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Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso
Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso is a veteran data visualization cartographer who joined Stamen Design in 2011 from the Washington Post where he was the lead interactive cartographer in the news company's Information Design department. Nathaniel honed his research skills at National Geographic Maps and is chief cartographer for NaturalEarthData.com, a free public domain GIS world base map. He writes about maps at http://kelso.it/blog/ and @kelsosCorner. He currently serves on the NACIS board. ________________________________________
Vice President-elect (1 will be elected)
Alex Tait
Alex is currently Vice President of International Mapping in Ellicott City, Md. He works on projects ranging from international boundary litigation support to interactive mobile map apps. In previous lives, he has worked as a cartographer at the National Geographic Society and the Washington Post and as a lecturer at the University of Maryland. Alex has geography degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin. He is a co-author of the Census Atlas of the United States, the Great American Sports Atlas published in Sports Illustrated magazine, and many other atlases and maps. Alexs participation in NACIS began as a presenter at the 1993 Annual Conference in Silver Spring, MD. He has been a board member and was co-organizer of the first Practical Cartography Day in 2001 (he has co-organized two other PCDs). He thinks NACIS is the best organization around for cartography and appreciates the opportunities NACIS provides to share a passion for maps with a diverse group of professionals. The organizations diversity and open and friendly nature are keys to its success and Alex plans to give his energies to sustain those qualities. He will also help NACIS continue its steady growth and enhance its place in the geo-spatial community. ________________________________________
Treasurer (1 will be elected)
Jenny Marie Johnson
I am delighted to have had the opportunity to be of service to NACIS as treasurer for the last 2 years and look forward to serving for another term. A member of NACIS since 1998, I have previously served as a Board Member, Secretary, and President. I have enjoyed working with members of the Executive Committee and the Board, the Executive Directors, and the Business Manager to steward NACIS financial resources while supporting the organizations mission to communicate about and promote new, creative, and best practices in cartography and cartographic information. I have been the Map and Geography Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) since 1997 and held similar positions at the University of Washington (1988-1996) and Clark University (1985-1988). My BA in Geography and MS in Library Science are both from UIUC, and I am ABD in Geography at the University of Washington. I have been active in a number of other organizations besides NACIS including the Association of American Geographers (Chair, Archives and Association History Committee, 2003-2004) and the American Library Association Map & Geography Round Table (Secretary, 1989-1993; Assoc. Ed., Meridian, 1990-1994; Co-Chair, Map Collection Security Task Force, 2006-2008 and primary author Map Collection Security Guidelines ). I also am currently serving as a member of the editorial board for Journal of Map and Geography Libraries. ________________________________________ Directors-At-Large (3 will be elected)
Martha Bostwick Im currently finishing my first 2-year term on the NACIS board, and
am excited to be running for my second term. The past two years have been
fascinating; both in learning more about our organization, and in participating
in the running of it. Ive enjoyed contributing to both the Nominations and
Awards committees, and hope I can continue to do so if re-elected. Ive been
attending NACIS meetings since our first trip to Portland back in 2001, and in
addition to my time on the board I have also participated in the organization
through presentations, Map-offs, and mapgiving. I was born and raised in Ontario,
Canada, and moved to Halifax for university. After getting my BA in Geography
from Saint Mary's I decided to turn a love of maps into a career, and studied
Cartography at the Centre of Geographic Sciences. Since then, Ive been lucky
enough to be employed in a career I love: first with Maps.com, and for the past
4 years with my own company, m.l.bostwick custom map design. I currently call
the quaint town of Sussex, New Brunswick home. Leo Dillon
Leo Dillon is the Chief of the Geographic Information Unit in the Office of the Geographer, U.S. Department of State. Not long after finishing his masters degree from the Geography Department of the University of South Carolina, Leo joined the State Department as a cartographer in 1986. He specializes in foreign political geography, foreign geographic names, and international boundaries and sovereignty issues. Leo attended his first NACIS meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1999 and then after a long hiatus came back in 2008 and has been a member since. He has served on the U.S. National Committee to the International Cartographic Association (1995-1999), and he arranges the judging for the CaGIS Annual Map Design Competition. He is the State Department member to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, and chairman of the Board's Foreign Names Committee.
Donna G. Genzmer
Donna Genzmer is the Director of the Cartography & GIS Center at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee and has worked in higher education for the last 30 years. Under her direction, the Cartography & GIS Center, historically a production focused environment, smoothly integrated GIS into its operation. Center projects span diverse academic disciplines and include outside contracts. The Center provides a highly valued internship-type experience for advanced students. A Nacite since 1984, Donna has strong interests in Cartography, GIS applications, Cartography and GIS in education, and higher education. She serves on university standing committees and panels, plays a leading role in the GIS Council at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee, and previously served on the NACIS Board and committees. Donna values the diverse cartographic backgrounds, professional camaraderie, and creative energies found in the membership, and will work to further those qualities in the organization. She believes in a NACIS that is a dynamic organization that recognizes the strengths of its past while wholeheartedly embracing its evolution. Active on various social media platforms, Donna can contribute this experience, and more, to advance NACIS. Donna offers herself for service as a NACIS Board member.
