Peter H. Dana, Ph.D.

P.O. Box 1297

Georgetown, Texas  78627

Phone: (512) 869-1450

 

pdana@pdana.com

www.pdana.com

 

Consultant

Electronic Navigation, Precise Positioning, and Geographic Information Systems Research and Development

 

 

Presentations

May 3, 2007. Discrete Global Grids and the U.S. National Grid in GIS Teaching and Research. Mapping Science Committee. The National Academies. Washington, DC.

March 10, 2006. (with Malcolm Cutchin and Jim Stimpson) Conceptualizing and Using Neighborhoods for the Analysis of Health and Place. The Association of American Geographers, 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

March 09, 2006. Space-Claiming Categories for Community Mapping. The Association of American Geographers, 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

March 02, 2006. Whose Lands These Are: (You think you know?). Center for Northern Studies, Sterling College, Wolcott, Vermont.

April 5, 2005. Estimating Early Greek Settlement Patterns in Southern Italy from Ceramic Evidence. The Association of American Geographers 101st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

October 15, 2004. Estimating Early Greek Farm Significance Patterns in Southern Italy Using Multiple-Criteria Evaluation and Cost-Weighted Surfaces. Colloquium. Department of Geography Colloquia Series. University of Texas at Austin.

March 7, 2003. Toward a Participatory Mapping Methodology: Lessons from Honduras and Nicaragua. The Association of American Geographers 99th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

October 25, 2002. Participatory Land-Boundary and Land-Use Mapping: Lessons from the Mosquitia and North Coast of Honduras in 2002. Colloquium. Department of Geography Colloquia Series. University of Texas at Austin.

April, 19, 2002. Replacing Form with Function: Land-Use Categorization Based on Local Knowledge and Ground Truth. Research Action Roundtable. GPS Mapping of Land-Use Areas in Awas Tingni: Technical, Political, And Legal Considerations. From Human Rights to Cultural Empowerment: The Awas Tingni Ruling and the Struggle for Indigenous & Black Land Right in the Americas. April 18-20, 2002. University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

February 28, 2001. Between the Points: What Path, What Distance? . The Association of American Geographers 97th Annual Meeting, New York, City, New York.

January 7, 2000. Mapping Community Boundaries on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast. Panel on Maps, Mapping, and Indigenous Peoples. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. 2000 Meeting, Austin, Texas.

January 13, 1999. Appropriate GPS Methods for GIS Applications. 1999 GIS Forum and Training Conference. Texas Natural Resources Information System. Austin, Texas.

March 26, 1998. Preliminary Mapping of Community Boundaries with GPS. The Association of American Geographers 94th Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.

March 5, 1998. Invited speaker. GPS: Positioning Techniques and Time and Frequency Dissemination. Tecnología Sin Límite: XIII Simposium Internacional De Electrónica y Comunicaciones. ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico.

February 20, 1998. Invited speaker. Matching GPS Methods to Applications. Hydrogeology Brownbag Seminar. Department of Geology, University of Texas at Austin.

December 15-19, 1997. Workshops. GIS and GPS for Surveying Applications. BTW Associates, Ltd., New Plymouth, New Zealand.

November 12, 1997. Workshop. Appropriate GPS Methods for GIS Applications. 1997 Texas GIS Forum. Texas Natural Resources Information System and the Texas Department of Information Resources, Austin, Texas.

May 9, 1997. Guest lecture. GPS Time Dissemination Austin Astronomical Society Monthly Meeting, Austin, Texas.

October 21, 1996. Guest lecture. GPS for Transportation Research. Aviation Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

October 16, 1996. Guest lecture. GPS for Time and Frequency Dissemination. Physics Department Colloquium, University of Texas at Austin.

May 4, 1996. Guest lecture. An Overview of GPS. Saturday Physics Workshop. Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin.

August 23, 1994. Guest lecture. Greytown to Graytown, Walker to Walker: Symbols of U. S. Intervention in Central America. Survey course in Central America, University of Central Texas, Killeen, Texas.

October 21, 1993. Paper presentation. Geographic Information System Loran-C Coverage Modeling. Wild Goose Association's Twenty-Second Annual Technical Symposium, Santa Barbara, California.

October 26, 1992. Workshop. Introduction to the Global Positioning System. Texas Geographic Information Systems Forum, Co-sponsored by the Department of Information Resources and Texas Natural Resources Information System, Austin, Texas.

October 24, 1990. Paper presentation. The Raymondville Ghost: Loran-C Signal Reflections. The Wild Goose Association's Nineteenth Annual Technical Symposium, Long Beach, California.

October 4, 1990. Paper presentation. Automated Animal Tracking System Map Display. The 1990 Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division, Association of American Geographers, Austin, Texas.

October 30, 1989. Paper presentation. Automated Animal-Tracking System: Tracking Elk with Retransmitted Loran-C. The Wild Goose Association's Eighteenth Annual Technical Symposium, Hyannis, Massachusetts.

 

 

Revised 9/16/07