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Jaap Vos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban & Regional Planning
Dr. Vos served as the interim Director of the VPT Lab from 2002-2005. Dr. Vos uses GIS and related technology to enhance research on environmental planning, environmental justice, and sustainable development. Related projects include use of GIS tracking for tracking and predicting types and location of development trends in downtown Fort Lauderdale, and inventory of economic, environmental and equity resources in Broward County. The lab was also involved in Dr. Vos's research on air emissions from mobile sources in Florida (funded by Florida Department of Transportation). Currently, he is using GIS to create basemaps and redevelopment alternatives for Overtown in Miami. |
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David Prosperi, Ph.D.
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Dr. Prosperi served as the Founding Director of the VPT Lab, and has been involved in a variety of GIS and enterprise GIS initiatives in South Florida. His research interests include growth management, economic development and computer applications, and he has written extensively on topics such as interactive GIS-Based Planning Support Systems, Public Participation GIS, and Large Scale 3D Data Integration.
Dr. Prosperi served as the Editor-in-chief of "Computers, Environment and Urban Systems" from 1988-1996. |
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Joyce Levine, Ph.D., AICP
Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Dr. Levine’s research focuses on disaster management, sustainable development, and global warming, as well as the interactions among the three topics. She has studied issues related to earthquakes, concurrent natural and technological disasters, and hurricanes, in particular the formation of hurricane-response networks and social-structural vulnerability in South Florida.
Dr. Levine is Co-Principal Investigator (along with Dr. Ann-Margaret Esnard and Dr. Alka Sapat, of Public Administration) of the three-year (2007-2010) NSF grant, “Population Displacement due to Catastrophic Disasters: Assessing Potential Magnitude and Implications for Housing and Land Development Policies.” Additional current research project include: the creation of a spatial model of sustainable development for planning (with Dr. Jaap Vos); issues in governance of sustainable development policy and action; creation of a practice-oriented method for identifying vulnerable populations in a community; and a retrospective on 35 years of planning in South Florida and its failure to address critical environmental problems. |
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Ana Puszkin-Chevlin, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow, CUES
Dr. Ana Puszkin-Chevlin is a Senior Research Fellow at FAU’s Catanese Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions (CUES) and an Adjunct Professor for the Department of Urban and Regional Planning since 2004. Her research work focuses on land use planning and coastal hazard resiliency issues and is funded by NOAA through the Florida Hurricane Alliance. Prior to relocating to Florida, she had been the Assistant Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Planning at Columbia University and a Special Projects Research Officer for University’s Earth Institute. There she focused on developing interdisciplinary research activities on environmental and natural hazard topics and funding for collaborative endeavors within the University.
Dr. Puszkin-Chevlin specializes in hazards mitigation planning, land-use analysis, and property redevelopment. She began her career as a real estate market analyst for Jones Lang LaSalle and Baring Institutional Realty Advisors, and consults for a variety of clients in this capacity. She received her MS in Urban Planning (1989) and her Ph.D. in Urban Planning (2007) from Columbia University, New York City |
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Scott Burton
Adjunct Faculty & Training Instructor
Scott Burton has over fifteen years of combined academic, applied research and professional experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Mr. Burton is an alumnus with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning, specializing in environmental planning and GIS.
As the former director of the Visual Planning Technology Lab, he assisted both public and private agencies in developing Enterprise GIS solutions, including the development of the City of Fort Lauderdale’s Enterprise GIS. He also designed and implemented the first Visual Planning Technology certification for the graduate program. His academic contribution includes teaching the GIS courses offered by the Department over the past 12 years, specializing in the topic of GIS management. He has numerous articles published on the topic on GIS management in URISA, ESRI, Government Technology, and the International Geo-information for Disaster Management Consortium.
Mr. Burton is currently the GIS Manager for the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) where is managing the Enterprise GIS solution for law enforcement, fire-rescue, emergency management and homeland security. In 2007, his GIS section at BSO received the Special Achievement in GIS award from ESRI. He is also active in the GIS community, serving as a steering committee member for the state of Florida’s Strategic GIS Coordination committee, chair of the strategic committee for State of Florida’s HAZUS User Group, and chair of the Southeast Florida Regional (SERF) HAZUS User group. . |
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Michael Stamm
Adjunct Faculty
Michael Stamm has over six years of research and professional experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He holds a Bachelor's degree in Public Management and a Master's in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida Atlantic University.
Mr. Stamm was a research assistant in the Department’s Visual Planning Technology Lab where he worked on projects which included: Florida International University Mobile Home Inventory, Port of Fort Pierce Master Plan, Florida Department of Transportation State Road 40 Feasibility Study, and Redistricting options for the Cities of Hollywood and Pembroke Pines, and Palm Beach County.
Currently Mr. Stamm is an Assistant Planner for the City of Pembroke Pines where in addition to his planning responsibilities, he maintains the City’s GIS. He also teaches the course entitled Introduction to Visual Planning Technology in the undergraduate program. |
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Rick Householder
Adjunct Faculty & Training Instructor
Rick Householder is the Senior Geographer with the South Florida Water Management District’s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Department, specializing in GIS/GPS and Remote Sensing application development and training. Mr. Householder holds a Bachelor's degree in Geology and a Master's in Geography from Florida Atlantic University. In addition,
Mr. Householder is currently developing mobile GIS/GPS applications for emergency management and environmental monitoring. |
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