GIS Chat Podcast Jazzmen Wilson

Peter Flint, state land surveying director for Alaska, does a deep dive into how being a land surveyor in Alaska really is. He absolutely loves it, and it shows in today's episode.
 Topics we touch on is life as a land surveyor in Alaska and being the state representative for the NSPS, achievements in implementing Alaska's continuously operating reference network reference network, and lastly ending on Peter's previous life as an Alaska's Railroad Project Manager.

Jami Dennis, owner of the Geodetic Analysis LLC, a geospatial consulting company, gets really nerdy about data.  Any opportunity to show her enthusiasm about data, she jumps on it! 
From extracting data to present in front of a boardroom to creating visualizations like story maps and infographics, Jami loves how data can visually enhance our GIS experience through creative means. 
Plus, getting involved in volunteer work has increased Jami's knowledge and skills in the industry.
On the side, we briefly talk about Jami's passion for natural resources and why that brought her to photography, and then ending on how someone with more of an artistic eye, can try their luck in the GIS industry. 

In this episode, we feature Forbes 30under30 alumni, Milan Janosov, as he talks about his transition from biophysics to data science. Venturing into his work for the European Commission and other freelance work. Briefly touching on his own entrepreneurial spirit with authoring his own book "DATA", and starting his consulting company, Geospatial Data Consulting.
Lastly, we talk about how it is like being a freelance geospatial data scientist and some obstacles/pathways that data scientists are facing. 

Chief Public Health Officer for HSR.health (Health Solutions Research), Jean Felipe, is passionate about using GIS in the public health sector. Born in Brazil, Jean studied medicine and worked with health focused geospatial analytics using A.I. to help map diseases, hospital deserts, mortality rates and so on. 
In this episode, we talk about Jean's experience as a primary care provider and now a chief public health officer, the history of diseases, how the public health industry is collecting data to map out crises locally and globally, and the challenges the industry is facing today.

State Geodetic Coordinator to Arizona for the NGS, and 2019 Lifetime Membership Award for the United Surveyors of Arizona, Brian Fisher has been land surveying since the late 1980's. His expertise is plentiful, and he has a ton of knowledge on what professional land surveyors are facing today. Join us as we talk heavily on the land surveying industry, how to get involved, what challenges PLS are facing today, and how radio helped Brian and a coworker save an elderly woman's life. 

Born in England but raised in Ireland, Esri lead consultant, Kiera O' Sullivan delivers a fantastic talk that first centers around her role at Esri Ireland and some advice on how to be successful in the world of consulting. This includes how Kiera got her start at Esri with a biology degree and how she became a leader amongst her peers as a lead consultant. Then we really dive into climate change and biodiversity. Specifically, why climate change has had such a negative effect on Ireland's biodiversity and how we and GIS can help solve some of these problems.