Patricia Carbajales-Dale serves as the Executive Director of the Clemson
Center for Geospatial Technologies, where she provides vision,
leadership, and strategic direction of the Center’s programs and
initiatives . Her team supports and trains over 2,000 students, staff,
and faculty per year through academic and research initiatives, grant
collaborations, management of cloud-computing and cyberGIS platforms,
and collaborations with industry partners. Patricia also leads the
Clemson Data Visualization Lab and is the Co-Director of the
Sustainability in Pamplona Study Abroad Program. She currently serves in
the Board of Directors of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)
CyberInfrastructure Speciality Group, and in 2020 was selected by UCGIS
to be a #TRELIS Fellow. Patricia has a passion for teaching GIS and Data
Visualization, and has taught GIS for Public Health at Clemson since
2015. Previous to Clemson, Patricia established and ran the Stanford
Geospatial Center for four years at Stanford University where she also
held the position of GIS Lecturer within the School of Earth Sciences.
She created and taught the first "GIS for Good" class, a service
learning class where students from different disciplines partnered with
the United Nations, and other international humanitarian organizations
to create innovative solutions to real-world problems.