2011-present. Senior Analyst, Geosciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
I am a part of a team building a web-based data infrastructure that aims to bring data from a multitude of geoscience-related disciplines into a common framework making it easier to integrate disparate data, discover relationships between them, and enable new science, education and applications.
2008-2011. Researcher, Forest Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
We are implementing computational models for determining carbon and nitrogen budgets of large-scale terrestrial ecosystems. My responsibilities include designing and developing a web-based application for implementing the Biome-BGC model that will run on a computer cluster utilizing open source geospatial and related technologies. I am bringing together the scientific computing aspect of my work with my passion for making all scientific data and technologies freely and openly accessible to everyone.
2006-present. Independent Consultant, Madison, WI
I work with NGOs and research institutes as well as local governments on projects ranging from application development to consulting on long-term strategic information sharing initiatives.
The World Bank Latin America Department: Modeling emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in wetlands; developing visualization models of climate change; developing impact area analysis of Uranium mining.
Conservation International Foundation: Creating a web-based, collaborative application for ecosystem services studies database.
Walgreens: Developing geo-processing routines for extract-transform-load workflow.
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research: Advising on strategic initiative to provide open access to project-related information generated by project partners.
1997-2006. Senior Analyst/Programmer, GeoAnalytics, Madison, WI
I worked directly on projects that involved developing best practices for geographic information management, and strategic planning and information policy formulation. I was also called upon to write the technical and governance related components of project proposals.
Developed strategic information plans, best management practices, enterprise GIS implementation plans, and plans for integration of GIS with emergency management and Enhanced 911 (E911).
Developed web-enabled GIS and database applications, integrated disparate systems and application platforms using proprietary as well as open source programming languages, and RDBMS for State and County agencies.
Developed new proposals for project work in geographic information and related technologies.
1993-1997. GIS Specialist, The World Bank, Washington DC
Worked on six operational missions in India and Bolivia assisting the borrowing country in creating better funding proposals. Working together with the country teams, I critically analyzed the agency-wide information workflow, and identified all the components vital to the project''s success.
Provided assistance to borrower countries in project proposal preparation. Responsible for project evaluation and consulting, costing, staffing, developing training plans and estimates, requirements gathering, and advise on consultancy procurement on operational missions to Asia and South America.
Was one of the two GIS specialists on staff in the only GIS facility in the World Bank. Provided GIS/MIS support for improving sectoral business processes. Work involved liaising with research and development institutions in Europe, North America, and the Caribbean.
Assisted in research involving spatial analysis, econometrics and databases. Worked with World Bank colleagues and researchers from the World Conservation Monitoring Center.
1992. Visiting Researcher, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Integrated a "location-allocation" modeling system with a desktop GIS. I also organized and participated in GIS and spatial decision support systems (SDSS) workshops at the business school as well as the Indian National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, India.
1991. Consultant, Govt. of Trinidad & Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Led by the Land Tenure Center, I worked on an IDB funded Land Rationalization Project. My tasks included evaluating the technological options for modernizing of land information, selecting priority areas for land tenure surveys, linking the property registrar and other agencies, and role of the private sector in developing a national land information strategy.
1985-1987. Research Scientist, Development Alternatives, New Delhi
Designed mechanically efficient and ergonomically improved hand-looms for the village textile sector in India. Developed a Jacquard mechanism that could be utilized by hand-loom weavers.
Worked on environmental impact assessment of open face steatite mining in the lower Himalayas.
2011. Open Government. Open data, open source, open standards. Open Source GIS Conference, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
This meeting followed and built upon the [Law and the GeoWeb](http://punkish.org/geoweb/index.html) workshop on intellectual property issues with geographic data in the internet era, colocated with the annual meeting of Association of American Geographers (AAG), April 11, 2011 at the campus of Microsoft Research, Seattle, Washington. More info at [OpenGov](http://punkish.org/opengov/index.html).
2011. Law and the GeoWeb. Intellectual property issues with geographic data in the internet era, AAG 2011, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
[Law and the GeoWeb](http://punkish.org/geoweb/index.html) was a workshop on intellectual property (IP) issues and geographic data in the internet era. The workshop organized jointly by Creative Commons and United States Geological Survey, was colocated with the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, held on Monday, April 11, 2011 at the campus of Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington from 1 PM to 5 PM.
