Nancy Thomas is the Executive Director of the Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF). She has over 18 years of experience in managing successful GIS and remote sensing projects in both consulting and academic arenas. Nancy brings extensive experience in the development and analysis of geospatial data to map, monitor, and model land use and land cover for a variety of domestic and international natural resource management applications. She has given numerous presentations and workshops on geospatial technologies, trained students and researchers on remote sensing and GIS tools, and facilitated many successful research collaborations.