Spatial Signals
Episodes
You Keep Watching The Skies For The Next Year with Chris McGinty
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chris McGinty from Utah State University joins us a guest instead of a host for this special one-year anniversary episode to talk about building 3D mo...
Open Data Is The Future with Nicole Kong
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Kong from Purdue University joins us to talk about choosing environmental science as a major, remote sensing of giant panda habitats, a slightl...
I Was Definitely Born To Do GIS and Remote Sensing with Kass Green
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kass Green of Kass Green and Associates joins us to talk about natural resource economics, Kass’ founding of Pacific Meridian Resources and how the ...
Nature-Based Solutions with Jason Parent
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Parent from the University of Rhode Island joins us to talk about not having any marketable skills from an environmental science degree, studyin...
The Minnesota of the Solar System with Darci Snowden
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Darci Snowden from Central Washington University joins us to talk about a documentary about the Voyager mission, Darci's attending Space Camp as a kid...
Sleep Is Highly Overrrated with Qiusheng Wu
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Qiusheng Wu from the University of Tennessee joins us to talk about his being assigned to study GIS in China, the inspiration of Google Earth, the fou...
Geospatial Found Me with Angela Lee
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Lee from Esri joins us to talk about map libraries, Esri’s work with academic libraries, introducing GIS into K-12 education, developing a cu...
Remote Sensing and K-12 Education - The Squared Circle, Round Three
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is Round Three of our special “Squared Circle” episodes, where a group of guests gets together to wrestle with a particular topic. For this e...
I've Always Been A Data Wrangler At Heart with Sam Batzli
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Batzli from University of Wisconsin-Madison joins us to talk about the vestibule of the Manly Miles Building at Michigan State University, writing...
The Word Was Provenance with Jason Tullis
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Tullis from the University of Arkansas joins us to talk about finding fossils in the mountains, the question of seeing a moon in a blue sky, att...
Election Night Is The Equivalent of the Academy Awards with Chris Cooper
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Cooper from G2G Consulting joins us for this special episode to talk about the whole process behind federal funding which influences so many act...
Photogrammetry Is Not Exactly A Household Word with Karen Schuckman
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Schuckman from RRC Companies and ASPRS joins us to talk about riding Argentinian horses on vacation, living the farm life and an equestrian back...
Everything Was Going Fine And Then... with Santosh Panda
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Santosh Panda from the University of Alaska Fairbanks joins us to talk about coal mine reclamation in India, a choice between petroleum and remote sen...
When You're Cool The Sun Shines On You 24 Hours A Day with Robert Washington-Allen
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Washington-Allen from the University of Nevada, Reno joins us to kick off 2026 with an extra-length episode where we talk about Robert’s time...
Some Sort of Research Gene In My Blood with Jeong Chang “JC” Seong
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeong Chang “JC” Seong from University of West Georgia joins us to talk about staying up all night to beat Tetris, the power of a PhD degree, work...
Your Backyard Is More Than You Think It Is with Pablo Viramontes
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pablo Viramontes from the New Mexico Department of Agriculture joins us to talk about his time as an ROTC cadet, GIS in the intelligence field, an int...
Don't Go Driving A Ship Around Lake Champlain with Paige Brochu
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Paige Brochu from University of Vermont joins us to talk about the influence of Jurassic Park, archeology in the Caribbean, mapping Lake Champlain shi...
Making Datasets More Accessible with Tyler Erickson
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Erickson from VorGeo joins us to talk about foldable paper maps, working with remotely sensed data at a technology non-profit, the founding of M...
The Way People Work And Can Live With Fire with Nancy French
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy French from the Michigan Tech Research Institute at Michigan Technological University joins us to talk about the Environmental Research Institut...
The Emotional Hook of Remote Sensing with JB Sharma
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
JB Sharma from the University of North Georgia joins us to talk about JB’s transition from a physics background to geospatial technologies, grassroo...
I Was There From the Cretaceous to the Holocene with Joseph Kerski
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Kerski from Joseph Kerski LLC, University of Denver and Auburn University joins us to talk about growing up in a motel in western Colorado, mak...
A Fisheries Degree But It Really Turned Into a Remote Sensing Degree with Lisa Wirth
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Wirth, the Program Director of AmericaView, joins us to talk about Lisa's graduate work in Fisheries in Alaska, tagging fall chum salmon on the Y...
Drones and the NDAA - The Squared Circle, Round Two
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Round Two of our special “Squared Circle” episodes, where a group of guests gets together to wrestle with a particular topic. For this epi...
The Third Dimension In Remote Sensing with the NASA AREN Team
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Bland, Andy Henry, Lisa Ogiemwonyi, and Sallie Smith from the NASA AREN (Aerokats and Rover Education Network) team join us to talk about the be...
Hitting A Button And Reading Harry Potter with Robbyn Abbitt
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robbyn Abbitt from Miami University joins us to talk about working at an underground storage tank unit in Indiana, planning to work outside in Idaho b...
Every Day Is Earth Observation Day with Rebecca Dodge and Tom Mueller
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Earth Observation Day, everyone! Our guests for this special Earth Science Week episode are Rebecca Dodge of Midwestern State University and T...
