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PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
B.S. - Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois Geology (cum laude), 1983
M.S. - Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas in Oceanography, 1986
Ph.D. - University of California, Santa Barbara, California; Individual I Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Geography and Marine Geology, 1994
Postdoctoral Institutions, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Lab (PMEL), Newport, OR and Oregon State University, 1995
APPOINTMENTS
Professor, Oregon State University, 2002-present
Associate Professor, Oregon State University, 1999-2002
Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, 1995-1999
Senior Researcher, Oregon State University, 1995
Graduate Student Researcher, Marine Science Institute and National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Santa Barbara 1990-1994
Marine Laboratory Specialist, Logistics and Technical Support, Ocean Drilling, Texas A&M, 1986-1989
Graduate Research Assistant, Science Operations, Ocean Drilling, Texas A&M, 1985-1986
PUBLICATIONS (5 most relevant)
Wright, D.J. and A.J. Scholz (eds.), 2005. Place Matters: Geospatial Tools for Marine Science, Conservation and Management in Pacific Northwest, Corvallis, OR, OSU Press 305 pp.
Wright, D.J. and D.J. Bartlett (eds.), 2000. Marine and Coastal Geographical Information Systems, London, Taylor & Francis, 320 pp.
Wright, D.J., 2002. Undersea with GIS, Redlands, CA, ESRI Press, 253 pp. + companion CD.
Mayer, L., Barbor, K., Boudreau, P., Chance, T., Fletcher, C., Greening, H., Li, R., Mason, C., Metcalf, K., Snow-Cutter, S., and Wright, D., 2004. National Needs for Coastal Mapping and Charting, Washington D.C.: National Academies Press, 149 pp.
Wright, D.J., C.G. Fox, and A.M. Bobbitt. 1997. A scientific information model for deepsea mapping and sampling, Marine Geodesy, 20(4): 367-379.
PUBLICATIONS (5 additional)
Wright, D.J., E. O'Dea, J.B. Cushing, J.E. Cuny, and D.R. Toomey, 2003. Why web GIS may not be enough: A case study with the Virtual Research Vessel, Marine Geodesy, 26(1-2), 73-86
Wright, D.J., R.M. Haymon, and D.J. Fornari, 1995. Crustal fissuring and its relationship to magmatic and hydrothermal processes on the East Pacific Rise crest (9° 12' - 54'N), J. Geophys. Res., 100(B4): 6097-6210.
Wright, D.J., 1998. Formation and development of fissures at the East Pacific Rise: Implications for faulting and magmatism at mid-ocean ridges, in Buck, W.R., Delaney, P., Karson, J. A., and Lagabrielle, Y. (Eds.), Faulting and Magmatism at Mid-Ocean Ridges, Geophysical Monograph 106, Washington, D.C: American Geophysical Union, 137-151.
Wright, D.J., and M.F. Goodchild. 1997. Data from the deep: Implications for the GIS community, Int. J. Geographical Information Science, 11(6): 523-528.
Wright, D.J., S.H. Bloomer, C.J. MacLeod, B. Taylor, and A.M. Goodliffe, 2000. Bathymetry of the Tonga Trench and forearc: A map series, Marine Geophysical Researches, 21(5): 489-512.
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
- Lead delegate, member of national communications, education, and membership committees, and former board member for the 70+member University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS, www.ucgis.org), as well member of the National Research Council's National Needs for Coastal Mapping & Charting Committee.
- Development and coordination of the ArcGIS Marine Data Model Project for a user community of ~1500 (dusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/arcgis), in collaboration with Duke University, NOAA Coastal Services Center, the Danish Hydraulic Institute, and the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), with a technical design and testing team of 32, and 150 reviewers from 29 countries worldwide.
- Member of organizing committee and co-convener (with colleagues from WHOI, Scripps, and Lamont) of the Marine Geology & Geophysics Database Management Workshop (http://humm.whoi.edu/ DBMWorkshop/), sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research.
- Coordinator of a site license program with ESRI, involving over 20 departments within the OSU Colleges of Science, Forestry, Engineering, Agriculture, Oceanographic & Atmospheric Sciences, as well as the Hatfield Marine Science Center, each year saving the campus ~$40,000 in maintenance fees and at least $200,000 in new software purchases.