Personnel

Trevor M. Harris, Director of GeoVirtual Laboratory and Chair of Geology and Geography

Dr. Harris is the Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of Geography and Department Chairperson at West Virginia University, Co-Director of the West Virginia State GIS Technical Center, and President of VRGIS Corporation. He received his BA in Geography and History (Joint Honors), 1974, University of Hull, United Kingdom, and his Ph.D. in Geography, 1982, University of Hull, United Kingdom and specialized in Geographic Information Sciences. Dr. Harris' research interests include Geographic Information Science; GIS and Virtual Reality; GIS and Society; GIS in the humanities; GIS and archeology/historical geography; Environmental Impact Assessment; Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis; and Expert Systems and Neural Network approaches to Soil Erosion. He has published 31 peer reviewed publications and 24 non-peer reviewed publications and technical reports and presented over 100 conference presentations and 43 invited presentations. Dr. Harris has obtained and managed in excess of $9,250,000 in external funded academic research projects from Federal, state, and private industry, with sponsors including NIMA, NSF (3), FGDC, USEPA, American Electric Power, National Guard Bureau, USGS, NSDI, and NASA.