Dr. Stephen J. Lavin

Professor, Department of Anthropology and Geography

Ph.D. University of Kansas (1979)

Office: 917 Oldfather Hall
Email: slavin432@yahoo.com
Phone: 402.472.3580
Fax: 402.472.9642

Research Interests

Atlas of the Great Plains with J.Clark Archer, color theory in fast-map animation

Courses

GEOG 317. Introductory Cartography
GEOG 415/815. Introductory Computer Mapping
GEOG 417/817. Electronic Atlas: Design and Production
GEOG 425/825. Scientific Visualization in Cartography
GEOG 915. Seminar in Cartography

Education

Ph.D. - University of Kansas
M.A. - Montana State University
B.S. - S.U.N.Y Buffalo

Teaching Experience

9/87 to Present Associate Professor, University of Nebraska.
9/81 to 8/87 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska
9/79 to 6/81 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Dartmouth College
9/77 to 9/79 Instructor, Department of Geography, Dartmouth College

Professional Memberships

Association of American Geographers
American Cartographic Association
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
British Cartographic Society
International Mountain Society
National Computer Graphics Association
National Council On Geographic Education
National Association For the Mentally Ill
National Committee for Digital Cart. Data Standards
North American Cartographic Information Society

Refereed Publications

2000. Rossum, S. Lavin, Where are the Great Plains?: A Cartographic Analysis, The Professional Geographer, August, 2000, pp 543-552.

1998. Lavin, S., Rossum, S. and Slade, S. Animation-Based Map Design: The Visual Effects of Interpolation on the Appearance of Three-Dimensional Surfaces, Cartographic Perspectives, number 29, Winter, pp 26-35.

1996. Lavin, S. and Thompson, W. Automatic Generation of Animated Migration Maps, Cartographica, pp 17-29.

1989. Legend Designs For Unclassed, Bivariate Choropleth Maps, with Helen R. Aspaas, The American Cartographer, Vol. 16, No.4, pp 257-268.

1989. Wind-Field Analysis Using Unit-Vector Density Mapping, with Randall S. Cerveny, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Vol 39, pp 218-230.

1987. Unit-Vector Density Mapping, with Randall S.Cerveny, The Cartographic Journal, British Cartographic Society, Vol. 24, pp. 131-141. Winner of the British Cartographic Society's Survey and General Instrument Award for the best article published in The Cartographic Journal in 1987.

1986. Mapping Continuous Geographical Distributions Using Dot-Density Shading, The American Cartographer, American Cartographic Association, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 140-150.

1986. Dot-Density Shading: A New Method of Mapping Continuous Climatic Data, with Jay Hobgood, Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Vol. 25, pp. 679-690.

1986. Identification and Analysis of Climatological Trends and Anomalies Through Dot-Density Shading, with Randall Cerveny, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, American Meteorological Society, Vol. 3, pp. 552-558.

1984. Computer-Produced Unclassed, Bivariate Choropleth Maps, with J. Clark Archer, The American Cartographer, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 49-57. Winner of the Andrew McNally Award for the finest cartography article in 1984, Rand-McNally Corp., American Congress On Surveying and Mapping.

1981. Computer-Assisted Instruction in Geography, with J. Clark Archer, Geographical Perspectives, Vol. 47, pp. 16-29.

Unrefereed Publications

1997 Lavin, S. and Thompson, W. Run-Time Migration Animations, Microcomputer Specialty Group Publication, Association of American Geographers.

1990 Electronic Atlas of The U.S., The Software Toolworks, Novato, CA. Major Contributor and Designer of this published software package. With Richard M. Smith, U. of Arkansas.

1989-00 Numerous book and software reviews, encyclopedia entries.

Professional Presentations

2001 Political Atlas of the U.S., to be presented at the Annual Meeting, North American Cartographic Information Society, Portland, OR

2000 Visualizations of End-of-Century Electoral Volatility, with Clark Archer, Annual Meeting, North American Cartographic Information Society, Knoxville, TN

1999 The Consequences of RGB, HLS, and CMYK in Multivariate Animated Mapping, Mid-America GIS Conference, Overland Park, KS

1996 Multivariate Map Animation, Annual Meeting, Nebraska GIS Symposium, Lincoln, NE.

1995 Fast Overlay Animation in RGB, Annual Meeting, Great Plains Rocky Mt. Division of the AAG. Rapid City, SD.

1995 Multi-Image Sequencing and Multivariate Exploratory Data Analysis, Mid-America GIS Conference, Overland Park, KS.

1994 Electronic Atlas of U.S. Environments, Annual Meeting, Great Plains Rocky Mt. Division of the AAG. Hot Springs, AR.

1994 Computer Analysis and GIS, session organizer and chair, Annual Meeting of Great Plains Rocky Mt. Division of the AAG, Hot Springs, AR.

1993 Continuous Surface Visualization, Annual Meeting, Great Plains Rocky Mt. Division of the AAG. Boulder, CO.

1993 Multisymbolization in Map Animation, Mid-America GIS Conference, Overland Park, KS.

1992 Three Variable Mapping in RGB, Third Annual Conference on Computer Visualization and Imaging, U. of Iowa, Iowa City IA.

1991 Digital Images of The Plains, with J. Clark Archer, ANNUAL MEETING, Great Plains- Rocky Mts. Division, AAG, Laramie, WY

1990 Microcomputer Cartography, with J. Clark Archer, Paul, H. Kramer. ANNUAL MEETING, Great Plains Rocky Mts. Division of the Association of American Geographers. Kearney, NE.

1990 Cartographic Animation, Mid-America GIS Conference, Kansas City, KS.

1990 Electronic Atlases For Visualization, First Annual Conference on Computer Visualization and Imaging, U. of Iowa, Iowa City IA.

1989 Design and Construction of Electronic Atlases, ANNUAL MEETING, Association of American Geographers, BaltimoreMD.

1987 Unit-Vector Density Mapping, with Randall S. Cerveny, ANNUAL MEETING, Association of American Geographers, Portland, OR.

1986 Comparisons of Isoline and Dot-Density Maps, ANNUAL MEETING, Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis MN.

1985 Dot-Density Shading, with Jay Hobgood, ANNUAL MEETING, Association of American Geographers, Detroit MI.

1983 Unclassed Bivariate Maps: Analytical Applications, with J. Clark Archer, ANNUAL MEETING, Association of American Geographers, Denver CO.

1982 Unclassed Bivariate Choropleth Maps and Analytical Cartography, with J. Clark Archer, INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS, Harvard Computer Graphic Week, Harvard U., Cambridge MA.

1980 Computer Assisted Instruction In the Interactive Mode, with J. Clark Archer, ANNUAL MEETING, National Council on Geographic Education, Des Moines, IA.

1980 The Accuracy of Place Information, with Prentice L. Knight, ANNUAL MEETING, Association of American Geographers, Louisville, KY.

1979 The Consensual Region, ANNUAL MEETING, Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA.

1978 The Instructional Capability of the Dartmouth Geography Department Mapping System, INTERNATIONAL USER CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER MAPPING, Harvard Computer Graphics Week, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA.

1978 Computer Applications In Geographic Education, ANNUAL MEETING, New England, St.Lawrence Valley Division of the Association of American Geographers, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

1977 Choropleth Map Pattern Complexity, ANNUAL MEETING, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, Little Rock, AR.

1976 Perceived Regions on Choropleth Maps, ANNUAL MEETING, Association of American Geographers, Salt Lake City, UT.

Grants Received

2000. Internet-Based Computer Instruction in Geography, College of Arts and Sciences, $12,000.

1991. Computer Education For Undergraduates in Meteorology/Climatology and Geographical Information Systems, with J. Clark Archer. National Science Foundation. $50,000.

1988. A Computer Atlas of Nebraska, Layman Research Grant, U. of Nebraska Foundation, $8,216.

1987. Electronic Atlas Prototype, Research Council Grant-In-Aid, U. of Nebraska,, $2,482.

1984. Computer Mapping Hardware, Research Council Grant-In-Aid, U. of Nebraska, for. $2,430.

1984. Computing Laboratory for Undergraduate Education in Geography, College of Arts and Sciences, U. of Nebraska, for Geography Dept.. $27,000

1983. Computer Mapping Hardware, Research Council Grant-In-Aid, U. of Nebraska,. $1,933

1982. Computer Hardware, Research Council Grant-In-Aid, U. of Nebraska, for. $1,768

1981. Tektronix Graphics Computer System For Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, U. of Nebraska, $30,000

1980. Implementation of real-time computer graphic displays in classrooms, Co-recipient, Comprehensive Assistance to Undergraduate Science Education (CAUSE) Grant, National Science Foundation. , Dartmouth College, $249,775.

Grant Applications

1999 The Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1789-1996, with Archer, C., Martis, K., Shelley, F., submitted to the Congressional Quarterly.

1997 The Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1789-1996, with Archer, C., Martis, K., Shelley, F., submitted to the National .Endowment for the Humanities., $605,695. Unfunded

1994 The UNL Global Change Research Program, with Narumalani, S., et. al. Pre-proposal submitted to UN-L Research Council, for The NSF Academic Research Infrastructure Instrumentation Program. $257,000.

1991 Establishment of A center For Geographic Information Systems Education. Submitted to the University of Nebraska Foundation. $48,750.

1990 A Computer Political Atlas of Nebraska, with J. Clark Archer. Submitted to the U. of Nebraska Foundation. $17,745.

1990 Computer Education For Undergraduates in Meteorology/Climatology and Geographical Information Systems: An Integrated Approach., with Clinton Rowe (co-PI), Mark Anderson, and Daniel Leathers, $184,561. Re-submitted 11-90 to the National Science Foundation.

1988 A Science and Technology Research Center for Regional-Scale Environmental Assessment, Center For Advanced Land Management Technologies, with Donald C. Rundquist, $93,000, Submitted to the National Science Foundation.

1987 Establishment of a Statewide Geographic Information System for Natural Resource Districts: A Feasibility Study, Center For Advanced Land Management Information Technologies, with Donald C. Rundquist, $15,000. Submitted 3-87 to the Univerisity of Nebraska Foundation.

1986 Image Processing Hardware and Software for Multi-and Inter-Disciplinary Research, Center For Advanced Land Management Information Technologies, with Donald C. Rundquist, $49,900. Submitted to the University of Nebraska Foundation.

1986 Statewide Retrospective Analysis of Relationships Between Satellite Derived Land Cover Variability and Climate, Center For Land Management Information Technologies, with Donald C. Rundquist, $37,950. Submitted to the University of Nebraska Foundation.

Creative Activities

A. Maps published in Prize-Winning Books

Wishart, D. An Unspeakable Sadness, University of Nebraska Press.
1. 1996, Association of American Geographers, J.B. Jackson Award for the best book on historical geography (juried award).
2. 2. 1997, nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in history.

Moulton, G. Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, University of Nebraska Press
1. 1984, Chicago Book Clinic Design Award, annual design competition (juried award).
2. 1984, Assoc. of American University Presses, excellence in concept and design (juried award).

Prucha, F.: The Great Father, University of Nebraska Press.
1. 1984, nominee for a Pulitzer Prize in American History.
2. 1984, Assoc. of American University Presses, excellence in concept and design (juried award).
3. 1984, Organization of American Historians, Ray Allen Billington Prize.

White, R. The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos, University of Nebraska Press.
1. 1984, American Society of Ethno-History, Wheeler Vogelin Prize for best book.
2. 2. 1983, American Library Association, CHOICE prize for outstanding academic book.

Edmunds, D. The Shawnee Prophet, University of Nebraska Press.
1. 1984, Ohio Library Association, Obioana Book Award.

