Mark Mclean Email & Phone Number

Longmont, CO, US

Longmont, Colorado, United States

After nearly a decade of development at Anchor Point, the National Hazard and Risk Model (No-HARM) has a new home at Precisely and is now known as Wildfire Risk!I continue to serve in the No-HARM development and stewardship process, now as Research and Development Product Owner.

Boulder, CO

• Manage all Geographic Information System (GIS)/cartographic operations and fire behavior modeling for pre-planning projects
• Carry out fire behavior modeling and analysis including assembly and modification of GIS files, summarize Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) data, generation of summary fuel moisture and climatology data and.
• Completed more than 80 Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) or related Wildfire Hazard/Risk Assessment Projects at the local, state and federal levels as part of a team
• Completed national wildfire hazard/risk layer (now in its second version) covering nearly the entire United Stateso Participated, from the inception, on the creative team that generated the conceptual aspects of the.
• Created novel technique for mapping the time until a wildfire arrives at a given location (regardless of fire start location) and automated the complex routine in Esri software (ModelBuilder)
• Provide guidance for internal Anchor Point policy on current science and best practices involving all aspects of wildfire hazard and risk assessment and mitigation

Online

• Assembled online course material for self-paced, correspondence lower-division physical geography course that included lab assignments
• Selected textbook and lab manual
• Updated course periodically including revisions based on changes in textbook and lab manual edition changes
• Graded all assignments and aided students in completion of course

• Managed all GIS and cartographic production
• Worked primarily as a sub-contractor to Anchor Point for GIS services and fire behavior modeling support
• Supported RedZone Software package by fielding client questions and setting up new software installs
• Assessed homes for wildfire hazard and worked as a field surveyor of wildland fuels

Gainesville, FL

• Generated cartographic products for faculty publications
• Maintained and administered computer lab facilities and faculty computers
• Acted as technical liaison between faculty and University computer personnel
• Taught course on digital cartography
• Advised the department on computer purchase strategy
• Acted as editor for the Florida Graphic Atlas

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Geography

Master Of Science (Ms), Geography

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Geography And Aquatic Biology