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Elizabeth A. Wentz

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Associate Professor

COOR 5606

(480) 965-4144

wentz@asu.edu

Curriculum Vita

Personal Statement

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Additional Affiliation(s):	Executive Committee, Decision Center for a Desert City Affiliate, GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation
Education:	1997 - Ph.D. (Geography) Pennsylvania State University, University Park 1989 - M.A. (Geography) The Ohio State University, Columbus 1987 - B.S. (Mathematics) The Ohio State University, Columbus
Research Interests:	Shape and pattern analysis, geographic information science, applications of GIS to urban environment, urban remote sensing, water resource management
Research Activities:	SEI(GEO) Visual Geo-Analystics: Develops modeling and visualization tools that will contribute to planning a better future for urban environments. Uses new methods to model a visualization and specify how large sets of objects can be aggregated when the scale of the visualization changes. [Funded by National Science Foundation] Advancing watershed N management at the local level: Incorporating stream reach ecosystem N sinks into an environmental spatial decision support system : Translates understanding of nitrogen sinks into an Environmental Spatial Decision Support System to improve the capacity of local decision makers [Funded by University of Rhode Island]
Selected Publications:	Wentz, E. A., D. J. Peuquet, and S. Anderson. 2010. An ensemble approach to space-time interpolation. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 24(9): 1309-1325 Lee, S. and E. A. Wentz. 2008. Applying Bayesian Maximum Entropy to Extrapolating Local-Scale Water Consumption in Maricopa County, Arizona. Water Resources Research, 44(1): W01401, doi:10.1029/2007WR006101. Wentz, E. A., D. Nelson, A. Rahman, W. L. Stefanov, and S. S. Roy. 2008. Expert system classification of urban land use/cover for Delhi, India. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(15): 4405-4427. Williams, E. A. and E. A. Wentz. 2008. Pattern Analysis based on Type, Orientation, Size, and Shape. Geographical Analysis, 40(2): 97–122. Wentz, E. A., and P. Gober. 2007. Determinants of Small-Area Water Consumption for the City of Phoenix, Arizona. Water Resources Management, 21(11): 1849-1863.
Courses Taught:	GPH 594 - Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science (Fall 2008) GPH 573 - Programming in GIS (Fall 2008) GCU 584 - Graduate Research Methods (Spring 2009) GPH 591 - Capstone Seminar for GIS Graduate Certificate (Spring 2009)