About Stephen

Stephen Appel lives and works in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At work he works with maps, GIS, and data. At home he enjoys gardening, video games, cooking, hiking, and biking. He is open to collaborations as well as GIS or public data consulting and contract work.

My Job

I work where geography, GIS, and digital scholarship meet, helping people transform spatial data into knowledge.

I am the Geospatial Information Librarian at the American Geographical Society Library, a map and geography research library within the UWM Libraries.

Affinities

Communities, organizations, and collaborations that orient my work in geography, GIS, and digital scholarship.

• Alumnus and staff member at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

• Member of NACIS and WAML

• Active in the Geo4Lib community, especially OpenIndexMaps

• Contributor to the open geospatial metadata ecosystem, including OpenGeoMetadata

• Certified Library Carpentry instructor

• Co-Chair, Data Carpentry Geospatial Curriculum Advisory Committee
  (currently recruiting new members)

• Affiliate of the Spanish Travelers Project at Marquette University

• Occasional advisor to the Alpha Mu chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon