Background
Glennon is a geography Ph.D. student of Dr. Michael Frank Goodchild at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Goodchild is a pioneer in Geographic Information Science and discoverer of Castleguard Cave, Canada's longest cave. Glennon received a Master of Science in Geoscience from Western Kentucky University, 2001, and Bachelor of Science in Park Administration from Texas A&M University, 1994.
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