Dr. John Kostelnick
Professor of Geography, Director GEOMAP
Geography-Geology-Environment
Office
FHS Felmley Hall Of Science 107
Office Hours
MW 9 - 10:45 and 11 - 12
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Current Courses
300.001Cartography
300.002Cartography
300.003Cartography
400.007Independent Study
287.004Independent Study - Geography
306.001Regional And Area Studies: Geography Of Chicago
304.001Advanced Geographic Information Systems
304.002Advanced Geographic Information Systems
304.003Advanced Geographic Information Systems
404.001Advanced Geographic Information Systems
404.002Advanced Geographic Information Systems
404.003Advanced Geographic Information Systems
142.005Human Geography
287.004Independent Study - Geography
Teaching Interests & Areas
Current Courses: Advanced GIS, Cartography, Human Geography, Geography of Chicago, World Geography, Maps and Geographic Reasoning, Independent Study in Geography
Research Interests & Areas
Geographic Information Science (GIScience), geovisualization, cartographic symbolization and design, design and usability of interactive maps, crisis and humanitarian relief mapping, hazards and risks, GIS applications in society (humanitarian demining, sea level rise), cultural geography of the United States urban geography.
BA History
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
MA Geography
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
Ph D Geography
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
Oustanding University Teaching Award
Illinois State University
2016
Oustanding College Teaching Award
College of Arts and Sciences
2013
Research Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2011
Douglas Clay Ridgley Fellow
Illinois State University
2010
Gamma Theta Upsilon
Illinois State University
2009
Book Review
Kostelnick, J. Book review of The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World (2019)
Kostelnick, J., , & . The Place of Religion in Chicago. Illinois Geographer 1.57 (2015): 97-99.
Book, Chapter
Kostelnick, J. Humanitarian geospatial technology. A. J. Kent and D. Specht (EDs), The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society. Routledge (2023)
Kostelnick, C., & Kostelnick, J. Online Visualizations of Natural Disasters and Hazards: The Rhetorical Dynamics of Charting Risk. A. G. Gross and J. Buehl (EDs), Science and the Internet: Communicating Knowledge in a Digital Age. Baywood Press (2016): 157-190.
Conference Proceeding
Banerjee, S., Hosack, B., Lim, B., & Kostelnick, J. Social media widget for emergency response. Issues in Information Systems 14.2 (2013): 289-297.
Journal Article
Kostelnick, J., Thayn, J., & Sinha, K. Mapping and spatial analysis to expand rural broadband access. Papers in Applied Geography 10.2 (2024): 154-175.
Kostelnick, J., Abdelnour, J., Cummings, E., Estell-Edghill, B., Plaza, N., Rice, P., Riley, T., Scharwark, B., Southerd, J., Stites, J., Wilson, D., & Allen, J. A demographic, economic, and environmental analysis of public transportation in Chicago today. Illinois Geographer 61.2 (2020): 26-60.
Kostelnick, J., & Hoeniges, L. Map symbols for crisis mapping: Challenges and Prospects. The Cartographic Journal (2018)
Kostelnick, J., Becker, J., Brinkmann, M., Cord, D., Craigmile, D., Dunne, S., Hoeniges, L., Klotzbach, M., Langreck, J., Marchand, M., Sherman, N., Smiley, A., & Tyler, C. Mapping ethnic change in Chicago’s Avondale and Logan Square neighborhoods. Illinois Geographer (2017)
Rabie, A., Peterson, E. W., Kostelnick, J. C., and Rowley, R. J., 2017, Optimizing DEM resolution inputs and number of stream gauges in GIS predictions of flood inundation: A case study along the Illinois River (IL), USA: Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, doi:10.2113/EEG-1890.
Manuscript
Kostelnick, J. Disaster Mitigation and Response Issue. Association of American Geographers (2009)
Newsletter
Kostelnick, J. The GIS Bridge: What it is, Why it is Important, and How We Build it. GIS Notes, Illinois GIS Association (2013)
Presentations
Collective action for school-wellness: An ecological example. AIESEP World Congress. (2022)
Riedel, J., Peterson, E.W., Dogwiler, T., and Seyoum, W., 2021, Effects of thermal variation on flow dynamics in the hyporheic zone, in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 53, No. 6, 2021 doi: 10.1130/abs/2021AM-368988
Conley, E. W., Peterson, E. W., Kostelnick, J., and Dogwiler, T., Assessing past Cave Collapse Probability using GIS, in Proceedings Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 2020, Volume 52, The Geological Society of America (GSA), doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-358269.
Confronting Crisis: Challenges for hazard and risk mapping. University of Northern Iowa. (2018)
Cultural mapping: A review of cartographic methods. North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). (2018)
The Online Atlas of Illinois: Interactive Mapping for Exploring the Geography of Illinois. International Geographical Union Regional Conference/Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting/National Council for Geography Education Annual Conference. (2018)
Thinking Like a Historian, Thinking Like a Geographer: Reading A Source From Different Perspectives. Annual Conference of the National Council for History Education. National Council for History Education. (2018)
Geography: Geographic Thinking in Action: Using Historical Maps in the Classroom. History and Social Science Education Symposium. Department of History, McLean County Museum of History, and Regional Office of Education. (2017)
Using Maps to Examine Historical Thinking and Geographic Thinking. 2017 Geography Education in the 21st Century Conference. Illinois Geographic Alliance and Department of Geography, Geology, and the Environment at ISU. (2017)
Using Maps to Examine Historical Thinking and Geographic Thinking. Geographic Thinking in Action. Illinois Geographic Alliance. (2017)
Grants & Contracts
BNCRC: Bloomington Normal Climate Responsive Community. US Environmental Protection Agency. Federal. (2024)
“BNCRC: Bloomington Normal Climate Responsive Community,”. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Federal. (2024)
Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship (ARCS). Illinois State University Office of Research and Graduate Studies. Illinois State University. (2023)
“Northwest Bolsena Archaeological Project,”. ARCS, Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2023)
“Sustainable Farming in Illinois: Developing Deep Learning Algorithms for Classifying Growth Stages of Weeds in Soybean Fields,”. Illinois Innovation Network, University of Illinois. State. (2023)