My most recent work has been on the geography of wireless communications in collaboration with Tom Wikle. We have a paper
forthcoming in The Professional Geographer on the worldwide diffusion of the cellular telephone since 1995, another paper
in review on low power FM radio in the U.S., and a manuscript in progress on religious broadcasting in the U.S.
A long-term and on-going research interest of mine examines the spatial aspects of the recent flurry of sports stadium construction.
This topic, which has to date only really been examined by economists trying to find out if cities ever get their investment back,
has proven very interesting and productive. My colleague, Tracy Newsome, was a fellow graduate student at Ohio State.
We made presentations at conferences including the Association of American Geographers, Southwest Association of American
Geographers, and the Applied Geography Conference. We have published papers in Sport Place:
An International Journal of Sports Geography in 1996, the Proceedings of the Oklahoma
Academy of Science in 1998, the Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conference in 1999,
and in The Professional Geographer in 2000.
In other recent work, I developed GIS and statistical models of highway bypass impacts in Oklahoma. This research was
spurred by a grant funded by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) to study the impacts of highway bypasses on
small towns in Oklahoma. The project ran from 1 Jan. 1999 through 31 Dec. 2000 and integrated GIS and statistical analysis
of historic bypasses in the state to provide an interactive modeling framework for making future bypass decisions. We
expanded this research with two grants from the Oklahoma Transportation Center (OTC)
and have published papers in the 2000 issue of the Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science as well as three
in the Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conference (in 2001, 2003, and 2004) and a paper in
The Southwestern Geographer (2005). A website for
the OTC work is available here.
Despite being a geographer in a department with colleagues who have visited every state and nearly 3000 of the U.S.
counties, my travels have been fairly limited.
As a graduate student, I did work on regional economic modeling, primarily using the input-output framework.
With Dr. Randall W. Jackson, I have had papers published on estimation issues in regional input-output modeling in the
Journal of Regional Science, Growth and Change, and Papers in Regional Science.