PhD Candidate, BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Bunton-Waller Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University

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1 JenniferMASON PhD Candidate, BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Bunton-Waller Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University PERSONAL Name Website Contact Jennifer Mason (née Smith) (310) Kentwood Avenue Los Angeles, CA EDUCATION (DEGREES) Expected Spring 2016 PhD Geography The Pennsylvania State University (State College, PA) Dissertation: Domains of Uncertainty Visualization Research Committee: Dr. Alexander Klippel (Geography), Dr. Alan MacEachren (Geography), Dr. Stephen Matthews (Sociology), Dr. David Titley (Meteorology), Dr. Jason Dykes (Visualization at City University London) 2011 MS GIScience 2009 BA Geography San Diego State University (San Diego, CA) Thesis: Effective Color Schemes for 3D Animations of Urban Landscapes with a Spatial and Temporal Dimension Committee: Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou (Geography), Dr. André Skupin (Geography), Dr. Sandra Marshall (Psychology) University of California Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) Received minor in GIS&T WORK EXPERIENCE Fall 2016 Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2014 Graduate Research Assistant :: The Pennsylvania State University Assisting in website development, management, and updates, research unit correspondences, organization, and paper editing, among other miscellaneous tasks. Work performed under Dr. Alexander Klippel. Graduate Teaching Assistant :: The Pennsylvania State University Geography 160 Online: Mapping Our Changing World. Prepare and revise assignments and quizzes, student correspondence and announcements, update course content, and grade weekly assignments including student discussions and projects. Work performed under Dr. Alan MacEachren (Fall) and Dr. Donna Peuquet (Spring). Graduate Research Intern :: Department of Health Systems Science, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Assessing reliability of activity space surveys and various activity space measures with individual GPS movement data. Work performed under Dr. Shannon Zenk (UIC) and Dr. Stephen Matthews within BDSS-IGERT program.

2 Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Summer 2013 Fall Spring 2013 Summer 2012 Summer 2011 Graduate Research Assistant :: The Pennsylvania State University Identifying spatio-temporal patterns and activity spaces from human movement data collected through GPS. Includes creation of models and visualizations. Work performed under Dr. Stephen Matthews within BDSS- IGERT program. Graduate Research Intern :: gicentre, City University London Developed a research project on hurricane visualization and learning the processing programming language for visualization. Work performed under Dr. Jason Dykes. Graduate Research Assistant :: The Pennsylvania State University Research related to uncertainty visualization to support reasoning and decision-making processes. Work performed under Dr. Alexander Klippel. Graduate Research Assistant :: The Pennsylvania State University Revising an online undergraduate course and writing chapters in a textbook on GIScience (Geography 160: Mapping Our Changing World). Research assistant on the symbology project in GeoVISTA researching methods for adding tags from individuals for the symbols. Work performed under Dr. Alan MacEachren. Graduate Research Assistant :: San Diego State University Assisted in organizing a Geospatial Technology Summer Workshop sponsored by the National GeoTech Center to provide GIS training and educational tools for secondary school teachers and community college educators. Assisted in organizing a specialist meeting for a NSF-funded project titled: Mapping Cyberspace to Realspace: Visualizing and Understanding the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Global Diffusion of Ideas through the Semantic Web. Work performed under Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou. Fall Spring 2011 Spring - Summer 2010 Fall 2009 Graduate Research Assistant :: San Diego State University Working on the Bizarre Map Challenge. Designed flyers (Adobe Illustrator), website layout (Adobe Dreamweaver), formulated rules, voting procedures and correspondences. Work performed under Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou. Graduate Research Assistant :: San Diego State University Assisted in organizing a Geospatial Technology Summer Workshop sponsored by the National GeoTech Center to provide GIS training and educational tools for secondary school teachers and community college educators. Writing a paper for free and open source GIS software, designing and maintaining a website, and creating maps for a NSF-funded project titled: Mapping Cyberspace to Realspace: Visualizing and Understanding the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Global Diffusion of Ideas through the Semantic Web. Work performed under Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou. Graduate Teaching Assistant :: San Diego State University Geography 101L. Prepare and give lectures, exams, grade assignments and research papers for physical geography undergraduate labs.