Mark Kumler
Mark received his MA from Michigan State and his PhD from UCSB. He interned with the National Geographic Society and the USGS, and has held faculty positions at the University of Colorado, CSU San Bernardino, and now the University of Redlands. He teaches courses in cartography, map projections and coordinate systems, and poster design. His publications include "Continuous Tone Maps", "Gender Differences in Map Reading", "Three World Maps on a Moebius Strip" (with Waldo Tobler), and a review of John Snyder's "Flattening the Earth".
Glen A. Pawelski
After receiving my B.A. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee I served as the Digital Cartography Coordinator at the H.M. Gousha Company (Comfort, TX) from 1993-1996. After the purchase and subsequent closure of Gousha by Rand McNally in 1996 I moved back to my hometown of Milwaukee, WI. I began working for NovoPrint USA, a leading publisher of community maps, guides and atlases. I moved to Madison after seven years at NovoPrint and continued in custom cartography at XNR Productions where I enjoyed a variety of cartographic and editorial work for five years. I am currently employed with Mapping Specialists in Madison where I work with a wide variety of clients. Outside of my map production and computer work, some of my other interests and hobbies include astronomy, Arctic Canada, fishing, camping and hiking. I have been a member of NACIS since 1992 and have served on the NACIS Board of Directors in the past.
Alethea Steingisser
Alethea Steingisser is the cartographic production manager in the InfoGraphics Lab at the University of Oregon where she has worked since 2005. She served as lead designer and production manager on two major atlas projects: Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: An Atlas (2010), and The Atlas of Yellowstone (2012). She works on design for both mobile and print cartographic products in the Lab, and is excited about the recent explosion of mobile mapping. Alethea is drawn to cartography because it combines her interests in art and science, and because the dynamic nature of the field requires continual learning. Her background in art and photography combined with her interest in earth sciences led Alethea to cartography at California State University, Northridge where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Geography in 2001. She followed up with a Master of Science in Geography in 2006 at the University of Oregon. As a student, Alethea took advantage of internship programs to learn from experienced cartographers. She worked as a cartographic intern for National Geographic Maps in 2001, and alongside Tom Patterson at the NPS Harpers Ferry Center in 2005. Alethea attended her first NACIS meeting in Madison in 2006. She was excited to find such a welcoming organization whose members all share a passion for great cartography. She never fails to leave the annual meetings inspired and full of new ideas. Alethea is interested in running for the Board to contribute to the important work that NACIS does. When shes not making maps, Alethea plays roller derby for the Emerald City Roller Girls and keeps her eye for color and design sharp as a photographer, a knitter, a jewelry maker, and a budding seamstress. ________________________________________
Student member (1 will be elected) Kristen Grady
I earned my B.A. in Geography from Hunter College in New York City in 2008, and currently, I am an Enhanced Chancellors Fellow PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center in Earth and Environmental Sciences: Geography. My course work as an undergraduate focused on GIS, Remote Sensing, and Cartography. Upon graduation I spent two years doing academic and non-profit work in GIS and Cartography at the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, the Lehman College Urban GISc Lab, and the CUNY Mapping Center at the Center for Urban Research, and I continue to work at the latter. During this time I worked on several diverse and fascinating projects (including mapping the effects of sea level rise on New York City), often performing the GIS analyses as well as creating the final cartographic products. Most of these projects were published: several maps were included in a textbook chapter on geovisualization, others were commissioned by the New York City Panel on Climate Change, and one map representing urban backyards in NYC was featured in Newsweek. As a graduate student my research has focused on topics as varied as mapping food deserts in the Bronx, mapping neighborhood emotion and experience, and assessing the effects of airports and flight paths on environmental health. Currently and going forward, Im focusing my research interests on cartographic design, the geoweb, and environmental psychology.
Paulo Raposo
Originally from Toronto, Canada, I'm a PhD candidate in cartography at the Penn State Department of Geography, where my research focuses on multiscale representation and generalization. Prior to coming to Penn State, I worked in Toronto as the resident cartographer for both the Martin Prosperity Institute (University of Toronto), and the BioDiaspora project. These two positions had me regularly producing thematic maps to support economic and public health manuscripts, respectively. For the last two years, Cindy Brewer and I have been working at Penn States Peter R. Gould Center to redesign the USGS 1:24,000 US Topo map series, a design effort that the USGS has decided to adopt. I have presented my research on map design and generalization at various conferences, including the International Cartographic Conference, AutoCarto, and the USGS Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science Annual Meetings. My first attendance at NACIS was in 2009, and I have since been an active member of the Society with map and poster presentations and an upcoming talk. I value NACIS a great deal as an effective, supportive and inspirational professional society, as well as great collection of friends; I hope to serve the Society well as the student board member.
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