Jeremy Mennis

Areas of Expertise:

Geographic information science and systems: spatio-temporal databases, spatial analysis, geographic data mining, social and environmental applications of geographic information systems (environmental justice, urban ecology)

Education:

2001 Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Geography
1997 M.S., Portland State University, Geography
1992 B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz, Environmental Geology

Courses:

Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems
Applications in GIS
Urban Environment

Research:

I am a geographic information scientist with broad research interests in how spatial information is represented and analyzed. My theoretical research focuses on developing designs and analytical methods for spatial and spatio-temporal databases. I am particularly interested in methods to facilitate the discovery of knowledge from the vast stores of data that are now becoming available from sources such as the U.S. Census, environmental monitoring networks, and satellite remote sensing.

My applied research addresses how geographic technologies can improve the understanding of human-environment relationships. Current collaborative research integrates diverse data sources to reveal associations among processes of urban sprawl, socioeconomic change, and ecological function in urban areas. Another applied topic of interest is environmental justice—how race, class, land use, and other factors are related to environmental risk.

Selected Pubications:

Mennis, J., 2006. Mapping the results of geographically weighted regression. The Cartographic Journal , 43(2): 171-179.

Mennis, J. 2006. Socioeconomic-vegetation relationships in urban, residential land: the case of Denver , Colorado . Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 72(8): 911-921.

Mennis, J. and Hultgren, T., 2006. Intelligent dasymetric mapping and its application to areal interpolation. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 33(3): 179-194.

Mennis, J., Viger, R., and Tomlin, C.D., 2005. Cubic map algebra functions for spatio-temporal analysis. Cartography and Geographic Information Science , 32(1): 17-32.

Mennis, J., 2005. Socioeconomic inequity in hazardous facility location and enforcement in New Jersey . The Professional Geographer , 57(3): 411-422.

Mennis, J. and Jordan, L., 2005. The distribution of environmental equity: exploring spatial nonstationarity in multivariate models of air toxic releases. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95, 249-268.

Mennis, J. and Liu, J.W., 2005. Mining association rules in spatio-temporal data: an analysis of urban socioeconomic and land cover change. Transactions in GIS 9, 13-18.

Mennis, J. and Peuquet, D.J., 2003. The role of knowledge representation in geographic knowledge discovery: a case study. Transactions in GIS, 7(3): 371-391.

Mennis, J., 2002. Using geographic information systems to create and analyze statistical surfaces of population and risk for environmental justice analysis. Social Science Quarterly, 83(1): 281-297.

Mennis, J., 2001. Exploring relationships between ENSO and vegetation vigour in the south-east USA using AVHRR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22(16): 3077-3092.

Mennis, J.L., Peuquet, D.J., and Qian, L., 2000. A conceptual framework for incorporating cognitive principles into geographical database representation. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 14(6): 501-520.