Curriculum Vitae

Educational History

9/2001 - 1/2008
State University of New York at Buffalo
Amherst, NY 14221

Ph.D. Geography

Dissertation topic: The Variance of Canadian and American Center-City Vitality

IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training) fellowship recipient from 2001 to 2005.

M.A. Geography

Thesis topic:
Global Warming and its Relation to Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Frequency in the North Atlantic Ocean

9/1997 - 5/2001

Buffalo State College

1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222

B.A. Geography
Advisors: Raymond W. Waxmonsky, Ph.D. 1997-2000, Gregory P. Stein, Ph.D. 2000-2001

Thesis topic:

Development Patterns of Selected Buffalo Neighborhoods And Their Relation to the Principles of Invasion and Succession

Employment History

8/2004 - present
Medaille College
18 Agassiz Circle
Buffalo, NY 14209

Adjunct professor of geography.

5/2007 - present
Liberty Partnerships Program

1 Diefendorf Annex

University at Buffalo
3435 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14214

Information Technology coordinator, Course instructor.

9/1999 -5/2007

Educational Opportunity Program

Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo NY 14222
(716) 878-6024

Tutor - Helps students with comprehension of academic courses.

1/2001 - 5/2001

Client Logic, Inc.

699 Hertel Avenue
Buffalo NY 14207
(716) 871-6400

Technical support agent - assisted customers with technical problems over the phone.

9/1997 - 4/2000

E.H. Butler Library

Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo NY 14222
(716) 878-6313

Lab assistant - assisted library patrons with use of the reference room computers, and did light repair and maintenance work on other equipment.

Research Interests

Cartography- manual and electronic, environmental systems modeling, urban topology, networking, demographics.

Research Work

Richardson, Jean. A Historical GIS of Buffalo, NY (1900). 2001.

Role: Cartography and implementation of the interactive GIS of Buffalo, NY. (ongoing)

Triggs, Seth C. and Fraser, G.S. 2000. Recession Rates of the Lake Ontario Shoreline in Niagara County, New York.

Role: Classification of remote-sensing data into land-use maps.

Triggs, Seth C. 1998. An Exploratory Analysis of Fire Department Response Time in Buffalo, New York.

Role: Developed a manual method of determining the average fire department response time to a given event within the city of Buffalo, based on the street network.

Presentations at Conferences/Meetings

Triggs, Seth C. and Fraser, G.S. 2000. Recission Rates of the Lake Ontario Shoreline in Niagara County, New York. Presented at Day of Research and Creativity, Buffalo State College, May 2000.

Tao Tang, Kim N. Irvine, Mike Greer, Robert Robinson. 1999. �GIS Based Assessment of the Impact of Urban Land Use to Suspended Sediment and Water Quality in the Cazenovia Creek Watershed, New York, Middle States Geographer, 32: 88-98 Presented at Great Lakes Geography Conference, SUNY ESF (Syracuse, NY) 1999 and at Day of Research and Creativity, Buffalo State College, May 2000.

Triggs, Seth C. 1998. An Exploratory Analysis of Fire Department Response Time in Buffalo, New York.Role: Developed a manual method of determining the average fire department response time to a given event within the city of Buffalo, based on the street network.- Presented atMiddle States Division of the American Association of Geographers Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ 10 October 1998.

Awards/Academic Honors

IGERT Fellowship Recipient 2001-2004
Outstanding Geography Graduate for Geographic Education, American Association of Geographers.
Bridge the Gap Grant recipient
Burrell Scholarship recipient
Who's Who Among American High School Students

Professional Memberships

Vice President, Citizens Regional Transit Corporation, a non-profit public transport advocacy group.

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