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Victoria, Canada

Spatial modelling and analysis

Victoria, British Columbia

Developed modular scripts for simulating climate-sensitive vegetation growth and mortality, forest fires, carbon, and other ecological processes

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Worked on DEM development of Fraser River reach from the Pacific to Hope using LiDAR, multi-beam and single-beam bathymetry- Produced cartographic figures for various projects including dam breach simulations and flood risk assessments- Wrote python script for assessing culverts at risk of inundation in flood simulations

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Supervised geospatial analysis for collaboration with CIFOR partners exploring nutritional and socioeconomic outcomes of forest change on residents of 7 global sites
• Wrote R script for cleaning and statistical analysis of database exceeding 2100 survey respondents and 400 variables conducted across seven countries
• Developed multi-temporal land cover products using RapidEye and Landsat imagery
• Oversaw and ensured quality assurance, speed, and consistency of cross-border (US/Canada) land use change project using aerial photography with Environment Canada and US partners
• Designed and implemented physical science component of multidisciplinary research on pasture degradation in Kyrgyzstan, supervising fieldwork of scientists from University of Central Asia

• Taught introductory GIS and spatial statistics to UBC undergraduate and graduate students
• Designed course material and taught introductory GIS skills to scientists from University of British Columbia, University of Cambridge, Australian National University, and the Wildlife Institute of India at workshops.
• Taught advanced network modelling lesson to colleagues at spatial statistics seminar
• Created course material and evaluation framework for intensive six-credit capstone course implemented at multiple Canadian universities

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Developed spatial models of marine ecosystem services using InVEST
• Instrumental in designing approaches to measure cumulative human impacts to marine and coastal ecosystem services
• Results led to manuscript submitted to Journal of Global Environmental Change

• Modeled landscape sustainability using Life Cycle Assessment and GIS
• Prepared suite of global case studies in landscape resilience and sustainability by modelling land cover change using Landsat imagery in ENVI
• Designed a case study in carbon accounting and consumer choice focused on coffee that has been adopted by other universities

• Collected soil and seedling field samples from Ministry of Forest Assisted Migration and Adaptation field sites in northern BC
• Managed tree and soil measurements and fungicide application of 1000 greenhouse seedlings
• Performed PCR and other laboratory procedures on seedling root mycorrhizae

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Landscape Ecology, Honours

Land degradation in Central Asia: identifying dynamics of pasture resources in heterogeneous landscapes using remote sensing

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Natural Resources Conservation And Research