 Hi, my name is Harrison Cole. I'm a cartographer and postdoc in geography here at Penn State and I'm an instructor for the online geospatial program. My areas of expertise are mostly in map design and user experience. I've also done quite a bit of research on designing tactile maps for accessible flood mitigation and disaster planning. I'm also a practicing cartographer. The room that I'm sitting in is the Geographics Laboratory, which is a brand new map production and research lab at Penn State Geography, for which I am currently the creative director. We provide map design services, GIS analysis, printing, 3D printing, UX UI research tools, basically the capabilities of a cartography lab in the truest sense of the term. Folks can come to us whether or not they're affiliated with the university and we can help them do cool map stuff. This is the first lab of its kind in the geography department for well over a decade, so I'm really excited to help get it off the ground. Outside of work I have a very broad and forever changing set of hobbies and interests that I tend to cycle through, but some things that stick around are bird watching, which Pennsylvania happens to be a pretty decent place for. Hiking, music, movies, art, architecture, medieval and ancient literature, certain video games, astronomy and stargazing. But the cool part about geography is that you can nearly always find a geospatial angle to whatever topic you're looking at. And I really enjoy seeing the unexpected and sometimes esoteric interests that students explore with their own projects. It's always been one of my favorite parts of teaching, so I look forward to having you in class soon.