The Concise 2015 Year in Review...A Good Year!

Professionally

• ~ 300 maps made...roughly
• Numerous analyses done, some big, some small
• 15 clients
• Co-authored Mastering QGIS with Packt Publishing
• Authored Discover QGIS with Locate Press (in press)
• Updated the GeoAcademy Curriculum twice: once to QGIS 2.8 and once to QGIS 2.12
• Learned Git
• Won the 2015 New Mexico Geographic Information Council Green Chile Outstanding Service Award
• Won the GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Team Award
• Voted in as an OsGeo Charter Member
• Continued to migrate all GIS work to QGIS
• 3 Community Health Map workshops conducted in Charleston, SC
• Presented at FOSS4G-NA in San Francisco
• Presented at the first QGIS conference in Nødebo, DK
• Presented at the New Mexico Geographic Information Council Fall Meeting
• 10 blog entries at  http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/
• Taught GIS 2020 – Introduction to Open Source GIS at Central New Mexico Community College
• Taught 2 GIS courses at UNM Continuing Education
• Taught 5 FOSS4G online courses for Del Mar College
• Became recertified as a GISP for the second time

Personally

• Celebrated my grandmothers 100^th birthday
• Travelled to Denmark, Vermont, New York City, San Francisco, Colorado, Bisbee AZ and Charleston SC.
• Worked out 184 times...not bad for an aging GeoHipster!
• Walked 370 miles...ah technology!
• Climbed my 20^th 14’er (Mt Yale)...a work in progress
• PR bench press – 215lb 3x
• PR dead lift – 300lb – 5x
• PR back squat – 205lb – 4x