August 2005

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

LAWRENCE WILLIAM CRISSMAN, Ph.D Anthropology

 

Born 09 February 1940 in Cedar Rapids, IA, USA.  Married with two adult children.  US and Australian Citizenship.

Home Address: 74 Arnold Street, Holland Park, QLD 4121, Australia.  Phone +61-7-3394-2964.

University Address: Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Nathan (Brisbane), QLD 4111, Australia. 

Phone: +61-7-3875-7285.  Fax: +61-7-3875-5111

E-mail: l.crissman@griffith.edu.au  Internet site: www.asian.gu.edu.au

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

 

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Asian and International Studies, Griffith Business School, 1 July, 2005

Associate Professor, Schools of Modern Asian Studies, Asian and International Studies, and International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, 1996 2003; Department of Asian and International Studies, Griffith Business School, 2005.

Director, Spatial Data Projects, Griffith Asia Pacific Research Institute (GAPRI), 2002 through 2003.

Director, Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network. (ACASIAN), Griffith University, 1994 through 2001. (Director manqué 1992-1993.)

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer, School of Modern Asian Studies and Faculty of Asian and International Studies, Griffith University, 1978 to 1984 / 1985 to 1995.

Instructor / Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Associate in the Center for Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1969 to 1973 / 1974 to 1977.

Fellow (half-time), Center for Advance Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1969 -1970.

Physical Anthropology Lab Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, 1964-5 & 1969.

 

DEGREES:

 

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1964-69:  Ph.D in Anthropology (Minors in Physical Anthropology and Asian Studies - China), 1973.

State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1962-64:  B.A., with Honors, in Chinese Language and Civilization (Minor in Anthropology), 1964.

 

OTHER INSTITUTIONS

 

U. S. Army Security Agency, Army Language School, Monterey, CA, (Russian Language) and Chitose, Japan, 1959-1962.

California Institute of Technology, 1957-1958.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Documentation and Analysis of Land Use Change in China

Spatial and Social Organisation of Traditional and Contemporary China

Social Organisation of the Overseas Chinese

Cognitive-Structural Models of Socio-Cultural Systems

 

RECENT TEACHING INVOLVEMENTS

 

Asian Geography and Social Organisation; Historical Demography; Population Dynamics; Population, Development, and Environment; Anthropology and Ethnography; Family, Gender, and Sexuality; Doing Social Science; Traditional and Contemporary Chinese Society.

 

RESEARCH HIGHER DEGREE STUDENTS (recent years):

 

Ph.D Completions/Students                              Mphil Completions

Kenneth Junqi DONG, completed 1996                Fan CHEN, completed 1995

Veny Lee, completed 2002

Paul Howard, scheduled to complete 2005        Honours, First Class

                   Simone Dennis, completed 1997

 


PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND CONTRIBUTIONS (recent years):

 

China in Time and Space (CITAS) Project: Policy and Planning Committee, 1992-94.

International Geographical Union – Land Use Cover Change Study Group, now an IGU-LUCC Commission: Full member 1995 – present.

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) – ACASIAN was a Primary ECAI Centre:  Editor of the China Atlas Team and member of the Content and Scholarship Committee, 2001-2005; Leader, then Co-Leader of GIS Technical Team, 1998-2005; Past and Present Member of Cartography Technical Team, Caucasus Atlas Team, Southeast Asian Atlas Team, Tibet Atlas Team, Boundaries and Territory Thematic Team, and the ECAI Tech Team.

China Historical GIS Project (CHGIS):  Member of Management and Advisory Committees, 2000-05. Responsibilities for the initial spatio-temporal relational database design, 1999; Improvements to the design, 2000; and its implementation, 2001.

 

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) SPATIAL DATA PRODUCTION:

 

Research Databases produced for the SIIASA and SIIRCEASA Consortia of Australian Universities  (major ones, only):

 

‘Preliminary County‑level (ADM3) Administrative Divisions for the 1990 PRC Census.'  1994.

