Keith Weber is the GIS Director at Idaho State University (ISU). He has held this position since he founded the GIS Training and Research Center in 1998. He has worked in the Geospatial industry since 1989, is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP), recipient of Esri’s SAG award in 2000 and again in 2013, as well as URISA’s ESIG award in 2014. He is past-President of the NR Chapter of URISA and former Vice-President of the Intermountain Chapter of ASPRS. Keith is the principal investigator for NASA’s RECOVER wildfire decision support system, and the Science Advisor for the NASA DEVELOP node at ISU. Weber takes a very pragmatic and applied approach to GIS, as is reflected in nearly 50 publications and 32 grant awards. His research program land change in semiarid savannas and apply the results of his research as actionable information to support well-informed decision with geospatial technologies.