Nigel Waters

Professor Ph.D., University of Western Ontario Telephone: (703) 993-4687 Email: nwaters@gmu.edu Office: 254B Research Hall

Expertise

• Transportation GIS
• Web-based GIS
• GIS and SDSS
• GIS and Sustainability
• Medical GIS
• GIS, Media and Democracy, Networks

Recent Publications

• Tenenbaum, H. S. and Waters, N. M. 2011. Spatial Patterns of Subprime Mortgages by Local Banks, Non-Local Banks, and Independents in Continental U.S. Environment and Planning A, 43, 1761-1778.
• Hansen, C. V., Sun, H. E. and Waters, N. M. 2011. The Media Communications Environment through a Spatial Lens: The Mapping the Media in the Americas Project. Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 36, #1, 141-5.
• Patel, A. B., Tu, J. V., Waters, N. M., Ko, D. T., Eisenberg, M. J., Thao Huynh, T., Rinfret,S., Knudtson, M. and Ghali, W. A. 2010.  Access to Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Canada: A Geographic Analysis. Open Medicine, 2010; 4(1): e13–e21.
  
• Seel, K. and Waters, N. M. 2009. Complex, Adaptive Systems, Through Time and Across Space: A Case Study of the Deregulated Alberta Electrical Power Generation Industry. Ch. 14, p.187-207 in A. Reggiani and P. Nijkamp (eds) Complexity and Spatial Networks: In Search of Simplicity. Springer, Berlin, New York.
• Delparte, D. M., Jamieson, B. and Waters, N. M. 2008. Statistical runout modeling of snow avalanches using GIS in Glacier National Park, Canada. Cold Regions Science and Technology, v54 #3, 183-92.
• Waters, N.M. 2008. Representing Surfaces in the Natural Environment: Implications for Research and Geographical Education. Ch. 3 in Representing, Modeling and Visualizing the Natural Environment: Innovations in GIS 13, (N. Mount et al., eds), CRC Press, Florida.
• van Wyngaarden, R. and Waters, N. M. 2007. An Unfinished Revolution: Gaining Perspective on the Future of GIS. Cover article for GeoWorld, vol. 20, #9, pp. 22-25.
• Vik Stronen, A., Paquet, P., Herrero, S., Sharpe, S., and Waters, N. 2007. Translocation and Recovery Efforts for the Telkwa Caribou, Rangifer tarandus caribou, Herd in westcentral British Columbia 1997-2005, Canadian Field Naturalist, 121, 155-163.
• Patel, A., Waters, N. M. and Ghali, W., 2007. Determining geographic areas and populations with timely access to cardiac catheterization facilities for acute myocardial infarction care in Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Health Geographics, 6 (47).
• Sun, H., Forsythe, W. K. and Waters, N. M. 2007. Modelling Urban Land Use Change and Urban Sprawl: Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Networks and Spatial Economics, 7(4), pp. 353-376.
• Waters, N.M. 2006. Network and Nodal Indices: Measures of Complexity and Redundancy: A Review. Spatial Dynamics, Network and Modelling, (A. Reggiani & P. Nijkamp, eds.) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA, USA.
• Forsythe, W. K. and Waters, N. M., 2006. The Utilization of Image Texture Measures in Urban Change Detection. Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation, vol. 4, pp. 287-296.
• Li, K. and Waters, N.M., 2005. Transportation Networks, Case-Based Reasoning and Traffic Collision Analysis: A Methodology for the 21st Century, Chapter 4 in Methods and Models in Transport and Telecommunications, edited by Reggiani, A., and Schintler, L. A.; Springer, New York.
• Jennifer, C., Bow, D., Waters, N.M., Faris, P.D., Seidel, J.E., Galbraith, P.D., Knudtson, M.L., Ghali, W.A., and APPROACH Investigators. 2004. Accuracy of city postal code coordinates as a proxy for location of residence. International Journal of Health Geographics, 3(5).
• Waters, N.M. 1999. Transportation GIS: GIS-T. P.A. Longley, M.F. Goodchild, D.J. Maguire, and D.W. Rhind (Eds.) Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Management and Applications. Wiley. pp. 827-844.

Research

• Transportation GIS and Sensor Location Modeling for Northern Virginia
• Ambulance Coverage Models
• Mapping Diversity of Student Origins in Global Health Programs
• Analysis of Crime Patterns in Fairfax and Alexandria
• GIS for Condominium Management
• Classic Data Sets for Location-Allocation Modeling
• Geospatial Infrastructure for Emerging Economies
• Optimization of Volunteer Geographic Services