Publications

2015
Weihe Wendy Guan, Alenka Poplin, and Benjamin G Lewis. 2015. “Understanding Today's Online GIS User Through the Lens of a WorldMap Survey.” Transactions in GIS, 19, 3, Pp. 417-438.
Giovanni Zambotti, Wendy Guan, and Justin Daniel Gest. 2015. “Visualizing Human Migration through Space and Time.” ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, II, 4-W2, Pp. 155-161.
2014
Melly SJ Blossom Sorensen Williams DR JG 16. Duncan DT, Kawachi I. 3/1/2014. “Demographic Disparities in the Tobacco Retail Environment in Boston, Massachusetts? A Citywide Spatial Analysis.” Public Health Reports. Publisher's Version
Nicolas M Oreskovic, Jeff Blossom, Alyssa I Robinson, Minghua L Chen, Doris K Uscanga, and Jason A Mendoza. 2014. “The influence of the built environment on outcomes from a “walking school bus study”: a cross-sectional analysis using geographical information systems.” Geospatial health, 9, 1, Pp. 37.
2013
James M Friedman, Lars Hagander, Christopher D Hughes, Katherine A Nash, Allison F Linden, Jeff Blossom, and John G Meara. 2013. “Distance to hospital and utilization of surgical services in Haiti: do children, delivering mothers, and patients with emergent surgical conditions experience greater geographical barriers to surgical care?” The International journal of health planning and management, 28, 3, Pp. 248-256.
Weihe Wendy Guan and Peter K Bol. 2013. “Embracing Geographic Analysis beyond Geography: Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis Enters 5th Year.” In Geographic Information Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Pp. 1764-1772. IGI Global.
Akiyuki Kawasaki, Merrick Lex Berman, and Wendy Guan. 2013. “The growing role of web‐based geospatial technology in disaster response and support.” Disasters, 37, 2, Pp. 201-221.
2012
Nicolas M Oreskovic, Jeff Blossom, Alison E Field, Sylvia R Chiang, Jonathan P Winickoff, and Ronald E Kleinman. 2012. “Combining global positioning system and accelerometer data to determine the locations of physical activity in children.” Geospatial health, 6, 2, Pp. 263-272.
Karim E Abou-Nassar, Haesook T Kim, Jeff Blossom, Vincent T Ho, Robert J Soiffer, Corey S Cutler, Edwin P Alyea, John Koreth, Joseph H Antin, and Philippe Armand. 2012. “The impact of geographic proximity to transplant center on outcomes after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.” Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 18, 5, Pp. 708-715.
Weihe Wendy Guan, Peter K Bol, Benjamin G Lewis, Matthew Bertrand, Merrick Lex Berman, and Jeffrey C Blossom. 2012. “WorldMap–a geospatial framework for collaborative research.” Annals of GIS, 18, 2, Pp. 121-134.
2011
Jeffrey C Blossom, Julia L Finkelstein, Weihe Wendy Guan, and Bonnie Burns. 2011. “Applying GIS Methods to Public Health Research at Harvard University.” Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 7, 3, Pp. 349-376.
Nicolas M Oreskovic, Jeff Blossom, Alison E Field, Sylvia R Chiang, Jonathan P Winickoff, and Ronald E Kleinman. 2011. “Combining GPS and Accelerometers to Determine the Locations of Physical Activity in Children.” OBESITY 19, Pp. S202-S202. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 75 VARICK ST, 9TH FLR, NEW YORK, NY 10013-1917 USA.
Weihe Wendy Guan, Bonnie Burns, Julia L Finkelstein, and Jeffrey C Blossom. 2011. “Enabling geographic research across disciplines: Building an institutional infrastructure for geographic analysis at Harvard University.” Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 7, 1, Pp. 36-60.
Jeff Blossom, Weihe Wendy Guan, Julia L Finkelstein, and Bonnie Burns. 2011. “Enabling geographic research for health professionals at Harvard University.” Geoinformatics, 2011 19th International Conference on. IEEE.
Benjamin Lewis and Weihe Guan. 2011. “Jump-starting the next level of online geospatial collaboration: Lessons from AfricaMap.” Advances in Web-based GIS, Mapping Services and Applications. London, Taylor and Francis, Pp. 255-76.
Benjamin G Lewis. 2011. “WorldMap: a strategy to allow researchers to scratch their itches online thereby improving data access for all.” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research & Applications. ACM.
2009
Wendy Guan and Peter Bol. 10/2009. “Harvard Revisited: Geography’s Return as GIS.” The Geography Teacher, 6, 2, Pp. 1-48. PDFAbstract
CGA at Harvard University, including operational model, achievements, and perspectives.
Weihe (Wendy) Guan and Guoping Huang. 9/2009. “Bringing Operational GIS into University Classroom.” Geomatica - Special Issue on Higher Education, 63, 2, Pp. 375-392. PDFAbstract
This study explores an innovative approach in teaching operational GIS to students who have taken only one introductory GIS course. It brings real world cases into university classrooms and exposes students to practical solutions of multiple scenarios.
Wendy Guan and Peter K Bol. 2009. “Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University.” GeoGraphy Teacher, Pp. 14.
John Gerring, Nathan Nunn, Robert Woodberry, Peter Bol, Wendy Guan, and Ben Lewis. 2009. “A Global Historical GIS (GH-GIS) Project”.

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