Anthony Robinson

Associate Professor of Geography


Anthony Robinson

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Most Recent Publications

Evaluating the usability and utility of a spatial decision support system for pollinator ecology

Lily Houtman, Anthony C. Robinson, Dave McLaughlin, Christina M. Grozinger, 2025, Ecological Informatics

Protected areas and disparate data: understanding geospatial data synthesis in poaching mitigation

Wendy L. Zeller Zigaitis, Anthony C. Robinson, Jan A. Venter, Laura T. Spurigo, Allyssa Hoog, 2024, Papers in Applied Geography on p. 30-48

Cartography in GeoAI: Emerging Themes and Research Challenges

Anthony C. Robinson, Arzu Çöltekin, Amy L. Griffin, Florian Ledermann, 2023, on p. 1-2

Artificial intelligence and visual analytics in geographical space and cyberspace: Research opportunities and challenges

Min Chen, Christophe Claramunt, Arzu Çöltekin, Xintao Liu, Peng Peng, Anthony C. Robinson, Dajiang Wang, Josef Strobl, John P. Wilson, Michael Batty, Mei Po Kwan, Maryam Lotfian, François Golay, Stéphane Joost, Jens Ingensand, Ahmad M. Senousi, Tao Cheng, Temenoujka Bandrova, Milan Konecny, Paul M. Torrens, Alexander Klippel, Songnian Li, Fengyuan Zhang, Li He, Jinfeng Wang, Carlo Ratti, Olaf Kolditz, Hui Lin, Guonian Lü, 2023, Earth-Science Reviews

Characterizing user needs for Beescape: A spatial decision support tool focused on pollinator health

Timothy J. Prestby, Anthony C. Robinson, Dave McLaughlin, Patrick M. Dudas, Christina M. Grozinger, 2023, Journal of Environmental Management

Thematic tactile maps for accessible flood mitigation planning: design and evaluation

Harrison Cole, Anthony Robinson, 2023, Cartography and Geographic Information Science on p. 574-592

New directions for the state of the art and science in Cartography

Anthony C. Robinson, Pyry Kettunen, Luciene Delazari, Arzu Çöltekin, 2023, International Journal of Cartography on p. 143-149

Sensemaking in the Wild: A Review of Practitioner Collected Geospatial Data and its Synthesis within Protected Areas for Poaching Mitigation

Wendy L. Zeller Zigaitis, Anthony C. robinson, 2023, Geographic Information Sciences on p. 319-335

Large university with high COVID-19 incidence is not associated with excess cases in non-student population

Nita Bharti, Brian Lambert, Cara Exten, Christina Faust, Matthew Ferrari, Anthony Robinson, 2022, Scientific Reports

The impact of user characteristics of smallholder farmers on user experiences with collaborative map applications

Mona Bartling, Anthony C. Robinson, Harold Achicanoy Estrella, Anton Eitzinger, 2022, PLoS One

Most-Cited Papers

Elective cancer surgery in COVID-19-free surgical pathways during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: An international, multicenter, comparative cohort study

James C. Glasbey, Dmitri Nepogodiev, Joana F.F. Simoes, Omar Omar, Elizabeth Li, Mary L. Venn, Mohammad K.Abou Chaar, Vita Capizzi, Daoud Chaudhry, Anant Desai, Jonathan G. Edwards, Jonathan P. Evans, Marco Fiore, Jose Flavio Videria, Samuel J. Ford, Ian Ganly, Ewen A. Griffiths, Rohan R. Gujjuri, Angelos G. Kolias, Haytham M.A. Kaafarani, Ana Minaya-Bravo, Siobhan C. McKay, Helen M. Mohan, Keith J. Roberts, Carlos San Miguel-Méndez, Peter Pockney, Richard Shaw, Neil J. Smart, Grant D. Stewart, Sudha Sundar, Raghavan Vidya, Aneel A. Bhangu, C. Allemand, L. Boccalatte, M. Figari, M. Lamm, J. Larrañaga, C. Marchitelli, F. Noll, D. Odetto, M. Perrotta, J. Saadi, L. Zamora, C. Alurralde, E. L. Caram, D. Eskinazi, J. P. Mendoza, M. Usandivaras, R. Badra, A. Esteban, 2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology on p. 66-78

