Dr. Joanne Halls

Professor of Geography
Graduate Program Coordinator

Osprey Hall 1004C Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403-5944 Tel: 910 962-7614; Fax: 910 962-7077 email: hallsjATuncw.edu,Personal Webpage

Expertise:
Geographic Information Systems

Education:
Ph.D. (Geography) University of South Carolina

Teaching:
Dr. Halls teaches Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Advanced GIS, Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing, Environmental Modeling and GIS, and Advanced Research Methods in GIS.

Research Interests:
Dr. Joanne Halls is the Director of the Spatial Analysis Lab that is a state-of-the-art teaching and research computing facility focused on Geographic Information Systems, Image Processing, and Spatial Statistics. Some of Dr. Halls' research interests include watershed modeling, coastal land use development and the impacts on non-point source pollution modeling, integration of temporal ecological models with GIS, empirical studies of geographic data models, and quantitative assessments/simulations of spatial data error and impacts on spatial models.