Ph.D. Geography, Michigan State University
M.S. Resource Development, Michigan State University
B.A. Williams College

Office: B-4-204 Mackinac Hall
Phone: (616) 331-3351
Email: makin@ gvsu.edu. Faculty web page. Kin's LinkedIn profile.

Areas of interest: Geographic Information systems (GIS), Civic and Community Engagement, remote sensing of forests and water resources, natural resource management, Great Lakes, U.S./Canadian Geography, Taiwan, and also East Asia

Representative Publications:

• Ma, Kin M. (2018). Using High Spatial Resolution Imagery to Estimate Cherry Orchard Acreage in Michigan. In Yuhong He and Qihao Weng (Eds.), High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing: Data, Techniques, and Applications. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
• Ma, Kin M., Hendrick, Andrea, and Transue, Judith (2018). Housing Assessment using Geographic Information Systems (GIS):  A Case Study of Community Engagement from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, at Indiana State University, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp 17-33.
• Bailey-Fakhoury, Chasity, Perhamus, Lisa, and Ma, Kin M. (2018). Feeling Displaced, Enacting Resistance: Race, Place, and Schooling in the Face of Gentrifying Forces. In Section on Sociology of Education refereed Roundtable session, Accepted Paper, American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Aug 11-14, 2018, Philadelphia, PA.
• Ma, Kin M. 2010. Map Animation. In B. Warf (ed.), Encyclopedia of Geography, (Vols. 1-6): 1825-1828.
• Ma, Kin M. 2008. Review of Understanding Forest Disturbance and Spatial Pattern: Remote Sensing and GIS Approaches. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 74(11): 1312, 1314.