Matthew Bampton
Associate Professor of Geography
Email: bampton@usm.maine.edu
Biographical Sketch
Matthew received his Ph.D. at Clark University. He has been teaching at USM since 1992. He teaches Physical Geography, Geography of Maine, GIS courses, and a Summer Field School.
Matthew's research centers on GIS education for undergraduates. This effort is supported by two recent NSF awards, Creating and Implementing a Concept Inventory-Based Diagnostic Tool to Improve Undergraduate GIS Education, and A New Collaborative Model for Geospatial Technology Education and Workforce Studies in a Rural Region. This work is a collaborative effort, and involves faculty from throughout Maine, including T. Johnson (UMM), J. Szakas (UMA), C. Wang (UMPI), D. Hobbins (UMFK), and C. McAnneny, B. Dearden and M. McCourt (UMF). His long-term NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Program also continues. Most recently he started collaborating with Maine Medical Center on the National Children’s Study: a multi-year study that will examine the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of more than 100,000 children across the United States, following them from before birth until age 21.
Education
Clark University, Ph.D. in Geography 1992
Dissertation Anthopological Influences on the Geomorphology of the Ebro Delta, Spain
Clark University, MA in Geography 1990
Concentrations in geomorphology and systems modeling
Portsmouth Polytechnic, South Hampshire, England. BA in geography 1984
Concentrations in physical geography, philosophy and history
Courses Taught
Physical Geography and Lab
Geography of Maine
GIS 1
GIS 2
GIS 3
Summer Field School - an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
Selected Publications
Swanson, M. & Bampton, M. In Press 2009. Integrated Digital Mapping In Geologic Field Research: An Adventure-Based Approach To Teaching New Geospatial Technologies In An REU-Site Program.”. GSA Special Paper on Field Geology Education.
Harris, D. Bampton, M., Mosher, R., Gupta, S., & McAnneny, C. 2006. "GIS-based Analysis of Harp and Hooded Seal Sighting Locations On Shore In The Southern Gulf of Maine". Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics.
Steinberg, M., Height, C., Mosher, R., and Bampton, M. 2006. "Mapping massacres: GIS and state terror in Guatemala". Geoforum, 37: 1: 62-68
Bampton, M. 2002. Deforestation and Siltation: A Historical and Ecological Look. Cross-Grained and Wiley Waters: A Guide to the Piscataqua Maritime Region. Randall, Portsmouth.
Bampton, M. 2002. Linking Location and Space to Process using Precision Mapping. Archeologia e Calcolatori 13:171-178
Bampton, M. & *Mosher, R. 2000. A GIS Driven Regional Database of Archaeological Resources for Research and CRM in Casco Bay, Maine. In Computing Archaeology for Understanding the Past: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Proceedings of the 28th CAA Conference, Lubljana April 2000. 139-142. Co-authored with Rosemary Mosher.
Bampton, M. 1999. From Social Conflict to Environmental Change: Colonial Forestry’s Impact on New England’s Piscataqua Drainage Basin. Historical Geography. 27:193-211.
Recent Grant Awards
National Children’s Study, Cumberland County Site. Collaborating with Maine Medical Center on the National Children’s Study. $50,000 awarded October 2008. (Bampton & Wise).
Creating and Implementing a Concept Inventory-Based Diagnostic Tool to Improve Undergraduate GIS Education. NSF CCLI Program 083729. $150,000 Awarded November 2008. (Bampton, Johnson & Szakas).
A New Collaborative Model for Geospatial Technology Education and Workforce Studies in a Rural Region. NSF-ATE Program 0802417 $450,000. Awarded May 2008. (Johnson, Bampton, & Szakas)
Digital Mapping, Geographic Information System (GIS) Database Construction and Geospatial Analysis of Regional Strike-slip Shear Zone Deformation. NSF REU Program 0647779. $459,397. Awarded November 2007. (Swanson & Bampton).
Digital Mapping and Strain Analysis of Deformed Veins and Intrusions: A Detailed Structural Analysis of Strike-slip Shearing Deformation Combining Traditional Field Methods, Global Positioning Systems, Total Stations, and Geographic Information Systems. NSF REU Program. $250,000 Awarded February 2004 (Swanson & Bampton).
A GIS Curriculum for Five University of Maine System Campuses. NSF CCILI Program. $360,000 awarded June 2002. (Bampton, Macanneny, Hobbins, Weigel, & Szakas).
Digital Mapping and Strain Analysis of Deformed Veins and Intrusions. NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates. $200,000 awarded May 2002 (Swanson & Bampton).
