CURRICULUM VITAE: Christopher F. Polloni
PRESENT POSITION
Computer Specialist, Sea Floor Mapping Group
Woods Hole Field Center
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598
(508) 457-2280; FAX: (508) 457-2310; Email:
EDUCATION:
New Bedford Institute of Technology, New Bedford, MA
Southeastern Massachusetts University, Dartmouth, MA
Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT
1964 - 1967 United States Air Force, Sergeant, 49th Tactical Fighter
Wing, Spangdahlem, Germany.
1968 - 1977 Computer Specialist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Woods Hole, MA
1977- 1982 Computer Specialist, Graduate School of Oceanography,
University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI.
1982 - 1984 Computer Specialist, Neil Brown Inst. Systems, Cataumet, MA
1984 - 1985 Computer Specialist, GTE Lighting Products Group, Salem, MA
1985 - present: Computer Specialist, Coastal and Marine Geology Program,
Woods Hole. Assignments include: (1) Project chief, Computer Applications Section;
(2) Team leader, Coastal Mapping Applications; (3) Co-leader, Information Systems Group;
(4) Senior Analyst, Technologist, Sea-Floor Mapping Group.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My interests include the development of an office-wide GIS that can be used easily and conveniently. The currently funded CMART project provides for the development of methods and standards that can make it possible to collect and publish "real-time" geologic information. Goals include the development of tools that can be delivered over the network via the ArcView Internet Map Server (IMS) or on CD-ROM. We have a keen interest in developing 3D perspectives and multimedia capabilities that will provide new ways of publishing and viewing our diverse data sets. We are developing a knowledge bank that will serve as the principle resource for the understanding of the Nations marine realms. This activity will serve as an innovative solution for the management of data and improve our ability to do research and to serve the public wisely.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Polloni, Christopher, Tripp, B., and Truesdale, P., eds., 1998. An Illustrated Environmental
Bibliography for Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts: CD-ROM Open File Report 98-50.
Polloni, Chris, 1998. HTML - XML: An Effective Authoring Tool for Today's CDs, Session chair:
in Session listing of the SIGCAT '98 CD/DVD Conference and EXPO, Baltimore, MD, May 17-22, 1998.
Poppe, Lawrence J. and Chris Polloni, eds., 1998. Long Island Sound Environmental Studies: CD-ROM Open File Report 98-502.
Chris Polloni, September, 1998