Faculty
Juliana A. Maantay
Research:
Current research projects:
- Air dispersion modeling for mapping air pollution and asthma;
- Residential Segregation and Health Disparities;
- Dasymetric mapping for public health GIS;
- Interdisciplinary urban health research methods;
- Design of new geomatics methods and techniques, such as (1) a new set of procedures for the loose-coupling of an air dispersion model with a Geographic information System for more accurate exposure estimates; (2) an expert system for disaggregating population data in order to conduct dasymetric mapping, and the resultant improvements in calculating disease rates and obtaining a more realistic depiction of exposure extent and impact magnitude; and (3) a new model for assessing human vulnerability to risk and hazard, based on weighted indices incorporating physical and environmental conditions, and indicators of social and health vulnerabilities.
Honors:
- American Planning Association - Robert C. Weinberg Award for Academic Excellence in Urban Planning (1992)
- University of California at Santa Barbara's Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science Scholarship, Summer 2001. CSISS Fellowship in Spatial Pattern Analysis and Geostatistics;
- George N. Shuster Fellowship, 2002, "Modeling Asthma and Air Pollution in the Bronx;"
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, 2002 - Medical Geography Award;
- George N. Shuster Fellowship, 2004, "Mining the Urban Environment: Improving Recycling Participation in New York City;"
- George N. Shuster Fellowship, 2006, "Segregation and Health Disparities in New York City: Mapping TB and AIDS in Conjunction with Segregation Indices."
- American Congress on Surveying and Mapping - Cartography and Geographic Information Society 34th Annual Map Competition Awards for 2006 - Atlas/Book, Professional Category, for the book GIS for the Urban Environment by Juliana Maantay and John Ziegler, 2006, ESRI Press, Redlands, CA.
- Planetizen's Top Planning Books for 2007 - GIS for the Urban Environment, by Juliana Maantay and John Ziegler, www.planetizen.com/books/2007
Publication Highlights:
- Maantay, J.A. "Zoning, Equity, and Public Health." (PDF) American Journal of Public Health (July 2001), v. 91, n. 7, pp. 1033-1041.
- Maantay, J.A. "Mapping Environmental Injustices: Pitfalls and Potential of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Assessing Environmental Health and Equity." (PDF) Environmental Health Perspectives (April 2002), v. 110, supplement 2, pp. 161-171. (Special issue of Advancing Environmental Justice Through Community-Based Participatory Planning.)
- Maantay, J.A. "Zoning Law, Health, and Environmental Justice: What's the Connection?" (PDF) Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (Fall 2002) pp. 572-593. (Special issue of Health, Law, and Human Rights.)
- Maantay, J.A. & Ziegler, J. Geographic Information Systems for the Urban Environment, Environmental Systems Research Institute (E.S.R.I.) Press, Redlands, CA. (2006). (Textbook, case study compendium, GISc lab tutorial)
- Maantay, J.A. "Asthma and Air Pollution in the Bronx: Methodological and Data Considerations in Using GIS for Environmental Justice and Health Research." (PDF) Health and Place (March 2007), v. 13, pp. 32-56. (Special issue of Linking Population Health, Critical Theory, and Geographical Information Science.)
- Maantay, J.A., Maroko, A., and Herrmann, C. "Mapping Population Distribution in the Urban Environment: The Cadastral-based Expert Dasymetric System (CEDS)," Cartography and Geographic Information Science, (April, 2007) special issue: Cartography 2007: Reflections, Status, and Prediction. v. 34, n. 2, pp. 77-102.
Updated: 8/4/2008