

Coordinates
33° 25' 26.84" N, 111° 56' 20.07" W
Decision Center for a Desert City
Brickyard Orchid House Room 170F
21 E 6th Street, Suite 126B,
Tempe, AZ, 85287-8209
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| Current Position | ||
Postdoctoral Researcher,
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| Education | ||
| Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (2008) | ||
| Ph.D. Thesis on "Visualizing Urban Futures" as graduate student in the International Research Training Group (IRTG 1131): “Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets. Applications in Geospatial
Planning, Modelling, and Engineering” Advisors: Prof. Dr. Hans Hagen (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Subhrajit Guhathakurta (Arizona State University) |
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| Dipl.-Ing. in Geodetic Engineering and Geoinformatics (equivalent to M.S. in Engineering), University of Bonn, Germany (2003) | ||
| Majors: Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Photogrammetry Minors: Statistics, Physical and Mathematical Geodesy, Urban Planning, Surveying Engineering Master Thesis on "Virtual Signposts in Panoramic Images" Advisors: Prof. Dr. Thomas H. Kolbe (University of Berlin, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Lutz Plümer (University of Bonn, Germany) |
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| Research Interests | ||
| Urban Climate, Urban Heat Islands, Sustainable Urban Systems Geovisualization, GIS, Information Visualization |
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| Projects | ||
| 10/2010 – present | SUSTaIn, Arizona State University | |
| 08/2009 – present | Integrated Water and Land Planning as a Climate Adaptation Strategy: Comparisons of Portland, Oregon and Phoenix, Arizona (Arizona State University and Portland State University) | |
| 08/2005 – 04/2008 | Digital Phoenix Project, Arizona State University | |
| Edited Books | ||
Ariane Middel, Inga Scheler, Hans Hagen (eds.), Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets - Applications in Geospatial Planning, Modeling and Engineering (IRTG 1131 Workshop), OASICS Vol. 19, March 19-21, 2010, ISBN 978-3-939897-29-3. |
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| Journal Articles | ||
Ariane Middel, Anthony J. Brazel, Patricia Gober, Soe W. Myint, Heejun Chang and Jiunn-Der Duh, Land cover, climate, and the summer surface energy balance in Phoenix, AZ and Portland, OR, International Journal of Climatology, 2011, in press. Ariane Middel, Anthony J. Brazel, Björn Hagen, Soe W. Myint, Land cover modification scenarios and their effects on daytime heating in the inner core residential neighborhoods of Phoenix, AZ, USA, Journal of Urban Technology, 18(4), 2011, in press. Ariane Middel, Anthony J. Brazel, Shai Kaplan, Soe W. Myint, Diurnal summer cooling-water Use tradeoff in Phoenix, AZ, Climate Research, in review. Patricia Gober, Ariane Middel, Anthony J. Brazel, Soe W. Myint, Heejun Chang, Jiunn-Der Duh and Lily House-Peters, Tradeoffs between water conservation and temperature amelioration in Phoenix and Portland: Implications for urban sustainability, Urban Geography, in review. |
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| Refereed book Chapters | ||
Ariane Middel, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Hans Hagen, Peter-Scott Olech, Florian Höpel, Visualizing Future 3-Dimensional Neighborhoods in Phoenix: An Application Incorporating Empirical Methods with Computational Graphics, M. Batty and H. Lin (eds.), Virtual Geographic Environments, Science Press, 2009. Ariane Middel, Estimating Residential Building Types from Demographic Information at a Neighborhood Scale, Gerhard Steinebach (ed.), Visualizing Sustainable Planning, p.187-202, Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88202-2. Ariane Middel, A Framework for Visualizing Multivariate Geodata, Hans Hagen, Martin Hering-Bertram, Christoph Garth (eds.) Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets, p. 13-21, Kaiserslautern, 2007. GI-Edition, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Seminars Vol. S-7, ISBN 978-3-88579-441-7. Ariane Middel, Procedural 3D Modeling of Cityscapes, Hans Hagen, Andreas Kerren, and Peter Dannenmann (eds.), Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets, pp. 133-142, Kaiserslautern, 2006. GI-Edition, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Seminars Vol. S-4, ISBN 978-3-88579-438-7. |
