Kitty Currier

geographer ⋅ sailor ⋅ kite flier

Academics

PhD Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation: Mapping Perspectives for Environmental Planning [pdf]
Adviser: Keith Clarke
MA Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
Thesis: Auditory Representation in Spatial Applications [pdf]
Co-advisers: Michael Goodchild and Keith Clarke
BSc Department of Biology (Minor in Archaeology), Stanford University
Conferred with distinction

Mapping with strings attached
(2013)

Documenting coral reefs with "Immersive" video (2011)

Sound cues in geographic representation (2010)

Participatory mapping for tourism planning in Bali, Indonesia. Public Participation GIS 2017, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2 Aug. 2017
Pendapat tentang Bahasa Indonesia dari seorang pelajar pemula [Opinions on the Indonesian language from a beginning student]. Academic seminar, Fakultas Bahasa & Seni, Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha, Singaraja, Bali, Indonesia, 23 Oct. 2016
Kite aerial photography for coastal environmental monitoring. Workshop organized by Balai Pengelolaan Sumberdaya Pesisir dan Laut - Denpasar, Coral Triangle Center, Sanur, Bali, Indonesia, 6 Aug. 2016
Mapping with kite aerial photography. MS GIS Colloquium, University of Redlands, CA, 21 May 2014
Geodesigning ‘from the inside out.’ Geodesign Summit Europe, Herwijnen, Netherlands, 19-20 Sep. 2013 [video]
Shipshaping and Fiafia (or, How I became a geographer). spatial@ucsb Lightning Talks, UCSB, CA, 27 Feb. 2013 [video]
Auditory representation in geographic and spatial applications. AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 14 Apr. 2011
Beyond Street View: Documenting coral reefs with ‘Immersive’ video. WhereCamp SoCal, San Diego State University, CA, 17 Jul. 2010 [video]
Planetary Coral Reef Foundation’s Google Earth-Ocean Demonstration Project. Raffles Marina, Singapore, 13 Aug. 2008

Boren Fellowship, 2016
Women Divers Hall of Fame Honorable Mention Award in Graduate Conservation, 2015
David S. Simonett Memorial Award, Department of Geography, UCSB, 2015
UCSB Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Award, 2014
UCSB Associated Students Coastal Fund grant funding project “Exploring the UCSB coast with kite aerial photography”, 2014
David S. Simonett Memorial Award, Department of Geography, UCSB, 2012
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention, 2011
Student Assistant, Esri International User Conference, San Diego, CA, 2010
NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) scholarship to attend the Vespucci Summer Institute on Geographic Information Science, Florence, Italy, 2010
Regents Special Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009-2014
Google Earth-Ocean Demonstration Project featured in Google Earth Ocean Gallery, 2008
GeoEye Foundation Imagery Grant, providing IKONOS satellite images to Planetary Coral Reef Foundation, 2007
NCAA Pac-10 Women’s Track and Field All-Academic First Team, Stanford University, 2002-2004