'Language Atlas of China Spatial Databases.'  Preliminary, 1994.

‘Land‑use Map of China Spatial Databases – Administrative Boundaries, Cities, Towns, Roads, and Railroads.'  1994.

‘The Complete ADM1-3 Administrative System of the Former Soviet Union as of the 1989 Census at 1:1m Scale.'  1996.  Prepared in conjunction with the Department of Cartography, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences.  Includes The Russian Federation and all other Newly Independent States, comprising Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.’

'Land‑use Map of China Spatial Databases – Dense Hydrography.'  1995, modified in 2000.

'Land-use Map of China Spatial Databases – Land-use Polygons (165,000).'  1996, revised 1998.

 

Research Databases created for ACASIAN and GAPRI, and Individually:

 

‘Meiji Era Gun-level Spatial Data for Japan, for Prof. G. W. Skinner, UC Davis, 1992.

‘Spatial Data for the Putian Region, Fujian Province, for Prof. Ken Dean, McGill, 1995.

‘South East Asian Administrative Divisions and Capitals’:  ADM1, 2 & 3 for Myanmar (Burma), and ADM1 for Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, 1997.

‘Administrative Divisions for the PRC.’ County-level plus most Urban Districts, for years 1980 to 2000.  Updated yearly, 1997-2005.

‘China Official Cities and Towns.’  Latter as of the 1990 census).  1997, Revised 2000 and 2001.

‘China Low Resolution Datasets’: 1996 and 1997 Provincial Boundaries and Integrated Major Rivers and Lakes, Navigable Waterways, Grand Canal, and Great Wall, 1998.

‘East Timor Datasets’: ADM 1 & 2 Administrative Divisions and Capitals, Other Towns, Roads, and Elevations, 1999.

‘China Transport Network: Roads, Rails, and Navigable Waterways at 1:1m Scale.’  1997, revised in 2000.

‘North Korea Datasets’: ADM1 & 2 Administrative Divisions and Capitals; ADM3 Administrative Seats, Highways and Local Roads, and Railroads, 2000.

‘South Korea Datasets’: ADM1 & 2 Administrative Divisions and Capitals and ADM3 Urban Districts, 2000.

‘South Asia Administrative Divisions and Capitals.’ ADM1, 2 & 3 for Bangladesh and Nepal; ADM 1 & 2 for Bhutan.  2000.

'Language Atlas of China Spatial Databases.'  Final ‘A’ Series Maps, 2000.

'Language Atlas of China Spatial Databases.'  Final ‘B’ and ‘C’ Series Maps, 2001.

‘Turkey Dataset’: ADM1 & 2 Administrative Divisions and Capitals.  2002.

‘Sri Lanka Dataset’: ADM1, old and new; & ADM2, 1971, 1981, and 2001.  2002.

‘Mongolia Dataset.’  ADM1 & 2 Administrative Divisions and Capitals.  2003.

‘PR China Townships’.  Approximately 55,000 points matching the 2000 census returns.  2003.

‘China Expressways Dataset.’  2004.

‘Language Atlas of the Pacific Area Spatial Databases.’  Vectorisation complete, 2004.

‘Pakistan Dataset.’  ADM1, 2, & 3 1998 Administrative Divisions and Capitals.’  2004.

‘Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.’  Updates to match 2001 censuses, 2004.

 


Research Databases (in progress):

 

‘Language Atlas of China Spatial Databases.’ Spatial data rectification continues.

'Language Atlas of the Pacific Area Spatial Databases.’  Polygon coding continues.

‘The Complete ADM1-3 Administrative System of the Former Soviet Union as of the 1959 Census at 1:1m Scale.'  Work in conjunction with the Department of Cartography, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences continues. 

Refining the 55,000 township-level points matching the PRC 2000 census data.

Updating of the China Transport – Roads Dataset, including refining the new expressways.

