Hi, I joined because I'm a geography nerd and because I may need some help locating some map-making software. I'll post something about that later...

I have degrees in Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Philosophy, Molecular Biology & Microbiology, and Tropical Medicine with a specialization in diseases of poverty in developing countries. I took a class in QGIS (a freeware GIS program), but otherwise I don't have experience with geographic software.

I just finished a contract working at a research lab at Yale, and I'm on my way to Nepal in a month or so.

This is my first time in an internet forum. So, hello fellow geography/ cartography nerds. :-P

-Eduardo