Officers and Councilors of the Society

OFFICERS

Chairman of the Council - John E. Gould, Esq.
Partner, Thompson Hine; Chairman, New Choral Society of Central Westchester; Secretary, Harvard Club of New York; Past Director, Harvard Law School Association of New York; Past President, Fordham College Alumni Association; Past President, Scarsdale Golf Club.

President - Dr. Jerome (Jerry) E. Dobson

Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and Corresponding Individual Member of the International Geographical Union. He previously served as a Distinguished Research & Development Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, President of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), Contributing Editor of GeoWorld magazine, U. S. Delegate and Expert to the International Standards Organization, member of the Editorial Advisory Board of GISWorld, member of the Steering Committee of the National Committee for Digital Cartographic Data Standards, Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Geography of Arizona State University, member of the Editorial Board of The Professional Geographer, and member of the Steering Committee of The Applied Geography Conferences. His current research focuses on improving methods and technology for mapping minefields. Previously, he led development of the LandScan Global Population Database which has become the world standard for estimating populations at risk during natural disasters, wars, and terrorist acts. LandScan recently gained widespread acclaim as the only feasible means of estimating populations impacted by the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.

President Emeritus - Dr. William P. Doyle
Retired Vice President, Texaco Inc. and past President, Texaco's Middle East/Far East Division; formerly Vice President of Exploration and Producing for Texaco Latin America/West Africa, Vice President of Exploration and Producing for Texaco Europe, and Managing Director of Texaco Limited for Exploration and Producing.

Vice President - Dr. Alexander B. Murphy

Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon; degrees in archaeology (Yale), law (Columbia), and geography (University of Chicago); editorial board, the Geographical Review;chair, Advanced Placement Geography Committee; Past President, Association of American Geogaphers; National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991-1996; extensive publications on the political, cultural, and environmental geography of Europe.

Treasurer - John J. McCabe
Senior Vice President, Shay Assets Management Co.; former Chief Investment Officer, Nationar, Inc; former Managing Director, Sterling Manhattan Corp.; President, New York Society of Security Analysts; Fellow, Financial Analysts Federation; Member, National Association of Petroleum Analysts; Adjunct Professor of Finance, Saint Francis College; former Managing Director, Investment Management Group, Bankers Trust Co.

Assistant Treasurer - Dr. David J. Keeling
Professor of Geography and Department Head, Department of Geography and Geology, Western Kentucky University; specialist in development geography and on Latin America, with twenty years experience working for international business firms in England, Australia, and the U.S.; author of Buenos Aires: Global Dreams, Local Crises (1996) and Contemporary Argentina: A Geographical Perspective (1997), and several book chapters, articles and reviews. David is the AGS Webmaster and a regular lecturer on the AGS Travel Program.

Secretary - John Noble Wilford
Senior science correspondent, New York Times; author: The Mapmakers (1981), The Mysterious History of Columbus (1991), and numerous other books and articles; winner: two Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting, many other awards and honorary degrees; assignments throughout U.S. and to Europe, former Soviet Union, China, Mongolia, Canada’s Northwest Territories, Mexico, the Amazon, the Caribbean, among others; co-chairman, Mercator Society

Assistant Secretary -- Dr. Marie Daly Price
Professor and Chair, The George Washington University; lecturer for State Department Foreign Service Institute; extensive field work in and publications on Latin America, especially Andean, Central American and Caribbean areas, and on environmental issues; referee for several scholarly journals and for National Science Foundation research proposals.

AGS COUNCILORS

Dr. John W. Frazier Co-Chair, Department of Geography, director, GIS Core Facility, and director, Graduate Program at Binghamton University- State University of New York; founder and past CEO, GeoDemographics, Ltd; creator and past co-director, Applied Geography Conference; author of books, chapters, and articles focused on demographic, environmental, housing, and economic development issues.

Dr. Susan Hardwick
Professor of Geography and Education Project Director, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon; president, National Council for Geographic Education; ethnic geographer, also prominent in geographic education and in work on gender issues; author of Russian Refuge: Religion, Migration, and Settlement on the North American Pacific Rim (1993), etc.; “Statewide Outstanding Professor Award” from California State University System (1995) and numerous other awards for excellence in teaching.

