Catie M. Email & Phone Number

Merced, CA, US

Merced, California

As part of Point Blue's working lands initiative, I serve as a partner biologist for Point Blue and NRCS. I help farmers and ranchers access funding from the Farm Bill to implement conservation practices as well as provide technical assistance. Additionally, as a Point Blue biologist, I will provide monitoring for wetland easements and The Rangeland.

Frisco, Texas

San Francisco Bay Area

• Set up systems from scratch to ensure success throughout the customer journey (onboarding, support, renewals) and increasing lifetime value. Clear and empathetic communicator assisting ranchers adopt to an unfamiliar.
• Provided onsite training for top customers. Retained our most important account at risk of leaving for a competitor.
• Oversaw a 45% increase in customers. Halved the response time & reduced ticket closure time by 75%.

Carmel, California

• Collected and processed data for ongoing monitoring projects (vegetation surveys, pond sampling, camera traps, soil sampling, bird surveys). Operated drones and Trimble. Worked with three endangered species (Smith's.
• Used GIS to created an ArcCollector app for roadkill data and made a puma story map using camera trap incidences.

Stanford, California

GIS support to students and faculty, helped maintain workstation computer lab, and helped administer GIS workshops. In addition to the regular duties mentioned above, I also worked on long-term projects, such as creating maps to correspond with a professor's book of ancient cities.

Pescadero, CA

As an intern I was a jack of all trade: working with the land & livestock team with their adaptive grazing program, assisting Point Blue Conservation with their rangeland monitoring network data collection, and selling grassfed beef at farmers markets with Left Coast Grassfed. Created a video to showcase the mission of TomKat.

Stanford, CA

Working in collaboration with Ennead Architects and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to develop a mapping tool to optimize site locations for refugee camps

Otjiwarongo, Namibia

Assisted with daily activities and worked on several GIS projects related to cheetah home ranges. Organized lecture by founder, Dr. Laurie Marker; over 50 people in attendance. Created a picture book called "Race for a Survival" to spread awareness of CCF's work.

Stanford, CA

Master'S Degree, Earth Systems

Self-designed master's program focused on skills and analytics for the social sector. Continued my undergraduate focus on the intersection.

B.S. Earth Systems, Land Systems

Activities and Societies: Los Salseros de Stanford Stanford Equestrian Team Jasper Ridge Docent Stanford Muay Thai (Thai Kickboxing) SEEDS.