B. Other Maps Designed For Published Books

5 maps - Moulton, G. Lewis and Clark Atlas, Vol 4, U. of Nebraska Press, 1996
3 maps - Gauhari, F. Searching For Saleem: An Afghan Woman\0x2019s Odyssey, U. of Nebraska Press, 1996
2 maps - Kennedy, D. India, U. California Press, 1995
5 maps - Luebcke, F. Nebraska: An Illustrated History, U. of Nebraska Press, 1995
7 maps - Neihart, H. Black Elk and Flaming Rainbow, U. of Nebraska Press, 1995
4 maps - Rugg, D. Albania, Geographical Review, 1995
5 maps - Price, D. The Oglala People, U. of Nebraska Press, 1995
1 maps - Grumbauer, E. Escape Through the Balkans, U. of Nebraska Press, 1995
6 maps - Stevenson, R. Life in Black and White, Oxford University Press, 1995
5 maps - Patterson, H. Grand Expectations, Oxford University Press, 1995
4 maps - Stiglmayer, A. Mass Rape, U. of Nebraska Press, 1994
5 maps - Rugg, D. Eastern Europe, Longman Press, 1994
25 maps - Wishart, D. An Unspeakable Sadness, U. of Nebraska Press, 1994
3 maps - Posey, T. The Letters of Fus Fixico, U. of Nebraska Press, 1993
5 maps - Opie, R. Ogallala: Water For a Dry Land, U. of Nebraska Press, 1993
21 maps - Wishart, D. The Fur Trade of the American West, Bison Books, 1992
2 maps - Andrew. The Underground Reservation, U. of Nebraska Press, 1985.
1 maps - Horowitz. The Strif, U. of Nebraska Press, 1985.
4 maps - Matteson. Danes in Nebraska, U. of Nebraska Press, 1985.
5 maps - Aucoin. Water in Nebraska, U. of Nebraska Press, 1984.
5 maps - Rugg. Land Use in East Germany, Book Chapter in International Handbook on Land-Use Planning, 1984.
2 maps - Prucha. The Great Father, Volume 2, U. of Nebraska Press, 1984.
3 maps - DeMallie. The Sixth Grandfather, U. of Nebraska Press, 1984.
1 maps - Nicholas. Domestic Life of a Medieval City, U. of Nebraska Press, 1984.
45 maps - Rugg, D. Making of the East European Landscape, Longmann Press, 1983
5 maps - Moulton, G. Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expeditions, U. of Nebraska Press, 1983.
1 maps - Ager, T. Sons of the Old Country, Ager, U. of Nebraska Press, 1983.
10 maps - Abbott. Portland: Planning, Politics and Growth in the Twentieth Century,. U. of Nebraska Press, 1983.
3 maps - Dunbar. Forging New Rights in Western Waters,. U. of Nebraska Press, 1983.
3 maps - Dunbar. The Roots of Dependency, U. of Nebraska Press, 1983.
2 maps - Richmond. Carranza's Nationalist Struggle, U. of Nebraska Press, 1983.
3 maps - Johnsgard. The Platte: Channels in Time, U. of Nebraska Press, 1983.
16 maps - Lonsdale and Enyedi. Rural Public Service: International Comparisons, Westview Press, 1983.
1 map - Majoral. Special Problems in High Altitude and High Latitude Lands, U. of Barcelona Press, 1983.
8 maps - Strong. Tahoe: An Environmental History, U. of Nebraska Press, 1983
11 maps - Prucha. The Great Father, Volume 1, U. of Nebraska Press, 1983.

C. Maps Designed for Public Service

2 maps - Lincoln Bus Routes, Lincoln Transportation System, 1984.
2 maps - Lincoln Bicycle Map, Lincoln Transportation System, Lincoln Dept. of Roads, The Mayor's Bicycle Council, 1984.

Professional Service

1988-93 Software Review Editor for CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS. American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, American Cartographic Association.

1987-91 Computer Mapping Consultant, Electromap, Inc., Fayetteville, AR., and The Software Toolworks, Novato, CA.

1987 Research Associate, Center For Advanced Land Management Information Technology, U. of Nebraska, Lincoln.

1986-88 Consultant, Citizens For Environmental Improvement, Lincoln, NE

1986-87 Program organizer, Cartography Specialty Group, Association of AmericanGeographers Annual Meeting, Portland, April, 1987.

1986 Visiting scientist, University of Montana Biological Station, Flathead Lake, MT.

1982-85 Director, Cartographic Services, Dept. of Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE.

1983 Chair, Cartography program, and member, program committee, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Denver, CO.

1983 Mapping consultant, Lincoln Transportation System, Lincoln, NE.

1980-81 Consultant, computer mapping, New Hampshire Emergency Medical Service, Hanover, NH.

1974-75 Manager and cartographer, Kansas Univ. Cartographic Laboratory Lawrence, KS.

1973 Land Inventory Surveyor, Dept. of State Lands, Helena, MT.

Departmental Service

2001 to present Vice-Chair, Dept. of Anthropology and Geography, University of Nebraska
2000 to present Chair, Graduate Committee, Dept. of Geography, University of Nebraska.
1997 to 2001 Chair, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska.
1992-99 Chair, Graduate Committee, Dept. of Geography, University of Nebraska.
1992 to present Major Advisor, Graduate programs in Geography.
1992-97 Vice-Chair, Dept. of Geography, University of Nebraska.