About
I am a doctoral candidate in geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara studying geographic information science and spatially-embedded networks. Before coming to UCSB, Chris Groves and I founded the Western Kentucky University Hoffman Environmental Research Institute, and I served as its Assistant Director until 2003. Along the way, I also held positions as a Research Hydrologist, Park Ranger, Cartographer, and Toys-R-Us Playground Assembler. My Bachelor of Science is from Texas A & M University, and I received a Master of Science in Geoscience from Western Kentucky University. My main research is on networks embedded in geographic space, and I am enthusiastic about caves, geysers, and map-flavored technology. My wife Rhonda is an Esri product engineer and a pilot. We live near Los Angeles, in Loma Linda, California.
News
Oh, Dissertation
May 11, 2012 -- Rented a place in Santa Barbara for a month-long writing push. I will emerge from my office in mid-June to speak at an Esri colloquium. The research and talk is all about geographically-embedded network analysis. Hope to see some of you there.
Road Trip
May 16, 2011 -- I just got back from Google I/O and a swell meetup at SimpleGeoSF, and now preparing for a National Research Council panel on post-disaster community resiliency. After that, I'll be visiting the University of Redlands for discussions on migration and flow mapping. Shaping up to be a great month.
photo: Mike Malone talks Geo/Cassandra at SimpleGeo
Geyser Notebook
December 1, 2010 -- I designed an Android app to replace my Yellowstone field notebook. Others apparently are using it too; there's been about 200 downloads so far. Check it out, and here's a short video on the basics.