3 Spring - Summer 2009 Winter Quarter 2009 June August 2009 Jan Oct Research Assistant :: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/UCLA Institute of the Environment Acquire satellite images and perform various image transformations and analyses (ENVI software) to support research of Dr. Sassan Saatchi. Undergraduate Research Assistant :: Geography Department, UCLA Study of historical aerial photos of Los Angeles for the Million Tree Project initiative. Through GIS, remote sensing, and observations, creation of maps for various locations revealing the changing patterns of vegetation in Los Angeles County over the past century. Research under Dr. Thomas Gillespie. Product Developer :: Ganz Inc., Van Nuys, CA Underwent the entire process of giftware development at a wholesale company for seasonal and trending giftware. This entails creative research, development, and final giftware product design with manufacturers and negotiating costs maintaining safety for final consumers. Operations Administrator :: Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, CA In constant contact with resort guests of all ages and nationalities. Provided customer service, guest experiences, and operated rides at Disney s California Adventure. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Presentation experience at many domestic and international conferences explaining geographic data and material in front of up to hundreds of attendees at a time. Additional presentation experience throughout graduate student career by leading numerous lectures and activities within the majority of graduate level seminars. Teaching Assistant Fall 2015 Spring 2016 for Penn State Geography 160: Mapping Our Changing World under Dr. Alan MacEachren and Dr. Donna Peuquet Lecturer for Geography 160 course on Geographic Data Representation at Pennsylvania State University, September 29, 2014 Advisor and Mentor of Undergraduate student Mallory Cook for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Connection (UROC) program in the Department of Geography at Pennsylvania State University on Storm Surge Uncertainty Visualization Research, Fall Teacher for Physical Geography 101 Labs at San Diego State University, Fall 2009 (course offered without a concurrent lecture enrollment requirement) Received a certificate upon completion of a seminar series titled Techniques of Teaching College Geography Courses under Dr. John O Leary, Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant for undergraduate Wildlife Conservation in Eastern and Southern Africa course under Dr. Hartmut Walter, UCLA, Fall 2008 HONORS & AWARDS Awarded Graduate Academic Enrichment Award from Pennsylvania State University Geography Department, Spring 2015 ($200) Awarded Travel Funding from the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) to speak at the NACIS Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2014 ($200 travel grant)

4 Bunton-Waller Graduate Fellowship at Pennsylvania State University, Fall Spring 2012 and Fall 2014 Spring 2015 (fellowship to enhance diversity covering tuition and living stipend) Big Data Social Science IGERT Trainee (Fall Summer 2014), ($60,000 stipend over 2 years plus additional travel funding) Awarded Travel Funding from organizers of the Conference On Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) to speak at the Doctoral Colloquium, Scarborough, United Kingdom, September 2013 ( 160) Awarded Travel Funding from United States National Committee to speak at the International Cartography Conference, Dresden, Germany, August 2013 ($1,500 travel grant) Awarded Travel Funding from United States National Committee to speak at the International Cartography Conference, Paris, France, July 2011 ($1,500 travel grant) Richard Wright Cartography Award and Scholarship, San Diego State University, April 2011 ($500) Finalist for Cartography Specialty Group Honors Student Paper Competition, Seattle, Washington, AAG, April 2011 Awarded Master s Thesis Grant - Cartography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers, 2011 ($200) Member of Golden Key International Honours Society (from 2008) Graduated Cum Laude from University of California Los Angeles PEER- REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Mason, J., Klippel, A., Bleisch, S., Slingsby, A., and Deitrick, S. (2016). Approaching Spatial Uncertainty Visualization to Support Reasoning and Decision-Making. Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 16(2). Special Issue on Visually-Supported Reasoning with Uncertainty. Mason, J., Retchless, D., and Klippel, A. (2016). Domains of Uncertainty Visualization Research: A Visual Summary Approach. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. Kinkeldey, C., Mason, J., Klippel, A., and Schiewe, J. (2014). Evaluation of Noise Annotation Lines: Using Noise to Represent Thematic Uncertainty in Maps. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 41(5). Tsou, M., Wandersee, S., Kim, I. H., An, L., Spitzberg, B., Gupta, D., Gawron, J., Smith, J., and Yang, J. A. (2013). Mapping Ideas from Cyberspace to Realspace: Visualizing the Spatial Context of Keywords from Web Page Search Results. International Journal of Digital Earth. Spec. Issue of Analytical Geospatial Digital Earth. Gillespie, T. W., Pincetl, S., Brossard, S., Smith, J., Saatchi, S., Pataki, D., & Saphores, J., D. (2012). A Time Series of Urban Forestry in Los Angeles. Urban Ecosystems. 15(1). PEER- REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Klippel, A., Wallgrün, J. O., Yang, J., Mason, J. S., Kim, E.-K., and D. M. Mark (2013) Fundamental Cognitive Concepts of Space and Time: Using Cross-Linguistic, Crowdsourced Data to Cognitively Calibrate Modes of Overlap. In Conference on Spatial Information Theory. Scarborough, United Kingdom, September 2 nd -6 th, Kinkeldey, C., Mason, J., Klippel, A., and J. Schiewe (August 2013) Assessing the Impact of Design Decisions on the Usability of Uncertainty Visualization: Noise Annotation Lines for the Visual Representation of Attribute Uncertainty. International Cartographic Conference. Dresden, Germany, August 25 th - 30 th, Smith, J., Retchless, D., Kinkeldey, C., and A. Klippel (August 2013) Beyond the Surface: Current Issues and Future Directions in Uncertainty Visualization Research. International Cartographic Conference. Dresden, Germany, August 25 th -30 th, 2013.

