About Us
Geoffrey Mark Jacquez
President, BioMedware, Inc.
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan B.S. 1977 Biology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan M.S. 1983 Resource Policy & Law
SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York Ph.D. 1989 Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
A. Positions and Honors
1980–1981 Computer Programmer I, Zoology Department, Arizona State University
1981–1982 Field Biologist, Lower Colorado River Project, Ehrenberg Arizona
1984–1987 Research Assistant, Department of Ecology and Evolution, SUNY Stony Brook
1987–1989 Research Associate, Stony Brook Research Foundation
1990– President, BioMedware Incorporated, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2000- Chief Scientist, TerraSeer Incorporated, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Selected Other Experience
1997 Temporary Advisor on Disease Mapping, World Health Organization, Rome.
1999 NIH/NCI Reviewer Special Study Section on Geographic Variation in Breast Cancer
1999–2000 Instructor, Spatial Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health
2000–2002 Spatial Data Standards Committee, the Association of American Geographers
2001-2002 Industry Liaison, GIS Specialty Group, the Association of American Geographers
2001 NIH/NCI SSS on Geographic Epidemiology and the National Cancer Atlas
2002-2003 Consultant, NCI specialty group Best Practices in the Spatial Analysis of Cancer Data
2003 NIH/NCI Reviewer SEP ZCA1 SRRB-K Clinical Trials Data Collection Using Hand-Held Technology
2003 CDC/ATSDR Reviewer PEP 2003-052, Develop Methods and New Approaches for Evaluating Environmental Exposure and Human Health Risks In Small Populations
2003 NIH/NCI Reviewer EDC-2 Epidemiology of Cancer (EPIC) Study Section 2003 NSF Reviewer, Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics Program
2004 NIH/NCI Reviewer SEP/IRG 2004/05 EPIC 2004 NIH/NCI Reviewer SBIR 181 Clinical Trials Data Collection Using Hand Held Technology
2004- Member Editorial Board, Journal of Geographical Systems
2005 Program Committee, GeoComputation
2005 Reviewer American Journal of Public Health; Statistics in Medicine; Geographical Analysis; Journal of Geographical Systems; Annals of the Association of American Geographers; International Journal of Health Geographics; Mathematical BioSciences; Technology & Health Care; Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Guest Editorships
Jacquez, G.M. 1993. Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistics and Computing in Disease Clustering, Port Jefferson, NY, 23-24 July 1992. (G.M. Jacquez (Editor), R.C. Grimson, L.I. Kheifets, L.A. Waller and D. E. Wartenberg (Co-editors)). Statistics in Medicine, 12 (19/20).
Jacquez, G.M. 1996 Proceeding of the Conference on Statistics and Computing in Disease Clustering, Vancouver, British Columbia, 21-22 July 1994. (G.M. Jacquez (Editor), R.C. Grimson, L.I. Kheifets, L.A. Waller and D.E. Wartenberg (Co-editors)). Statistics in Medicine, 15 (7/8/9).
Jacquez, G. M. 2002. Exposure Assessment Using High Spatial Resolution, Hyperspectral Imagery: Problems and Solutions. (eds. G. M. Jacquez, R. Aspinall, W. A. Marcus). Journal of Geographical Systems, Volume 4
Jacquez, G. M. 2005. Space Time Intelligence Systems: Technology, Methods and Application. (eds. G. M. Jacquez, P. Goovaerts, P. Rogerson). Journal of Geographical Systems, In Prep.
B. Selected Publications (since 1993)
Peer-Reviewed
Sokal, R.R., G.M. Jacquez, M.C. Wooten, 1989. Spatial autocorrelation analysis of migration and selection. Genetics 121:845-55.
Barbujani, G., G.M. Jacquez, L. Ligi. 1990. Diversity of some gene frequencies in European and Asian populations. V. Steep multilocus clines. Am J Hum Genet 47:867-75.
Sokal, R.R., G.M. Jacquez, N.L. Oden, D. DiGiovanni, A.B. Falsetti, E. McGee, B.A. Thomson. 1993. Genetic relationships of European populations reflect their ethnohistorical affinities. Am J Phys Anthropol 91:55-70.
Jacquez, G.M. 1993. Introduction to the special issue on statistics and computing in disease clustering. Statistics in Medicine, 12:1751.
Jacquez, G.M. and L. Kheifets. 1993. Synthetic cancer variables and the construction of synthetic cancer risk maps. Statistics in Medicine, 12:1931-1942.
Jacquez, G.M. 1994. Cuzick and Edwards test when exact locations are unknown. American Journal of Epidemiology 140:58-64.
Jacquez G.M., 1995. The map comparison problem: Tests for the overlap of geographic boundaries. Statistics in Medicine, 14:2343-2361.
