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Before coming to the U, I was supervising graduate students in diverse projects that have at their core a commitment to using visual representations to enable geographic inquiry. PhD students of mine have applied geovisualization concepts to specific problem areas (such as LiDAR-enabled rock art panel conservation or GIS-based change detection of land cover) and considered more fundamental “pure” questions of geovisualization and cartographic design (such as the representation of uncertainty, the connections of 20th century popular cartography to parallel visual arts movements, and the diversification of geovisualization users). Here at Minnesota, I would like to advise students interested in similar questions and problems, with particular foci on theories and applications of sound and music to maps and interfaces, on explorations of the authority vested in maps by science and the public, or on questions of culturally specific connotations of interface and cartographic elements. If you are interested in working with me, please send me a short cv and statement of your research interests.