James R. Carter, or "Jim"

Born 1936 in Sault St. Marie, Michigan. Lived in the UP for 2 years and in the LP for 12 years, then moved to Carrollton, Kentucky along the Ohio River for 2 years, then to Bloomington, Indiana for 8 years, then to Greenbelt, Maryland for 8 years, then off to Athens, Georgia for 3 years, and then to Knoxville, Tennessee for 19 years.  In 1990 my wife and I moved to central Illinois.

Campus Address:
    Mail Stop 4400,
    Geography-Geology Department,
    Illinois State University,
    Normal, IL 61790
                                             Office: 207D Felmley Hall, ISU

====== the professional me ======

====== my cartographic license tag ======

Recently I have become interested in the growth of ice on plant stems and other media.   This has taken me into the extrusion of ice from steel fences and pipes. Look at my many pages on ice formations growing on a variety of media.  The example below is ice on plant stems from northern Kentucky.  Note the frost on the grass and weeds.

I retired in summer 2005 but I have chosen to retain some of my academic web pages.   Feel free to use material from any of these pages but please give credit as appropriate. 

In  Physical Geography we created elevation maps of the world using the 'Color The World' program from the Lamont Doherty Earth Observation site.  My page is an introduction to this package and has links to the work of many students.

Geographic Techniques serves as the pre-requisite for the techniques courses of cartography, GIS and remote sensing.   My pages on Choropleth Maps and Topographic Maps have information beyond the specific course.

I developed the course Earths Dynamic Weather employing WebCT for the presentation of about 150 web pages.  Three examples of my pages are in an overview of the course.

====== Position Papers ======

Relative to my teaching and research interests, I have written the following position papers.  As of fall 2008 some of the data on these pages are slightly dated, but the arguments still reflect my positions.

The link below has links to many things I touched on in my Mornings With Professors presentation in 2002. 

====== Personal Pages and My Travels ======

  • Travel to Siberia in 1998
  • Travel to China in 2001
  • Before and After:  photographs of me over the years.  I put these photos out there when I first set up this page.  I have not added to them, nor have I felt compelled to take them off.