Faculty Details

Daniel Sui
Address: 1036B Derby Hall
Phone: 688-5441
Email: sui.10@osu.edu
Current CV: Download (PDF)
Personal Webpage: http://cura.osu.edu/people/staff/staff.htm
Interests: GIScience, Social Media, Volunteered Geographic Information, Health, and Security Implications of Climate Change

Dan Sui is the Current Chair of the Dept. of Geography.

Current Research: My current research focuses on four areas: 1. GIS-based spatial analysis and synthesis for urban, environmental, and public health applications; 2. Volunteered geographic information and the use of social media as a new data source for geographic research; 3. Legal and ethical issues of using geospatial technologies in society; 4. Coupling of human and natural systems and security implications of climate change.

Courses Taught:
Geography 8501-Seminar on Spatial Organization of Cities
Geography 5224-Emerging Topics in GIScience
Geography 5221-Intermediate GIS
Geography 5191-Professional Development Seminar

Select Publications:
Sui, D.Z., Elwood, S. and M.F. Goodchild (eds.), 2012. Volunteered Geographic Information, Public Participation, and Crowdsourced Production of Geographic Knowledge. Berlin: Springer.

Sui, D.Z., 2012. Looking through Hägerstrand's dual vistas: towards a unified framework for time geography. Journal of Transport Geography (special issue on time geography) (in press).

Sui, D.Z. and M.F. Goodchild, 2011. The convergence of GIS with Social media: New challenges for GIScience. International Journal of Geographic Information Science (in press).

Sui, D.Z. and D. DeLyser, 2011. Crossing the qualitative-quantitative chasm I: Hybrid geographies, the spatial turn, and volunteered geographic information (VGI). Progress in Human Geography (in press, published on-line)).

Elwood, S.E., Goodchild, M.F., and D.Z. Sui, 2011. Researching the geocrowd: Volunteered geographic information and geographic research. Annals of the AAG (in press).