Room 306, Agriculture C
Laramie, WY
Phone: (307) 766-6649
Email: mberends@uwyo.edu
MA, State University of New York at Buffalo, Geography
BS, Cornell University, Biological Sciences
Margo Berendsen is a GIS analyst, educator, and research scientist at the University of Wyoming. She teaches courses on Geospatial Foundations, Spatial Data Visualization, and works on various research projects and GIS analysis projects. She co-authored the Wyoming Student Atlas, a publication that has been distributed to all Wyoming elementary and middle schools, and developed the Atlas into a series of standards-based interactive story maps as another K-12 education resource. She is currently working on an NSF study on how learning with GIS improves spatial thinking.
Margo received her MA in Geography from the State University of New York at Buffalo and holds a GISP from the GIS Certification Institute. She is a member of the American Association of Geographers, the Wyoming Geographic Alliance, and Women in GIS. She is an avid reader and loves hiking and riding horses in the mountains with family and friends.
GIS Professional (GISP), Geographic Information Systems Certification Institute
CompTIA CTT+ certified technical trainer
ESRI Technical Certification at the ArcGIS Desktop Associate level
American Assoc. of Geographers
North American Cartographic Information Society
Wyoming Geographic Alliance
Wyoming Geospatial Organization
GIST 1100: Geospatial Foundations
GIST 2200: Spatial Data Visualization
Geographic Information Science
Project design,
Development and documentation,
Decision support,
Environmental and land-use planning GIS applications,
Spatial thinking
Lead Cartographer, Wyoming Student Atlas
Collaboration and development of education materials to further K16 geographic education
Spatial analysis of human, infrastructure and environmental factors in Wyoming and the west
Influence of GIS education on spatial thinking abilities
Hodza, P., Berendsen, M.E., & Hamerlinck, J. D. (2021). Towards a holistic framework for delivering quality GIS education within and across disciplines. Transactions in GIS, 25(4), 2146-2167.
Berendsen, M.E., Hamerlinck, J.D., and Webster, G.R. 2018. Digital Story Mapping to Advance Educational Atlas Design and Enable Student Engagement. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 7(3):125. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi7030125
Vithanage, J., Miller, S.N., Bellis, J., Berendsen, M.E., Caffrey, P. In Press. Planning for change with AGWA: hydrologic impacts of oil and gas development in the Colorado River Basin. Journal of Hydrology.
Hamerlinck, J.D., Webster, G.R., Berendsen, M.E. 2014. Wyoming Student Atlas: Exploring Our Geography. Laramie, WY: University of Wyoming. 55 pp.
Berendsen, M.E., Hamerlinck, J.D., Lanning, S.G., and Shin, S. 2010. Developing NSDI Framework Data: ANSI Framework Data Content Standards Guidance Document, version 1.0. Laramie, WY: University of Wyoming. 128 pp. https://www.fgdc.gov/training/nsdi-training-program/materials/framework-training-guidance-document.pdf
Berendsen, M.E., Hamerlinck, J.D. and Wayne, L. 2003. Framework and strategies for integrating metadata concepts with geographic information science curricula. Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, 15(1): 37-46.
