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Mark Becker

Mark Becker leads the Geospatial Applications Division at Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), and is an adjunct faculty member at the Mailman School of Public Health. His primary interests are the development of GIS applications for public health programs, and improving urban and regional planning through geospatial technologies. At CIESIN he has partnered with numerous departments and programs at Columbia University to assist in the use of geospatial technologies.  These projects include working with the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs to improve the monitoring and evaluation of health clinics in Africa; with the Columbia Superfund Basic Research Program, developing GIS training programs in Bangladesh; and working with the Research Translation Core of the program to bring the findings and techniques of the project to a wider audience.

Since 1988, Becker has been the co-director of Bergen Save the Watershed Action Network (Bergen SWAN), a watershed association for the Upper Hackensack River Watershed. He is currently vice chair and trustee for the Meadowlands Conservation Board of Trustees. He holds an M.A. in Geography from Hunter College of the City University of New York.