J.M. Shawn Hutchinson

Professor of geography and geospatial sciences

Shawn Hutchinson, professor of geography and director of the Geographic Information Systems Spatial Analysis Laboratory and founding co-director of the Institute for Digital Agriculture and Advanced Analytics, studies issues related to grassland and military training land sustainability, surface water resources, and agricultural biosecurity with an increasing emphasis on real- and near-real time environmental monitoring.

He received his bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Colorado State University in 1990. He earned his master’s degree in 1997 and doctorate in 2000, both in geography, from Kansas State University. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals more than 60 times and he has been an investigator on extramurally-funded research grants totaling more than $18 million from state and federal agencies including the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Geological Survey.