Andy Anderson
Adjunct Assistant Professor
About
I regularly teach non-credit GIS courses and occasionally teach for-credit courses at UMass and Amherst College. I also regularly participate in the ECo Quantitative Sciences Group, assisting students with the design and interpretation of their experiments. Outside of work I like to hike, bike, and cross-country ski.
Primary Interests
- Light Pollution
- Remote Sensing
- Geographic Information Science and Technology
- Data Science
Current Projects
- Geographic distribution of light pollution
- Textbook for an interdisciplinary survey course on light and the environment
Courses Taught
- GIS Programming
- Our Environment of Light
- Community Service with Web-Based Geographic Information Science and Technology
Education
- Ph.D. Physics
- B.S. Physics and Mathematics
Academic Affiliations
- Amherst College – Academic Technology Specialist for Data Science and Spatial Analysis
Professional Affiliations
- Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences
- American Association of Geographers
- International Dark-Sky Association
- American Association for the Advancement of Science