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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Performing advanced GIS duties to support design, management, execution, and reporting for a variety of projects related to engineering, environmental protection, and storm water mitigation.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Providing GIS expertise to McElhanney's GIS Division as a practicum student while completing BCIT's GIS Advanced Diploma program. Primary focus is upon building an interactive digital twin of Simon Fraser University's campus at Burnaby Mountain. This entails preparing a variety of 3D data products before developing a web app of interrelated 3D.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Support McElhanney with mapping and spatial analysis in a variety of areas, including disaster preparedness, land development, environmental, and civil. Advance R&D to integrate novel remote sensing technologies into existing projects and provide field support to the Environmental Division.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Contributed fieldwork to monitoring wildlife communities, hydrology, and overall ecosystem health throughout British Columbia, particularly in watersheds that are being impacted by the construction and operation of hydroelectric dams and mines. Played central role in the field delivery of a wildlife population baseline study which included deployment and.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Rehired to continue supporting the processing and analysis of raw UAV-derived data, utilizing QGIS, Pix4D, and RStudio to provide forestry companies and researchers with high-resolution bird-eye orthomosaics and digital elevation models of their forests and lumberyards, as well as asset volume metrics.

Portland, Oregon

With PSU’s Global Environmental Change lab, I supported two projects which are working to illuminate the historical vegetative composition of forests in northeast Oregon and in the southernmost reaches of South America. My role consisted of processing, dating, and cross-dating tree cores and cross-sections, data entry and database management, and employing.

El Bolsón, Rio Negro, Argentina

While based in northern Patagonia, I assisted on a project under Dr. Mariano Amoroso studying the ecological impacts of cattle grazing on plant community composition throughout the local mountains. My duties included hiking to study sites to collect vegetative community data, processing leaf litter and soil samples, measuring tree core samples using.

Vancouver, Canada Area

As a GIS analyst, I processed and analyze drone-derived data to provide a variety of metrics and insights for clients in the forestry industry.

Duncan, BC

As an Assistant Field Forester, I provided logistical and field support to the Registered Professional Forester at a First Nations-owned forestry company which manages a Community Forest tenure on Vancouver Island. In the field, I spent the majority of my time marking out strategic boundaries for an ecological restoration project and performing.

Vancouver, Canada

Worked with the UBC Tree Ring Lab to process tree ring samples (cores and cross-sections) and date their establishment and history of wildfire disturbance.

Vancouver, Canada

Worked with the UBC Tree Ring Lab, collecting tree cores throughout Interior British Columbia and Southwest Alberta for use in mapping forest fire histories for improvement of ecological and cultural knowledge, ultimately informing forest management in Western Canada.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Developed a confident knowledge base about our primary merchandise: craft beer and fine wine. Worked hard to provide exemplary customer service while upholding a strict legal code.

Fairview-Fraser Residence

Volunteered four semesters between two UBC residence associations: Place Vanier and Fairview-Fraser). I served as sustainability representative on both associations, advocating environmentally-responsible actions when putting on events and took action to for improve recycling sorting-stations and dining hall waste disposal practices.

Cascade, Maryland

Worked in a team of four trained farmers at Camp Louis to educate and inspire campers aged five to seventeen, as well as fellow staff, about food, environmental, and social justice by guiding them in a three month farm-building project consisting of physical, creative, and thought-provoking activities.

Advanced Diploma (With Distinction), Geographic Information Science And Cartography

15-Credit Undergraduate Semester, Natural Resource Sciences

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Global Perspectives In Natural Resource Conservation (Honours + Co-Op)

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