Waller L.A. and G.M. Jacquez, 1995. Disease models implicit in statistical tests of disease clustering. Epidemiology 6:584-590.
Fortin, M.J., P. Drapeau and G.M. Jacquez. 1996. Statistics to assess spatial relationships between ecological boundaries. Oikos 77:51-60
Jacquez, G.M., R. Grimson, L. Waller and D. Wartenberg. 1996. The analysis of disease clusters Part 2: Introduction to techniques. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 17:385-397.
Jacquez, G.M., L. Waller, R. Grimson and D. Wartenberg. 1996. The analysis of disease clusters Part I: State of the art. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 17:319-327
Jacquez, G.M. 1996 Statistical software for the clustering of health events. Statistics in Medicine, 15:951-952 (software description).
Oden, N.L., G.M. Jacquez and R. Grimson. 1996. Realistic power simulations compare point- and area-bases disease cluster tests. Statistics in Medicine, 15:783-806.
Jacquez, G.M., 1996. Disease cluster statistics for imprecise space-time locations. Statistics in Medicine, 15:873-885
Jacquez, G.M., R. Grimson, L. Kheifets, L. Waller and D. Wartenberg. 1996 Introduction to the special issue on statistics and computing in disease clustering. Statistics in Medicine, 15: 681.
Jacquez, G.M. 1996. A k-nearest neighbor test for space-time interaction. Statistics in Medicine. 15:1934-1949.
Jacquez, G.M. 1999. Spatial statistics when locations are uncertain, Geographic Information Systems, 5(2):77-87
Jacquez, G.M., S.L. Maruca and M. J. Fortin. 2000. From fields to objects: A review of geographic boundary analysis, Journal of Geographical Systems, 2:221-241
Jacquez, G. M., 2000, Spatial analysis in epidemiology: Nascent science or a failure of GIS?, Journal of Geographical Systems, 2(1):91-97
Fortin, M-J. and G. M. Jacquez, 2000, Randomization tests and spatially auto-correlated data, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 81 (3): 201-205
Koopman J, Chick S, Jacquez G. 2000. Analyzing sensitivity to model form assumptions of infection transmission system models. Ann Epidemiol. 2000 Oct 1;10(7):472.
Jacquez, G. M., W. A. Marcus, R. Aspinall, and D. Greiling. 2002. Exposure Assessment Using High Resolution Hyperspectral Imagery. Journal of Geographical Systems, 4:1-14.
Maruca, S. L. and G. M. Jacquez. 2002. Area-based tests for association between spatial patterns. Journal of Geographical Systems 4:69-84.
Jacquez, J. A. and G. M. Jacquez. 2002. Fisher’s randomization test and Darwin’s data: A footnote to the history of statistics. Mathematical Biosciences 180:23-28.
Koopman, J. S., S. E. Chick, C. P. Simon, C. S. Riolo, G. Jacquez. 2002. Stochastic effects on endemic infection levels of disseminating versus local contacts, Mathematical Biosciences 180:49-71.
Jacquez, G.M. and D.A. Greiling. 2003. Local clustering in breast, lung and colorectal cancer in Long Island, New York. International Journal of Health Geographics 2: 3.
Jacquez, GM and D Greiling. 2003. Geographic boundaries in breast, lung and colorectal cancers in relation to exposure to air toxics in Long Island, New York. International Journal of Health Geographics 2:4.
Goovaerts, P, Jacquez GM, Greiling, D. 2004. Simulation-based Assessment of Performances of Weighted Semivariogram Estimator and Factorial Kriging to Estimate Scale-dependent Correlation between Cancer Rates. Geographical Analysis (accepted)
Goovaerts, P and G. Jacquez. 2004. Accounting for regional background and population size in the detection of spatial clusters and outliers using geostatistical filtering and spatial neutral models: the case of lung cancer in Long Island, New York. International Journal of Health Geographics 2004, 3:14.
Jacquez, G. M. 2004. Current practices in the spatial analysis of cancer: flies in the ointment International Journal of Health Geographics 3: 22.
AvRuskin, GA, GM Jacquez, JR Meliker, MJ Slotnick, A Kaufmann and JO Nriagu. 2004. Visualization and exploratory analysis of epidemiologic data using using a novel space time information system. International Journal of Health Geographics (Accepted).
Jacquez, G. M., D. Greiling and A. Kaufmann. 2005. Design and Implementation of Space-Time Information Systems. Journal of Geographical Systems. (Accepted).
Meliker, J. R., MJ Slotnick, GA AvRuskin, A. Kaufmann, GM Jacquez and JO Nriagu. 2005. Improving exposure assessment for environmental epidemiology: Applications of a Space-Time Information System. Journal of Geographical Systems (Accepted).