Gilbert Hetherwick
Music consultant and producer (www.grouse-house-productions.com) - Formerly President of Sony BMG Masterworks (Classical and Broadway division). Also formerly General Manager of Angel Records/EMI Classics, as well as SVP of International Marketing for Sony Classical (focus on Asian and European classical markets). Degree in Architecture from Louisiana State University. Songwriter, recording producer and engineer, and a photographer. Has always had an intense interest in Geography, History, and Politics.

Dr. Frederick E. Nelson
Professor of Geography, University of Delaware. Field experience in Alaska, northern Canada, Siberia, Mongolia, the Tibetan Plateau, and the tropical Andes. Author or co-author of eight monographs and edited volumes, and more than 120 peer-reviewed papers on permafrost science, periglacial geomorphology, the effects of climate change in the Arctic, and the history of cryospheric science. Past President, U.S. Permafrost Association. Contributing Author (1989, 1995, 2007) and Lead Author (2001) of chapters in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports. Chair of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Cryosphere Specialty Group (2003-2005) and the AAG Archives and Association History Committee (2004-present). National Fellow of the Explorers Club. Previous positions: Rutgers University (Professor of Geography and Director of the Graduate Program in Geography), SUNY-Albany (Professor of Geography and Geology), Cornell University (Visiting Professor of Geology and Physical Geography), University of Wisconsin-Madison (Honorary Fellow), University of Michigan (Visiting Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences).

Patrick O'Neill
Mining engineer; consultant to mining firms operating in South and Central America, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Dominican Republic, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia; former president or chairman of : International Mining Corp., Pata Consolidated Inc., South American Placers, Inc., Frontino Gold Mines, Ltd., Consolidated Purchasing & Designing, Inc., Companía Minera Choco Pacífico, Igloo #4 Pioneers of Alaska, Arctic Institute of North America, Joslin Diabetes Center; numerous publications on mining and dredging of precious metals.

Dr. Clifton W. Pannell
Professor of Geography and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia; frequent visiting professor at University of Hong Kong, U.S. Military Academy at West Point; specialist on East Asia, especially China, with particular emphasis on urbanization, land use, and economics; numerous award winning publications.

Dr. Deborah Popper
Pofessor of Gography at the College of Staten Island and Graduate Center of the City University of New York and, with her husband Frank Popper, at Princeton University since 2001. Her work has focused on how regions adjust to environmental pressures and population loss. With her husband, Frank Popper of Rutgers University, she developed the concept of the Buffalo Commons, a metaphor that has served as a guide for a future based on ecological restoration. She is currently working on developing comparable alternatives for other American regions. In addition to serving on the governing board of the American Geographical Society, she is also on the National Center for Frontier Communities board. Dr. Popper is a Paul P. Vouras Medalist.

Dr. Rickie Sanders
Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University, received her Ph.D. in Geography from The Ohio State University. From 1996-2000, she served as Director of the nationally recognized Finding A Way (FAW) project funded by the NSF/NCGE, which explored issues of pedagogy and under-representation in geography classrooms. She is co-author of Growing Up in America: An Atlas of Youth in the USA and has published over 50 articles pertaining to her interest in pedagogy, gender, race/ethnicity, photography, and urban studies. She has also received numerous local and national awards for outstanding teaching.

Dr. H. Gregory Smith
Chief Scientist for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), also representing NGA on a number of intelligence committees and on the Federal Geographic Data Committee Steering Committee. Prior to start of his government career in 1995, he spent nearly 20 years in senior technical and management positions in industry and academia including research and development, at such places as the Space Sciences Laboratory, Environmental Remote Sensing Applications Laboratory, GTE Corp, Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Corp. among others.

Dava Sobel
is the author of Longitude (Walker 1995 and 2005, Penguin 1996), Galileo's Daughter (Walker 1999, Penguin 2000) and The Planets (Viking 2005); editor of Letters to Father (Walker 2001, Penguin Classic 2003) and Best American Science Writing 2004 (Ecco 2004); co- author, with William J. H. Andrewes, of The Illustrated Longitude (Walker 1998 and 2003). She is the 2006 Vare Nonfiction Writer in Residence at the University of Chicago, and has received the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board (2001), the Bradford Washburn Award from the Boston Museum of Science (2001), the Harrison Medal from the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (2004), the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1997), a Christopher Award (2000), and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1999).