Chris Jochem
Research Associate – Post Bachelors
Phone: (865) 576-7597
Fax: (865) 241-6261
Email: jochemwc@ornl.gov
Education
BA, Geography, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2007)
Expertise
Population Distribution and Dynamics
Spatial Modeling
Professional Experience
2008 – Present, Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
2007 – 2008, Higher Education Research Experience (HERE) Fellowship, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
2006 – 2007, Undergraduate Research Assistant, UNC-CH Dept. of Geography, Chapel Hill, NC
Summer 2006, Archaeological Survey/Excavation Staff, Moche Origins Project, Peru
- McNally Award for Excellence in Geography at UNC-CH, 2007
- Federico G. Gil Award, UNC-CH Institute of Latin American Studies, 2007
Professional Interests
- Geographic information science, remote sensing, spatial modeling, population, epidemiology, air transportation
Selected Publications
Jochem, W.C. (2008, April). Estimating Temporary/Mobile Populations at Transportation Centers for Use in Population Distribution Models. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.
Jochem, W.C. (2007). Cerro Ramon: Archaeological investigations at the environmental and political border of the Chimú Empire. Unpublished undergraduate honors thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Fariss, B., Jochem, W.C., Billman, B., Quist, J. & Boswell, A. (2007, April). Archaeological Survey and Assessment of Cerro Ramon: A Late Intermediate Period Site (1130 – 1200 AD) in the Upper Moche Valley, North Coast, Peru. Poster session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.
