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Dr Mark Bishop
Position: Senior Lecturer Dr Mark Bishop
Division/Portfolio: Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School/Unit: School of Natural and Built Environments
Campus: City East Campus
Office: BJ3-26
Telephone: +61 8 830 22599
Fax: +61 8 830 22252
Email: Mark_dot_Bishop_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Mark.Bishop

My major research and teaching interest is the integration of geographic technologies [GISc: GIS, remote sensing, spatial statistics, GPS] into traditional and emerging geographical disciplines and allied geosciences. In particular, my research develops GIS-based methodologies and their application to geomorphology and geology, specifically the employment of spatial statistical method into the analysis and modeling of landforms, landscape evolution and its relationships to environmental change. My expertise also centres on analogue studies of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial aeolian and volcanic geology, geomorphology, and geography. I am a NASA registered scientist with the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona, and the Australian representative for the International Association of Geomorphology Working Group in Planetary Geomorphology.


Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA

Research publications

1. Bishop, M.A. (2009) A generic classification for the morphological and spatial complexity of volcanic (and other) landforms. Geomorphology doi 10.1016/j.geomorph.20008.10.020

2. Bishop, M.A. (2008) Higher-order neighbor analysis of Tartarus Colles cone groups, Mars: The application of geographical indices to the understanding of cone pattern evolution. Icarus 197, 73-83. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2008.04.003

3. Bishop, M.A. (2007b) Point pattern analysis of North Polar crescentic dunes, Mars: A geography of dune self-organization. Icarus 191, 151-157. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2007.04.027

4. Bishop, M.A. (2007a) Point pattern analysis of eruption points for the Mount Gambier volcanic sub-province: A quantitative geographical approach to the understanding of volcano distribution. Area 32 (2), 230-241. doi:10.111/j.1475-4762.2007.00729x

5. Bishop, M.A. (2004) A distribution-free statistical method for the spatial characterization of dune granulometry: an example from the Strzelecki Desert, South Australia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 29 (1), 125–131. doi:10.1002/esp.1007.

Expertise for Media Contact

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Geosciences

  • GIS-based methodologies and their application to geomorphology and geology
  • analogue studies of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial aeolian and volcanic geology
  • NASA registered scientist with the Planetary Science Institute



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