Updating of the China Transport – Railroads Dataset, on the basis of new map information.

 

Commercial Data Sets (shrink wrapped, distribution by ERSIS Australia Pty. Ltd. and MapInfo resellers):

 

'High Resolution Provincial Boundaries and Capitals of China.'  (33 of each).  1995.

'High Resolution Municipality and Prefectural Boundaries and Capitals of China.'  (approx. 350)  1995.

'High Resolution County and Municipal Boundaries of China.'  (approx. 2,400)  1995.

'Official Cities and other Prefectural and County Capitals of China.'  (approx. 2,400)  1995.

'High Resolution Two-Digit Postal Code Zone Boundaries of the PRC.'  (approx. 70)  1996.

'Six-Digit Postal Codes for Official Cities and Towns of the PRC.' .(approx. 12,500)  1996.

 

ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS:

 

Henderson, Mark, G. W. Skinner, and L. W. Crissman (1999) ‘Conceptualizing HRS and Constructing Tabular and Spatial Datafiles.’  Paper presented in the symposium on A Hierarchical Regional Space Model for Contemporary China, Geoinformatics ’99 Conference, China Data Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 20 June 1999.  Availible at: http://www.fas.Harvard.edu/~chgis/data/skinner/geoinform99.htm.

‘The Language Atlas of China Datasets,’ Proceedings, Eighth ECAI Meeting (U.California, Berkeley, CA, USA, 11-17 January, 2000), 2000, CD-ROM, UC Berkeley.

‘The China Historical GIS Project’ Proceedings, 2001 PNC: Annual Conference & Joint Meetings (Hong Kong University, 15-20 January, 2001), 2001, CD-ROM, Computing Centre, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R. O. C.

‘Revised Draft CHGIS Database Design And Geocoding System’ (10/07/01), at  www.asian.gu.edu.au/publications/.

‘Solution to the Parent-Child Multiple Problem in the Spatio-Temporal Database Design for the CHGIS Project’ (18/9/2001), at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/work/design/ under Related Papers and Presentations and on the China Historical GIS, Version 1 CD-ROM (April 2002). First presented at the International Workshop on Historical GIS (Fudan University, Shanghai, August 23-25, 2001).

China Historical GIS, Version 1. (April 2002), Bol, Peter K., and Jianxiong Ge, eds.; Peter K. Bol, Lawrence Crissman, Jianxiong Ge, D. T. Lee, and G. William Skinner, editorial board. CD-ROM, Harvard Yenching Institute; Fudan University, Center for Historical Geography; Griffith University, ACASIAN.

‘Preparing the Digital GIS Language Atlas of China for the ECAI e-Publication Program’, Proceedings, PNC 2002 – Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, (University of Shimane, Shimane, Japan, September 15-18, 2002).

‘Strategic (Base Map) Data Availability for Southeast Asia’, Proceedings, PNC 2002 – Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, (Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan, September 22-24, 2002).

‘Assembling the Building Blocks of Southeast Asia GIS Databases’, PNC 2003 Proceedings: Cultural Heritage and Collaboration in the Digital Age (Princess Maha Chahri Sivindhorn Anthropology Centre (CAS), Bangkok, Thailand, November 7-9, 2003).

China Historical GIS, Version 2. (April 2004), and Version 3 (May 2005), Bol, Peter K., and Jianxiong Ge, eds.; Peter K. Bol, Lawrence Crissman, Jianxiong Ge, D. T. Lee, and G. William Skinner, editorial board. CD-ROM, Harvard Yenching Institute; Fudan University, Center for Historical Geography; Griffith University, ACASIAN.

 


CONVENTIONAL PUBLICATIONS:

 

Co-Authored Monographs;

 

Stern, Aaron, and Lawrence W. Crissman, Maps of International Borders between Mainland Southeast Asian Countries and Background Information Concerning Population Movements at these Borders.  Bangkok (TH): The Asian Research Centre for Migration, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 1998.