A Locked Door Made All The Difference In The World with Forrest Bowlick
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Forrest Bowlick from University of Massachusetts-Amherst joins us to talk about finding Svalbard on a globe at two years old, National Geographic Bees...
Stuck In The Ice On An Icebreaker with Joe Ortiz
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Ortiz from Kent State University joins us to talk about using micro-fossils to learn about how climate changes over time, the Beaver-SCAT instrume...
Metadata Was The Center of My Existence with Greg Bonynge
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Bonynge from the University of Rhode Island joins us to talk about working on a Alpaca farm in Pennsylvania, an internship with the USDA forest s...
One Software Changed My Life with Carter Wang
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Carter Wang from Towson University joins us to talk about his introduction to Google Earth in high school in China, urban heat islands in Arizona, Mar...
The Bad News Bears Wildfire Fighting Team with Scott Powell
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Powell from Montana State University joins us to talk about Scott’s work at the Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas, mapping cave openi...
It Took A Hi-Ranger To Carry The Instrument Around with Larry Biehl
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Larry Biehl from Purdue University joins us to talk about a prophetic high school paper about computer applications in farming, the Laboratory for App...
Don't Live In The Ivory Tower with Tom Mueller
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Mueller from the Massachusetts Bureau of Geographic Information (MassGIS) joins us to talk about Pchem ending Tom’s time as a Chemistry major, b...
It's Like Learning a Bad Golf Swing with Lance Yarbrough
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lance Yarbrough from the University of Mississippi joins us to talk about an encounter with a Floyd Sabins textbook at a university book sale at a you...
I Ate Up Everything I Had Thrown At Me In The Geology World with Kyle Fredrick
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Fredrick from PennWest University - California joins us to talk about teaching a middle-school class in college, groundwater modeling, user-frien...
Landsat Next - The Squared Circle, Round One
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Round One of our special “Squared Circle” episodes, where a group of guests gets together to wrestle with a particular topic. For this epi...
The Course Catalog Was The Yellow Pages with Dana Peterson
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dana Peterson from the University of Kansas joins us to talk about the Yellow Pages of class descriptions, the Kansas Biological Survey, archiving Lan...
We Had Some Sensors Eaten By Cows with Kevin Czajkowski
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Czajkowski from the University of Toledo joins us to talk about snow days, a heat wave summer, an internship with the National Weather Service, ...
I Grew Up With All The Things with Amy Logan
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Logan from Iowa State University joins us to talk about her borrowing a car in her college days in order to intern at the Northeast Iowa Resource ...
A Different SD Than What I Was Expecting with Bruce Millett
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Millett from South Dakota State University joins us to talk about Bruce’s service in the US Navy as a weather observer and remote sensing, wo...
The First Digital Global Map with Bobbi Lenczowski
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bobbi Lenczowski, formerly of the National Geospatial-lntelligence Agency (NGA), joins us for a discussion of the highlights of her all-star career wi...
Collecting Leaf-Level Data with Donna Delparte
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donna Delparte from Idaho State University joins us to talk about the circuitous route that took her from Regina, Canada through many different locale...
Creating Maps One Line At a Time with Tracy DeLiberty
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tracy DeLiberty from the University of Delaware joins us to talk about remote sensing of deserts and arid lands, the good old days of X-terms and comm...
They Found All The Dinosaurs Already with Courtney Poirier Chicola
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Courtney Poirier Chicola from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette joins us for a discussion that begins with Jurassic Park, 4-H, and her dashed d...
The PI Is Not a Private Investigator with Robin McNeely
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robin McNeely from Iowa State University joins us for a discussion that begins with a blast from the past about AutoCAD, PC Arc/Info, UNIX, Sun Statio...
We Need An Earth Observation Day with Rebecca Dodge
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Dodge from Midwestern State University joins us for a discussion about geology, ERTS (later known as Landsat 1), photographs from Skylab, work...
Geospatial First Responders with Rodney Yantis
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rodney Yantis from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette joins us to talk about majoring in landscape ecology, Earth As Art, the International Char...
An Open Source Human Being with Lindi Quackenbush
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lindi Quackenbush from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry joins us for a an academic adventure that begins...
Push a Button and Map All the Sagebrush in Utah with Doug Ramsey
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Ramsey from Utah State University joins us to talk about rangeland ecology, field work and understanding the dynamics on the ground when doing re...
Where the Ocean Is On The Correct Side of the Planet with Russ Congalton
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russ Congalton from the University of New Hampshire joins us to talk about wanting to go into space, taking Organic Chemistry just for fun, teaching a...
A Smartphone With Wings and a Propeller with John McGee
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John McGee from Virginia Tech University joins us for a discussion that starts off at a river with crocodiles and a solar powered GIS lab in Zambia, t...
AI As A Research Assistant with Aaron Maxwell
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Maxwell from West Virginia University joins us to talk about mining reclamation, large scale land cover changes, open source spatial analytics, ...
The Secret Origin of AmericaView
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This first episode of Spatial Signals looks at the origin of the AmericaView consortium - how the OhioView consortium started in the state of Ohio and...