Professor · AI strategist · Researcher · Builder
Ph.D. · MS · MA · NRP · PG-Cert — New Orleans
I work where technology has consequences — building AI strategy, teaching across emergency management, and reading terrain from coastlines to Classic Maya earthworks.
Profile
Dr. Blaine Fisher works where technology meets people who have to live with the result. His record spans enterprise AI adoption, instructional technology, emergency management, geospatial science, consulting, and teaching — held together by one thread: helping people use new tools without losing sight of ethics, context, or judgment.
At Tulane University he is Senior Instructional Technology Manager in the Innovative Learning Center, leading AI strategy, Canvas administration, and faculty development for a 13,000-student institution. He founded WAVE, Tulane's AI Visionaries and Educators Network, and runs the W.A.V.E. workshop series and Preflight Bootcamp.
His faculty work crosses Tulane's School of Professional Advancement and School of Science and Engineering — information technology, emergency management, GIS, and remote sensing. His research moves into the field: the Birdsfoot Delta through MissDelta, and Classic Maya defensive landscapes at Dos Aguadas, Guatemala.
He is the author of The AI Human: Navigating a Transformed World, Pracademics Editor at Homeland Security Today, and founder of Sparkfish Consulting. Before all of it, he was a paramedic in the New Orleans region — and it still shows. He teaches like someone who has watched plans meet weather, pressure, and time.
Expertise
Nine disciplines, one operator. Choose a facet — the brief on the right updates.
AI Strategy & Adoption
Enterprise AI strategy, curriculum, and faculty capability — from Tulane's WAVE network and AI bootcamps to executive advisory through Sparkfish Consulting. The work is equal parts tooling and judgment: prompting, evaluation, governance, and ethics.
Educational Technology
Senior Instructional Technology Manager at Tulane since 2012 — Canvas administration across academic units, three generations of training platforms, and a classroom support program that trained 100+ student workers.
Emergency Management
Professor of Emergency Management and Pracademics Editor at Homeland Security Today, connecting peer-reviewed research to operational practice — health and medical issues, training and exercises, disaster planning.
Technology Ethics
Ethics threaded through every course and engagement — most directly in The Ethics of Technology Through Science Fiction, which uses speculative fiction to examine design, accountability, and human agency.
GIS & Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing & Geospatial Scientist with MissDelta, a $22M National Academies consortium on the Birdsfoot Delta — LiDAR, multispectral, thermal, and photogrammetric methods across 14 institutions.
Archaeology
Ph.D. in Geography and Anthropology from LSU. Dissertation: defensive earthworks at Dos Aguadas, Guatemala — strategic fortifications analyzed through LiDAR, GIS, and spatial modeling.
Paramedic (NRP)
Nationally Registered Paramedic and a former first responder in the New Orleans region. The instinct for decisions under pressure, scarcity, and time runs underneath everything that came after.
Futurist
A clear, non-hype read on how AI reshapes work, learning, governance, and agency — delivered to executives, universities, and a 2,000-plus audience at the Federal Reserve.
Author & Editor
Author of The AI Human: Navigating a Transformed World (2025) and Pracademics Editor at Homeland Security Today, plus essays on AI, agency, and terrain.
Selected work
Founded WAVE, Tulane's AI Visionaries & Educators Network, and built the bootcamps and biweekly workshops that have trained 2,000-plus faculty and staff — alongside enterprise Canvas administration and three generations of training platforms.
A $22M National Academies initiative on the Birdsfoot Delta, and a doctoral study of Classic Maya defensive earthworks in Guatemala — both built on LiDAR, GIS, multispectral and thermal imaging, and photogrammetry.
As Pracademics Editor at Homeland Security Today, connecting peer-reviewed scholarship with the people who run real operations.
AI in Modern Society, Applied AI, UI/UX, Enterprise Applications, the Ethics of Technology through Science Fiction, GIS, and Health & Medical Issues in Emergency Management.
Ventures & featured
Navigating a Transformed World
A practical guide to AI adoption as a shift from execution to stewardship — agency, ethics, and critical thinking for people who have to make the tools work.
About the bookAI can write the paper — can the student explain it? An AI oral-defense platform that verifies real understanding through live, source-aware questioning and recorded sessions, with auditable evidence trails for instructors.
Visit RocketProofA Canvas-first course builder: turn a topic, syllabus, or notes into a fully editable Canvas course — modules, pages, assignments, quizzes, rubrics, and gradebook — then export a Canvas-ready .imscc package.
An independent practice serving executive, university, and international clients on AI adoption, curriculum design, and enterprise technology strategy.
Explore consultingTulane's AI Visionaries & Educators Network — connecting faculty and staff around real, responsible AI integration.
How it startedSpeaking & consulting
From a 2,000-plus audience at the Federal Reserve to faculty workshops and executive advisory rooms, Dr. Fisher translates AI, emergency management, and geospatial work into language a room can act on.
Curriculum vitae
A modern read of the long version. Download the full CV (PDF).
Tulane University · Innovative Learning Center
Tulane School of Professional Advancement
MissDelta · National Academies initiative
Homeland Security Today
Sparkfish Consulting, LLC
Louisiana State University — LiDAR & GIS analysis of Maya earthworks
Tulane University
Tulane — anthropology & emergency management
University of New Orleans
National EMS Academy
Writing & press
A field guide for living and working alongside AI — agency, ethics, and stewardship over hype.
Read moreSelected essays on AI adoption, attention, and the places where technology meets landscape.
Peer-reviewed space connecting scholarship with frontline homeland security practice.
Author pageCommentary on AI, cybersecurity, and disaster response across regional and national media.
Press archiveContact
Speaking, consulting, teaching, press, or research collaboration — tell me what you're working on and how I can help.