Michael Schmandt
Scholarship
Here is a selection of my publications, research grants, & presentations
Publications
2009
Schmandt, M. 2009. GIS Commons: An Introductory Textbook to Geographic Information Systems. Available on-line at http://giscommons.org. My thanks to Alex Ligeti and countless students for helping me bring this website to life.
2007
Datel, R. and M. Schmandt. 2007. A Town-Gown Connection . Opinion Section, Sacramento Bee, Nov. 11, 2007. The entire piece can be read at http://www.sacbee.com/325/story/482038.html.
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2005
Editor, Pacifica, [Published by the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers]
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2002
Entin, K and M. J. Schmandt, (et al.) 2002. Getting To Work: An Assessment of the Mobility and Transportation Needs of Stan WORKS WtW Customers. [Published by the Center for Public Policy Studies].
Report included 19 maps.
2001
Schmandt, M. J. 2001. On Mentoring and Traveling the San Joaquin Valley. Pacifica. Fall issue. [Published by the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers].
2001
Schmandt, M. J. 2001. Book review of The Space Between Buildings by Larry Ford. Landscape and Urban Planning. 55:2. pp. 139-140
2000
Schmandt, M. J. 2000. Mapping Planned Land Use in the Central Valley. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California.
2000
4 maps contained within Entin, K. et. al. 2000. Strategic Choices: Creating Opportunity in Merced County [Published by Center for Public Policy Studies].
1999
Schmandt, M. J. 1999. The Importance of History and Context in the Postmodern Urban Landscape. Landscape Journal. 18:2.
1998
15 maps contained within Entin, K. et. al. 1998. Critical Links: Employment Growth, Unemployment, and Welfare-to-Work in Stanislaus County. [Published by Center for Public Policy Studies].
1998
5 maps contained within Regalado, S. O. 1998. Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
1995
Schmandt, M. J. 1995. Postmodern Phoenix. The Geographical Review 85 (July) 349-363. [Published by the American Geographical Society, NY].
Possible Future Publication
Over the past several years, I have been writing a book, preliminarily titled Flatlander: Land and Life in California's Great Central Valley, which focuses on the valley by synthesizing the region's cultures, society, economics, and environment to describe and explain its past, present, and future. In its most provincial sense, it is the story of a region losing its identity. We witness national and international processes and trends that have always been at work here, but are now afflicting the region at a rate previously unknown. In a larger sense, it serves as a model to view the consumption of local character by global trends that makes distinct regions less unique and more similar to others.
Research Grants
2005-2007
California Department of Parks and Recreation, Office of Historic Preservation, National Resource Conservation Service Geographic Information Systems Project, co-PI with Elizabeth Greathouse, $61,240.
The purpose of this grant is to digitize the Resource and Report Location maps (USGS 7.5' Quad maps with pencil outlines) and Historical Resource Records on file at the Central California Information Center to a GIS and PDF format for California's Office of Historic Preservation.
2005-2006
California Department of Transportation (CalTrans), Cultural Resource and Geographic Information System services to CalTrans, $110,375.
This MOU provides cultural resource and GIS services to assist in transportation project environmental compliance for District 10 projects.
2001-2003
Center for Public Policy Studies (CPPS), Getting to Work: An Assessment of Welfare Recipients’ Travel Patterns and Mobility Barriers, $20,000.
2000-2010
Great Valley Center (GVC), Farmland Conversion in Stanislaus County, pilot project, $3,000
1999-2000
CPPS, Creating Opportunity in Merced County, $5,263
1999-2000
GVC, Great Central Valley GIS Internet Project, $3,000
1998-2000
Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) [S.F.], Mapping Planned Land Use in the Central Valley, $38,000 & GVC, $5,550
1998-2010
CPPS, Critical Links: Employment Growth, Unemployment, and Welfare-to-Work in Stanislaus County, $5,000
1998-2010
National Science Foundation (NSF): Urban Visualization Initiative, $50,018, plus an additional $50,000 in matching funds from university sources. This grant created the CSUS [Stanislaus] GIS Lab.
Academic & Professional Presentations
2009
“Free For All: Introducing GIS Commons a Free, Online Textbook,” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, September 30 – October 3, 2009, San Diego, California.
2008
“Pedestrian Behavior: Sacramento’s Urban Design Database,” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, October 8 – 11, 2008, Fairbanks, Alaska.
2007
“Sacramento’s Urban Design Database: First Steps,” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, October 14 – 17, 2007, Long Beach, California.
1999
“GIS - the What, the Why, the How,” Our Place in the World 2 - A 21st Century Opportunity, a Great Valley Center conference. May 26, 1999, Sacramento, California. Presenter and Session Organizer. Session included Dean Angelides, Craig Gooch, Ted James, and David Kehrline.
1999
“Mapping Planned Land Use in the San Joaquin Valley,” A keynote presentation for Urban Development Options for California’s Central Valley, a Great Valley Center and Lincoln Institute of Land Use Policy symposium. Symposium participants included Randall Arendt, John Barna, Judith Corbett, Timothy Duane, William Fulton, Hans Johnson, John Landis, and Bill Nichols. February 1999, Modesto, California.
1998
“Implementing the Project: Mapping Planned Land Use in the Central Valley,” Public Policy Institute of California, December 14, 1998, San Francisco, California.
1998
“The Scene of Single-Family Residential Housing,” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, October 14-17, 1998, Flagstaff, Arizona.
1996
“Postmodernism and the Transformation of Phoenix, Arizona,” [invited paper], Association of American Geographers, April 10, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1995
“Historicism and Geographic Contextualism in the Postmodern Urban Landscape,” [invited Presidential Panel paper], Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, June 14-17, 1995, Sonoma, California.
1993
“Postmodern Forms and their Effect on the Climate of Downtown Phoenix, Arizona,” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, September 15-18, 1993, Berkeley, California.