Bristol Powell Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

• Improved data quality assurance workflows and led data management tasks for80+ satellite datasets• Tightened efficiency of six satellite data ingestion pipelines• Analyzed global land surface temperature and satellite rainfall estimatesused for food security and commodity trackers using Python geospatial packages• Authored, designed and delivered company-wide trainings for 150+ employeesand webinars on earth observation data and geospatial topics for 50+ customers

New York, Ny

• Designed drought insurance products for UN WFP projects in Ethiopia,Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe• Onboarded four new team members on field data collection and index insurance design methodology• Developed government-level financial literacy and drought and flood insurance capacity building training series for Vietnam and Bangladesh, with 35 participants in each cohort• Managed satellite remote sensing research for Financial Instruments team, coauthoring four peer-reviewed publications and a book chapter• Conducted analysis of vegetation indices and drought detection, spatial scaling in EVI and NDVI (GeoEye, Landsat ETM+, MODIS), cropped area and EVI (MODIS)-Designed and implemented field data collection for Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe including georeferencing point data, field photo collection, land use and land cover analysis, seasonal monitoring of satellite rainfall (ARC2, TAMSAT, CHIRPS) and vegetation indices (MODIS NDVI, MODIS EVI)

Greater New York City Area

Louisville, Ky

Assisted with proposal for NASA IDS-13 Remote Sensing for Agricultural Insurance project, $1.5m, 2014-2016Conducted research on GIS & remote sensing application of vegetation metrics, food security, and index insurance in northern EthiopiaCoordinated and implemented field work to support research in Tigray; GPS data, field photography, qualitative interviews with farmers and agricultural extension agents

Greenbelt, Md

Conducted GIS and spatial analysis of markets in FEWS NET PriceWatch databaseCoauthored manuscript submitted for publication to peer-reviewed journalAssisted in construction of new food price index database for analysis

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Spatial analysis of land use / land cover and landscape carbon balance related to mixedforest-crop-livestock systems in villages in Uttarakhand state in the Indian Himalayas

Ann Arbor, Mi

Processed Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for wetlands in Alberta, CanadaContributed to emissions calculations for a national EPA database and conducted research on active fire monitoringParticipated in research on fuel bed classification of agricultural landsPerformed intensive spatial analysis and data processing of moderate spatial resolution data (i.e. Landsat)

Louisville, Ky

Teaching and lab assistant for the Department of Geography & Geosciences and the University of Louisville

Compiled research on the overall geography and geology of Kentucky for a digital atlasEdited and contributed to pieces for publication on the CD and distributed to educational institutions throughout the state of Kentucky

Assisting with organizational development, community organizing, and the development of the Fresh Stop ProjectLiaison between local food producers and Fresh Stop coordinatorsProject leader for Healthy Eating Initiative project at Wesley HouseYes You Can! Grant training series; including Board Development training and Youth Outreach training

Master Of Science (Ms), Environmental Informatics, Graduate Certificate In African Studies

Activities and Societies: Student Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Research assistant at Currie Labs, Member.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Geography, Remote Sensing, Environmental Analysis

Activities and Societies: Muhammad Ali Scholars

Culinary Arts/Chef Training

Activities and Societies: Special Events Club, Co-Founder of Slow Food Club