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About the Center
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Nigel Waters
Nigel Waters obtained a First Class, Honours BA from Cambridge University in 1972 and his MA and PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 1973 and 1977, respectively. He joined the Geography Department at the University of Calgary in 1975 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1990. He was nominated twice for the Master and Superior Teaching Awards, and has conducted numerous studies in GIS, modelling, spatial analysis and transportation geography. He is a former President of the Western Canadian Association of Geographers, and an associate editor of GeoWorld where he is also a regular contributor of the Edge Nodes column. At the University of Calgary he was the Founding Director of the Masters in GIS Program and of the Transportation Theme School and Transportation Studies Major. Prior to leaving the University of Calgary (where he is now Professor Emeritus of Geography) he was participating in two GEOIDE research projects, leading a SSHRC Project and was working with the Nobel Peace Prize winning Carter Center in Atlanta as the Technical Director of the Mapping the Media in the Americas Project (www.mediamap.info). In June 2007 he was appointed Professor of Geography and Director of the Center of Excellence for Geographic Information Science at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.