Mark Kumler Ph.D.
(he/him/his)Professor
Geographic Information Science
About Dr. Kumler
Mark Kumler has been at the University of Redlands since 2004. He teaches undergraduate courses on Foundations of Spatial Thinking, Fundamentals of GIS, and a first-year seminar titled Mapping World Soccer; as well as graduate courses on Communicating Geographic Information, GIS Project Management, and Map Projections and Coordinate Systems.
He has designed and directed the development of three GIS labs, and has supervised more than 150 students in the Master and Master of Science in GIS degree programs. His research interests include map projections, spatial coordinate systems, digital terrain representations, and GIS applications. He has received more than $8 million in external grants and contracts, including two from the National Science Foundation. His publications have appeared in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Cartographica, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, Journal of Archaeological Science, and The California Geographer.
Mark is married and has 3 grown children. He enjoys visiting his kids, performing community service, and traveling. He has had two sabbatical appointments in New Zealand (University of Auckland and University of Canterbury) and hopes to retire there some day.
Education
- Ph.D. in Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
- M.A. in Geography, Michigan State University
- B.A. in Computer Science, Dartmouth College
Professional Background
- Visiting Instructor, Dartmouth College
- Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
- Associate Professor, California State University, San Bernardino
- Research Scientist, Geospatial Research Centre New Zealand
- Professor, University of Redlands
Publications
McKenzie, Z., M. Kumler, R. Ma, K. Williams, and W. Hayes. 2023. "Eyes from the sky: Application of satellite-based indices to assess vegetation casualty on Grand Bahama Island one year post-Hurricane Dorian." Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, November 2023, Vol. 32, 101044.
Kumler, Mark P., Joseph Stoddard, and Melodi C. King. "Gerrymandering in Redlands, California: The fairest districting depends on your point of hue." (2017). Our House Articles, Poems, Posters, Presentations, and Short Stories.
Bernardini, W., A. Barnash, M. Kumler, and M. Wong. "Quantifying visual prominence in social landscapes." Journal of Archaeological Science, November 2013, 40(11), pp. 3946-3954.
McIntyre, Blodwyn M., Thomas E.J. Leuteritz and Mark P. Kumler. "Quantifying the Common Raven threat for Desert Tortoise translocation using GIS." The Tortuga Gazette, July|August 2010, Vol. 46, Number 4, pp. 8-11.
Kumler, Mark P. 1994. "An Intensive Comparison of Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs) and Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)." Cartographica 31(2), pp. 1-99.
Kumler, Mark P., and Waldo R. Tobler. 1991. "Three World Maps on a Moebius Strip" Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 18(4), pp. 275-276.