Joseph J. Kerski, PhD GISP
Investigate, enjoy, protect our planet, use GIS to understand our planet, and encourage the planet's people.
Get out onto the landscape!
I believe that students need to have frequent and rich exposure to natural places while growing up...and as adults.
Now more than ever, we need people who think broadly and who understand systems, connections, patterns, and root causes … how to think in terms of whole systems, how to find connections, how to ask big questions, and how to separate the trivial from the important.
--David W. Orr, Earth In Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, 1994
My photograph of a wetland in southern North Dakota.
Video about me, below.
My Career Goal
I seek to use my skills in geography and Geographic Information Sciences (GISc) to expand the use of spatial thinking in all sectors of society by fostering educational partnerships, conducting educational research, writing and editing texts, multimedia, research articles, teaching face to face and online hands-on courses, developing curricula, supporting educators, and training educators, students, governmental, nonprofit, and industry users at all levels.
My Skills: (1) GIS; (2) Geography; (3) STEM education; (4) Curriculum Development; (5) Communications; (6) Marketing; (7) Spatial Thinking research; (8) Partnership building.
+ I have 30 years experience in federal agencies (NOAA, US Census Bureau, USGS), nonprofit (president of National Council for Geographic Education), private industry (Education Manager, Esri), and academia (University of Denver, Sinte Gleska University, Penn State, others).
+ I have created 5,000 videos on STEM, geography, teaching and learning, GIS, space, and place.
+ I have authored/co-authored 8 books including Interpreting Our World, Essentials of the Environment, Spatial Mathematics, and the GIS Guide to Public Domain Data.
-- I have written 1,500 blog essays including GeoNet Community and Spatial Reserves.
+ I have written 100 peer-reviewed chapters and articles including in this Springer book.
--I have given presentations in 350 schools, 150 universities, 150 major conferences, in 16 countries and on 5 continents.
+ I have sung many off-key, very bad geography song parodies on SoundCloud. Warning: Plug your ears!
What can I say but that I love geography, people, places, maps, and GIS.
A few of my visits to over 400 latitude-longitude intersections are here. And here is my favorite geocache that I set up, "Gazing Across the Plate Boundary."
Here I am giving a presentation at Texas Tech University. Some of my interactive presentations with live web maps are here.
60 projects I have been proud to accomplish, in 60 places, below. Click on points on interactive map for details.
The Unisphere in New York City: My favorite globe.
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