Goovaerts, P and G. M. Jacquez. 2005. Detection of temporal changes in the spatial distribution of cancer rates using LISA statistics and geostatistically simulated spatial neutral models. Journal of Geographical Systems (Accepted).
Goovaerts, P, G. M. Jacquez and W. A. Marcus. 2005. Geostatistical and Local Cluster Analysis of High Resolution Hyperspectral Imagery for Detection of Anomalies. Remote Sensing of the Environment (Accepted)
Jacquez GM, Kaufmann, J Meliker, P Goovaerts, G AvRuskin and J Nriagu. 2005. Case control clustering for residential histories. In Prep.
Proceedings and Book Chapters
Jacquez, G. M. and L. A. Waller. 1997. The Effect of Uncertain Locations on Disease Cluster Statistics. In Quantifying Spatial Uncertainty in Natural Resources: Theory and Application for GIS and Remote Sensing. (eds. H. T. Mowerer and R. G. Congalton) Arbor Press, Chelsea MI.
Jacquez, G.M. 1997. Medical Geography and Disease Clustering. In 1997 McGraw-Hill Yearbook on Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp 297-299.
Jacquez, G. M. and S. L. Maruca. 1998. Geographic Boundary Detection. In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling. (eds. T. K. Poiker and N. Chrisman) Int. Geographicl Union
Jacquez, G.M. 1998. GIS as an Enabling Technology. In GIS and Health (eds. T. Gatrell and M. Loytonen), Taylor and Francis, London.
Jacquez, G.M. and J. A. Jacquez. 1999. Disease Clustering for Uncertain Locations, In Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health Decision Making (eds. A. Lawson and R. Bertollini) John Wiley & Sons, London
Brown, D.G., Jacquez, G.M., Duh, J.-D., Maruca, S. 2000. Accuracy of remotely sensed estimates of landscape change using patch- and edge-based pattern statistics. In M.J.P.M. Lemmens, G. Heuvelink et al., Eds., Spatial Accuracy 2000, Delft University Press, Amsterdam: 75-82.
Koopman J.S. Jacquez G., Chick S.E. 2001. New Data and Tools for Integrating Discrete and Continuous Modeling Strategies. In Population Health and Aging: Strengthening the Dialogue between Epidemiology and Demography. M Weinstein, AI Hermalin, MA Stoto eds. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 954:268-294
Fortin, M-J, G. M. Jacquez and B. Shipley. 2002. Computer-intensive Methods. In Encyclopedia of Environmentrics (Eds. A. H. El-Shaarawi and W. W. Piegorsch). John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. Vol 1 pp 399-402.
Goovaerts, P., G. AvRuskin, J. Meliker, M. Slotnick, G.M. Jacquez, J. Nriagu. 2004. Modeling uncertainty about pollutant concentration and human exposure using geostatistics and a space-time information system: Application to arsenic in groundwater of Southeast Michigan. In Accuracy 2004: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences.
Liebisch, N, G. M. Jacquez, P. Goovaerts and A. Kaufmann. 2002. New methods to generate neutral images for spatial pattern recognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2478: 181-195, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Goovaerts, P., Warner, A., Crabtree, B., Marcus, A. and G. Jacquez. 2003. Detection of local anomalies in high resolution hyperspectral imagery using geostatistical filtering and local spatial statistics. Proceedings of IEEE workshop on Advances in Techniques for Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data, NASA Goddard Visitor Center, Greenbelt MD, October 27-28, 2003, 10 pp
Jacquez, G. M. 2004. Neighborhoods and Health Eds I Kawachi and L. F. Berkman. (Book Review). Annals of the Association of American Geographers (In Press).
Jacquez, G.M., G. AvRuskin, E. Do, H. Durbeck, D. A. Greiling, P. Goovaerts, A. Kaufmann, and B. Rommel. 2004. Complex Systems Analysis using Space-Time Information Systems and Model Transition Sensitivity Analysis. In Accuracy 2004: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences.
Goovaerts, P., Jacquez, G.M., and D. Greiling. 2005. Exploring scale-dependent correlations between cancer mortality rates using factorial kriging and population-weighted semivariograms. Geographical Analysis 37: 152-182.
Goovaerts, P., G.M. Jacquez, and A. Marcus. 2005. Geostatistical and local cluster analysis of high resolution hyperspectral imagery for detection of anomalies. Remote sensing of Environment 95: 351-67.
Meliker, J R, M J Slotnick, G A AvRuskin, A Kaufmann, G M. Jacquez, J O. Nriagu. 2005. Improving exposure assessment in environmental epidemiology: Application of spatio-temporal visualization tools. Journal of Geographical Systems 7: 49-66.
