Evan B. Email & Phone Number

Fairfax, Virginia, Us

Dewberry's Resilience Solutions (RS) branch mission is to 'Deliver integrated multi-disciplinary solutions that will enable our clients to enhance their resilience to climate change and other dynamic threats, making our communities better places to live'. The GIS team supports the activities of the RS branch by providing outstanding geospatial services, innovative mapping solutions, analytical data driven solutions, and professional support to our clients to enable them to achieve their goals. We strive to build enduring professional client relationships to effectively provide the value, capacity, technology, and innovation that our customers expect. We support FEMA, FEMA CTPs, USFWS, local communities, and other agencies that enable communities enhance their resilience to climate change and other threats. Responsibilities include:- Assisting in hydrologic and hydraulic analyses, modeling, and floodplain mapping to produce FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMS) and related geospatial databases- Developing flood risk products and performing flood risk assessments- Performing analysis on GIS datasets for flood hazard mapping and risk projects- Verifying technical accuracy of FIRM deliverables and associated reports- Creation of non-standard maps, graphics, exhibits, and other visualizations from project outputs to support FEMA HQ and other non-FIRM projects- Creation of custom tools and scripts using Python with both ArcPy and GeoPandas for workflow automation and data analysis- Preparing and maintaining internal and external project documentation and reports- Coordinating with the project team, associated personnel and project stakeholders to produce the most up-to-date productIn this position I have worked closely with:- FEMA's Mapping Information Platform (MIP)- FEMA's Guidance and Standards for Flood Risk Analysis and Mapping- FEMA Benefit-Cost Analysis methodology- FEMA MT-1 & MT-2 Letters of Map Control- FEMA Summary of Map Actions (SOMAs)

Longwood's archaeology department was contracted in 2017 to analyze shoreline movement and coastal vulnerability using the AMBUR package from R-Forge. In this context, AMBUR accepts polyline inputs which represent digitized coastlines from different time periods; 1937, 1994, and 2013; and then returns predictive values for future recession and aggregation of coastal land area. The department's analysis was used by the client to prioritize excavation sites which were more likely to be impacted by coastal movement. Personal responsibilities on this project: use of ArcMap to digitize the scoped 750 miles of coastline relative to the 2013 aerial survey, produce high resolution line data, and have line data passing QC within the contract's tight deadline. This work was completed during Fall of my senior year to Longwood.

Longwood Environmental Observatory (LEO) project. The LEO network is a solar-powered passive wireless sampling system with weather and freshwater monitoring stations. The LEO uses long-range Yagi Wi-Fi antennae on arrays and supplementary relays to transmit data to a router, which transfers the information back to a server at Longwood server via cell tower. Sensors used on LEO arrays included those from from Campbell Scientific, Yellow Springs Instruments (YSI), and Fisher Scientific. These stations were implemented using Arduinos, and are based on source software. Responsibilities included the creation and maintenance of a natural science sensor array, resulting in experience with the use of remote sensing hardware, sensor calibration, hardware troubleshooting, and best practices for continuous / big data.

Fairfax, Virginia, Us

Summer internship with Dewberry. Responsibilities included equipment upkeep and providing assistance to the crew chief in daily tasks (i.e. cutting line, running reflector rods, flagging clearing limits, etc.). I used this opportunity to learn about surveying field equipment / data collection procedures and the flow of information in civil engineering.