Mark Patterson had a Near Death Experience from alcohol poisoning as an irrational teenager. Almost ten years later he received a phone call in the middle of the night from a woman whom he never met. She described the events of his Near Death Experience with amazing detail. She went onto describe events from his childhood. It was a true wake up call. Her message to Mark; "You have an important message and mission to the world, get with it."

Geotechnologies and the Environment: Environmental Applications and Mana- ment presents an engaging and diverse array of physically-oriented GIScience applications that have been organized using four broad themes. While the book's themes are by no means mutually exclusive, Hoalst-Pullen and Patterson provide an elegant overview of the eld that frames the collection's subsequent thematic str- ture - Wilderness and Wildlife Response; Glaciers; Wetlands and Watersheds; and Human Health and the Environment. Over the course of the volume, the contrib- ing authors move beyond basic (and in some...