Sarah E. Battersby

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2006

Department of Geography
Callcott, Room 325
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-5729   Fax: (803) 777-4972
email: battersby@sc.edu

Areas of Interest
Geographic Information Science
Cognitive and behavioral geography
Analytical cartography
Geography education

Recent Publications

Battersby, Sarah E., Jerry T. Mitchell, and Susan L. Cutter. (forthcoming, 2011) Facilitating disaster awareness with an online hazards atlas.  International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education.

Stewart, John E., Sarah E. Battersby, Ana Lopez-De Fede, Kevin C. Remington, and Kathy Mayfield-Smith.  (2011) Diabetes and the socioeconomic and built environment: Geovisualization of disease prevalence and potential contextual associations using ring maps.  International Journal of Health Geographics. 10(18).

Battersby, Sarah E and Kirk P. Goldsberry. 2010. Considerations in design of transition behaviors for dynamic thematic maps. Cartographic Perspectives. 65:16-32.

Battersby, Sarah E. 2009. The effects of global-scale map projection knowledge on perceived land area. Cartographica 44 (1):33-44.

Battersby, Sarah E, and Daniel R Montello. 2009. Area Estimation of World Regions and the Projection of the Global-Scale Cognitive Map. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 99 (2):273-291.

Goldsberry, Kirk, and Sarah E Battersby. 2009. Issues of change detection in animated choropleth maps. Cartographica 44 (3):201-215.

Golledge, Reginald G, Meredith J Marsh, and Sarah E Battersby. 2008. A conceptual framework for facilitating geospatial thinking. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98 (2).

Golledge, Reginad G, Meredith J. Marsh, and Sarah E Battersby. 2008. Matching geospatial concepts with geographic education. Geographical Research. 46(1): 85-98.

Marsh, Meredith J, Reginald G Golledge, and Battersby, Sarah E. 2007. Geospatial concept understanding and recognition in G6-College students: A preliminary argument for minimal GIS. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97 (4):696-712.

Teaching
Cartography
Advanced cartography
Cognitive and behavioral geography