Jeremy MennisAssociate Professor
Office: 328 Gladfelter Hall
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Interests:
Geographic information systems (GIS) and science; Semantic representation in GIS; Spatio-temporal databases; Spatial data mining; Spatial analysis; Map algebra; Dasymetric mapping; Areal interpolation; Neighborhood and contextual effects modeling; GIS applications to environmental justice; GIS applications to crime and delinquency, GIS applications to substance use; GIS and health.
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Education:
2001 Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Geography |
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Courses:
GUS 0821: Digital Mapping GUS 3062/4062: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems GUS 5159: Geographic Inquiry |
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Research:
I am a geographer specializing in geographic information science, with research interests in the computational representation and analysis of geographic information. My research has spanned a number of topical areas, including spatio-temporal data modeling and analysis, environmental justice, and dasymetric mapping. Recently, I have become involved in several projects funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) revolving around modeling contextual geographic and social network effects on human behavior, particularly relating to substance use and crime. Of interest are the ways in which social and peer influences on behavior are embedded within place, and how such contextual influences may interact with characteristics of the individual to produce particular behavioral outcomes, such as criminal recidivism and drug addiction. I believe that this line of research into the interaction between individual, social, and environmental factors in producing behavioral outcomes represents a key contribution that geographic information scientists can make to some of the world’s most pressing societal problems related to health and well-being. Notably, this type of research demands new and innovative geographic methodologies integrating quantitative and qualitative spatial data derived from sensors, surveys, and interviews with more traditional spatial data sources, such as the U.S. Census and satellite imagery. Interdisciplinary approaches are also a key component of such research, and I have benefited substantially from collaboration with colleagues in psychology, psychiatry, criminal justice, computer science, and statistics on these projects.
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Service Activities:
I currently serve as Secretary and on the Board of Directors for GISCI (GIS Certification Institute) and on the editorial boards of the following peer-reviewed journals: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Geography Compass, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) Journal, and Journal of Spatial Information Science. I formerly served on the Board of Directors for the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), as Chair of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Geographic Information Systems and Science Specialty Group (GISS-SG), and as Academic Councilor of the AAG Cartography Specialty Group (CSG). |
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Selected Publications by Topic:
GIS Representation and Algorithms
Mennis, J., Mason, M.J., and Cao, Y., 2013. Qualitative GIS and the visualization of narrative activity space data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27(2): 267-291.
Mennis, J., 2010. Multidimensional map algebra: design and implementation of a spatio-temporal GIS processing language. Transactions in GIS, 14(1): 1-21.
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.
Environmental Justice
Raddatz, L. and Mennis, J., 2013. Environmental justice in Hamburg, Germany. The Professional Geographer, 65(3): 495-511.
Mennis, J.L. 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(2): 249-268.
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.
Dasymetric Mapping
Mennis, J., 2009. Dasymetric mapping for small area population estimation. Geography Compass, 3(2): 727-745.
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., 2003. Generating surface models of population using dasymetric mapping. The Professional Geographer, 55(1): 31-42.
Crime and Delinquency
Stahler, G., Mennis, J., Belenko, S., Welsh, W., Hiller, M., and Zajac, G., 2013. Predicting recidivism for released state prison offenders: Examining the influence of individual and neighborhood characteristics and spatial contagion on the likelihood of reincarceration. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 40(6): 690-711.
Wolfe, M. and Mennis, J., 2012. Does vegetation encourage or suppress urban crime? Evidence from Philadelphia, PA. Landscape and Urban Planning, 108: 112-122.
Mennis, J. and Harris, P., 2011. Contagion and repeat offending among urban juvenile delinquents. Journal of Adolescence, 34: 951-963.
Mennis, J., Harris, P., Obradovic, Z., Izenman, A., Grunwald, H., and Lockwood, B., 2011. The effect of neighborhood characteristics and spatial spillover on urban juvenile delinquency and recidivism. The Professional Geographer, 63(2): 174-192.
Substance Use
Stahler, G.J., Mennis, J., and Baron, D., in press. Geospatial technology and the exposome: New perspectives on addiction. American Journal of Public Health.
Mason, M.J., Mennis, J., and Linker, J., Bares, C., and Zaharikas, N., in press. Peer attitudes effects on adolescent substance use: The moderating role of race and gender. Prevention Science.
Mennis, J., Stahler, G.J., and Baron, D.A., 2012. Geographic barriers to community-based psychiatric treatment for drug dependent patients. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(5): 1093-1103.
Mennis, J., and Mason, M.J., 2012. Social and geographic contexts of adolescent substance use: the moderating effects of age and gender. Social Networks, 34(1): 150-157.
Mennis, J. and Mason, M.J., 2011. People, places, and adolescent substance use: Integrating activity space and social network data for analyzing health behavior. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 101(2): 272-291.
Stahler, G., Mennis, J., Cotlar, R, and Baron, D., 2009. The influence of the neighborhood environment on treatment continuity and rehospitalization for dually diagnosed patients discharged from acute inpatient care. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 166(11): 1258-1268.
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