Paporn Thebpanya

Professor

Paporn Thebpanya

Contact Info

Phone:
410-704-4665
Office:
College of Liberal Arts,
Room 2356
Email:
pthebpanya@towson.edu

Education

Ph.D., 2003, Geography,
University of Georgia

Certificate, 2000, The University of
Georgia Graduate Certificate in
Geographic Information Science (GIS)

M.A., 1999, Geography.
University of Georgia

B.A., 1994, Geography, First Class Honors,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Areas of Expertise

Physical geography

Map design

Introduction to GIS

Applied GIS

Research Grants

  •  Nicole Fabricant and Paporn Thebpanya. Critical GIS for Social and Environmental Justice. Seed Funding from the School of Emerging Technologies, Towson University, MD. ($11,560 awarded)
  • James Manley and Paporn Thebpanya. Effects of Climate on Human Capital Development in Peruvian Children: A Geospatial Investigation. Seed Funding from the School of Emerging Technologies, Towson University, MD. 2014. ($17,000 awarded)
  • Sudarat Hatfield (Chiang Mai University, Thailand) and Paporn Thebpanya. Developing a Three-Dimensional Linguistic Diversity Map to Serve as Research and Educational Tools for Revitalizing Endangered Languages: Case Study of Chiang Mai Dialect. Research Funding from the Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. 2013. ($5,000 awarded)
  • Martin Roberge, Linda Cooper, Felice Shore, Paporn Thebpanya, Virginia Thompson, Ming Tomayko. The Geomatics Academy III at Fairmont Heights High School. College Preparation Intervention Program (CPIP), Maryland Higher Education Commission. 2009. ($ 121,245 awarded)

Selected Publications

Gullette, G., Thebpanya, P., & Singto, S. (2022). Socioeconomic and livelihood impacts within Bangkok’s expanding metropolitan region. Buildings and Cities, 3(1), 808–823. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.233

Hurtado, C., Beck, H., Thebpanya, P., & Altrichter, M. (2020). Spatial patterns of the first groups of collared peccaries (Pecari tajacu) reintroduced in South America. Tropical Ecology, 61(3), 400-411.

Thebpanya, P., Hatfield, S. & Lee, J. (2019). Visualizing dialect variation on a 3-D interpolated map: A case study in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In S. Brunn & R. Kehrein (Eds.), Handbook of the Changing World Language Map.

Hurtado, C., Beck, H., & Thebpanya, P. (2018). From exploration to establishment: Activity changes of the first collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) group reintroduced in South America. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 29(2), 229-231. https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00058-2018

Gullette, G., Thebpanya, P., & Singto, S. (2017). Assessing urban expansion and livelihoods in Thailand’s transitional spaces through combined ethnography and Landsat Data. Human Organization, 76(3), 227-239.

Galdi, M. & Thebpanya, P. (2016). Optimizing school bus stop placement in Howard County, Maryland: A GIS-based heuristic Approach. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research. 2016. (Forthcoming).

Thebpanya, P. and Bhuyan, I. (2015). Urban sprawl and the loss of peri-urban land: Case study of Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand. Papers in Applied Geography, 1, 43-49.

Thebpanya, P. (2010). Teaching spatial concepts to the visually impaired learner: Testing an auditory approach. Research in Geographic Education, 12(1), 5-20.

Professional Service

  • 2011 - present, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Planning, Towson University, Towson, MD.
  • 2005 - 2011, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Planning, Towson University, Towson, MD.