Tom PATTERSON

National Park Service

67 Mather Place, Harpers Ferry

WV, 25425-0050

USA

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USA

Tom Patterson received a BA in Geography from SUNY Oneonta in 1980 and an MA in geography from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1982. Following graduate school and a two-year stint working on the Atlas of American Samoa, he worked for five years as Adjunct Assistant Professor/Cartography Laboratory Manager at the University of Utah. Since 1992, Tom has worked as a cartographer for the US National Park Service making maps for brochures and handbooks, movies, multimedia, and exhibits. He has published numerous tutorials, journal articles, and text chapters on shaded relief presentation and 3D mapping (www.shadedrelief.com). Tom is a former President of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS. He was the organizer of the 2002 ICA Mountain Cartography Meeting at Timberline Lodge, Oregon. Tom lives in Leesburg, Virginia.