GIS Instructors

Dr. Sumeeta Srinivasan
Senior Lecturer, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Assistant Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine
Courses taught:
- UEP 232: Intro GIS
- UEP 235: Advanced GIS
- UEP 236: Spatial Statistics

Dr. Rebecca Shakespeare
Lecturer, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Courses taught:
- GIS 101/ENVI 107: Intro GIS
- UEP 232: Intro GIS
- UEP 294: GIS Bootcamp and Qualitative GIS

Dr. Marcia Moreno-Baez
Research Professor & Lecturer, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Courses taught:
- DHP 207: GIS for International Applications
- DHP 289: Advanced GIS for International Applications

Dr. Laurie Baise
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Courses taught:
- CEE 187: Geographical Information Systems

Dr. Thomas Stopka
Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine
Professor, Community Health
Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Courses taught:
- PH 262: GIS for Public Health

Dr. Shikhar Shrestha
Assistant Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine
Courses taught:
- HIA 219: Spatial Epidemiology

Dr. Alexandra Thorn
Lecturer, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Courses taught:
- GIS 101/ENVI 107: Intro GIS
- NUTR 231: Fundamentals of GIS for Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Applications
- NUTR 342: Food Systems Planning and Analysis

Dr. Magaly Koch
Part-time Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Part-time Lecturer, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Research Associate Professor, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University
Courses taught:
- CEE 293/UEP 294: Advanced Remote Sensing

Carolyn Talmadge
Data Lab Services Manager, Research Technology, Tufts Technology Services
Course Director, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
Courses taught:
- MCM 591: GIS for Conservation Medicine

Jon Caris
Senior Drone Data Scientist, Tufts Research Technology
Courses taught:
- MCM 1011/ENV/UEP: Drones for Data Collection, Mapping, and Analysis
- ENV-0121 Drones for Data Collection, Mapping & Analysis

Dr. Ian Spangler
Lecturer, Classical Studies
Assistant Curator of Digital & Participatory Geography, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library
Courses taught:
- ARCH 175/CLS 125/UEP 103: Introduction to Geospatial Humanities

Dr. Pinde Fu
Platform Engineering Team Lead, Esri
Adjunct Faculty at University of Redlands and Harvard Extension School
Courses taught:
- UEP 231: Interactive Web Mapping
Instructors with a GIS Class Component

Dr. Benjamin Davies
Lecturer, Environmental Studies
Courses taught:
- ENV 170: Environmental Data, Analysis, and Visualization

Dr. Shan Jiang
Assistant Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Eileen Fox Aptman, J90, and Lowell Aptman Professorship, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Courses taught:
- UEP 237: Urban Analytics and Visualization
- UEP 238: Data Science for Urban Sustainability

Dr. John Durant
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine
Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Classes taught:
- CEE 034: Pollutant Fate and Transport
- CEE 136/CHBE 136: Air Pollution and Control
- CEE 103: Climate Change Science and Engineering
GIS Educators and Support Staff

Patrick Florance
Director of Research Technology, Tufts Technology Services
Affiliate, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Affiliate, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Carolyn Talmadge
Data Lab Services Manager, Research Technology, Tufts Technology Services (TTS)
Course Director, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
Courses taught:
- MCM 591: GIS for Conservation Medicine

Kyle Monahan
Data Science Services Manager, Research Technology, Tufts Technology Services (TTS)
Part-time Lecturer, Tufts Gordon Institute
Courses Taught:
- EM 212: Applied Data Science
- EM 251: Data Visualization and Communication

Uku-Kaspar Uutsalu
Senior Data Scientist, Research Technology, Tufts Technology Services (TTS)

Chris Barnett
Principal Data Software Engineer, Research Technology, Tufts Technology Services (TTS)

Kaylen Dwyer
Digital Humanities Librarian, Tisch Library
Reach out to Kaylen for:
- ArcGIS StoryMaps assistance

Chad Fisher
Geospatial Data Science Specialist, Research Technology, Tufts Technology Services (TTS)