies in Coordinated View Geovisualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 21 (3): 339-349.
Robinson, A.C. (2014) Exploring Class Discussions from a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Cartography. CartoCon 2014. Olomouc, Czech Republic, February 25-28.
Luo, H., Robinson, A.C., Detwiler, J. (2014) The Effect of Geographic Distance on Distance Education: An Empirical Study. Journal of Educators Online. 11 (3).
Robinson, A.C., Pezanowski, S., Troedson, S., Bianchetti, R.A., Blanford, J., Stevens, J.,Guidero, E., Roth, R.E., and A.M. MacEachren (2013) SymbolStore.org: A Web-based Platform for Sharing Map Symbols. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 40(5) 415-426.
Robinson, A.C., Savelyev, A., Pezanowski, S., and A.M. MacEachren (2013) Understanding the Utility of Geospatial Information in Social Media. 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). Baden-Baden, Germany, May 12th -15th.
McClendon, S., and Robinson, A.C.(2013) Leveraging Geospatially-Oriented Social Media Communications in Disaster Response. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. 5(1).
Robinson, A.C., Roth, R.E, Blanford, J., Pezanowski, S., and A.M. MacEachren (2012) Developing Map Symbol Standards through an Iterative Collaboration Process. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. 39(6):1034-1048.
Robinson, A.C. (2011) Highlighting in Geovisualization. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 38(4): 374-384.
Robinson, A.C., Roth, R.E., and A.M. MacEachren (2011) Understanding User Needs for Map Symbol Standards in Emergency Management. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 8(1): Article 33.
Robinson, A.C., Roth, R. E., and A.M. MacEachren. (2011) Designing Web-Delivered Learning Materials for Geographic Visualization in Public Health. Health Informatics Journal. 17(3): 191-208.
Robinson, A.C. (2011) Supporting Synthesis in Geovisualization. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 25(2): 211-227.
MacEachren, A.M., Jaiswal, A., Robinson, A.C., Pezanowski, S., Savelyev, A., Mitra, P., Zhang, X., and Blanford, J. (2011) SensePlace2: GeoTwitter Analytics Support for Situational Awareness. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology.
Pelman, K.S., and Robinson, A.C. (2011) An Interactive Mapping Application for Rapid Evacuation Planning. 8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). Lisbon, Portugal, May 8th-11th.
Hardisty, F., and Robinson, A.C. (2010) The GeoViz Toolkit: Using Component-Oriented Coordination Methods to Aid Geovisualization Application Construction. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 25(2): 191-210.
Robinson, A.C. (2009) Visual Highlighting Methods for Geovisualization. 24th International Cartographic Conference. Santiago, Chile, November 15th – 21st.
Robinson, A.C. (2009) Needs Assessment for the Design of Information Synthesis Visual Analytics Tools. IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization. Barcelona, Spain, July 15th – 17th.
Robinson, A.C. (2008) Collaborative synthesis of visual analytic results. IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology Conference. Columbus, OH, October 19th-24th.
Bhowmick, T., Robinson, A.C., Gruver, A., E. Lengerich, and A.M. MacEachren. (2008) Distributed evaluation of the Pennsylvania cancer atlas. International Journal of Health Geographics. 7(36).
Robinson, A.C. (2007) A Design Framework for Exploratory Geovisualization in Epidemiology. Information Visualization. 6(3): 197-214.
Weaver, C., Fyfe, D., Robinson, A.C., Holdsworth, D., Peuquet, D., and A.M. MacEachren (2007) Visual analysis of historic hotel visits. Information Visualization 6(1): 89-103.
Tomaszewski, B., Robinson, A.C., Stryker, M., and A.M. MacEachren. (2007) Geovisual analytics and crisis management. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2007). Delft, Netherlands, May 13 – 16.
Weaver, C., Fyfe, D., Robinson, A.C., Holdsworth, D., Peuquet, D., and A.M. MacEachren. (2006) Visual analysis of historic hotel visitation patterns. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2006. Baltimore, MD, October 31 – November 2.
MacEachren, A. M., Robinson, A. C., Hopper, S., Gardner, S., Murray, R., and M. Gahegan. (2005) Visualizing geospatial uncertainty: What we know and what we need to know. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 32: 139-60.
Robinson, A. C., J. Chen, G. Lengerich, H. Meyer, and A. M. MacEachren. (2005) Combining usability techniques to design geovisualization tools for epidemiology. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 32: 243-255.
