Education

• Master of Science in Geography, UW-Milwaukee
• GIS Certificate, UW-Milwaukee
• Bachelor of Science in Conservation and Environmental Science, UW-Milwaukee

Professional Activities

Research Interests

• Geography and GIS
• Geospatial Information Access
• Geographic Information Literacy
• Critical GIS/Critical Geography
• Geospatial Metadata
• GIS Programming

Selected Publications

• Appel, Stephen R. "Review of New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map." Cartographic Perspectives 91 (2018).
• Appel, Stephen, and Marcy Bidney. "Geodex 2.0: saving a legacy map series cartobibliography." e-Perimetron 11.4 (2016)
• Ghose, Rina, and Stephen Appel. "Facilitating PPGIS through University Libraries." The Cartographic Journal 53.4 (2016)
• Appel, Stephen. "Public Geospatial Data in Wisconsin: Information Access, Data Sharing, and the University." Thesis. (2015)

Selected Presentations

• Collaborative Indexing of Paper Map Sets: Geodex 2.0, November 2018, NACIS Annual Meeting, Norfolk, VA
• Census Data and Tools for GIS (Workshop) November, 2018 GIS Day at UW-Milwaukee 2018 (Also 2017, 2016, 2015)
• Working on it: High Performance Computing and GIS (Workshop) February 2018 With D. Siercks, W. Xu, UW-Milwaukee Libraries Digital Humanities Lab
• Visualizing United States Census Data (Workshop) April 2017, UW-Milwaukee Libraries Digital Humanities Lab
• Introduction to Milwaukee Data (Workshop) September, 2016, with K. Briney, L. Kopecky, A. Nye, N. Humpal UW-Milwaukee Libraries Digital Humanities Lab
• Information Justice and Geospatial Data in Wisconsin April 2015, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL (Also presented at UW-Milwaukee Department of Geography Colloquium)

Service

• UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab Team
• UWM Libraries - Library Staff Association (Officer)
• UWM GIS Day Planning Committee
• UWM Libraries Digital Preservation Community of Practice
• UWM Libraries Digital Infrastructure Strategic Planning Group
• UWM Libraries Platform Review Taskforce

Professional Memberships

• North American Cartographic Information Society (Since 2017)
• Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society (2014-2017)
• Association of American Geographers (Since 2013)
• American Geographical Society (2014-2015)
• Wisconsin Land Information Association (2015)