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 and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, CURA

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).