Partner Bios

In an effort to promote communication and awareness about geospatial technology education and applications in North Dakota a list of users has been provided below. Realizing there are many more people and institutions in the state utilizing geospatial technology, we would like to continually expand this list. Please email Gregory Vandeberg if you would like to be included in the list.

Selected Partners

Gary Halvorson

Institution: Sitting Bull College
Position: Agriculture Division Director
Interests: Native culture, science
Expertise: Soil Chemistry
Email: garyh@sbci.edu

Bob Nutsch

Institution: State of North Dakota Information Technology Department
Position: GIS Coordinator
Email: bnutsch@nd.gov

Peter Oduor

Institution: North Dakota State University, Department of Geosciences
Position: Associate Professor of Geology and Geography
Email: peter.oduor@ndsu.edu

Angie Milakovic

Institution: Bismarck State College, Department of Science and Engineering
Position: Geographic Information System Program Coordinator/Professor
Interests: Biogeography, GIS project development/management, topology, various remote sensing applications including NDVI, hyperspectral analyses, and Landsat missions
Expertise: I'm very interested in images related to vegetation change/time and spectral delineation, but I'm not sure anyone can be a true expert in the field because it changes so fast. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I know quite a lot about it.
Email: Angela.Milakovic@bsc.nodak.edu

Daniel Buresh

Institution: Sitting Bull College
Position: Environmental Science Instructor
Email: dan.buresh@sittingbull.edu

Douglas C. Munski

Institution: University of North Dakota, Department of Geography
Position: Faculty Member/Professor
Interests: K-12 and GER course applicationsof geospatial technologies
Expertise: I am still at the neophyte stage as I am technologically challenged
Email: douglas.munski@UND.edu

Laura Munski

Institution: Dakota Science Center
Position: Executive Director
Interests: Providing teachers with the Mapping Your World textbook and hands-on experience using it.
Expertise: liaison between teachers and university faculty
Email: lmunski@yahoo.com

Stacie Blue

Institution: Turtle Mountain Community College
Position: Environmental Science Instructor
Email: sblue@tm.edu

Brad Rundquist

Institution: University of North Dakota
Position: Professor and Dean, Department of Geography & GISc., College of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Land use/land cover change mapping, spatial and temporal variation in remotely sensed vegetation condition, remote detection of invasive plant species, general environmental remote sensing, proximal remote sensing, remote sensing education.
Expertise: Land cover classification, proximal remote sensing
Email: bradley.rundquist@und.edu

James Casler

Institution: North Dakota Space Grant Consortium
Position: Director North Dakota Space
Email: casler@space.edu

Gregory Vandeberg

Institution: University of North Dakota, Department of Geography & GISc.
Position: Professor and Chair
Interests: Surface water quality including nutrients and heavy metals, fluvial and glacial geomorphology, disturbed land reclamation, GIS and remote sensing applications for environmental problems.
Expertise: geomorphology, GIS and GPS systems
Email: gregory.vandeberg@und.edu