Chris Badurek
Christopher Badurek is an assistant professor of geography and planning at Appalachian State University specializing in geographic information systems science, environmental planning, and natural hazards. He has also been a research assistant with the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering (MCEER) Information Service at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
In the past ten years, Badurek has worked on or managed GIS, database, and information technology projects funded by many different state and federal agencies. He is also manager of ASU’s Computation and Visualization Laboratory used for large-scale GIS data processing, simulation, and geovisualization.
Badurek is the current chair of the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers and a board member of the North Carolina Arc Users Group.
His current research projects are focused on examining effectiveness of GIS use in response to the Gulf Oil Spill, impacts of geovisualization of hazards on improving emergency response exercises, and GIS modeling of landslide hazards in western North Carolina and the Highlands of Guatemala.
