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Cartographer,
pioneering exercise researcher honored
Professors
Jon Kimerling and Christine Snow
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Professors
Jon Kimerling and Christine Snow have been awarded
the OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor
Award for 2003. As a well known cartographer, Kimerling
has put OSU on the map in more than one sense. Snow
has conducted pioneering research on the effects
of exercise on bone density.
Kimerling, professor of geosciences, is a widely
recognized leader in the field of geographic techniques
and has brought in more than $3.5 million dollars
in research grants. He has made what are perhaps
his greatest contributions in the area of global
gridding and sampling for environmental monitoring,
excelling in the treatment of the age-old problem
of how to best subdivide the curved surface of the
earth into appropriate aerial cells for observation,
sampling and monitoring.
In his nearly three decades with the university,
Kimerling has proven himself a dedicated teacher.
As an outgrowth of his commitment to teaching, he
has co-authored what have become two classic texts
in the field of cartography. Elements of Cartography,
now in its sixth edition, is considered THE textbook
of cartography. Map Use is used mainly in courses
for those outside the field of geography.
Snow, an OSU faculty member since 1990 and director
of the Bone Research Laboratory at OSU, has created
and built the lab into a center of international
preeminence — attracting more than $5.7 million
in research support. The Bone Research Laboratory
is committed to developing exercise programs across
the life span to promote bone health and prevent
osteoporosis-related fractures.
Snow, who also is a professor in the department
of exercise and sport science, has published seminal
studies documenting the beneficial effects of jumping
on the growing bone of pre-adolescents and has extended
understanding of the ability to improve bone density
in post-menopausal women through an exercise program
using weighted vests. She is a member of the Task
Force to Develop the Surgeon General’s Report
on Osteoporosis and Bone Health and NASA’s
Roundtable on Countermeasures to Prevent Bone Loss
in space.
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