We’re a seasoned group of highly experienced environmental consultants, business newspaper publishers, web marketing experts and communications and software entrepreneurs. We banded together to get smart about what it takes to deliver highly visual, accurate and engaging knowledge to people interested in the energy and the environment. We’ve innovated new ways to search and display knowledge.
In 1994, Carla Johnson founded Waterstone, an environmental engineering firm that specializes in human health, ecological risk assessments and complicated contaminant transport and flow models of processes occurring in underground aquifers. Waterstone saw the need to develop visual tools in order to help clients understand the ramifications of these unseen processes better. This led to Waterstone developing the first virtual earth (before the release of Google Earth) which was used as a management tool for the US Air Force. And from that experience, we formed EarthvisionZ, our company that focuses on the world of 3D virtual earth web solutions.
EarthvisionZ is launching SmartEarth in 2011. We offer a unique combination of advanced technical environmental and energy services to both industry and governmental agencies worldwide. Our staff has been nationally recognized on CNN, in The Economist, LA Times, Washington Post and other newspapers and film media as experts in their field.
We offer expertise and services in the following core areas:
As environmental scientists and software engineers, we value and take pride in the technical quality of our work and the social impact of turning information into knowledge. As consultants, we value in-depth client communication and take pride in making sure we understand exactly what our clients and stakeholders need, allowing us to provide the most cost-effective services and solutions.
Our staff has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the natural sciences and engineering with specialties in numerical modeling contaminant sources, software development, sustainability operations and research, hydrogeology, human and ecological toxicology, geology and geophysics, and social web interactions. Our software team has national reputation in GIS, geospatial, and innovative visualization technologies. The firm is multilingual and international in scope, and has provided global climate and environmental services throughout North and South America and Europe. Our environmental and engineering staff members have performed research at the National Bureau of Standards climate group. We created the first geospatial data management and decision-support system for the US Air Force at 13 AETC bases. See www.earthvisionz.com and www.waterstoneinc.com
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SmartEarth (a division of EarthvisionZ) formed |
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Earthvisionz Inc. Formed Connecting People to their Passion through the Power of Place™ |
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Google Earth browser plugin released May 28, 2008 |
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Waterstone develops commercial version of Virtual Globe based Decision Support Tool 'STAR' |
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MS Virtual Earth released Nov 6, 2006 |  |
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Google Earth released June 28, 2005 |  |
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Waterstone builds Virtual Globe based Assett Management Tool 'STAR' for US Air Force |
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NASA WorldWind released Aug 6, 2004 |  |
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Waterstone builds GIS based Decision Support Tool for US Air Force |
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Waterstone Environmental Hydrology and Engineering Inc. Formed |
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