Singhasivanon, P. (Corresponding Author), et. al., 1999, ‘Mekong Malaria: Malaria, Multi-Drug Resistance and Economic Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion of Southeast Asia, Incorporating Geographical Information Systems Databases.’  Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, Volume 30, Supplement 4.  Crissman is one of approximately forty co-authors, but contributed the spatial data foundation for the GIS malaria analysis.

 

Book Chapters:

 

'Marketing on the Changhua Plain, Taiwan,' in W. E. Willmott ed., Economic Organization in Chinese Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford U. Press, 1972, pp. 212-259.

'The Segmentary Structure of Urban Overseas Chinese Communities,' reprinted  in City Ways: A Selective Reader in Urban Anthropology, John Friedl and Noel J. Chrisman, eds. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975, pp. 274-297.

'Specific Central-Place Models for an Evolving System of Market Towns on the Changhua Plain, Taiwan,' in Carol A.  Smith, ed., Regional Analysis, Volume I (Economic Systems), New York:  Academic Press, 1976, pp. 183-218.

'Spatial Aspects of Marriage Patterns as Influenced by Marketing Behaviour in Southwestern Changhua Hsien, Taiwan,' in Carol A. Smith, ed., Regional Analysis, Volume II (Social Systems), New York:  Academic Press, 1976, pp. 123-148.

'The Structure of Local and Regional Systems', in Emily M. Ahern and Hill Gates, eds., The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society, Stanford, Stanford UP, 1981, pp. 89-124.

'The Physical and Ethnic Geography of East and Southeast Asia,' in Colin Mackerras, ed., Eastern Asia:  An Introductory History.  Melbourne:  Longman Cheshire, 1992, pp. 7-29; revised for Colin Mackerras, ed., Eastern Asia:  An Introductory History (Second Edition), Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, 1995, pp. 16-39.  Also published with the title East and Southeast Asia: a Multidisciplinary Survey, Lynne Rienner, 1995, pp. 16-39.  Again revised for Colin Mackerras, ed., Eastern Asia:  An Introductory History (Third Edition), Frenchs Forest (NSW), Longman (Pearson Education Australia), 2000, pp. 15-34.

'The Segmentation and Integration of the Chinese in Brisbane, Australia,' with George Beattie and James Selby. Reprinted in Family, Kinship, and Ethnic Identity among the Overseas Chinese, University Press of America, 1995, pp. 181-203.

‘Documenting Land Use Change in China Using Digital Video, GPS, and GIS Technologies,’ in E. Milanova, Y. Himiyama, and I. Bicik, eds., Understanding Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Global and Regional Context, Enfield (NH), Science Publishers, 2005.

 

Articles in Refereed Academic Journals:

 

'The Segmentary Structure of Urban Overseas Chinese Communities, 'Man (n.s.), Vol. 2, No. 2 (June 1967), pp. 185-204.

'On Networks,' Cornell Journal of Social Relations, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1969), pp. 72-81.

'A Discussion of Ethnicity and Its Relations To Commerce', Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-2 (1977).

'The Segmentation and Integration of the Chinese in Brisbane, Australia,' by Lawrence Crissman,  George Beattie and James Selby, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Summer 1985), pp. 181-203.

'Multiple Identities: The Southeast Asian Chinese in Australia,' Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring 1991), pp. 25-37.

‘Application of Geographical Information Systems to Co-Analysis of Disease and Economic Resources: Denge and Malaria in Thailand,’ by Kaemthong Indaratna, Raymond Hutubessy, Sirichai Chupraphawan, Chotima Sukapurana, Jiang Tao, Supamit Chunsutthiwat, Lawrence Crissman, and Krongthong Thimasarn, Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine, Vol. 29, No. 4 (December, 1998), pp. 669-686.

