Pete Fisher was one of the founders and leading academics in GIScience.
Pete was born in London and spent his youth in Hampshire and Wiltshire. He attended the University of Lancaster in England where he obtained a BSc in Environmental Sciences in 1977. This was followed by an MSc in Pedology and Soil Survey at the University of Reading, and then a PhD at what was then Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston University). After spells as a researcher, his first academic post was as a lecturer at Kingston which he held from 1983 to 1986. Pete’s first published journal paper was ‘A review of lessivage and Neolithic cultivation in southern England’ for the Journal of Archaeological Science in 1982. Pete had a continued interest in Archaeology which resurfaced at various points in his career, and it was through Archaeology that he met his wife Jill. Both he and Jill had harbored a desire to live in the US, and this was realized with a move in 1987 to Kent State University in the USA where he was appointed as an Assistant (and then Associate) Professor. By 1987, Pete’s academic focus had moved towards computational and automated cartography and what was to become the field of GIS and then GIScience. A move back across the Atlantic to the University of Leicester followed in 1991, where he joined the GIS group in the Department of Geography comprising David Unwin, Mitch Langford, Jo Wood, Jason Dykes and Alan Strachan. The University of Leicester was one of the ‘early adopters’ of GIS in the UK. It was from this location in the English midlands that he spent the rest of his academic career (with the exception of a brief period spent at City University London from 2005 to 2008), becoming full professor in 1998.
Pete was born in London and spent his youth in Hampshire and Wiltshire. He attended the University of Lancaster in England where he obtained a BSc in Environmental Sciences in 1977. This was followed by an MSc in Pedology and Soil Survey at the University of Reading, and then a PhD at what was then Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston University). After spells as a researcher, his first academic post was as a lecturer at Kingston which he held from 1983 to 1986. Pete’s first published journal paper was ‘A review of lessivage and Neolithic cultivation in southern England’ for the Journal of Archaeological Science in 1982. Pete had a continued interest in Archaeology which resurfaced at various points in his career, and it was through Archaeology that he met his wife Jill. Both he and Jill had harbored a desire to live in the US, and this was realized with a move in 1987 to Kent State University in the USA where he was appointed as an Assistant (and then Associate) Professor. By 1987, Pete’s academic focus had moved towards computational and automated cartography and what was to become the field of GIS and then GIScience. A move back across the Atlantic to the University of Leicester followed in 1991, where he joined the GIS group in the Department of Geography comprising David Unwin, Mitch Langford, Jo Wood, Jason Dykes and Alan Strachan. The University of Leicester was one of the ‘early adopters’ of GIS in the UK. It was from this location in the English midlands that he spent the rest of his academic career (with the exception of a brief period spent at City University London from 2005 to 2008), becoming full professor in 1998.
Pete Fisher was one of the founders and leading academics in GIScience.
Pete was born in London and spent his youth in Hampshire and Wiltshire. He attended the University of Lancaster in England where he obtained a BSc in Environmental Sciences in 1977. This was followed by an MSc in Pedology and Soil Survey at the University of Reading, and then a PhD at what was then Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston University). After spells as a researcher, his first academic post was as a lecturer at Kingston which he held from 1983 to 1986. Pete’s first published journal paper was ‘A review of lessivage and Neolithic cultivation in southern England’ for the Journal of Archaeological Science in 1982. Pete had a continued interest in Archaeology which resurfaced at various points in his career, and it was through Archaeology that he met his wife Jill. Both he and Jill had harbored a desire to live in the US, and this was realized with a move in 1987 to Kent State University in the USA where he was appointed as an Assistant (and then Associate) Professor. By 1987, Pete’s academic focus had moved towards computational and automated cartography and what was to become the field of GIS and then GIScience. A move back across the Atlantic to the University of Leicester followed in 1991, where he joined the GIS group in the Department of Geography comprising David Unwin, Mitch Langford, Jo Wood, Jason Dykes and Alan Strachan. The University of Leicester was one of the ‘early adopters’ of GIS in the UK. It was from this location in the English midlands that he spent the rest of his academic career (with the exception of a brief period spent at City University London from 2005 to 2008), becoming full professor in 1998.
Pete was born in London and spent his youth in Hampshire and Wiltshire. He attended the University of Lancaster in England where he obtained a BSc in Environmental Sciences in 1977. This was followed by an MSc in Pedology and Soil Survey at the University of Reading, and then a PhD at what was then Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston University). After spells as a researcher, his first academic post was as a lecturer at Kingston which he held from 1983 to 1986. Pete’s first published journal paper was ‘A review of lessivage and Neolithic cultivation in southern England’ for the Journal of Archaeological Science in 1982. Pete had a continued interest in Archaeology which resurfaced at various points in his career, and it was through Archaeology that he met his wife Jill. Both he and Jill had harbored a desire to live in the US, and this was realized with a move in 1987 to Kent State University in the USA where he was appointed as an Assistant (and then Associate) Professor. By 1987, Pete’s academic focus had moved towards computational and automated cartography and what was to become the field of GIS and then GIScience. A move back across the Atlantic to the University of Leicester followed in 1991, where he joined the GIS group in the Department of Geography comprising David Unwin, Mitch Langford, Jo Wood, Jason Dykes and Alan Strachan. The University of Leicester was one of the ‘early adopters’ of GIS in the UK. It was from this location in the English midlands that he spent the rest of his academic career (with the exception of a brief period spent at City University London from 2005 to 2008), becoming full professor in 1998.
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