2011. Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments, National Academies, Washington DC
[A symposium and workshop](http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_053371) were convened at the National Academies to bring together key stakeholders in the area of scientific knowledge discovery (SKD) for intensive and structured discussions in order to obtain a better understanding of the state-of-the-art and future trends in the study of computational SKD in the open online environment and to develop a range of options for future work in this area.
2011. GEOSS Data Sharing Task Force, National Academies, Washington DC
2010. Access to and Reuse of Public Sector Information, CODATA2010, Cape Town, South Africa
2010. Role of Volunteered Geographic Information in Advancing Science, GIScience 2010, Zurich, Switzerland
Geographic data, describing objects and events, have been a fundamental component of scientific experiments and more importantly, in model calibration, verification, and validation for physical sciences. Recent evolutions and advancements in geospatial and cyber technologies, combined with a population that is well informed and interested in global issues such as energy and climate, have cultivated an environment in which scientific research can potentially benefit significantly from the enormous volume of data that can be provided by citizens through their offering of volunteered geographic information (VGI). [This workshop brought together](http://www.ornl.gov/sci/gist/workshops/index.shtml) leading researchers from the fields of geographic information science to discuss this important topic and to define and describe a set of preliminary research topics for the community to pursue. The workshop was colocated with the GIScience 2010 conference in Zürich, Switzerland.
2010. Archive '10, NSF Workshop on Scientific Archives, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2010. Panelist, Future of Web for Collaborative Science, WWW2010, Raleigh, NC
2010. High Level Group on eInfrastructures for Scientific Data, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
2009. Think-tank on Future Data by Ordnance Survey, University of Nottingham, UK
2009. GeoSpatial Rights Management Summit, Open Geospatial Consortium, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
2009. Vespucci Workshop on INSPIRE EU Spatial Data Directive and SDIs, Fiesole, Italy
2009. COUNTER 2010 workshop on Mashing-up Culture, The Rise of User-generated Content, Uppsala, Sweden
2009. Specialist Meeting on Ontology for the National Map, USGS and UCGIS, Washington DC, USA
2009. The 2009 National Academies Science and Technology Policy Forum, Washington DC, USA
2008. Selected for Google Earth/IUCN Workshop, World Conservation Congress, Barcelona, Spain
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2008. Summer Doctoral Program on Web Science, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, UK
2008. Data & Information Institute, Inter-American Institute for Global Change, Panama City, Panama
2008. The 2008 National Academies Science and Technology Policy Forum, Washington DC, USA
2007. Specialist Meeting on Volunteered Geographic Information, NCGIA and LANL, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2007. Common Use Licensing of Scientific Data, CODATA, GBIF, and Science Commons, Paris, France
2007. Intellectual Property Rights, Wrong for Developing Countries?, National Academies, Washington DC
2007. Strategies for Permanent and Open Access to Scientific Data, Atibaia, Brazil
CODATA. 2007. Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development. Dora A. L. Canhos, Vanderlei Perez Canhos, William Anderson, Paul Uhlir, Bonnie Carroll, Raed Sharif and Puneet Kishor, eds., Atibaia, Brazil.
This workshop provided an international and interdisciplinary forum to promote discussions and a deeper understanding of the requirements for long-term preservation, open access, and improved use of digital scientific information resources for sustainable development in Latin America. The workshop focused on health and environmental information for sustainable development.
download report2006. Annual Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2006. Information Commons of Science, National Academies and Science Commons, Washington DC, USA
1996. Workshop on Indigenous Peoples Profiles, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
1996. Information Systems in Pollution Management/Control, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
1993. SDSS/GIS for Service Planning, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India
2009. Public Policy - Mashing up Technology and Law
Puneet Kishor. 2009. Public Policy: Mashing up Technology and Law. Presented at COUNTER2010 workshop on Mashing-up Cultures: The Rise of User-generated Content, Uppsala, Sweden.
2009. Public Policy - bringing technology and law together for open access
Puneet Kishor. 2009. Public Policy - bringing technology and law together for open access. Presented at AAAS ST Global Conference, Washington DC, USA.
2008. LOCWEB '08 - Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web
Boll, Susanne, Christopher Jones, Eric Kansa, Puneet Kishor, Mor Naaman, Ross Purves, Arno Scharl, and Erik Wilde. 2008. LOCWEB '08: Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web. ACM, New York, NY.
2008. Public Policy and the Geospatial Information Commons
Puneet Kishor. 2008. Public Policy and the Geospatial Information Commons. 2008 Conference on Science and Technology for Society, AAAS, Washington DC.
