Meet the Instructor

Eugene Martin

GIS Consultant and Knowledge Analyst

Gene Martin's 30 years of experience as a geographic information system (GIS) consultant and knowledge analyst is a balance of practical application informed by academic excellence. He earned a B.S. in forest ecology at the University of Vermont in 1989 and used his field survey and photogrammetry experience for community resource management in Ecuador from 1990 to 1995.

He brought this work into graduate studies with a thesis on GIS technology in organizational development in an M.A. at the University of Washington in 1999. As founder and technical coordinator of the Community and Environment Spatial Analysis Center from 1999 to 2004, he delivered GIS capability and products to multiple organizations and government agencies in the Puget Sound region. He has a Ph.C. from UW for doctoral studies in GIS knowledge development in distributed work environments.

Martin has enjoyed many years as a GIS teaching assistant and instructor at the geography department and GIS certificate programs at the UW, and was honored with a Teaching Excellence Award in 2023. He was a GIS visiting instructor and WIST scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 2009 to 2014.