Dr. Roger White

Biography

Roger White is a professor in the Department of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He received his PhD in theoretical economic geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a Bachelor's degree (honours) in economics and philosophy from Swarthmore College. Before joining Memorial in 1977, he taught at the University of Western Ontario and held visiting positions at McGill University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Université de Dijon in France, and Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. He has also worked as a consultant for Los Alamos National Laboratory and participated in a residency at the Santa Fe Institute. In 2008-2009, he was a visiting professor at the Information Communication Technologies Urban Institute in Ireland under the Science Foundation Ireland E.T.S. Walton program. His extensive research focuses on the modelling of urban and regional systems, integrated geographical systems, and the emergence of innovative structures within these systems. Currently, he utilizes cellular automata to model land use changes and the spatial distribution of economic activities, integrating various models to better understand interactions between natural and human systems. White's research has been involved with decision support planning tools and has tested various models across different regions, including Dublin and Puerto Rico.

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