Dana Tomlin

Dana Tomlin is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

Before joining the faculty in 1991, he taught at the Ohio State University School of Natural Resources and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A recipient of the Perkins and Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching, he also serves as a member of the Faculty in City and Regional Planning and teaches as an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Tomlin’s teaching and research focus on the development and application of geographic information systems (GIS). He is Founder and Co-Director of Penn’s Cartographic Modeling Laboratory, author of GIS and Cartographic Modeling, originator of Map Algebra, and a member of the GIS Hall of Fame.