James Meacham

B.S., 1984, M.A., 1992, Oregon. (1992)

InfoGraphics Lab

James Meacham is a senior research associate emeritus in the University of Oregon’s Department of Geography, and co-founder and former director of the UO’s InfoGraphics Lab. He is a former president of the North American Cartographic Information Society. His interests include map and atlas design and data visualization. James taught map design in the UO Geography Department for nearly 30 years. He is the cartographic editor on the Wild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming’s Ungulates and Atlas of Yellowstone first and second editions. He is co-author on the Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: An Atlas and the Atlas of Oregon publications. These atlas publications have received several major awards from the Wildlife Society, American Association of Geographers, the Cartography and Geographic Information Society, the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation, the Wyoming State Historical Society, and the Association of American Publishers. He is a long time member on the Oregon Geographic Names Board.