Dan Trepal

Dan Trepal is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Social Sciences and Senior Geospatial Research Scientist at Michigan Technological University's Great Lakes Research Center. He holds a PhD in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology from MTU. His research focuses on industrial archaeology, historical GIS applications, and deindustrialization landscapes, employing spatial analysis methods to study postindustrial urban environments.

His publications analyze postindustrial transformation through geospatial lenses, examining topics ranging from urban abandonment to environmental hazards mapping. Research integrates archaeological fieldwork with computational spatial analysis to reconstruct historical industrial patterns.