‘Modelling Pollution and Cost in the Transportation Sector of the Coke-making Industry in Shanxi Province, China,’ by Steven Kraines, Takeyoshi Akatsuka, Lawrence W. Crissman, Karen R. Polenske, and Hiroshi Komiyama.  Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 6, Nos 3 & 4 (Summer/Fall 2002), pp. 161-184.

 

Articles in Technical Journals:

 

'Australian spatial data-capture technology underlies Spatial Information Infrastructure for Asia', Geodetical Info Magazine (The Netherlands), Vol. 6, No. 10, (October, 1992) pp. 27-31.

'Design and Implementation of Historical Dimensions in the SIIASA/China GIS Project Databases',  by Lawrence Crissman and Paul Yates.  GIS User: The Australasian Geographic Information Systems Applications Journal, No. 9 (November 1994-January 1995), pp. 54-56.

 

Published Conference Papers:

 

'The SIIASA China GIS Database,' by N. W. J. Hazelton, L. W. Crissman, and P. Yates, Proceedings of AURISA '93, (Adelaide, November 1993), pp. 143-52.

'The China Geographical Information System Project and the Proposal to Establish a Spatial Information Infrastructure for Asian Studies in Australia,' Proceedings of the Inaugural Joint Conference of the New Zealand Geographical Society and the Institute of Australian Geographers (Auckland, January 1992), New Zealand Geographical Society Conference Series No. 16, 1994, pp. 100-104.

'The Russian Federation and Former Soviet Republics GIS Project,' InterCarto: GIS for Environmental Studies and Mapping Conference Proceedings (Moscow, 23-25 May, 1994), 1994, pp. 139-140.

‘Issues and Techniques for Spatial Data Generation’ and ‘Problems in Determining Land Use/Cover Change from Vector Data,’ Proceedings of IGU-LUCC’97: Information Bases for Land Use/Cover Change Research (Brisbane, July 1-4, 1997), 1997, pp. 1-6 and 152-155, respectively

‘The Joint Sustainable Rural Systems and Land Use Cover Change Sessions – Discussant Commentary’ and ‘Is There Enough Arable Land to Sustain Further Development in China?,’ Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the IGU Commission for the Sustainability of Rural Systems and Land Use/Cover Change Study Group: Sustaining Rural Systems in the Context of Global Change (Armidale, July 5-12, 1997), 1998, pp. 235-237 and 293-303, respectively.

‘GIS and Coding:  Marking–up Databases, Images, and Texts,’ Proceedings, 1999 EBTI, ECAI, SEER, & PNC Joint Meeting (Academia Sinica, Taipei, R.O. C., January 18-21, 1999), 1999, pp. 195-202.

‘Availability and Utility of Land Use/Cover Data: A North China Plain Example,’ Proceedings of 1999 NIES Workshop on Information Bases and Modelling for Land-use and Land-cover Changes Studies in East Asia, edited by Kuninori Otsubo (Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Environmental Agency of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan, January 25-27, 1999) 1999, pp.110-114.

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

 

‘Transforming the Spatial Information Infrastructure for Asian Studies in Australia into a Self Funded Operation,’ presented in the Symposium on Leading Change Within the University: The Academic Leadership and Commercial Management Conundrum, sponsored by the Managing in Turbulent Times Program (Part I), South-East Queensland Region Management Development Program for University Executives (Brisbane, August 27-29, 1997).

‘GIS and the Study of Chinese Business,’ Asian Business History/Chinese Intellectual History Series (University of Queensland, Brisbane, May 21, 1999).

‘Issues in creating historical GIS spatial data,’ International Workshop on Historical GIS and Cultural Resource Management, Thua Thien – Hue, Vietnam 7-8 January, 2000.

‘A Temporal Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Post-war Republic of Georgia Census Dates,’ presented in the Opening Plenary Session of the Conference on ‘The urgent problems for the study of Historical Resources: theoretical, methodological and computer aspects,’ Commission for the Study of Georgian Historical Sources, Academy of Sciences of Georgia (Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, October 1-3, 2002).

