GIS Educators and Support Staff


GIS Instructors

Dr. Sumeeta Srinivasan

Senior Lecturer, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Assistant Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine

Faculty profile

Courses taught:

  • UEP 232: Intro GIS
  • UEP 235: Advanced GIS
  • UEP 236: Spatial Statistics

Dr. Rebecca Shakespeare

Lecturer, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning

Faculty profile

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

Faculty profile

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

Faculty profile

Courses taught:

  • CEE 187: Geographical Information Systems

Dr. Thomas Stopka

Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine
Professor, Community Health
Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning

Faculty profile

Courses taught:

  • PH 262: GIS for Public Health


Dr. Shikhar Shrestha

Assistant Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine

Faculty profile

Courses taught:

  • HIA 219: Spatial Epidemiology

Dr. Alexandra Thorn

Lecturer, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Faculty profile

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

Faculty profile

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

Staff profile

Courses taught:

  • MCM 591: GIS for Conservation Medicine

Jon Caris

Senior Drone Data Scientist, Tufts Research Technology

Staff profile

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

Faculty profile

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

Faculty profile

Courses taught:

  • UEP 231: Interactive Web Mapping

Instructors with a GIS Class Component

Dr. Benjamin Davies

Lecturer, Environmental Studies

Faculty profile

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

Faculty profile

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

Faculty profile

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

Faculty profile


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

Staff profile


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

Faculty profile


Uku-Kaspar Uutsalu

Senior Data Scientist, Research Technology, Tufts Technology Services (TTS)

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Chris Barnett

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

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Kaylen Dwyer

Digital Humanities Librarian, Tisch Library

Reach out to Kaylen for:

  • ArcGIS StoryMaps assistance

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Chad Fisher

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