Professor Nigel Michael Waters

Biography

Nigel Waters Mini Bio

Nigel Waters taught at the University of Calgary from 1975 to 2007. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1990 and in 1999 became the Founding Director of the Masters in GIS Program at the University of Calgary. In 2007 he joined George Mason University (GMU) and was appointed as a Full Professor in the Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science and the Director of the Center of Excellence for Geographic information Science. These positions he held until 2014 when he was subsequently appointed as an Affiliate Faculty Member in the College of Science (GMU). He has published extensively in the peer reviewed literature on the application of GIScience in transportation, medical geography, environmental science, spatial statistics and related areas. He is a former President of the Western Canadian Association of Geographers, and was an associate editor of GeoWorld (previously GIS World) where for 21 years he contributed the Edge Nodes column (1989-2014). In 2014 he co-edited the book Data Mining for Geoinformatics: Methods and Applications. From 2011 to 2014 he was the Editor of Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization.  In 2014 he received the Award of Distinction from the Canadian Cartographic Association and in 2015 was the recipient of the Inaugural Award from the GIScience Study Group of the Canadian Association of Geographers for Lifetime Achievement and GIScience Excellence. In 2017 he contributed articles on the History of GIS and Tobler’s First Law of Geography to the International Encyclopedia of Geography. He is now Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Calgary.