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Brief Biography
Karen
Kemp was 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 various GIS initiatives and as Senior Consultant with the
Redlands Institute. In Hawaii she is working on the GIS framework 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 sciences. She
also holds adjunct teaching positions at the University of Hong Kong in the Electronic Commerce/Internet
Computing MSc program and at the University of Southern California in the
on-line Geographic Information Science and
Technology (GIST) Graduate 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., Keali'ikanaka'oleohaililani,
K., & Hamabata, M.M. (in press). Ha‘ahonua: Using GIScience to link
Hawaiian and Western knowledge about the environment. In M. Dear, S. Luria
& D. Richardson (Eds.), Geography and
the Humanities: Interactions and Investigations: Routledge.
Kemp, K.K. (in press). Geographic
Information Science and Spatial Analysis for the Humanities. In D. Bodenhamer,
T. Harris & J. Corrigan (Eds.), The
Spatial Humanities: Indiana University Press.
Kemp, K. K. 2009. What does GIS offer to
History? International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 3(1-2),
15-19.
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. 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 2010