David A. Plane
 Professor, Geography & Regional Development
Ph.D., 1981, University of Pennsylvania, Regional Science
Phone: (520) 621-1738
FAX: (520) 621-2889
E-mail: plane@email.arizona.edu
Harvill Building, Box #2
Tucson, AZ 85721
USA
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Professor Plane has served on the faculty of the Department of Geography & Regional Development at the University of Arizona, Tucson since 1981. From 1990 to 1997 he served as Head of the Department.
Dr. Plane received his B.A. in geography with an urban studies concentration from Dartmouth College (1976). His M.A. (1977) and Ph.D. (1981) degrees are in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests lie primarily in the area of population geography, focusing on U.S. migration and settlement patterns and on methods for modeling temporal change in spatial interaction systems. In 2001-2002 he was a Visiting Researcher in the Population Division at the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington, DC, where he also had worked as a Statistician and NSF/ASA Research Fellow in 1979-80.
Professor Plane’s research interests lie primarily in the area of population geography, focusing on U.S. migration and settlement patterns and on methods for modeling temporal change in spatial interaction systems. In 2001-2002 he was a Visiting Researcher in the Population Division at the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington, DC, where he also had worked as a Statistician and NSF/ASA Research Fellow in 1979-80. He has authored more than 50 refereed articles, including papers in the top journals in geography, regional science, planning and demography (e.g., Annals of the AAG, Professional Geography, Geographical Analysis, Economic Geography, Journal of Regional Science, Papers in Regional Science, Annals of Regional Science, International Regional Science Review, Regional Studies, Environment and Planning A, Demography). His 2005 paper “Migration up and down the urban hierarchy and across the life course” appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His textbook The Geographical Analysis of Population: With Applications to Planning and Business has become one of the most cited references in the area of population geography methods. He has also coedited two books that offer state-of-the-art assessments of interdisciplinary research fields: 50 Years of Regional Science and Classics in Planning: Regional Planning.
Extremely active in Professional Organizations, Dr. Plane has served as President of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG), President of the Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization (PRSCO), and Chair of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC). For more than a decade he has directed the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA), running that organization's business affairs and serving as the primary organizer and Program Chair for each of the WRSA Annual Meetings held since 1992. He also served terms as President of the Population Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers and a member of the Regional Science Association International Council (RSAI). He co-organized North American Meetings of the RSAI in 1993 in Houston and 1998 in Santa Fe, and co-organized the 1991 Annual Meeting of the APCG in Tucson in 1991. He organized and chaired the Program Committee for the 2001 Pacific Conference of the RSAI in Portland, Oregon, and is serving as Local Arrangements Chair for the upcoming November 2009 North American Meetings of the RSAI to be held in San Francisco. He drafted the Constitution of the North American Regional Science Council and co-drafted the Constitution of the RSAI. He has served on two Program panels for the National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program.
In terms of editorial work, Dr. Plane has served in a variety of capacities. He is currently a member of the Board of Senior Editors of the Journal of Regional Science (JRS) and serves on eight editorial boards of journals in regional science, geography, and demography. From 1994-2002, he was Co-Managing Editor (with Gordon Mulligan) of the JRS. From 1990-92 he served as the first Editor-in-Chief of Papers in Regional Science: The Journal of the RSAI, having previously served as North American Coeditor of the Papers from 1984 to 1989.
Professor Plane is an enthusiastic and engaged teacher at all levels. He regularly organizes, lectures, and offers honors discussion sections of the large freshman INDV 102 “Human Geography and Global Systems” Tier I General Education course. Continuously since 1981 he has taught one of the core courses for the B.S. Regional Development program: “Urban Growth and Development.” He has offered a wide variety of graduate seminars focusing on population analysis, spatial interaction, migration, transportation, and urban systems. He takes pleasure in keeping touch with and following the careers of his former doctoral and M.A. advisees who are now engaged in population geography research in government and the private sector as well as in academia.
In his spare time Dr. Plane enjoys umpiring fastpitch softball at the high school and club level, skiing, cycling, and hiking. An avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction, he also enjoys creative writing and is working on The Infield Fly Rule, his own version of the Great American novel.
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