Geospatial big data and cartography: research challenges and opportunities for making maps that matter

Anthony C. Robinson, Urška Demšar, Antoni B. Moore, Aileen Buckley, Bin Jiang, Kenneth Field, Menno Jan Kraak, Silvana P. Camboim, Claudia R. Sluter, 2017, International Journal of Cartography on p. 32-60

Maps and the geospatial revolution: teaching a massive open online course (MOOC) in geography

Anthony C. Robinson, Joseph Kerski, Erin C. Long, Heng Luo, David DiBiase, Angela Lee, 2015, Journal of Geography in Higher Education on p. 65-82

Envisioning the future of cartographic research

Amy L. Griffin, Anthony C. Robinson, Robert E. Roth, 2017, International Journal of Cartography on p. 1-8

Geospatial Information Visualization and Extended Reality Displays

Arzu Çöltekin, Amy L. Griffin, Aidan Slingsby, Anthony C. Robinson, Sidonie Christophe, Victoria Rautenbach, Min Chen, Christopher Pettit, Alexander Klippel, 2019, on p. 229-277

SensePlace3: a geovisual framework to analyze place–time–attribute information in social media

Scott Pezanowski, Alan M. MacEachren, Alexander Savelyev, Anthony C. Robinson, 2018, Cartography and Geographic Information Science on p. 420-437

Perceptual complexity of soil-landscape maps: a user evaluation of color organization in legend designs using eye tracking

Arzu Çöltekin, Alžběta Brychtová, Amy L. Griffin, Anthony C. Robinson, Mark Imhof, Chris Pettit, 2017, International Journal of Digital Earth on p. 560-581

Artificial intelligence and visual analytics in geographical space and cyberspace: Research opportunities and challenges

Min Chen, Christophe Claramunt, Arzu Çöltekin, Xintao Liu, Peng Peng, Anthony C. Robinson, Dajiang Wang, Josef Strobl, John P. Wilson, Michael Batty, Mei Po Kwan, Maryam Lotfian, François Golay, Stéphane Joost, Jens Ingensand, Ahmad M. Senousi, Tao Cheng, Temenoujka Bandrova, Milan Konecny, Paul M. Torrens, Alexander Klippel, Songnian Li, Fengyuan Zhang, Li He, Jinfeng Wang, Carlo Ratti, Olaf Kolditz, Hui Lin, Guonian Lü, 2023, Earth-Science Reviews

Comparing color and leader line highlighting strategies in coordinated view geovisualizations

Amy L. Griffin, Anthony C. Robinson, 2015, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics on p. 339-349

Elements of viral cartography

Anthony C. Robinson, 2019, Cartography and Geographic Information Science on p. 293-310

News Articles Featuring Anthony Robinson

Apr 13, 2026

Communication, Science & Society Initiative awards four interdisciplinary grants

The Communication, Science & Society Initiative (CSSI), a research partnership between Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences in the College of the Liberal Arts, has announced the grant recipients from its 2025 request for proposals. The initiative has awarded $52,000 to four projects that bring together teams of life scientists, humanists and social scientists who aim to address multi-dimensional societal problems.

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Sep 01, 2023

New updates come to 'Beescape,' an online tool for supporting pollinators

New updates have come to Beescape, an online tool created by a Penn State-led team for assessing the quality of landscapes for supporting bees and other pollinators.

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Aug 28, 2023

Penn State receives $3M grant to address insect biodiversity crisis

Penn State researchers have received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to spearhead a new initiative to create novel monitoring systems for insect populations.

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Aug 31, 2022

Penn State team awarded $2.3M to assess disease vulnerability, improve response

An interdisciplinary team from Penn State has been awarded $2.3M from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation’s joint Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID) program to evaluate the vulnerability of certain populations to disease outbreaks, with the goal of improving outbreak response and preventing future outbreaks.

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Apr 14, 2021

USDA grant to support expansion of online tool for pollinator conservation

A Penn State-led research team has received a nearly $950,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to create the next generation of an online decision-support tool designed to help conserve pollinator populations across the United States.

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