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William J. Drummond is an Associate Professor in the School of City & Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He directs the Master of Science degree in Geographic Information Science and Technology. Drummond graduated summa cum laude from Duke University with a major in History and earned a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, focusing on Biblical Studies. He obtained a Master of Theology degree from Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, and holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drummond has been teaching at Georgia Tech since 1987, with a focus on courses that include climate change planning, land conservation, sustainable urban development, socioeconomic GIS, programming GIS, and quantitative research methods at the PhD level. His current research involves advanced time-series models for population forecasting, exploring the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions, and developing new methods for estimating building-level and neighborhood-level greenhouse gas emissions.
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