Meet the Instructor

Marc Weber

Geographer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Marc Weber has spent 20 years as a geographer, GIS specialist and natural resources professional. He works in freshwater science for the U.S. EPA Office of Water, and previously worked in forest ecology and fire ecology for the U.S. Forest Service. His team’s work won the EPA agency-wide Mason Hewitt Award for Excellence in GIS in 2024, and he’s co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed articles. An instructor for the UW Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), he was honored with a Teaching Excellence Award in 2023.

Weber’s 20 years of experience includes providing GIS support for mapping, analysis and spatial modeling work in federal research labs, as well as scripting, cartography, database design, application development and programming. For the last 10 years, Weber has led spatial analysis and programming workshops, focusing on hydrologic GIS applications. He holds a master’s degree in geography from Portland State University.