‘Documenting Landuse in Southeast China’, China-Japan Land Use Change 2004 Winter Workshop at Asahikawa, Hokkaido University of Education, February 15-17, 2004.

 


INFRASTRUCTURE, RESEARCH, AND TRAINING GRANTS (all figures in Australian dollars):

 

$1,500 - University Research Grant for 'A study of Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in the People's Republic of China,' with Dr. Paul Ivory.  1985.

$1,500 - University Research Grant for 'Computer Programming and Data Entering Assistance for a Study of Stratification and Mobility in the Nanking period, Republican China.'  1986.

$11,345 - Major Research Facilities Fund, Griffith University, for 'Bibliographic materials on China,' with Prof. Colin MacKerras and Dr. Edmund Fung.  1987.

$1,500 - Divisional Research Grant for 'Stratification and Mobility in the Nanking Period, Republican China.'  1988.

$18,000 - Generation 5 Technology, USA, University Research and Development Grant, donation of Geo/SQL and R:BASE software.  1989.

$15,260 – Asian and International Studies (AIS) Divisional Support: computer equipment outfitted to meet the needs of the China GIS Project was acquired by the Division of Asian and International Studies in the guise of a Divisional Research Computer.  1989.

$1,500 – AIS Divisional Research Grant for 'China GIS Project, Phase I, Software acquisition.  1989.

$6,750 - Australia-China Council, DFAT, for 'Software and Digitised Map Acquisition for the China GIS Project.  1989-90.

$895 - Divisional Staff Development and Training Fund for AutoCAD and AutoLISP training from the AutoDesk Authorised Training Centre, Department of Mechanical Engineering, U. of Queensland, which itself provided significant tuition reductions.  1989-90.

$2,000 - AutoDesk Australia for conversion to the International version of AutoCAD.  1990.

$1,400 – AIS Divisional Staff Development and Training Fund for ORACLE SQL*Plus software training.  1991.

$1,500 – AIS Faculty Research Grant for 'China GIS Project, Phase I, Research Assistance.'  1991.

$8,694 - University Research Grant for 'China GIS Project, Phase I, Research Assistance.'  1991.

$6,000 - University Research Grant for 'China GIS Project, Phase I, Research Assistance.'  1992.

$627,000 - Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Infrastructure Mechanism C funding for the 'Spatial Information Infrastructure for Asian Studies in Australia (SIIASA),' on behalf of a consortium of twelve UNS institutions led by Griffith University.  1992-93.

$130,000 - Griffith University Major Research Facilities Fund Grant for 'Infrastructural Requirements and Research Support Position for the Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network (ACASIAN).'  1993-94.

$20,000 - Contribution from the Faculty of Asian and International Studies to Griffith University's role in the SIIASA Project.  1992-93.

$130,000 - ARC Research Infrastructure Mechanism C funding for 'Spatial Information Infrastructure for Russian and Central Euro-Asian Studies in Australia (SIIRCEASA),' on behalf of a consortium of nine UNS institutions led by Griffith University.  1994.

$325,000 - ARC Research Infrastructure Mechanism C funding for 'Spatial Information Infrastructure for Asian Studies in Australia (SIIASA): Continuation, Extension, and Expansion,' on behalf of a consortium of nineteen UNS institutions led by Griffith University.  1994.

$10,000 - Contribution from the Faculty of Asian and International Studies for the operations for the Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network. 1994.

$23,000 – Griffith University/Industry Collaborative Research Grants Scheme, for 'Development and Marketing of Spatial Data Sets Containing Administrative Boundaries, Postal Codes, and Attribute Information for the PRC' with ERSIS Australia Pty. Ltd. who contributed $13,000 to the total.  1995.

$60,000 – Griffith University Major Research Facilities Fund, for 'Infrastructural Requirements and Research Support Position for the Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network (ACASIAN).'  1995.

