Tulane Institute for International Development Invites you to a Seminar on:
Speaker: Dr. Alex Coles
Materials:
About the Speaker:
Dr Alexander Coles-Coghi, a
geographer by training, obtained his Ph.D. degree in Land Resources at the Institute for
Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. It is in the same
university where he completed his M.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning in 1984. He has
ample experience in Evaluation Research; Survey Research Management; Fieldwork
Methodology; Policy Research; Spatial Analysis; and, Geographic Information Systems. He is
the current GIS specialist at the Payson Center for International Development and
Technology Transfer at Tulane University. Before joining the Payson Center he headed the
GIS area at the Center for Environmental Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana, where
he developed a GIS education program for Native American Tribes in proximity to DOD’s
nuclear plants in their Risk Assessment Programs. For several years he has combined
teaching, research, and consulting in the areas of peasantry, environment, natural
disasters and GIS. Currently he heads the organizing committee for an international
conference on Geographic Information Technology, Society and Natural Resources in the
Latin America of the XXI Century, to be held at the University of New Orleans during
April14-16, 1999. Co-sponsoring this activity are Tulane University and NASA. He has
extensive experience in international development, as he has been a consultant for
international research and development institutions in the areas of rural development,
peasant-agriculture and land tenure systems and natural resources management’s policy
research in Latin America. Dr. Coles is also a professor at Tulane University and works
for the Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer.