Richard Aspinall is Professor of Geography at Arizona State University and also Chair of the Department of Geography. He is co-Chair of the Global Land Project, incoming Editor of the Environmental Sciences section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and Editor of a new academic journal to be published in 2006, the Journal of Land Use Science. His research interests are in environmental geography, land use systems, landscape ecology, GISystems and GIScience, remote sensing, and quantitative geography. He is author or co-author of 70 journal articles and book chapters and has one edited book, Spatial Information for Land Use Management.