UMaine Spatial Engineer Named UCGIS Fellow
Contact: Harlan Onsrud, (207) 581-2175 or onsrud@spatial.maine.edu
University of Maine Professor Harlan Onsrud was named a Fellow of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) at the organization’s recent spring meeting. Onsrud, a member of the Department of Spatial Information and Science at UMaine, served as president of UCGIS and was instrumental in its establishment, according to the award announcement, having participated in its founding meeting in Colorado and
taking the lead on drafting the original UCGIS bylaws. Onsrud’s research focuses on the analysis of legal, ethical, and institutional issues affecting the creation and use of digital databases and the assessment of the social impacts of spatial technologies. His research has been funded by the National
Science Foundation, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Federal Geographic Data Committee, and the U.S. Department of Education.
At UMaine, Onsrud teaches courses in Information Systems Law, Information Ethics, Cadastral and Land Information Systems, and Research Ethics.
Onsrud was one of six individuals honored as fellows of UCGIS, a nonprofit organization of seventy universities and other research institutions dedicated to expanding and strengthening geographic information science.