Jacquez, G.M., D.A. Greiling, and A.M. Kaufmann. 2005. Design and implementation of a Space-Time Intelligence System for disease surveillance. Journal of Geographical Systems 7: 7-23.
Greiling, D.A., G.M. Jacquez, A.M. Kaufmann, and R.G. Rommel. 2005. Space time visualization and analysis in the Cancer Atlas Viewer. Journal of Geographical Systems 7: 67-84.
Goovaerts, P. and G.M. Jacquez. 2005. Detection of temporal changes in the spatial distribution of cancer rates using local Moran’s I and geostatistically simulated spatial neutral models. Journal of Geographical Systems 7: 137-159.
Jacquez, G.M., P. Goovaerts, and P. Rogerson. 2005. Space-Time Intelligence Systems: Technology, applications, and methods. Journal of Geographical Systems 7: 1-5.
Software Manuals
Jacquez, GM. 1994. Stat! Software for the Clustering of Health Events. BioMedware Press, Ann Arbor, MI. 168 pages.
Greiling, D.A., K. Hall, S.L. Maruca, and G.M. Jacquez. 2001. BoundarySeer: Software for Geographic Boundary Analysis. User Guide. TerraSeer Press, Ann Arbor, MI. 189 pages.
Greiling, D., L. Estberg, A. Long, and G.M. Jacquez. 2001. ClusterSeer User Guide: Software for Identifying Disease Clusters. TerraSeer Press, Ann Arbor, MI. 140 pages.
Durbeck, H.L., D.A. Greiling, H. Durbeck, L. Estberg, A. Long, and G.M. Jacquez. 2002. ClusterSeer User Guide 2: Software for Identifying Disease Clusters. TerraSeer Press, Ann Arbor, MI. 176 pages.
Software Products
Jacquez, G.M. 1994. Stat! Software for the Clustering of Health Events. BioMedware Inc.
Jacquez, G.M., S.L. Maruca, D. Greiling, A. Kaufmann, L. Muller, B. Rommel, S. Sengupta, P. Agarwal, K. Hall. 2001. BoundarySeer: Software for Geographic Boundary Analysis. TerraSeer, Inc.
Jacquez, G.M., D. Greiling, L. Estberg, E. Do, A. Long, B. Rommel. 2001. ClusterSeer: Software for Identifying Disease Clusters. Version 1. TerraSeer Inc.
Jacquez, G.M., D. Greiling, H. Durbeck, L. Estberg, E. Do, A. Long, B. Rommel. 2002. ClusterSeer: Software for Identifying Disease Clusters. Version 2. TerraSeer, Inc.
C. Research Support
Ongoing Research Support
1 R01 CA92669 Jacquez (PI) 08/01/2001-07/31/2004 NIH/NCI $1,305,000 A Space-Time Information System for the NCI Cancer Atlas The major goal of this project is to develop a distributed, animated, and interactive version of the National Cancer Mortality Atlas.
1 R01 CA96002 Nriagu (PI), Jacquez (CI) 09/01/2002-08/31/2007 NIH/NCI $658,613 Arsenic Exposure and Bladder Cancer in Michigan The major goal of this project is to model individual-level exposures to arsenic in groundwater as well as occupational and other sources in populations in southeastern Michigan.
2 R44 AI049007 Jacquez (PI) 01/01/2003-12/31/2004 NIH/NIAID $748,126 Model Transition Sensitivity Analysis This project is developing methods and software for modeling infection transmission systems and for undertaking Model Transition Sensitivity Analyses.
Completed Research Support (Since 2000)
1 R44 ES10220-02A1 Jacquez (PI) 09/30/2001 – 09/29/2003 NIEHS $749,784 Stroodle: A GIS Foundation Class Library This project is developing programming tools for implementing space time information systems and change detection on remotely sensed imagery.
1 R43 CA90086-01A1 Estberg (PI) 07/01/01-12/31/01 NIH/NCI-LM $157,597 NetSurv: Monitoring Tools for Disease Surveillance The goal of this project is to develop prototype software for a distributed disease surveillance system to be used by local, state and federal health agencies.
1 R43 CA92807 Jacquez (PI) 08/08/01-07/31/02 NIH/NCI $170,490 Simulation Algorithms for Spatial Pattern Recognition This project is evaluating the feasibility of using genetic algorithms and fast spatial functions to simulate hyperspectral imagery for purposes of spatial pattern recognition.
R44 CA69864-03 Jacquez (PI) 05/01/97-06/30/00 NIH/NCI $225,783 Software for Geographic Boundary Analysis This project developed statistical methods and software for detecting geographic boundaries in multivariate spatial data.
R42 CA64979-02 Jacquez (PI) 06/01/98-05/31/00 NIH/NCI $368,110 Biostatistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology This project developed disease surveillance software and educational modules for teaching spatial epidemiology.