Director, ISU Geographic Information Systems Support and Research Facility
* ISU Information Technology Services

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture
* Graduate Faculty Member
* Research Collaborator, Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology and Management

ISU Professional & Scientific Council
* Vice President for Planning and Budget 2007-2009; Chair, P&S University Planning & Budget Committee
* President, 2003-05; Vice President 2002-03

Ph.D., Higher Education, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
* University academic professional staff: Augmenting traditional faculty teaching, advising, and research roles
(ProQuest) (ISU Library) (pdf)

M.L.A., Landscape Architecture
* Integration of Landsat data into the MSDAMP geographic information system for regional recreation planning applications
(ISU Library)

Iowa State University
219 Durham Center
Ames, IA, 50011-2251 USA
email: kkane@iastate.edu
Phone: 515-294-0526
Fax: 515-294-1717

You've reached the webpage of Kevin Kane, director of the ISU Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Support and Research Facility for ISU's Information Technology Services. My responsibilities include the GIS Facility and various ITS academic projects. I've been at Iowa State since February, 1997.

As the director of the GIS Facility I'm responsible for providing high level GIS research and teaching laboratories to students, faculty and staff as well as to provide GIS consultation, education and outreach to the ISU community and the state of Iowa. We currently have a staff of nine highly competent GIS professionals and students doing a wide variety of projects in conjunction with numerous departments and colleges as well as many projects outside of ISU.

I serve as adjunct assistant professor in the department of Landscape Architecture (LA) at ISU. I have taught landscape modeling and spatial analysis with Paul Anderson and am involved in the GIS Certificate program at ISU. I also serve as a research collaborator in the Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology and Management.

My Ph.D. was completed in the Higher Education program of the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies department. Dr. John Schuh served as my advisor. My dissertation topic is "University academic professional staff: Augmenting traditional faculty teaching, advising, and research roles." I'm a member and a past president of the Professional and Scientific Council at ISU and have served in many service leadership capacities within the university.

In 1986 I completed my Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) degree after bachelor's degrees in Landscape Architecture and Recreation Planning at ISU. My master's work in LA focused on research on GIS, remote sensing, and natural resources with Paul Anderson as my advisor.

For the next twelve years I worked for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources; ten of them as the DNR's GIS Coordinator. During that time I also taught introductory and advanced GIS courses as an adjunct faculty member in the Geography and Geology department at Drake University in Des Moines from 1993-98.

If I can help answer any questions for you, please drop me an email at kkane@iastate.edu.

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