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Brief Biography
Karen Kemp is the founding Director
of the International Masters
Program in GIS at the University of Redlands in southern California, having
held that position and Professor of Geographic Information Science until
December 2005. Dr. Kemp holds geography degrees from the University of Calgary,
Alberta (BSc 1976), the University of Victoria, British Columbia (MA 1982) and
the University of California Santa Barbara (PhD 1992). Before moving to the US
in 1988, she taught Geography, Geology and Microcomputer Applications in the
university transfer program at Malaspina College, in Nanaimo, British Columbia
(now Malaspina University College). In 1988 she joined the National Center for
Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) in Santa Barbara working as
Coordinator of Education Programs and co-editor, with Dr. Michael Goodchild, of
the internationally recognized NCGIA
Core Curriculum in GIS. After completing her PhD at UCSB in 1992, she
worked at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and with Longman GeoInformation
in Cambridge, England on various international GIS education projects. She
returned to the NCGIA in 1994 to work as Assistant Director and later Associate
Director. In January 1999 she moved to the University of California Berkeley to
become Executive Director of the Geographic Information Science Center where
she helped build the foundation for an innovative campus-wide GIScience
initiative. In September 2000, she was invited to join the faculty at the
University of Redlands to create and direct their new MS GIS program.
Dr. Kemp has traveled widely
to present workshops on GIS education and has published extensively on this
topic. She acted as Program Chair for the Second and Third International
Symposia on GIS in Higher Education (GISHE'96 and GISHE'97), and as Program
Co-chair for the UCGIS 1997
Annual Assembly and Summer Retreat. She was a founding member of the
Board of Directors of the University Consortium
for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) and acted as senior editor of
the UCGIS Education Priorities. She was also a founding
member of the Board of Directors of the GIS
Certification Institute (GISCI) and a member of the Editorial Team for the
UCGIS GI
Science and Technology Body of Knowledge. In recognition for these and
other contributions, in October 2004 she was named Educator
of the Year by the UCGIS.
In December 2005, Dr. Kemp
stepped down as Director of the MS GIS Program and is currently on permanent
sabbatical on the Big Island of Hawaii, while continuing to work with the
University on their new university-wide GIS initiative and as Senior Consultant
with the Redlands Institute. In Hawaii she is working on the trail stewardship
program for the Ala Kahaki National Historic
Trail and with the Kohala Center
on a vision for an Island-wide GIS infrastructure integrating Hawaiian and
Western science. She also holds an Adjunct Professor position at the University
of Hong Kong where she teaches annually in the Electronic Commerce/Internet
Computing MSc program.
Her scientific research has
focused on developing methods to improve the integration
of environmental models with GIS from both the pedagogic and the scientific
perspectives and on formalizing the conceptual models of space acquired by
scientists and humanities scholars, across a wide range of disciplines.
Selected Publications
Kemp, K. K. (Ed.). 2008. Encyclopedia
of Geographic Information Science. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
DiBiase,
D., DeMers, M., Johnson, A., Kemp, K., Luck, A., Plewe, B., et al. (Eds.).
2006. Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge
(1st ed.). Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers.
Kemp,
K. K. (Ed.). 2006. The ESRI/University of Redlands Colloquium CD Set.
Redlands CA: ESRI Press.
Kemp,
K. K. 2006. Future for GIS Education in a World of Embedded GIS. GIS
Development, 10, 41.
Kemp,
K. K. and D. Unwin. 2005. Instructor's Manual for Geographic Information
Systems and Science, 2nd Edition by P. A. Longley, M. F. Goodchild, D. J.
Maguire and D. W. Rhind. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published on-line.
Brown,
D.G., G. Elmes, K.K. Kemp, S. Macey, and D. Mark. 2004. Geographic Information
Systems. In Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century. G.L.
Gaile and C.J. Willmott, eds., Oxford University Press, pp. 353-375. proof
available on-line
Gregory,
I., K.K. Kemp and R. Mostern, 2003. Geographical Information and Historical
Research: Current progress and future directions. Humanities and Computing
13:7-22. final draft available
on-line
Kemp,
K. K. 2003. Guest
Editorial: Why GIS Professional Certification Matters to Us All. Transactions
in GIS 7(2): 159-163.
Kemp,
K. K. and L. Wiggins 2003. Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on GIS
Education. URISA Journal 15(1): 4-6.
Kemp,
K.K. 2002. Book Review
of “Concepts and Techniques of Geographic Information Systems”. Transactions
in GIS 6(4):485-489.
Kemp,
K. K. and R. Mostern, 2001. Spatial Vagueness
and Uncertainty in the Computational Humanities. First COSIT Workshop on
Spatial Vagueness, Uncertainty and Granularity, Ogunquit, ME. CD-ROM.
Kemp,
K. K. 2001. "Using Geographic Information to Improve the Sharing of
Digital Information Resources in the Humanities". Symposium on SIG-CH:
Computer and the Humanities of Information Processing Society of Japan, Osaka,
Japan.
Maher,
R. and others. 2001. Report for Project 19122 - Geographic
information/Geomatics - Qualifications and Certification of personnel.
Oslo, Norway, ISO/TC 211 Secretariat, on-line.
Somers, R. and others. 2000. "Defining the GIS Profession and Debating
Certification and Regulation". Geo Info Systems. 10: 22-29.