5 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Tsou, M. & Smith, J. (2011). Free and Open Source Software for GIS Education: A Whitepaper. Published by the National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence (GeoTech Center). BOOKS & CHAPTERS Stevens, J., Smith, J. M., and R. A. Bianchetti (2012), Mapping Our Changing World, Editors: Alan M. MacEachren and Donna J. Peuquet, State College, PA: Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University. Smith, J. M. (2012) Chapter 3: Can I Map That? Maps to Depict Anything in Our World. In MacEachren, A.M. and Peuquet, D.J., editors, Mapping our Changing World, State College, PA: Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University. Smith, J. M. (2012) Chapter 4: Encoding Our World: Geographic Data Representation. In MacEachren, A.M. and Peuquet, D.J., editors, Mapping our Changing World, State College, PA: Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University. Smith, J. M. (2012) Chapter 8: Representing Surfaces. In MacEachren, A.M. and Peuquet, D.J., editors, Mapping our Changing World, State College, PA: Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University. EDITING & ORGANIZING Special Issue Editor on Visually-Supported Reasoning with Uncertainty (2016). Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Lead Workshop Organizer and Reviewer. Visually-Supported Reasoning with Uncertainty Workshop at GIScience Conference. Vienna, Austria, September 23 rd, Lead Workshop Organizer and Reviewer. A Behavioral Approach towards a Deeper Understanding of Geospatial Data Uncertainty: From Conceptualization to Visualization. Doctoral Colloquium at the Conference on Spatial Information Theory. Scarborough, United Kingdom, September 2 nd -6 th, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Mason, J. and A. Klippel (March 2016) Visualizing Storm Surge: A Holistic Approach for Assessing Factors in Hurricane Flood Evacuation Decisions. Association of American Geographers Conference. Los Angeles, CA, March 29 th -April 2 nd, Mason, J., Retchless, D., and A. Klippel (March 2015) Visual Summaries: A New Approach for Classifying Uncertainty Visualization Research. Second Pennsylvania Spatial Cognition Symposium. State College, Pennsylvania, March 27 th 28 th, Mason, J., Retchless, D., and A. Klippel (October 2014) Dimensions of Uncertainty Visualization Research. North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 8 th - 11 th, Mason, J., Retchless, D., and A. Klippel (September 2014) Dimensions of Uncertainty: A Visual Classification of Geospatial Uncertainty Visualization Research. Visually-Supported Reasoning with Uncertainty Workshop at GIScience Conference. Vienna, Austria, September 23 rd, Mason, J. (August 2014) Risk Perception with Storm Surge Flood Communication. American Meteorological Society Summer Community Meeting: Improving Forecasts and the Communication of Forecasts. State College, Pennsylvania, August 11 th - 13 th, 2014.

