For a little fun, we tossed about a dozen, short questions at some Geo technology professionals – below is our Q&A with industry expert Joseph Kerski – enjoy!
Q: What’s Your "Official" job Title?
A: Education Manager.
Q: If you could give yourself a cool, new job title what would it be (and why – optional)?
A: I know some colleagues in the UK especially in schools that have the title “Head of Geography” which is like a department chair. I think Head of Geography sounds really grand.
Q: What’s the best part of your job?
A: Making a difference in our GIS in education community as best I can.
Q: Where did you go to school and if you could go back to College and do your education all over once again where would you go and what would you study?
A: University of Colorado, University of Kansas, and back to the University of Colorado. I have visited at least 100 campuses and … I have not been to one I don’t like.
Q: What’s your favorite social networking resource and why?
A: All of the electronic media have benefits and limitations, but I’d have to say F2F conferences are still the most useful for me.
Q: What’s the last event or conference you went to and how was it? And.. if you could only go to one event this year what would it be?
A: National Science Teachers Association, March 2011, San Francisco. The NSTA exhibit hall is wonderful – not just our Esri geospatial zone, but there are chemistry experiments, live penguins, robots, lots more.
Q: What kind of mobile handset(s) do you use?
A: I use GPS in the workshops I teach and sometimes, Pasco probes.
Q: What’s your favorite gadget or piece of hardware?
A: GPS has overall been the most useful single piece of hardware in my work.
Q: Is there a mobile app or 2 that you simply couldn’t live without?
A: I like ArcGIS Online’s mobile app.
Q: What are you reading right now if I was to look on your coffee table or side table?
A: Names on the Land – about place names, and The Selected Works of TS Spivet, about a 12 year old genius cartographer.
Q: What/Where is the coolest Geo/Techproject/job you’ve worked on?
A: Earthcaching with the Geological Society of America and National Geographic Society – AND – President of the National Council for Geographic Education.
Q: Favorite sports team?
A: Green Bay Packers.
Lightning round:
- Twitter or facebook? Both are useful.
- Google or Bing? Both are useful.
- Blogger or WordPress? Both are useful
- Coffee or Tea? Both.
- Budweiser or Fat Tire? Neither. Chocolate milk.
- Laptop/netbook or Tablet? Laptop.
Want to get to know even more about Joseph? See this online interview
Joseph Kerski, Geographer, has a background in government, academia, and industry. He serves as Education Manager for Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) in Colorado, USA. He served for 21 years as Geographer at the US Geological Survey and at the US Census Bureau. Follow Joseph on Twitter @josephkerski
