Kurt Menke

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Bio

A former archaeologist, Kurt Menke is a geohipster based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He received a Master’s degree in Geography from the University of New Mexico in 2000. That same year he founded Bird’s Eye View to apply his expertise with GIS technology towards solving the world’s mounting ecological, economic and social issues. His areas of focus are public health, conservation and education. Kurt Menke has a broad skillset. He is a spatial analyst, cartographer, web map developer, trainer/teacher and author. He is an open source GIS authority, recently co-authoring Mastering QGIS for Packt Publishing and authoring Discover QGIS through Locate Press. In 2015 he became an OsGeo Charter Member. He is an experienced FOSS4G educator and is a co-author of the GeoAcademy. He teaches on a regular basis. His offerings range from a semester long Intro to FOSS4G course he originally developed in 2009, to short courses and professional workshops. In 2015 he was awarded the Global Educator of the Year Team Award by GeoForAll as part of the GeoAcademy team.

My Talks

Implications of Time and Geography on Social and Clinical Determinants of Antibiotic Resistant Infections in Children Living in Atlanta, Georgia—A 10 Year Experience

Using QGIS and Maxent we explore a rich multi-year antibiotic resistant bacterial infection population health dataset covering Atlanta, Georgia. We used Maxent to model potential staphylococcal bac...

Official QGIS Certification: What Is It and How Can I Become a Certified Instructor?

Come and learn about the QGIS Certificate Program. This new program is designed to promote both community involvement in the QGIS project and quality education for QGIS software. This talk will cov...

The Very Best New Features of QGIS v3.x

Come and see a tour of the best features of QGIS 3.x. In this talk I will cover the very best new features including updated Layouts & Geoprocessing environments, GUI enhancements, new data viz fea...