Dr. Tim Nyerges is Professor of Geography and Director of the Master GIS for Sustainability Management Program at the University of Washington. He teaches about development and use of participatory geographic information systems for sustainability management.  His research focuses on sustainability information science with particular application to resilience and sustainability management for coastal areas. Many of the teaching and research ideas about sustainability management appear in his 2010 textbook titled Regional and Urban GIS: A Decision Support Approach published by Guildford Press. He is a past president and Fellow of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, and a former member of the U.S. National Geospatial Advisory Committee.