Gary Hunter
BSurv (Hons), MSurvSc, Phd (Melb), LS
Honorary Principal Fellow
Biography
Gary Hunter came to academia in 1988 after 17 years in industry and his experience includes engineering, cadastral, and topographic mapping projects in Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. During this period he worked with the Australian Regular Army, the Shire of Lilydale, the Victorian Department of Lands and the Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.
In 1990 he became the first lecturer appointed in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at the University of Melbourne. As an academic in the Department of Geomatics (formerly Surveying) he taught plane surveying, introductory GIS, GIS implementation, management of GIS, spatial analysis, land law, cadastral surveying and land development, residential subdivision design, spatial data handling and research methods.
He has also been a visiting researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara (USA), Aalborg University (Denmark) and Wageningen University (Netherlands). His research specialty is spatial data quality and uncertainty, and he has authored or co-authored over 170 refereed journal papers, book chapters, monographs and conference papers. He has also been awarded seven North American and Australian research prizes—four of these jointly with Michael Goodchild for work dealing with spatial data accuracy.
His past journal appointments include the Asia/Australia editorship of "Transactions in GIS" and as a section editor for the "URISA Journal". He has served on the editorial boards of the "International Journal of Geographical Information Science" and "GeoInformatica", and is a past-Chair of the URISA Exemplary Systems in Government prize committee. He is a past-president and Life Member of the Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (AURISA), an Honorary Fellow of the Spatial Sciences Institute in Australia, and has served seven years as the academic member of the Surveyors Registration Board of Victoria. In 2006 he was inducted into the URISA GIS Hall of Fame.
In 2009 he was appointed as an Honorary Principal Fellow in the Department of Geomatics at the University of Melbourne, and also works as an international consultant in the areas of cadastral systems, land administration and management, GIS planning and implementation, and GIS education and training.
Gary's CV is available at:
www.geom.unimelb.edu.au/hunter/Gary_Hunter.htm
January 2009