Howard Veregin

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Howard was appointed State Cartographer in September, 2009. Prior to that, he was Director of Geographic Information Services at Rand McNally in Skokie, Illinois, where he led the research and production teams responsible for national and international map products, including the Road Atlas, the Commercial Atlas, Goode’s World Atlas, and educational and custom products. At Rand McNally he also served as Editor of the 21st and 22nd editions of Goode’s World Atlas. Before Rand McNally, Howard was Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and, earlier, Assistant Professor of Geography at Kent State University in Ohio. He taught courses in GIS, remote sensing, digital cartography, and spatial analysis and programming. His research focused on spatial data quality and the development of tools to allow users to minimize the effects of error propagation through GIS-based analysis functions. Howard received his PhD from the University of California-Santa Barbara in 1991. His dissertation concerned geographic uncertainty in models of the nuclear winter phenomenon. Howard has worked under the auspices of a variety of research organizations, including the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, The EPA’s Environmental Monitoring Systems Lab, Microsoft’s GeoModeling group, Case Western Reserve University’s Encyclopedia of Cleveland History project, The US-Slovak Science and Technology Program, the Consorzio Venezia Ricerche, and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He is the author of numerous books, professional articles, and reports, and has made presentations of his research at a variety of national and international conferences and symposia.