Michael P. Peterson is a Professor in the Department of Geography
/ Geology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He received
his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls (1976),
his M.A. from Boston University (1978) and Ph.D. from the State
University of New York-Buffalo (1982). He was a Post-Doctoral
Assistant at the University of Zürich, Switzerland in 1981-82
and subsequently joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska
- Omaha in 1982 where he has taught courses in world regional
geography, cartography, computer mapping, remote sensing and geographic
information systems.
Dr. Peterson has served as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1985, a Fulbright Fellow at the Free University Berlin, Germany (1990-91), Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa (1995), Visiting Fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Australia (1998), Fulbright Fellow at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria (1999), and visiting Professor at the University of Applied Technology in Munich, Germany in 1999, 2000, 2001, and visiting research fellow at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, in 2004. He is past-President of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) and former editor of Cartographic Perspectives. He has also served as member of the Editorial Board of Cartographic Perspectives, The Professional Geographer, and Cartography and Geographic Information Systems. He is currently chair of the Maps and the Internet Commission of the International Cartographic Association.
His publications include: An Evaluation of Unclassed Choropleth Mapping, Evaluating a Map's Image, Mentale Bilder in der Kartographischen Kommunikation (in German), The Mental Image in Cartographic Communication, Interactive Cartographic Animation, Cognitive Issues in Cartographic Visualization, and Active Legends for Interactive Cartographic Animation. Books include Interactive and Animated Cartography, published by Prentice-Hall, Multimedia Cartography published by Springer Verlag, Maps and the Internet, published by Elsevier Press, The Online Method to World Regional Geography published by Kendall-Hunt, the Animated Atlas of Air Traffic, and International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet published by Springer Verlag.