Jerry Johnston

In this role, Dr. Johnston leads EPA’s efforts to coordinate and implement geospatial technology across the Agency to meet a wide range of mission goals.  This includes providing a vision for geospatial interoperability throughout the EPA enterprise, as well as guidance and perspective on opportunities for adopting place-based approaches more broadly across Agency lines of business.  Dr. Johnston joined EPA in 2005, initially working on applying geospatial approaches to ecological risk assessment for the Office of Pesticide Programs.  Prior to his work at EPA, he served as the Director of Midwest Technical Operations for Image Matters LLC of Leesburg, VA, a small business focused on the development of geospatial semantics and interoperability solutions for a diverse set of customers.  Additionally, Dr. Johnston was previously Executive Vice President of Pangaea Information Technologies of Chicago, IL, a provider of geospatial information management products and services to both public and private sector clients.  Dr. Johnston holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from Michigan State University as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, and is a member of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC).