Nigel Waters

 
With a First Class, Honours BA from Cambridge University in 1972 (winning the Downing College Prize), an MA (awarded the McIntosh prize) and a PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 1973 and 1977, respectively, he joined the Geography Department at the University of Calgary in 1975 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1990.

He was nominated twice for the Master and Superior Teaching Awards, and has conducted numerous studies in GIS, modelling, spatial analysis and transportation geography. He is a former President of the Western Canadian Association of Geographers, and an associate editor of GeoWorld where he is also a regular contributor of the Edge Nodes column. At the University of Calgary he was the Founding Director of the Masters in GIS Program and of the Transportation Theme School and Transportation Studies Major. Prior to leaving the University of Calgary (where he is now Professor Emeritus of Geography) he was participating in two GEOIDE research projects, leading a SSHRC Project and was working with the Nobel Peace Prize winning Carter Center in Atlanta as the Technical Director of the Mapping the Media in the Americas Project (www.mediamap.info ).

In June 2007 he was appointed Professor of Geography and Director of the Center of Excellence for Geographic Information Science at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Appointed as a Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lecturer for Fall 2010 at Memorial University, Newfoundland.

Publications (short list)

  • Waters, N.M. 2009. Representing Surfaces in the Natural Environment: Implications for Research and Geographical Education. Ch. 3, pp. 21-39, in Mount, N. J., Harvey, G. L., Aplin, P. and Priestnall, G., Eds., Representing, Modeling and Visualizing the Natural Environment: Innovations in GIS 13, CRC Press, Florida.
  • Leslie, T and Waters, N. M. 2009. Geographic Information Systems. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Third Edition, Taylor and Francis, New York, in press.
  • Waters, N.M. 2006. Network and Nodal Indices: Measures of Complexity and Redundancy: A Review. Spatial Dynamics, Network and Modelling, edited by Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA, USA.
  • Waters, N.M., 2005. Transportation GIS: GIS-T, Chapter 59 in Geographical Information Systems, Second Edition, Abridged, edited by Longley, P.A., Goodchild, M.F., Maguire, D.J. and Rhind, D.W.; Wiley, New York.
  • Li, K., Waters, N.M., 2005. Transportation Networks, Case-Based Reasoning and Traffic Collision Analysis: A Methodology for the 21st Century, Chapter 4 in Methods and Models in Transport and Telecommunications, edited by Reggiani, A., Schintler, L. A.; Springer, New York