Mark Kumler Ph.D.

Mark Kumler has been at the University of Redlands since 2004. He teaches undergraduate courses on foundations of spatial thinking, fundamentals of GIS, and a first-year seminar titled Mapping World Soccer, as well as graduate courses on communicating geographic information, GIS project management, and map projections and coordinate systems.

He has designed and directed the development of three GIS labs and has supervised more than 150 students in the master of GIS and master of science in GIS degree programs. His research interests include map projections, spatial coordinate systems, digital terrain representations, and GIS applications. He has received more than $8 million in external grants and contracts, including two from the National Science Foundation. His publications have appeared in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Cartographica, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, Journal of Archaeological Science, and The California Geographer.

Professor Kumler is married and has three grown children. He enjoys visiting his children, performing community service, and traveling. He has had two sabbatical appointments in New Zealand at the University of Auckland and the University of Canterbury and hopes to retire there someday.

• Ph.D., geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
• M.A., geography, Michigan State University
• B.A., computer science, Dartmouth College

• Visiting instructor, Dartmouth College
• Assistant professor, University of Colorado Boulder
• Associate professor, California State University, San Bernardino
• Research scientist, Geospatial Research Centre New Zealand
• Professor, University of Redlands

• McKenzie, Z., M. Kumler, R. Ma, K. Williams, and W. Hayes. 2023. “Eyes from the Sky: Application of Satellite-Based Indices to Assess Vegetation Casualty on Grand Bahama Island One Year Post–Hurricane Dorian.” Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 32: 101044.
• Kumler, Mark P., Joseph Stoddard, and Melodi C. King. 2017. “Gerrymandering in Redlands, California: The Fairest Districting Depends on Your Point of Hue.” Our House: Articles, Poems, Posters, Presentations, and Short Stories.
• Bernardini, W., A. Barnash, M. Kumler, and M. Wong. 2013. “Quantifying Visual Prominence in Social Landscapes.” Journal of Archaeological Science 40 (11): 3946–3954.
• McIntyre, Blodwyn M., Thomas E. J. Leuteritz, and Mark P. Kumler. 2010. “Quantifying the Common Raven Threat for Desert Tortoise Translocation Using GIS.” The Tortuga Gazette 46 (4): 8–11.
• Kumler, Mark P. 1994. “An Intensive Comparison of Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs) and Digital Elevation Models (DEMs).” Cartographica 31 (2): 1–99.
• Kumler, Mark P., and Waldo R. Tobler. 1991. “Three World Maps on a Möbius Strip.” Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 18 (4): 275–276.