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Joseph J. Kerski
Joseph Kerski, Ph.D. is a geographer by training who believes that spatial analysis with mapping and GIS technologies can transform education and society through better decision-making using the geographic perspective. He holds three degrees in geography. For twenty-two years, he served as geographer and cartographer at three U.S. federal agencies, including NOAA, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S. Geological Survey. He has taught online and face-to-face courses at primary and secondary schools, in community colleges, and in universities such as Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Since 2000, he has served as Instructor in GIS at the University of Denver. Since 2006, he has served as Education Manager for Esri, focusing on thought leadership in geospatial technologies and education. This includes GIS-based curriculum development, research in the implementation and effectiveness of GIS in education, teaching professional development institutes for educators, and fostering partnerships and communication to promote and support GIS in formal and informal education at all levels, internationally. He is active in creating and teaching online courses in spatial thinking and geotechnologies. He has written books such as Spatial Mathematics, The Essentials of the Environment, The GIS Guide to Public Domain Data, and others. When not engaged in these things, Joseph can be found on the ground exploring the landscape or underground in a cave.