Robert S. Bristow

Robert Bristow is Professor Emeritus at Westfield State University. As a geographer, he has been involved with the planning and management of parks and protected areas throughout his academic and personal career. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in travel and tourism, quantitative methods, GIS and site planning. He has published over 70 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, government documents, community plans, and book chapters and has delivered a similar number of presentations at regional, national and international conferences. For parks and protected lands he has expertise in volunteer management, cultural landscape monitoring and hiking. Applying the remote sensing tools of LiDAR has been used to identify and manage our cultural resources in parks. When not outside his research agenda has focussed on the liminality of fright tourism.