About the Authors

Judith Getis

Judith Getis earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her M.A. from Michigan State University. She was one of the original unit authors of the High School Geography Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Association of American Geographers. She has co-authored several geography texts and written numerous articles on environmental topics. She recently wrote You Can Make a Difference: Help Protect the Earth.

Arthur Getis received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Washington. He is the co-author of several geography textbooks, as well as three books dealing with map pattern analysis. He has also published widely in the areas of urban geography, spatial analysis, and geographical information systems. He is co-editor of the Journal of Geographical Systems, serves on the editorial boards of Geographical Analysis and the Papers in Regional Science, and is on the boards of directors of the Regional Science Association and the University Consortium for Geographical Information Science. Professor Getis headed the geography department at the University of Illinois for many years, currently is president of the Western Regional Science Association, and holds the Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation Endowed Chair of Geographical Studies at San Diego State University.

Jerome D. Fellmann received the Ph.D. (Geography) from the University of Chicago. His professional career, except for visiting professorships at Wayne State University, the University of British Columbia, and California State University, Northridge, has been spent at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Teaching and research interests have been concentrated in the areas of human geography in general and urban and economic geography in particular, in geographic bibliography, geography of Russia and the CIS, and geographic education. His varied interests have been reflected in articles published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Professional Geographer, Journal of Geography, the Geographical Review, and elsewhere. In addition to teaching and research, he has held administrative appointments at the University of Illinois and served as a consultant to private corporations on matters of economic and community development.