Section E. Biographical Sketches

Toru OTAWA, Ph.D. Telephone: 208-885-7729/7448

Department of Landscape Architecture Fax: 208-885-9428

University of Idaho E-mail:otawat@uidaho.edu

Moscow, Idaho 83844-2481 U.S.A. Web Page: http://www.uidaho.edu/larch/

 

RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

8/89 - Present Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Idaho

9/85 - 8/90 Co-ordinator, GIS Laboratory, College of Art & Architecture, University of

Idaho

9/85 - 7/89 Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of

Idaho

9/80 - 8/85 Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Ball State

University, Muncie, Indiana

 

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, 1996. University of Queensland, Australia. Geographical Sciences

and Planning, Dissertation title: A Theoretical Framework for Evaluating the

Implementation of Geographic Information Systems: Socio-cultural Approach.

Master of Landscape Architecture, 1978. University of Massachusetts/Amherst (Regional

Landscape Planning Option)

Bachelor of Agriculture, 1975. (U.S. equivalent to B.S. in Landscape Architecture),

Tokyo University of Agriculture (TUA)

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)

Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA)

Sigma Lambda Alpha (Landscape Architecture Honor Society)

 

List of Publications

(i) GIS Related Publications

Otawa, T. and Ken Lyons. "Success of GIS Implementation: Perceptual Variations

among Local Government Officials in Queensland, Australia." In: Proceedings of

the LIS’92 Symposium held in Vancouver, B.C., February 1992.

Otawa, T. "Modelling GIS Implementation for Success." Paper and tutorial seminar. In:

Proceedings of the 1991 NICOGRAPH Symposium held in Tokyo, Japan,

November, 1991.

Otawa, T. "GIX: A PC-Based Geographic Information System for Teaching Landscape

Architecture." In: Proceedings of 1989 CELA (Councils of Educators in

Landscape Architecture) Conference held in Amelia Island, Florida, September

1989, pp. 107-12.

Otawa, T. "GIX: A PC-Based Geographic Information System." In: Proceedings of the

Conference on Land Classifications Based on Vegetation: Applications for

Resource Management, Ogden, UT: U.S.Forest Service Intermountain Research

Station, February 1989, pp. 310-311. General Technical Report INT-257.