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First, we would like to thank everyone at Esri Press for assisting us throughout the development and writing of this book. We would also like to acknowledge our friends and families—and especially our son Joshua—for their patience on those many days when the book took priority. Additionally, we want to acknowledge the many communities, research teams, and students with whom we have worked throughout our careers. All of those people, places, and experiences have directly informed our writing. Without the opportunity to develop our thinking about GIS in research with the valuable living laboratory of the classroom, we would never have had the opportunity to implement, improve, and bring these concepts together in a coherent fashion. Finally, GIS has played a major role in our personal lives. It was GIS that initially led to us meeting as new faculty members early in our careers and, ultimately, to marrying. We regularly refer to this phenomenon as “GIS Love,” and perhaps in sharing our own passion for GIS here, a little bit of “GIS Love” will come to our readers, too.