Jon Caris

Jon is currently a Senior Drone Data Scientist charged with developing both teaching and research capacity in drone technology at Tufts University.  Previously the Director of the Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL), Jon benefited from the support of the Environmental Science and Policy Program and CEEDS to establish both the GIS and Drone Programs at Smith.  He continues to enjoy and prosper from collaborating with the SAL.

Publications:

Kopcznski K., Buynevich I., Curran, H. A., Caris, J., and Nyquist, J. (2017) Imaging bioturbation in supratidal carbonates: non-invasive field techniques enhance neoichnological and zoogeomorphological research, San Salvador, The Bahamas. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 56 (2), 2017, 289-297. Modena

O’Connor, M.P., Francis, J., McGarigal, K., and Caris, J. Describing juvenile American shad and striped bass habitat use in the Hudson River Estuary using species distribution models. Ecological Engineering Vol. 48: 101-108.

Caris, J. Support Model puts GIS on the Map. Transformations May, 2006: 3-8.

Maps:

Caris, J, Bantustans, circa 1975, in Fluvial Economies: A Landscape Ethnography of Water in Lesotho, UC Press, 2021.

Caris, J, Map of Ghana circa 1960 in Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana. Ohio University Press, 2016.

Caris, J., and Ravenhurst, G. in White, G., Climate Change and Migration: Security and Borders in a Warming World. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Caris, J. with Mollie Gabriel, a series of 18 maps in Newbury, D.; The Land beyond the Mists: Essays in Identity & Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda. Ohio University Press, 2009.

Caris, J, Bolivia map ca. 1950 in Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900–1950. Duke University Press, 2007