Dr. Gregory Elmes is a Professor of Geography at the West Virginia University where he has taught and practiced research for 25 years. He is Co-director of the West Virginia State GIS Technical Center. He was President of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) during 1998 – 2000 and has been chair of the Association of American Geographers’ GIS specialty group. In 1986, while on sabbatical leave, he was awarded one of the first Master of Science in GIS degrees offered at the University of Edinburgh and subsequently brought that experience to bear on his department’s research and teaching at WVU. He is currently pursuing research in geographic information science, particularly space-time representations for use in medical geography; with recent publications on GIS and Society and GIS in Public Health. Previously, with USFS, he developed GIS decision support applications for use for gypsy moth management, for slope modeling, and forest characterization. From 1995 -2000, he was a member of a team that created a series of atlases on heart disease mortality available on the Internet. Other current work includes research on the relationship of geographical accessibility to human perception and affective behavior.