MrJoseph Aufmuth

Joe Aufmuth is UF Library’s Geospatial Consultant in the Library’s Academic Research Consulting and Services (ARCS) department.  He is also an affiliated faculty member in UF’s Geomatics Program where he earned his MS degree. Joe has 30⁺ years of combined academic and private consulting experience in the areas of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). He consults with faculty, staff, and students on all aspects of creating or acquiring spatially referenced data, performing spatial analysis, and creating maps, as well as using applicable software and hardware.  Mr. Aufmuth has also taught GIS courses at UF for over 15 years.  Internationally, Joe has taught short courses in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Egypt, and has presented papers in Hungary and Italy. Locally, Joe is known for having served on the Micanopy Town Commission for the past 20 years, 10 of those as the Town’s mayor.