Drs. Nancy Hoalst-Pullen and Mark Patterson were invited to serve on the Editorial Board for the journal Applied Geography.

KENNESAW, Ga. (Aug 31, 2011) — Drs. Nancy Hoalst-Pullen and Mark Patterson of Department of Geography and Anthropology were recently invited to serve on the Editorial Board for the journal Applied Geography.  The scope and aims of the journal are "[to] public[ize] research that utilizes geographic approaches (human, physical, nature-society and GIScience) to resolve human problems that have a spatial dimension. These problems may be related to the assessment, management and allocation of the world's physical and/or human resources. The underlying rationale of the journal is that only through a clear understanding of the relevant societal, physical, and coupled natural-humans systems can we resolve such problems“ (Elsevier).

Hoalst-Pullen and Patterson have published in Applied Geography regarding OPC land cover change in south-central Chile, and have provided several reviews for the journal.

Dr. Hoalst-Pullen serves as the GIS Director and Dr. Patterson is the Environmental Studies Coordinator at KSU. They have co-edited a book entitled Geospatial Technologies and Environmental Management for Springer and are currently co-authoring - with a former student - a physical geography lab manual for Wiley Publishers.