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Brian Tomaszewski

Brian Tomaszewski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Center for Multidisciplinary Studies

Email: bmtski (at) rit.edu
Phone: 585-475-2859
Skype: brian.tomaszewski
Office: Ross Building 10-1184
 Full CV (pdf)

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Research Interests

  • Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS&T)
  • Geovisual Analytics
  • Geographic Information Retrieval
  • Context Modeling and Representation
  • Geocollaboration
  • Crisis Management
  • Humanitarian Information Management

Teaching

  • Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Introduction to Geospatial Technologies
  • Geographic Visualization

Selected Recent Publications

  • Tomaszewski, B. (2009). Managing Multiple Point-based Data Instances on a Single Coordinate in Mapping Mashups. Proceedings of the 24th International Cartography Conference (ICC), Santiago, Chile.  pdf
  • Tomaszewski, B. (2009). A Geovisual Analytics Approach for Producing Geo-Historical Context. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Geography. Penn State University, University Park, PA.  pdf
  • Tomaszewski, B. and L. Czárán (2009). Geographically Visualizing Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) Information. Proceedings of the 6th International ISCRAM Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden: 6 pages.  pdf
  • Tomaszewski, B. (2008) Producing Geo-historical Context from Implicit Sources: A Geovisual Analytics Approach, The Cartographic Journal 45(3): 165-181.  pdf
  • Tomaszewski, B., C. Pan, P. Mitra and A. M. MacEachren (2007). Facilitating Situation Assessment through GIR with Multi-scale Open Source Web Documents in Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical Information Retrieval (GIR '07) Lisbon, Portugal, ACM: 95-96.  pdf
  • Tomaszewski, B., A. C. Robinson, C. Weaver, M. Stryker and A. M. MacEachren (2007). Geovisual Analytics and Crisis Management. Proceedings of the 4th International Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) Conference. Delft, the Netherlands: 173-179.  pdf
  • Tomaszewski, B. (2006) A Cost-Effective Approach to GPS/GIS Integration for Archaeological Surveying. ArcNews 28(3): 19-20.  html
  • Tomaszewski, B. (2006) Reconstructing Aztec Political Geographies. ArcUser 9(1): 24-26.  html

Research Outreach

  • Livonia Students Learn to Map Disasters with Geographic and Imaging Systems - Story on GIS outreach event for High School students
  • Humanitarian Vacancies Mapping Application - mapping mashup Brian Tomaszewski built for United Nations ReliefWeb group
  • 2009 - Emerging Applications and Challenges for Geovisual Analytics Research. Invited presentation given for RIT Research Computing Seminar Series, Rochester, NY  pdf
  • 2009 - Getting lost - a thing of the past? The social implications of ubiquitous geo-information technologies. Invited presentation given for Nazareth College Sociology and Anthropology speakers series, Rochester, NY  pdf
  • 2006 - Interactive Historical Geography: A Non-Linear Spatiotemporal Exploration Of Multi-Contextual Markings Through Geocaching. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Chicago, IL  pdf
  • 2006 - Sweet Home Chicago: The Geography of the Blues. Field trip developed for the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Chicago, IL  html

Education

  • Ph.D., Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2009
  • MA, Geography (concentration in GIS), University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 2005
  • BA, Anthropology and Mediterranean Archaeology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, 1994

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