Education
B.S., Geography, Pennsylvania State University (1995)

Professional Experience

2004-2005 Serving on NACIS Board of Directors (North American Cartographic Information Society)

July 2000-Present:  Chief cartographer for The Historical Atlas of Maine, The University of Maine

Jan - May 2000: Staff Geographer, GIS Analyst and Cartographer, Pennsylvania State University

1996-Present:  Founder, Cartographic Designer, and Publisher, Purple Lizard Publishing, Lemont, PA

1995-1996: Digital Cartographic Specialist, Trails Illustrated, Evergreen, CO.

1994-1995: Cartographer and Information Designer, Deasy GeoGraphics, Pennsylvania State University

Research Areas

Cartographic design, map publishing, integration of GIS data to desktop publishing environment.

Current Research

Design and production of forthcoming Historical Atlas of Maine.

Design and production of forthcoming Downeast Geology Map; Maine’s Ice Age Trail. www.umainetoday.umaine.edu/Issues/v3i4/iceage.html
www.umaine.edu/research/bdn20020128.htm

Visualizing a Gulf of Maine Digital Library:
Part of a team of researchers from UMaine, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the Island Institute, 2002-03. The project focused on the Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB) and interdisciplinary teamwork to form a base for creating a digital library for the Gulf of Maine region. http://www.mines.edu/newdirections/team6maine.htm

Recent Publications

Map design for British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, forthcoming 2004)

“Integrating Digital Ortho Quads to Recreational Map Design”; forthcoming, Cartographic Perspectives

Explanatory Maps of Saint Croix and Acadia; May 2004. A bilingual, 4-color educational map/poster detailing Acadian settlement in 1604, deportation, migration and resettlement with modern demographics from the 2001 Canadian census.

University of Maine Trail Map: 2004, 2002. Print map, trailhead maps, downloadable maps, multiple versions for departmental use. See http://www.umaine.edu/campusrecreation/trailsmaps.asp

University of Maine Campus Heritage Map: 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001. Print map, information kiosk maps, web maps, multiple versions for departmental use.

“Atlas design in the 21st Century”; paper presented at Association of American Geographers (AAGs), Philadelphia, March 2004.

Creating value-enhanced shaded relief in Photoshop" co-authored with Tom Patterson, U.S. National Park Service 2003. http://www.shadedrelief.com/value/value.html

 “Merging Multiple Digital Elevation Models to Create Seamless Terrain Applied to Maine and the Maritimes”: Paper presented at International Cartography Association (ICA) Mountain Cartographers Workshop, Mt. Hood, Oregon, May 2002. This paper was also presented at North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), Columbus, Ohio, October 2002.

“Campus Maps: More than Wayfinding: Providing a Sense of Place and History.” Paper presented at North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) October 2002.

A series of maps for the textbook Finding Katahdin, An Exploration of Maine's Past, by Amy Hassinger, published by the University of Maine Press 2001.

Awards and Honors

Recipient of design award from the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM); March 1998; for outstanding cartographic design in their 25th Anniversary Map Competition. Hermann’s map was used as the cover image on the ACSM Bulletin magazine; No. 172; March/April 1998.

E. Willard Miller Award in Cartography, The Pennsylvania State University, for outstanding cartographic design 1995.

 

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Last updated: 16 July, 2007