James Whitacre | Chief of the GIS Services Division | Pennsylvania Game Commission
About Speaker
James Whitacre is Chief of the GIS Services Division of the Pennsylvania Game Commission where he leads, manages, and provides vision for the Agency’s geospatial and mapping program. Formerly, he was the GIS Research Scientist for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History where he managed the GIS Lab at Powdermill Nature Reserve, the Museum’s environmental research center, and supported museum staff and affiliated researchers with geospatial technologies and needs. Whitacre was also the GIS Manager from 2011 to 2014 at the Museum. Before returning to the Museum in 2018, Whitacre was the GIS Specialist for the Main Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he provided GIS consultations for researchers and scholars, and taught GIS workshops to promote the use of GIS in research. Whitacre holds a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Master of Science in Geography, concentrating on GIS and cartography, from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Whitacre is currently a board member and Past President of PaMAGIC.