Carl Sack
GIS Faculty And Program Coordinator
Duluth, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolCarl Sack is a GIS educator and cartographer with 12 years of experience blending mapmaking, web mapping, and graphic design into applied teaching and program leadership. As GIS Faculty and Program Coordinator at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College and a PhD researcher at UW–Madison, he studies web mapping, crowdsourced geographic information, and contested landscapes while teaching geocomputing. He brings a rare mix of technical skills—UI/UX, web development, drones, and data graphics—plus classroom and curriculum design experience from secondary to higher education. Based in Duluth, Minnesota, Carl focuses on making spatial data accessible and impactful for communities, often translating complex geographic research into practical learning and outreach. An educator who still teaches hands-on science and special education early in his career, he combines pedagogical empathy with rigorous cartographic practice.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.S., Outdoor Education/Natural History, Biology Teaching, 3.95, B.S., Outdoor Education/Natural History, Biology Teaching, 3.95 at Northland College
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Github Skills (17)
leaflet10
testing9
maps9
javascript8
spam7
recaptcha7
blueimp6
mobile6
google-maps6
actionscript6
css6
geojson6
forloop6
horizon4
php3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
uwcart/mapstudy
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
Integrated, modularized framework for testing cartographic hypotheses
Contributions:175 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
testing
northlandiguana/d3-coordinated-viz-8
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 14 pushes, 6 branches in 1 day
mergingtestingtest-repositorybranching
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