Writing

Professional Reports (recent and/or representative). For a complete list, see this CV (pdf, last updated August 2025).

Smith, C., Rogers, K., Zimmerman, C., Craig, W., Stinchcomb, C., and Sinton, D. (Eds.). (2024). Third Assessment of the U.S. National Spatial Data Infrastructure. Compiled by the Coalition of Geospatial Organizations. September.

Freundschuh, S. M., Sinton, D. S., and Smith, C. (Eds.). (2018). Second Report Card on the U. S. National Spatial Data Infrastructure, Compiled by the Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO). December.

Selected Academic Articles (recent and/or representative)

Wilson, J. P. and Sinton, D. S. (2025). An Introduction to the GIS&T Body of Knowledge. The Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge (Issue 1, 2025 Edition), John P. Wilson (Ed.). DOI: 10.22224/gistbok/2025.1.24.

Zhang, Z., King, J., Wang, S., Sinton, D., Wilson, J., & Shook, E. (2024). Moving CyberGIS education forward: Knowing what matters and how it is decided. Transactions in GIS, 28(7): 2180-2194. DOI: 10.1111/tgis.13225

Du, J., Wang, S., Ye, X., Sinton, D. S., and Kemp, K. (2021). GIS-KG: building a large-scale hierarchical knowledge graph for geographic information science. International Journal of Geographic Information Science. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2021.2005795.

Blanford, J., Bowlick, F., Gidudu, A., Gould, M., Griffin, A., Kar, B., Kemp, K., de Roiste, M., de Sabbata, S., Sinton, D., Strobl, J., Tate, N., Toppen, F., and Unwin, D. (2021).  Lockdown lessons: an international conversation on resilient GI Science teaching. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 46(1). DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2021.1986687.

Wikle, T. and Sinton, D. S. (2021).  Where Have the Cartographers Gone? The Status of Cartography Instruction within U.S. Geography Departments and Programs.  Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 48:2, 140-150, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2020.1852971

Wikle, T. and Sinton, D. S. (2020). The Administration of Academic GIS Certificates: A Survey of Program Coordinators. Transactions in GIS. In press. DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12677.

Sinton, D. S. and Kerski, J. J. (2020). GIS&T Education and Training. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (1st Quarter 2020 Edition), John P. Wilson (ed.). DOI: 10.22224/gistbok/2020.1.4

Dony, C.C., Nara, A., Amatulli, G., Delmelle, E.M., Tateosian, L., Rey, S., and Sinton, D.S. (2019) Computational Thinking in U.S. College Geography: An Initial Education Research Agenda. Research in Geographic Education, 21(2): 39-54.

Sinton, D. S. (2016). Spatial Thinking and GIS. In H. Burte, T. Kauppinen, & M. Hegarty (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Teaching Spatial Thinking from Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TSTIP 2015) at COSIT 2015 in Santa Fe, NM. CEUR-WS.org, online: ceur-ws.org/Vol-1557/: 29-35.

Baker, T. R., Battersby, S., Bednarz, S. W., Bodzin, A. M., Kolvoord, B., Moore, S., Sinton, D. S., and Uttal, D. (2015). A Research Agenda for Geospatial Technologies and Learning. Journal of Geography, 114(3):118-130.  DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2014.950684.

King, A. M., Larsen, L. I. and Sinton, D. S. (2012). The Spatially Interactive Literature System Study Tool: A GIS Classroom Tool for Interpreting History. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 3(3): 70-85.

Howarth, J. T. and Sinton, D. S. (2011). Sequencing spatial concepts in problem based GIS instruction. International Conference: Spatial Thinking and Geographic Information Science.  Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences 21:253-259.

Sinton, D. S. (2009). Roles for GIS within Higher Education.  Journal of Geography in Higher Education Vol. 33(1):S7-S16.

Sinton, D. S. and Huber, W. (2007). Mapping polka and its ethnic heritage in the United States. Journal of Geography Vol. 106: 41-47.

Sinton, D. S., Jones, J. A., Swanson, F. J., and Ohmann, J. (2000). Forest composition, structure, and disturbance by wind in the Bull Run basin, Oregon. Ecology Vol. 81(9): 2539-2556.

Books

Sinton, D. S., Kolvoord, B., Gersmehl, P., Bednarz, S. and Uttal, D. (2013). The People’s Guide to Spatial Thinking. Washington, DC: National Council for Geographic Education. 

Sinton, D. S. and Lund, J. J. (Eds.) (2006). Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping across the Curriculum. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.

Selected Book Chapters, Sections, or Entries (recent and/or representative)

Sinton, D. S. (2023). GIS, Geospatial Technology, and Spatial Thinking in Geography Education. In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI:  10.1093/OBO/9780199874002-0276.

Sinton, D. S. (2020). Mapping. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. Eds. Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers. Modern Language Association. https://digitalpedagogy.hcommons.org/

Sinton, D. S. (2017). Critical Spatial Thinking, in Richardson, D., Castree, D. N., Goodchild, M., Liu W., Kobayashi, A., & R. Marston, R. (Eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley/AAG. DOI: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0706.

Sinton, D. S. (2014). Spatial Learning in Higher Education, p. 219-238 in Montello, D. R., Grossner, K., & Janelle, D. G. (Eds.), Space in mind: Concepts for spatial learning and education. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

Sinton, D. S. (2011). Spatial Thinking, p. 733-744 in Stoltman, J. (ed.), 21^st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Sinton, D. S. and Schultz, R. (2008). GIS and Mapping Applications for Reasoning and Critical Thinking about the Environment and Society, p. 69-80 in Solem, M. N. and K. E. Foote (eds.), Teaching College Geography: A Practical Guide for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Lund, J. J. and Sinton, D. S. (2006). Critical and creative visual thinking, p. 1-18 in Sinton, D. and J. Lund (eds.), Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping Across the Curriculum. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.

Sinton, D. S. and Bednarz, S. W. (2006). About that G in GIS, p. 19-34 in Sinton, D. and J. Lund (eds.), Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping across the Curriculum. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.

Editorial Production    

Steinitz, C. (2012). A Framework for Geodesign: Changing Geography by Design. Redlands, CA: Esri Press.