2007. Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America
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2007. Open GeoSpatial Data - Difficult But Necessary
Puneet Kishor. 2007. Open GeoSpatial Data: Difficult But Necessary. CODATA and NAS Workshop on "Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development," Atibaia, Brazil.
2006. What Can GIS Learn From Open Source
Puneet Kishor and Steve Ventura. 2006. What Can GIS Learn From Open Source, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Committee, Santiago, Chile.
2005. Modernizing Historical Records
Puneet Kishor. 2005. Modernizing Historical Records: A Case-Study of Wisconsin Historical Society, ESRI Wisconsin Users Group Meeting Nov. 2005, Green Bay, WI.
2000. Are you ready to do business online?
Puneet Kishor. 2000. "Are you ready to do business online?" URISA News.
1997. Using GIS for Pollution Control
Puneet Kishor. 1997. Using GIS for Pollution Control. Environment Department Dissemination Notes, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 20433.
1996. Strategies for Disseminating Large Spatial Databases
Puneet Kishor. 1996. Strategies for Disseminating Large Spatial Databases. Environment Department Dissemination Notes, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 20433.
1995. The Economic Supply of Biodiversity in West Kalimantan
William Magrath, Charles Peters, Nalin Kishor, and Puneet Kishor. 1995. The Economic Supply of Biodiversity in West Kalimantan. Environmental and Economic Issues in Forestry: Selected Case Studies in Asia, Ed. Susan Shen and Arnoldo Contreras-Hermosilla, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 20433.
West Kalimantan, the third largest Indonesian province on the island of Borneo,with a total land area of almost 147,000 square kilometers, is facing the rapid disappearance of many of its highly diverse ecosystems and the biodiversity they support. Although reliable data on forest clearing are difficult to obtain, recent estimates suggest that almost 50 percent of the original forest has already been lost and the destruction of lowland dipterocarp forests and mangrove areas has been especially pronounced. Extensive logging, establishment of large-scale industrial crop plantations, and increasing agricultural demands of a growing rural population appear to be the major factors responsible for this alarming reduction in forest area. The environmental impacts of these developmentswill come under increasing scrutiny in the future.
Conserving biodiversity is an economic proposition. Alternative land uses are being pursued aggressivelyin West Kalimantan because of their financially attractive returns. Efforts to introduce land use policies aimed at biodiversity conservation would benefit from explicit information on the size of theserents.Thischapterdescribesprelim- inary work in organizing data on these costs in the form of a schedule of the marginal costs of habitat preservation, or a biodiversity supply curve.
The protection of natural areas implies foregoing other socially valued land uses and may require additional resources to ensure that protected areas are actually pro- tected. Exploration of these opportunity costs can provide crucial data to policymakers and others interested in biodiversity loss or degradation. Building on the opportu- nity cost concept, this chapter uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to illustrate estimation of the economic supply of biodiversity in West Kalimantan.
download paper1995. When Tools Become the Barrier
Puneet Kishor. 1995. When Tools Become the Barrier: Modernizing Spatial Information Against All Odds. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), Maine.
1993. Law that Drives Change
Puneet Kishor, Kristine Kuhlman, Ben Niemann, Jr., Steve Ventura, Earl Epstein, John Bossler, D. David Moyer, and William Holland. 1993. Law that Drives Change: Wisconsin Land Information Program and GIS Adoption by Local Governments, GIS/LIS '93, Minneapolis.
1991. Land Rationalization Study
Land Rationalization Study, Trinidad & Tobago, Inter-American Development Bank. 1991.
1991. Diffusion of GIS/LIS in Local Governments
Puneet Kishor, Bernard J. Niemann, Jr., and D. David Moyer. 1991. Diffusion of GIS/LIS in Local Governments, presented at GIS/LIS '91, Atlanta, GA.
1991. Saving the Past for the Future
Puneet Kishor, Steve Ventura, and Peter Thum. 1991. Saving the Past for the Future GIS in Archaeology, Proceedings of URISA '91, San Francisco, CA.
1990. Evaluating GIS/LIS
Puneet Kishor, Bernard J. Niemann, Jr., D. David Moyer, Stephen J. Ventura, Robert W. Martin, and Peter Thum. 1990. Evaluating GIS/LIS. GIS/LIS '90, Anaheim, CA.
1990. Geographic Information Systems in India
Puneet Kishor and Bernard J. Niemann, Jr. 1990. Geographic Information Systems in India: A "Look Before You Leap" Caveat to Technology Transfer, URISA '90, Edmonton, Canada.