Carla Johnson
Earthvisionz and Waterstone Engineering
Founder, CEO, Hydrogeologist
Carla Johnson is an entrepreneur who has over 25 years of experience in geospatial sciences, 3D virtual earth software development, environmental hydrogeology and engineering, numerical flow and transport modeling, and expert witness litigation. In 2009, she founded Earthvisionz, a location intelligence software company that creates location-aware consumer and enterprise applications in a variety of verticals including; property preservation, banking, insurance liability, telecommunications, transportation, sports, charitable giving, renewable energy, green living, world news, healthcare and more. Earthvisionz produced the first-ever LIVE-play mobile app for all PGA TOUR events and the virtual earth websites for the 2008 Beijing Summer and 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the ATP Barclay’s World Tour Finals, National Geographic, a Middle East peace negotiation summit, and the green living initiative for Fox News.
In 1994, she founded Waterstone Inc., a world recognized environmental consulting firm specializing in complex hydrogeologic flow and transport modeling, remediation of contaminated global groundwater systems, assessing human health and ecological risk associated with environmental damage, and environmental systems engineering. A leader in the application of 3D satellite and geospatial imaging, Carla’s company also created and deployed the first user-friendly NASA supported 3D virtual earth platform (before Google Earth) which was used during the Iraq War at 13 US Air Force bases. decision support and asset management software product that helps manage the business and technical aspects of environmental issues, asset management, operations and planning, Union Pacific Railroad, and other large organizations.
She has been seen on CNN and in documentary films as an expert in groundwater hydrology and water issues in the Southwest (Hopi and Navajo Tribal Lands), appeared on the cover of the LA Times Sunday Magazine concerning water issues in the southwest, and was interviewed in The Economist with Microsoft and Google for an article on the emerging geospatial ‘WHERE’ world. She was also nominated in the Lbx Journals “Top 10 Women in Location” globally. Ms. Johnson’s vision is to be able to connect people with their passion through place. She envisions using the power of live social interaction combined with beautiful visual realism of the earth, at any scale, and relevant crowd-sourced data through one virtual earth website interface. She believes a deeper connection with the earth can impact social and environmental issues, politics, science, and consumer behavior, through an entertaining, immersive, personal, and emotional web experience.