John Nelson

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Volunteer Experience

  • Board Member

    NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society)

    - 2 years 1 month

    Science and Technology

  • Central Michigan University Graphic

    Advisor, Department of Geography

    Central Michigan University

    - Present 6 years 3 months

    Education

  • Program Advisor

    Lansing Community College Geographic Information Science Program

    - Present 6 years 11 months

    Education

    Advise the department on Mapping curriculum and opportunities.

  • Program Advisor

    Lansing Community College Art Design & Multimedia Program

    - 9 years 2 months

    Education

    Advise department chair and faculty on market demand in light of tools and skills covered, and educational themes in the program curriculum.

  • Central Michigan University Graphic

    College of Science & Engineering advancement board of alumni

    Central Michigan University

    - 1 year 1 month

    Education

    Support the mission of the college by helping to identify connections between the college, alumni, and industry partners.

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Honors & Awards

  • Prix Carto prize for digital cartography

    Swiss Society for Cartography

    Awarded the Prix Carto prize for digital cartography for the work of creating and sharing a method and template for creating Imhof-like terrain mapping.

    About the award:
    https://kartografie.ch/medienmitteilung-prix-carto-2019/

    About the map:
    https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=a3dfd608e91e4dbda25c3b33d6f9fb30

  • Pratt Manhattan Gallery: "You Are Here NYC" exhibit

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  • Silver prize, Infographics, Kantar IIB Awards 2015

    Kantar Information Is Beautiful Awards

    "UFO Sightings" -a geographic and time trending visualization of sightings and our underlying cultural terrain.
    https://www.behance.net/gallery/27818075/UFO-Sightings-Since-1925

  • Atlas of Design II, 2014

    North American Cartographic Information Society

    "Tornado Travel" cartography and essay included in the book series promoting beautiful and effective mapping, available here: http://atlasofdesign.org/

  • People's Choice Winner, FOSS4G 2013 Map Gallery

    FOSS4G

    "Global Sharknado Threat" cartography voted People's Choice.
    http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/gallery/winners.html

  • Places & Spaces: Mapping Science

    Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center

    Visualization chosen for the travelling Mapping Science exhibition focusing on trends and dynamics.
    http://scimaps.org/iteration/9

  • Data Visualization: A Successful Design Process

    Andy Kirk

    Visualization featured in Andy Kirk's book on the designer's approach to visualization, available here: http://www.amazon.com/Data-Visualization-successful-design-process/dp/1849693463

  • America's Best Infographics, 2013

    Houghton Mifflin

    "Tornado Tracks" cartography and essay featured in the America's Best Infographics book series, year 2013, available here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-American-Infographics-2013/dp/0547973373
    Visualization contributed: http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2012/05/tornado-tracks.html

  • Atlas of Design III

    North American Cartographic Information Society

    "Sightings" cartography/data visualization. Available here: http://atlasofdesign.org/

  • The Infographic History of the World

    Harper Collins

    "Earthquakes Since 1898" featured in Valentina D'Efilippo's book, The Infographic History of the World, published by Harper Collins, available here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Infographic-History-World/dp/0007506155
    Visualization contributed: http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2012/06/earthquakes-since-1898.html

  • Winner of the 2004 National Geographic Society Award for Cartography

    National Geographic

    Made for fun while a student, this interactive map/timeline atlas illustrates the development of the United States from colonial domains to the (then) present, created on the side as time permitted. The atlas was distributed to teachers in the State of Michigan and won the NGS Award for Cartography in 2004.

Organizations

  • IMAGIN

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    Improving Michigan's Access to Geographic information Networks http://www.imagin.org/

  • NACIS

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    North American Cartographic Information Society http://www.nacis.org/

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