Elizabeth Hobbs

Elizabeth Hobbs received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in biogeography.  She has many years’ experience in university teaching, research, and consulting.  Her professional interests include historic vegetation, human impact on vegetation, Geographic Information Systems, and archaeological predictive modeling.  She spent 19 years in the Cultural Resources Unit at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, where she has focused on the development of digital data and applications to support and streamline the Section 106 process.  Beth served as Principal Investigator for GIS for MnModel Phase 3 and as Research Director for MnModel Phase 4.  In Phase 3, Beth was responsible for conceptualizing and developing the GIS modeling procedures, implementing standards, evaluating the results, and documenting the project.  In addition to coordinating all Phase 4 research, she assembled and interpreted the historic vegetation data, conceptualized and directed the update of the hydrographic model and development of the vegetation model, and classified and evaluated the archaeological predictive models.  She is currently a Research Fellow at the AGES Lab at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Phone: 651 278 6037
Address: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States