$161,000 – ARC Research Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) Program for 'Spatial Information Infrastructure for Asian Studies in Australia (SIIASA): Historical Developments and Environmental Changes,' on behalf of a consortium of twenty-two UNS institutions led by Griffith University.  1995.

$100,000 – ARC Research Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) Program, for 'Spatial Information Infrastructure for Russian and Central Euro-Asian Studies in Australia (SIIRCEASA): Continuation and Elaboration,' on behalf of a consortium of nine UNS institutions led by Griffith University.  1995.

$30,000 - Contribution from the Faculty of Asian and International Studies for the operations for the Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network.  1995.

$1,500 - School of Modern Asian Studies Research Committee, for GIS Workshops and Training for MAS Faculty.  1995.

$100,000 – ARC Research Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) Program for 'Spatial Information Infrastructure for Asian Studies in Australia (SIIASA): Historical Developments and Environmental Changes,' on behalf of a consortium of twenty-two UNS institutions led by Griffith University.  1996.

$35,000 – Major Research Facilities Fund, Griffith University, for 'Infrastructural Requirements and Research Support Position for the Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network (ACASIAN)’.  1996.

$30,000 – Logical Solutions, for 'Support for Research Activities of the Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network, (ACASIAN).’  1996.

$16,000 – AusAID International Seminar Support Scheme for ’Participant travel and expenses to attend the IGU-LUCC First International Symposium,’ hosted by ACASIAN.  1997

$30,000 – Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research for ‘Young Researchers’ travel and expenses to attend the IGU-LUCC First International Symposium and Workshop,’ hosted by ACASIAN.  1997.

$15,000 – Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, Berkeley ‘GIS operations and Language Atlas of China digitisation.’  1998

$8,558 – ARC Small Grant, for ‘Preliminary investigation of land use change on the North China Plain: remote sensing, geographical information systems, and ground truth observations.’  1999.

$64,000 – China Historical GIS Project, Harvard-Yenching Institute, for ‘Spatio-Temporal Database Implementation.’  2001.

$3,000 – Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, Berkeley ‘Publication preparations for the Digital/GIS Language Atlas of China.’  2002.

$2,000 – GAPRI, for a share of the GU ESRI CampusPak software licence.  2003

$5,000 – DVC Research for a share of the GU ESRI CampusPak software licence.  2003.

 

ASSOCIATED RESEARCH GRANTS (all figures in Australian dollars unless noted):

 

US$450,000 – The China in Time and Space (CITAS) Project, University of Washington, Seattle, funded by the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). I was a member of the Policy and Planning Group that obtained the funds.  1993-94.

$110,381 – Associate Investigator in an Australian Research Council Large Grant for ‘Regional analysis of Soviet agricultural development, its natural determinants and changes in its ability to support the population, 1880-2000.’ Chief Investigator, S. Wheatcroft, and Partner Investigator, A. Zerger, both at U. of Melbourne.  2001-03.

US$740,255 – ‘The China Historical GIS Project,’ Harvard-Yenching Institute, funded by The Henry Luce Foundation. I am a member of the Management and Advisory Committees, and was responsible for the initial Spatio-Temporal Database Design for the project used in the grant application.  2001-03.

$52,000 ‘Griffith University Research Infrastructure Programme,’ Grant to the Griffith Asia-Pacific Research Institute included $7,000 for a share of the GU ESRI CampusPak software licence and funds for Spatial Data Projects research assistance.  2002.

US$300,000 ‘The China Historical GIS Project,’ Harvard-Yenching Institute, continued funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including $50,000 in matching funds from Harvard University.  2004-2005.

 

CONSULTANCIES AND ‘WORK FOR OUTSIDE BODIES’ DATA LICENCES (all figures in Australian dollars):

 

$26,000 – Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, 'Collaboration on a National Level Assessment of Cultivated Lands in China.’  1996-97.

$50,000 – Pasco, Japan, ‘Cambodian Land Use Vectorisation.’  1997.

$10,000 – Atlas Publications, Perth, ‘China Roads Spatial Data.’  1997.

