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Phil Gersmehl
Phil Gersmehl is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota and a consultant for several school districts in Michigan. In collaboration with NGS Geography Alliances, he has led teacher workshops in 28 states, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Russia. In the 1990s, Phil was Principal Investigator for the ARGUS and ARGWorld curriculum projects, funded by the National Science Foundation and administered by the Association of American Geographers. After early retirement from the University, he served as co-director of the New York Center for Geographic Learning. The author of three geography textbooks, he has developed distance-learning courses for the University of Minnesota, a pilot TV episode for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, instructional computing projects for IBM, and online interactive resources for the Michigan Council for Social Studies.