Spatial analysis
for hard country.
Utility, environmental, and economic GIS work out of southwest Kansas — built on the same one-mile grid this whole region runs on.
Three domains, one frame.
Infrastructure that has to work
Operational mapping, asset inventory, outage communication, and spatial tools for rural electric cooperatives. GIS applied where the lights need to stay on.
Land, water, and what's changing
Ogallala Aquifer resource planning, land-use suitability analysis, remote sensing and change detection, and spatial evidence for long-range decisions in arid systems.
Analysis that survives a boardroom
Present-worth cost-benefit frameworks, MCDA suitability modeling, and decision-ready spatial outputs that connect maps to money and policy to place.
Meet Datum.
A public, read-only reference map of Dodge City and Ford County's GIS data. Water and sewer lines, wells, hydrants, and more. Additional data will be added to the map as it is generated.
Datum is also the assistant on this site: a locally hosted model that answers in plain language and drives the map for you.
Coursework → capstone pipeline.
Concepts of GIS in Environmental Science
Ford County solar siting suitability — irradiance, slope, infrastructure proximity, and land-use constraints combined into a weighted MCDA overlay.
Open live dashboard →Environmental Data Analysis
Course confirmed for Fall 2026. Final project and deliverables land here once the term begins.
Environmental Risk Assessment
Term project planned as capstone groundwork using the EPA four-step health risk framework.
Capstone Research Database
A comparative feasibility study of potable reuse strategies for Dodge City, Kansas, placing the land-application system, the planned managed aquifer recharge project, and direct potable reuse side by side within one geospatial and present-worth framework.
View prospectus →Infrastructure GIS, field sense, and hard-country problems.
Corban works in infrastructure GIS, mostly where utilities, water, land, and rural operations overlap. His work is practical: mapping electric systems; supporting water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure; moving CAD records into usable GIS; building asset-management and field-collection workflows; and producing analysis people can actually use to make decisions.
He is a GISP, a Class 4 KDHE-licensed water operator, and an FAA Part 107 remote pilot. He is also pursuing graduate research through Montana State University's Land Resources and Environmental Science program on potable-reuse feasibility for aquifer-stressed communities in southwest Kansas.
More recently, he has been putting AI to work where it earns its keep: automating repetitive GIS and data tasks, making scattered infrastructure information easier to find and use, and building better access to operational data and business intelligence. The goal is not to add another shiny platform. It is to give small, rural organizations better information without requiring a bigger staff or budget.
Maintains enterprise electric GIS infrastructure, develops demand growth modeling tools, designed a vegetation risk prioritization tool from outage history and canopy datasets, integrates legacy CAD into GIS, modernizes construction specification manuals, and built a Power BI dashboard tracking top electric consumers.
Established the city's first comprehensive utility GIS platform, migrated CAD blueprints into structured geodatabases, developed water/wastewater/stormwater layers, implemented lead and copper compliance inventory for 7,000+ service lines, and trained staff on ArcGIS Field Maps.
Built the founding nonprofit team; manages budget, fundraising, grant proposals, systems administration, dashboards, governance operations, and public outreach.
Need Corban for a GIS, infrastructure, or research conversation?
Talk to Datum in the corner to leave a message, or grab the résumé for direct contact details.