Chairperson
Department of Geography
Michigan State University
315 Natrual Science Building
East Lansing, MI 48823-1115
(517)355-4651
E-mail: groop@msu.edu
Chairperson, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1999-present
Professor, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1993-present
Director, Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1996-2003
BSEd - Bowling Green State University, 1965; English and Earth Science
MA - Bowling Green State University, 1967; Geography
PhD - University of Kansas, 1976; Geography
Post-doctoral Scholar, University of Kansas, l976-l977; Cartography
Applications of GIS to socio-economic topics
U.S. migration patterns
Michigan Political Atlas. (five co-authors). Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Center for Cartographic Research and Spatial Analysis, August, 1984.
Jill Eilertsen Rogers and Richard E. Groop. "Regional Portrayal with Multi-Pattern Color Dot Maps." Cartographica, Vol. l8, No. 4 (Dec., l98l), 5l-64.
Richard E. Groop and Paul Smith. "A Dot Matrix Method of Portraying Continuous Statistical Surfaces." The American Cartographer, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Oct., l982), l23-l30.
Gary A. Manson and Richard E. Groop. "Concentrations of Nonemployment Income in the United States." The Professional Geographer, Volume 40, No. 4 (November, 1988), pp. 444-450.
Gary Manson and Richard E. Groop. "The Geography of Nonemployment Income." The Social Science Journal, Volume 27, No. 3 (July, 1990), pp. 317-325.
Mark P. Kumler and Richard E. Groop. "Continuous Tone Mapping of Smooth Surfaces." Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Volume 17, No. 4 (October, 1990), pp. 279-289.
Gary Manson and Richard E. Groop. "Ebbs and Flows in Recent U.S. Interstate Migration." The Professional Geographer, Vol. 48 (May, 1991), pp. 156-165.
Richard E. Groop and Randall J. Schaetzl. "Productivity Profiles of PhD-Granting Geography Departments in the United States: 1980-1994." The Professional Geographer, Vol. 49 (November, 1997), pp. 451-464.
Gary Manson and Richard E. Groop. "Gains and Losses of Migrants and Income Through Intercounty Migration in the U.S., 1992-1993." The Social Science Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1 (1999), pp. 65-75.
Jiangou Liu, Zhiyun Ouyang, William W. Taylor, Richard E. Groop, Yingchun Tan, and Heming Zhang. "A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Human Factors on Wildlife Habitat: The Case of Giant Pandas." Conservation Biology, Vol. 13, No. 6 (December, 1999), pp. 1360-1370.
Gary Manson and Richard E. Groop. "Migration Fields of Michigan Counties in the 1990's." The Great Lakes Geographer, Vol. 6, Nos. 1 and 2 (Spring, 2000), pp. 1-11.
Gary Manson and Richard E. Groop. "U.S. Intercounty Migration in the 1990s: People and Income Move Down the Urban Hierarchy." The Professional Geographer, Vol. 52, No. 3 (August, 2000), pp. 493-504.
Introduction to Geographic Information
People and Environment
Seminar in GIS Applications
Research Design
Last updated: March 5, 2007