Research Interests One of Jon's on-going research projects examines the spatial aspects of the recent flurry of sports stadium construction. This topic, which has to date only really been examined by economists trying to find out if cities ever get their investment back, has proven very interesting and productive. Jon's colleague, Tracy Newsome, was a fellow graduate student with Jon at Ohio State. They have made presentations at conferences including the Association of American Geographers, Southwest Association of American Geographers, and the Applied Geography Conference. An International Journal of Sports Geography in 1996, the Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science in 1998, the Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conference in 1999, and in The Professional Geographer in 2000.
Further research continues.
The project ran from 1 Jan. 1999 through 31 Dec. 2000 and integrated GIS and statistical analysis of historic bypasses in the state to provide an interactive modeling framework for making future bypass decisions. In addition to work on the grant, they have other manuscripts in preparation related to this project, including one that is forthcoming in the 2000 issue of the Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science . As a graduate student, he researched regional economic modeling, primarily using the input-output framework. With Dr. Jackson, Jon has had papers published on estimation issues in regional input-output modeling in the Journal of Regional Science , Growth and Change , and Papers in Regional Science . Occasionally, Jon finds time to do other things besides pick up after his wife and kids.