Dr. Steven J. Steinberg

Dr. Steven J. Steinberg, Director of the Institute for Spatial Analysis (ISA); Director of the Klamath Watershed Institute (KWI); and a Professor in Humboldt State University's Natural Resource Planning Program with emphasis in GIS and Remote Sensing. He came to Humboldt State University in 1998 and has taught courses in map analysis, GPS, GIS and image analysis.

Dr. Steinberg's Ph.D. work emphasized the introduction and adoption of internet-based GIS tools in seven Department of Natural Resource agency offices throughout the State of Minnesota.

In 2004, Dr. Steinberg was selected as a Fulbright Scholar and appointed as Distinguished Chair of Airborne Remote Sensing at the Centre for Scientific Computing, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In 2005 he was honored with Humboldt State University's Alistair McCrone Promising Faculty Scholar award. In the fall of 2008 Dr. Steinberg was invited to teach at the University of Helsinki, Finland, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in the International Master's Degree Programme in Geoinformatics (GIMP).

Dr. Steinberg has researched and presented extensively on the application of geospatial analysis technologies for modeling and visualization in both human and natural environments. He is co-author of GIS for the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place with Dr. Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg.