Michelle Zeiders

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Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer and have been teaching for the Penn State Online Geospatial Program since 2006. In addition to teaching courses for the Dutton e-Education Institute, I have taught and worked on research projects for the Geographic Information Analysis (GIA) Core at the Penn State Social Science Research Institute. I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Administration and a Master of Science degree in Geoenvironmental Studies from Shippensburg University. Before coming to Penn State, I worked as a GIS Project Manager and Instructor for the Institute for Transportation Research and Education at North Carolina State University, a GIS Project Manager at a civil engineering firm in Lancaster, PA and a GIS Engineer at Mapquest.