$14,931 – Pacific Consultants, Ltd., Japan, ‘Report on land use/cover databases for Asia.  1997.

$22,000 – Hassell Hainan Land Resource Fundamental Information System Project, ‘Work Placement.’  1997.

$12,556 – ERSIS Australia, ‘Royalty Payments on Commercial Datasets for China.  1997.

$23,000 - Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, ‘Collaboration on Asian Spatial Databases.’  1998.

$7,000 – US Government contract through the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, “Myanmar (Burma) Administrative System GIS.  1999.

$30,000 – US Government contract through the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, ‘China Administrative System and City-Town Spatial Datasets.  1999.

$1,500 – South East Asian Ministers of Educations Tropical Medicine Network, Bangkok, ‘South East Asian and South China GIS data development.  1999.

$100,000 – US Government contract through the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, ‘China Landuse, Roads, Navigable Waterways and Hydrography GIS datasets.’  2000.

$23,000. – US Government contract through the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, ‘North Korean GIS datasets.’  2000.

$29,500 – Licence sales for existing datasets.  2000.

$20,000 – China Online, Chicago, IL, ‘Production of Provincial and Prefectural Maps of China,’ First 200 map images.  2001

$50,000 – Licence sales for existing datasets.  2001.

$24,000 – China Online, Chicago, IL, ‘Production of Provincial and Prefectural Maps of China,’ Second and Third (final) Instalments.  2002.

$51,000 – Licence sales for existing datasets.  2002.

$10,000 – Licence sales for existing datasets.  2003.

$24,000 – US Government contract through the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, ‘South Asia Datasets: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.  2004.

$12,000 – Licence sales for existing datasets, up to November.  2004.

$2,000 – Licence sales for existing datasets, through March, 2005

 

OSPRO/ASP, LONG SERVICE, FIELD RESEARCH, AND RESEARCH RELATED TRAVEL

 

1967-68 (15 months) Changhua Hsien, Taiwan, ROC.  Ph.D dissertation research on rural marketing and social change.

1978 (3 weeks, winter) Photographic record of travel in PRC to Guangzhou, Beijing, Tatong, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guilin, and the Pearl River Delta.

1978-79 (December-January) Changhua Hsien, Taiwan, ROC.  Documenting changes to rural marketing systems.

1981 (Semester I), OSPRO (Sabbatical) spent at the China Program, Cornell University.

1984 (Semester II), OSPRO (Sabbatical) spent at the China Program, Cornell University.

1988 (Semester II), OSPRO (Sabbatical) spent at the China Program, Cornell University.

1990 ( 10 days, Summer) 10 days – Photographic record of bus travel from Lhasa to Khatmandu.

1991 (6 weeks, winter) Long Service Leave.

1992 (6 weeks, summer) Long Service Leave.

1993 (Semester II) OSPRO (Sabbatical) spent at the China Program, Cornell University.

1994 (2 weeks, summer) Consultations with Prof. Alexander Liouty, Head of Laboratory of Cartography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, to make detailed plans for the Russian Federation and Former Soviet Republics (RFFSR) GIS Project for the 1989 Soviet census.

1997 (Semester II) ASP (Sabbatical) spent at the East Asian Studies Department, McGill University, including (5 weeks, November/December) Photographic record of rail travel from Beijing to Moscow through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, followed by consultations with Academician Liouty and Dr. Nicolay Komedchikov, Cartography Laboratory, RAS, Moscow, on extending the RFFSR GIS Project to earlier Soviet Census dates (1959, 1970, and 1979).

1999 (1 week, January) Preliminary investigations of feasibility of land use change research centred on Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, PR China.

1999 (1 week, July) Use of GPS/Video Camera system and Landsat imagery to investigate land use in Shijiazhuang Municipality, Hebei Province, PR China.

1999 (2 weeks, December) GPS/Video documentation of land use in Henan, Shandong, and Hebei Provinces, PR China.