6 Huang, Y. and Mason, J. (May 2014) The Impact of Visualization of Hurricane Uncertainty on Risk Perception, Affective Responses, and Behavioral Intentions. International Communication Association Conference. Seattle, Washington, May 22 nd - 26 th, Mason, J. and A. Klippel (May 2014) User Effects when Interacting with Storm Surge Flood Maps. First Pennsylvania Spatial Cognition Symposium. State College, Pennsylvania, May 2 nd 4 th, Mason, J. (October 2013) Storm Uncertainty Representation: User Reponses to Novel Visualization. North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Annual Meeting. Greenville, South Carolina, October 9 th - 11 th, Mason, J. (September 2013) A Behavioral Approach towards a Deeper Understanding of Geospatial Data Uncertainty: From Conceptualization to Visualization. Doctoral Colloquium at the Conference on Spatial Information Theory. Scarborough, United Kingdom, September 2 nd -6 th, Klippel, A., Wallgrün, J. O., Yang, J., Mason, J. S., Kim, E.-K., and D. M. Mark (September 2013) Fundamental Cognitive Concepts of Space and Time: Using Cross-Linguistic, Crowdsourced Data to Cognitively Calibrate Modes of Overlap. Conference on Spatial Information Theory. Scarborough, United Kingdom, September 2 nd -6 th, Kinkeldey, C., Mason, J., Klippel, A., and J. Schiewe (August 2013) Assessing the Impact of Design Decisions on the Usability of Uncertainty Visualization: Noise Annotation Lines for the Visual Representation of Attribute Uncertainty. International Cartographic Conference. Dresden, Germany, August 25 th - 30 th, Smith, J., Retchless, D., Kinkeldey, C., and A. Klippel (August 2013) Beyond the Surface: Current Issues and Future Directions in Uncertainty Visualization Research. International Cartographic Conference. Dresden, Germany, August 25 th -30 th, Smith, J. and A. Klippel (2013) Below the Surface: A Deeper Semantics of Uncertainty Visualization. Association of American Geographers Conference. Los Angeles, California, April 9 th -13 th, Idris, M., Smith, J. M., and J. Stevens (2013) NVizABLE: A Network Visualization and Big Data Learning Environment. Association of American Geographers Conference. Los Angeles, CA, April 9 th -13 th, Stehle, S., Smith, J., Yang, J., and A. Klippel (2012) Cognitive Approach to Feature Generalization Across Multiple Scales. Association of American Geographers Conference. New York, New York, February 24 th - 28 th, Smith, J. (2011) Effective Color Schemes for 3D Animations of Urban Landscapes with a Spatial and Temporal Dimension. International Cartography Conference. Paris, France, July 3rd-8 th, Smith, J. (2011) Effective Color Schemes for 3D Animations of Urban Landscapes with a Spatial and Temporal Dimension. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference. Seattle, Washington, April, Selected to present in a special session for the Cartography Specialty Group honors student paper competition. POSTER PRESENTATIONS Mason, J. S. and S. Matthews (2014). Exploring Human Movement and Activity Through GPS Data, Big Data Research Poster Session, State College, PA, April 18 th. Mason, J. S. and A. Klippel (2013). Below the Surface: Current Issues and Future Directions in Uncertainty Visualization Research, Big Data Research Poster Session, State College, PA, February 12 th. Smith, J. M. (2013) Effective Color Schemes for 3D Animations of Urban Landscapes, ESRI User Conference, San Diego, CA, July 11 th 15 th. INVITED PRESENTATIONS & TUTORIALS Mason, J. S. (2014) Lecture on Geographic Data Representation, Mapping Our Changing World course for Joshua Stevens, September 29 th.

7 Mason, J. S. & Savelyev, A. (2013) Tutorial on the Processing Programming Language, Geovisual Analytics Course for Dr. Alan MacEachren, October 17 th. Mason, J. S. (2012) Communicating Uncertainty in Spatial Data, Big Data Week, State College, PA, April 22 nd 26 th. OTHER EXPERIENCE Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science Judge serving to evaluate middle school and high school student scientific research and presentations at the state level, at The Pennsylvania State University, May 2012 and May 2015 Big Data Social Science IGERT Trainee (Fall 2012-Summer 2014). Undergoing various coursework, training, and projects related to big data within the social sciences, statistics, computational and informational sciences, visual analytics, and data science ( Elected Graduate Representative by Pennsylvania State University geography graduate students for school year of Graduate mentor for some of the new incoming GiScience PhD students in the Department of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University. Member of the Human Factors in GIScience Lab ( and the GeoVISTA Center ( at The Pennsylvania State University. Event Captain for the San Diego County Regional Secondary Science Olympiad Competition for the Road Scholar Event at Rancho Bernardo High School, Spring Speaker for Department of Geography Graduation at University of California at Los Angeles, June Intermediate level Spanish: reading and speaking. TECHNICAL SKILLS GIS and Remote Sensing Programming Graphic Design and Layout Web Page Construction Learning Systems ArcGIS, Quantum GIS, ENVI Introductory: Python, Java, Processing (for visualization), R, HTML, CSS Experience using: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop Adobe Dreamweaver Experience Using: ANGEL, Blackboard, Moodle PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of North American Cartographic Information Society Member of American Association of Geographers Member of Cartography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers Member of Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography, American Association of Geographers Member of Geographic Information Science and Systems, American Association of Geographers INTERESTS AND PERSONAL BACKGROUND

8 Travel Volunteer work, leadership training, and studied Spanish in Guatemala through LeapNow March May Soccer: v UCLA Women s Club Soccer: Winter 2008-Spring Fall 2008 National Champions v California State University Long Beach Women s Soccer: Fall 2004 v Long Beach City College Women s Soccer: Fall 2003 National Champions v High School Varsity Women s Soccer team for 4 years. Captain and Most Valuable Player senior year. Female Athlete of the Year for Culver City High School senior year. Most offensive player for Ocean League senior year.