As of July 1, Dr. Daniel Griffith of UT Dallas will serve a three-year term as the journal’s editor. Griffith is an Ashbel Smith Professor of Geospatial Information Sciences in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. Per a
UT Dallas news article, he will be the first editor in 18 years who is not based at Ohio State University.
Also of note, this quote from Dr. Griffith: "A lot of graduate students enroll in our GIS program to complement their professional skills. The use of this technology has really taken off during the last 10 years, and will only continue to grow."