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| Refereed conference proceedings | ||
Ariane Middel, Björn Hagen, Anthonzy J. Brazel, Soe Myint, Simulation of possible scenarios for local scale energy balances in residential neighborhoods in Phoenix, AZ, USA. 8th International Symposium (UPE 8) of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association, March 23-26, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2009. Peter-Scott Olech, Ariane Middel, Max Langbein, Sebastian Thelen, Achim Ebert, Jörg Meyer, Hans Hagen, Enhancing the planner’s toolkit – New display technologies for planning support. 8th International Symposium (UPE 8) of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association, March 23-26, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2009. Peter-Scott Olech , Sebastian Thelen, Ariane Middel, Achim Ebert, Jörg Meyer, Hans Hagen, Digital Representation of environment data using advanced display technologies. ISDE6 - The 6th International Symposium on Digital Earth. Beijing, China, 2009. Ariane Middel, Peter-Scott Olech, Björn Hagen, Re-Tooling Urban Planners - Google Earth as a Planning Support Tool. 11th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM 2009), Hong Kong, 2009. Thomas H. Kolbe, Ariane Middel, Lutz Plümer, 3D-Kartographie für die Fußgängernavigation:
Virtuelle Wegweiser in Panoramen. Tagungsband zur 40. Sitzung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft |
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| Posters | ||
Stephane Frijia, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Eric Williams and Ariane Middel, Re-examining the life cycle energy of residences: Functional unit, technological dynamics and scaling. Poster presented at the Community of Undergraduate/Graduate Research Scholars (COURS) Poster Session, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2011. Stephane Frijia, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Eric Williams and Ariane Middel, Scaling behavior of the life cycle energy of residences, Poster presented February 20, 2011 at the Decision Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU) Session of the AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2011. Ariane Middel, Anthony J.Brazel, Patricia Gober, Soe W. Myint, Heejun Chang and Juinn-Der Duh, Impacts of weather variability on turbulent heat fluxes in Phoenix, AZ and Portland, OR, Poster presented at the January 13, 2011 13th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium, Tempe, AZ, 2011. Stephane Frijia, Eric Williams, Subhrajit Guhathakurta and Ariane Middel, Scaling behavior of the life cycle energy of residential building and impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, Poster presented at the January 13, 2011 13th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium, Tempe, AZ, 2011. Ariane Middel, Peter-Scott Olech, Re-tooling Urban Planners - Google Earth as Planning Support Tool, 8th International Symposium (UPE 8) of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association, March 23-26, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2009. Ariane Middel, Robert Pahle, Peter-Scott Olech, Hans Hagen, Policy-Driven Visualization of Urban Forms for Planning Support, IEEE VisWeek 2008, Visualization, Oct. 19-24, Columbus, Ohio, 2008. Ariane Middel, Visualizing Urban Futures, 3rd Annual IRTG Workshop on "Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets", September 29, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2008. |
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| Grants | ||
10/2010 – 09/2013 |
Urban form and energy use explored through dynamic networked infrastructure model, Co-PI, NSF grant #1031690, with Subhrajit Guhathakurta and Eric Williams, $350,213 |
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| 07/2011 – 06/2012 |
Impact of microclimate on residential energy consumption and water use, Co-PI,
Decision Center for a Desert City, with Subhrajit Guhathakurta and Eric Williams,
$49,303 |
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| 04/2008 – 06/2009 |
Postdoctoral scholarship, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany, €21,525 |
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| 01/2005 – 04/2008 |
PhD fellowship grant by the German Science Foundation (DFG, grant number 1131) as part of the International Graduate School (IRTG) in Kaiserslautern on “Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets. Applications in Geospatial Planning, Modeling, and Engineering”, €57,400 | |