Paul Morin

Director / Principal Investigator, PGC

Email: lpaul@umn.edu

Phone: 612-625-6090

What I Do

Manage the support of geospatial services for NSF’s Office of Polar Programs. I did much of the early mapping for PGC's predecessor, AGIC. I help define geospatial needs for the polar community and I do boutique projects.

Experience

I’ve been in mapping and scientific visualization my whole career. I’ve made maps and created art for National Geographic, Scientific American, textbooks and science museums. I became involved in McMurdo Dry Valley mapping and it just went from there. Here are some projects, interviews, articles, and links to other things I have worked on:

• RISCO, the Rapid Ice Sheet Change Observatory, which is a NASA funded project to monitor ice at both poles.
• An introductory geology textbook I authored.
• National Geographic Art I produced with Chuck Carter.
• Museum exhibits (one and two) that I have contributed to.
• An article I wrote about learning with topographic maps.
• An interview with the Wall Street Journal
• Antarctic Sun Articles: one, two, three.
• Members of the Polar Geospatial Center and I have contributed satellite imagery in the BBC program Frozen Planet - more info on Frozen Planet on Wikipedia.
• A poster I created for GSA 2011 Minneapolis.

Interests

Cooking, bicycling, kids.