Hunter College, CUNY
200 Schermerhorn Street, Apt. 709
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA
Tel: + 1 (718) 614-7441 kmack@akrf.com
Currently a Master’s Degree student at the Anthropology Department at Hunter
College, City University of New York, having returned to complete the degree by writing a Thesis, 15 years after completing all the required course credits. Mr.
Mack’s interest was always archaeology, geographic information systems (GIS), and data visualization, and over the past 15 years, he developed a career as a GIS professional. From 1998 to 2000 he worked at the U.S. Census Bureau as a geographer in support of Census 2000. From 2000 to 2006 he worked as a GIS specialist and developer, first with a New York City based consulting firm (Space
Track) and then for the Kenerson Group, for whom he developed mobile mapping solutions for performing tree inventories and other applications.
Beginning in 2006 Mr. Mack has been the GIS Director at AKRF, Inc., an environmental, planning and engineering firm and New York City’s premier firm for environmental impact studies. At AKRF Mr. Mack, to his delight, has been able to circle back somewhat to archaeology, providing the firm’s in-house archaeological staff with spatial analysis and mapping support for many projects. As GIS Director, he manages AKRF's extensive database of geographic information, and performs various analyses in support of AKRF projects, including data migration, watershed flow analysis, georeferencing historic maps, mobile data collection app development, and report-quality map production. He is also responsible for GIS data and software product evaluation and acquisition. Mr. Mack also specializes in developing three-dimensional computer models and simulations for the firm’s solar shadow studies and other analyses. Mr. Mack holds a BA in Economics and Politics from Eugene Lang College.
To share knowledge of GIS software and data, analysis and visualization techniques, and map-based mobile data collection experience. Having been provided with a portion of the ISLIEF database for the Horgardalur region, to share results of preliminary, exploratory GIS analysis towards developing a Master’s
Thesis topic. To interact with the other attendees and presenters, explore ideas and develop a Master’s Thesis topic.