Karis Tenneson
Director Of Environmental Mapping at Spatial Informatics Group, LLC
Ridgeland, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolKaris Tenneson is an environmental mapping and geospatial AI leader with nine years of professional experience translating Earth observation science into operational programs for climate resilience and sustainable landscapes. As Executive Director at Spatial Informatics Group she builds and scales interdisciplinary teams, platforms, and multi-partner initiatives—connecting governments, donors, research institutions and tech partners like Google and FAO—to turn complex geoanalytics into decision-ready tools. Her academic grounding in ecology, spatial science, and urban planning (PhD, MUP) informs a career that spans hands-on remote sensing research, curriculum development, and international capacity building. Karis is known for integrating people, governance, and technology to move projects from concept to durable global implementation, and for pairing rigorous scientific methods (e.g., lidar and regional land-cover modeling) with pragmatic program design. Based in Wisconsin, she brings a rare blend of deep technical credibility and strategic partnership-building that accelerates real-world environmental impact.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Urban Design and Planning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Urban Design and Planning at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology, Mathematics at Luther College
Github Skills (13)
esx8
environmental-monitoring7
earth7
sustainability6
wms4
tms4
android3
data-collection2
insar1
earth-observation1
sar1
preprocessing1
imagery1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
karistenneson/lidarNew
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
karistenneson/CropCommodityAssessment
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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