 Hi, I'm Anthony Robinson. I direct online geospatial education programs, and I'm an associate professor of geography here at Penn State. I'm a cartographer, and my work tries to take complicated spatial information and make it more useful for folks. I've worked with people in epidemiology, education, and ecology domains to try to make visualizations that help them make better decisions. I like working with students on the really tricky design problems where we have to take something complicated that's spatial data and try to make it actionable and visual. My students have done some really amazing work to do things like build tactile maps to support flood mitigation work, and to experiment with color schemes to figure out how people react emotionally to what they see. So outside of work I play guitar and drums, and I try to fish as often as possible in nearby rivers. I spend a lot of time scouring maps to find new places to go do that. And in the winter months I've passed the time by building fishing rods. My work takes me all around the world, and I've had occasion now to go to more than 40 countries, and I'm always trying to add to that list. I've been to places like Easter Island, Tasmania, and Chernobyl, but I've only spent like a few hours in New York City, so I'm actually not trying to avoid it. I just haven't done it yet. No matter where I go though, one thing that's clear to me is that everything is tied together by the work we do as geographers. It's a really exciting time to be working in geospatial technology and methods, and I'm looking forward to having you in class soon.