Frank Witmer

Frank Witmer is a computational geographer who conducts research in violent conflict and human-environment interactions using spatial statistical methods, remote sensing data, and simulation. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Prior work focused on the spatial distributions of violence in the North Caucasus of Russia and Afghanistan/Pakistan.

He is currently a Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He has also studied climate variability and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa, conflict damage in Ukraine, coastline extraction in Alaska, and ocean/lake variation in water turbidity.

This site provides information regarding his publications and teaching. An alternate listing of his publications can be found at Google Scholar.

Additional research-related work can be found on his github page.

Frank (left) in Brčko interviewing Bosniak returnees (members of a farmer's cooperative) during a trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina to collect ground reference data for satellite image analysis.