Herbert D. G. Maschner, PhD
President and Chief Scientist
Dr. Herbert Maschner is President and Chief Scientist of Global Digital Heritage, Inc. Formerly he was Executive Director of Center for Virtualization and Applied Spatial Technologies (CVAST) at the University of South Florida (2015-2017) and before that, Director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History (2008-2015). He is a retired Professor, having held tenured Professorships in the USF Department of Anthropology and the School of Geosciences, and in Anthropology at Idaho State University.
The recipient of over $20 million in grants, including PI on ~$5.9 million from the National Science Foundation, he has published 2 monographs, 9 edited books, 130 articles, chapters, and reviews, and presented over 250 conference papers with abstracts. Research areas include virtualization, visualization, informatics, 3D scanning, and public science; the creation of digital research infrastructures that transcend humanities, physical, natural, and social sciences; digital heritage, digital humanities, museum and research informatics, and digital natural history at regional and global scales. Other research interests in human biocomplexity and the environment, resource and community sustainability, long-term human impacts and interactions with marine ecosystems, fisheries, ocean modeling, and human ecosystem engineering. Theoretical specialties in evolutionary psychology, warfare and inequality, global historical ecologies, public education and the democratization of science, and virtual museums and repositories. Methodological interests in 3D imaging, digital heritage, and database construction, elemental and isotopic analyses, geographic information systems, social networks, and complex systems analysis. He has conducted archaeological and heritage research in 16 countries, but his primary field research areas are the Arctic, Western North America, and the Mediterranean.