GIS Lab Contacts

  The main USM/GIS lab is located in 302 Bailey Hall, on the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine. Anyone needing any special accommodations to use the lab should contact lab staff or email gislab@usm.maine.edu.  

Staff:

Vinton Valentine, Director of USM-GIS  (207) 228-8455 vvalentine@usm.maine.edu

Michele Tranes, GIS Lab Manager  (207) 780-5063 mtranes@usm.maine.edu

The GIS committee supervises the operation of the GIS lab, oversees the GIS curriculum, and reviews proposals and projects that require GIS resources. The committee meets at least once every academic year, and more frequently if required. Its members are drawn from the campus constituencies most closely involved with GIS. It reports to the Provost. Current members are listed below. Please feel free to contact any of these people if you have any questions about GIS. Please feel free to contact the chair of the committee if you wish to sit in on any of the meetings, or are interested in joining the committee.

GIS Committee:

David Harris, Chair (Lewiston Auburn College) deharris@usm.maine.edu

Matthew Bampton (Geography-Anthropology) bampton@usm.maine.edu (207) 780-5184

Julie Ellis (Engineering) jellis@usm.maine.edu

Jack Kartez (Director of Community Planning & Development, Muskie School of Public Service) jackk@usm.maine.edu

Irwin Novak (Geosciences) Novak@usm.maine.edu

Firooza Pavri (Geography-Anthropology) fpavri@usm.maine.edu

Jan Piribeck (Art) janp@usm.maine.edu

Robert Sanford (Environmental Science and Policy) rsanford@usm.maine.edu

Mark Swanson (Geosciences) Mswanson@usm.maine.edu

Glenn Wilson (Technology) gwilson@usm.maine.edu

Keith Witherell (Director of IT User Services) keithw@usm.maine.edu