FACULTY RESEARCH EXPERTISE
Germana Manca, Assistant Professor
PhD University of Sassari (Italy)
Research Focus: Geographic Information Science
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Phone: 703-993-9812
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Dr. Manca is also an Assistant Professor in the Geography and Geospatial Department at Mason, where she is an Associate Coordinator of the Earth System Science M.S. program. She is also a member of the Recruitment Committee. She is the US lead institution coordinator of project Atlantis, a transatlantic dual masters degree program involving a consortium of 3 universities: the University of Cagliari, College of Birckbek, University of London, and George Mason University. She has 13 years of broad professional experience in the field of Geographic Information Science (GISci). She has been a former Inspector of Italian National Priority Layers and of Regional Geodatabases. She has operated as an Information Technology (IT) director for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at the national level. Dr. Manca has extensive experience on an international level, through her collaborations with the National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis (NCGIA) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), and at the Italian National Research Center (CNR). She was also the primary Project Developer for the Sardinian Environmental Historical Geopark and has acted as a geoinformation consultant for multiple universities and the government. She has published papers, book chapters and conference papers.