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Department of Geography
College of Arts and Science
8 Stewart Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-6170

phone: 573-882-8370
fax: 573-884-4239
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James HarlanJames D. Harlan
Assistant Program Director and Senior Research Specialist
Geographic Resources Center
expertise: GIS and cartographic applications in cultural, economic and physical geography
office:# 16 Stewart Hall
phone:(573) 882-1356

Education

  • M.A. in Geography, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1996
  • B.A. in Geography, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1992

Expertise

  • Database Development
  • Arc Macro Language (AML)
  • Census Applications
  • Surface and Spatial Modeling
  • Cartography
  • Political Geography
  • Historical Geography
  • Cultural Geography
  • Regional Geography

Projects

  • Census 2000 Redistricting Project
  • Database development and analysis of the historic landscape of Missouri by use of U.S. General Land Office land-survey field notes.
  • Legislative, School Distict, Census, and Demographic Data Update and Analysis
  • Doctoral research: Social Capital Mapping and Analysis at the Small Rural Community Level

Master's Thesis

Kuna Yala: A Geographic Study of Indigenous Survival, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1996. An investigation into the unusual success of the Kuna Indians of Panama in protecting their culture and land.

 

 


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