Reeve,
D., Hardwick, S., Kemp, K., and Ploszajtska, T. 2000. "Delivering courses
internationally". Journal of Geography in Higher Education
24(2):228-237.
Goodchild,
M. F., Egenhofer, M. J., Kemp, K. K., Mark, D. M., and Sheppard, E. 1999.
“Introduction to the Varenius Project.” International Journal of Geographic
Information Science, 13(8), 731-745.
Heywood,
D. I., Kemp, K. K., and Reeve, D. E. 1999. “Interoperable education for
interoperable GIS.” Interoperating Geographic Information Systems, M. F.
Goodchild, M. J. Egenhofer, R. Fegeas, and C. A. Kottmann, eds., Kluwer, New
York, pp. 443-458.
Kemp,
K. K. 1999. "Strategic Change in GIScience Education". Geographic
Information Sciences, 5(1):24-29.
Kemp,
K. K., Reeve, D. E., and Heywood, D. I. 1999. "Interoperability for
GIScience Education". In Interoperating Geographic Information Systems,
A. Vckovski, K.E. Brassel, and H.-J. Schek, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp.
101-114.
Kemp,
K.K. and A. Vckovski. 1998. "Towards an ontology of fields", Proceedings
of the Third International Conference on GeoComputation, 17-19th September
1998, Bristol, UK. CD-ROM. Available
on-line.
Kemp,
K.K. and D.J. Unwin. 1997. "Guest Editorial. From geographic information
systems to geographic information studies: An agenda for educators", Transactions
in GIS 2(2):1-7.
Kemp,
K. K., and Wright, R. 1997. "UCGIS identifies GIScience education
priorities", Geo Info Systems, September, 7(9):16-20. Draft version available on-line.
Kemp,
K.K. 1997. "Fields as a framework for integrating GIS and environmental
process models. Part one: Representing spatial continuity", Transactions
in GIS 1(3):219-234.
Kemp,
K.K. 1997. "Fields as a framework for integrating GIS and environmental
process models. Part two: Specifying field variables", Transactions in
GIS 1(3):235-246.
Kemp,
K. K. 1997. "Integrating traditional spatial models of the environment
with GIS". In Proceedings of 1997 ACSM/ASPRS Annual Convention and
Exposition, Technical Papers Volume 5: Auto-Carto 13, Seattle, WA. American
Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and American Congress on Surveying
and Mapping. pp. 23-32. Draft version
available on-line.
Kemp,
Karen K. 1997. The NCGIA Core Curricula in GIS and Remote Sensing. Transactions
in GIS 2(2):181-190. Draft version
available on-line.
Kemp,
K.K. 1996. "Easing environmental models into GIS". Proceedings
of the Third International Conference/Workshop on Integrating GIS and
Environmental Modeling, January 21-26, 1996, Santa Fe, NM. National Center
for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California Santa
Barbara. CD-ROM. Available on-line.
Kemp,
K.K. and A.U. Frank. 1996. "Toward consensus on a European GIS curriculum:
The International Post-Graduate Course on GIS." International Journal
of Geographical Information Systems, 10(4):477-497.
McDonnell,
R. and K. Kemp. 1995. International GIS Dictionary. Published by GeoInformation
International, Cambridge, UK. Distributed by John Wiley & Sons.
Kemp,
K.K. 1995. Teaching and learning about GIS. Presented at III Simpósio
Brasileiro de Geoprocessamento, São Paulo, Brazil, July 1995. Available on-line.
Goodchild,
M.F., K.K. Kemp, M. Theriault and Y. Roche. 1994. Systèmes d'Information
Géographique: Notes de Cours. LATIG, Départment de géographie,
Université Laval, Québec. (NCGIA Core Curriculum French translation)
Leipnik,
M.R., K.K. Kemp and H.A. Loaiciga. 1993. "Implementation of GIS for water
resources planning and management." Journal of Water Resources Planning
and Management, 119(2):184-205.
Kemp,
K.K. 1993. "Environmental Modeling with GIS: A strategy for dealing with
spatial continuity." National Center for Geographic Information and
Analysis, University of California at Santa Barbara, Technical Report 93-3. Available
on-line.
Kemp,
K.K. and Fiona M. Goodchild. 1992. "Evaluating a major innovation in
higher education: the NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIS." Journal of
Geography in Higher Education, 16(1):21-35.
Kemp,
K.K., M.F. Goodchild and R.F. Dodson. 1992. "Teaching GIS in
geography." The Professional Geographer, 44(2):181-191.
Goodchild,
M.F. and K.K. Kemp. 1992. "GIS Accreditation: What are the options?" ACSM
Bulletin, November/December 1992, p. 44-47.
Goodchild,
M.F., and K.K. Kemp. 1992. "GIS Research and Education in the USA", Vestnik
Moskovskogo Universiteta, Geography Series 4:68-72, in Russian.
Kemp,
K.K. and M.F. Goodchild. 1991. "Developing a curriculum in Geographic
Information Systems: The National Center for Geographic Information and
Analysis Core Curriculum project." Journal of Geography in Higher
Education, 15(2):121-132.
Kemp,
K.K. 1991. "The NCGIA Core Curriculum evaluation program: A review
and assessment". Cartographica 28(3):88-93.
Goodchild,
M.F. and K.K. Kemp. 1990. NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIS. National Center
for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California, Santa
Barbara, CA. Text
available on-line.
last
updated April 12, 2008