Joseph Kerski’s Bio:
Joseph Kerski (http://www.josephkerski.com) serves as Education Manager for Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in Colorado USA (http://edcommunity.esri.com).. Prior to joining ESRI, he served since the Pleistocene Epochas Geographer at the US Geological Survey, and for 4 years as Geographer at the US Census Bureau. He has taught as adjunct instructor of GIS at Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, at the University of Denver, in primary and secondary schools, and in online courses. Joseph holds three degrees in Geography and thus is rather enthusiastic about studying biomes, population, landforms, hazards, and other topics using technology, maps, and imagery. Passionate about all aspects of spatial learning, Joseph seeks and fosters educational partnerships, promotes GIS in education and society through service and scholarship, and conducts training in geotechnologies for instructors, students, and administrators in a wide variety of educational levels and disciplines, internationally. He creates curricula focused on spatial thinking that uses geotechnologies as its chief inquiry-based tool, and conducts research in the effectiveness and implementation of these technologies in formal and informal educational settings. When not looking at a digital or paper map or aerial photo, Joseph might be found in a cave or playing the guitar.