Nathan Eide Email & Phone Number

Two Harbors, Mn

I administer, direct, supervise and monitor forestry department programs and activities. I also provide accountability regarding the department's fiscal management to Federal, State and County governments. Also, I manage the County Forestry Department staff.

During my five plus years working for the forestry department I have taken their GIS to a level that takes full advantage of the benefits GIS has to offer. A GIS that once consisted of scattered shapefiles now consists of topologically corrected geodatabases. I have also trained staff members in the use of ESRI products to a level that now requires little assistance. Staff have custom tools for common tasks that I have written using ArcObjects and Python scripting. The main part of my job has been the development and implementation of forest inventory and research projects. I wrote custom ArcPad data entry forms for PDA data collectors. Two of the projects, totaling 17,000 acres, were carried out by private contracts which I administered. I helped design and implement a research and inventory of the aspen covertype which looked at potential aspen conversion sights. The data gathered from the projects were entered into the geodatabases using custom scripts I created using Model Builder, Python and ArcObjects. All of the forest inventory and research projects have been successful meeting their objectives. I am frequently called upon to create maps, charts or tables for various projects which often require some sort of GIS analysis. Along with my GIS duties, I wrote and was awarded a grant for $125,000 to restore mixed hardwood/conifer forests.

After promotion as GIS technician, one of my roles was to lead the Wetland Status and Trends project. I completed a photo interpretation and then planned and implemented two week-long trips to field-verify the interpretations. I also planned and implemented an aerial photography boat survey of the upper Mississippi River. Along the being a project leader, I developed custom applications for both projects.

My duties as a student-worker included on-screen digitizing of wetlands for National Wetlands Inventory, performing quality control for other student-workers, and georectifying aerial photography.

As a teacher's aid, I performed various preparation tasks for daily labs and lectures. I also conducted a Buckthorn weed removal project.

After a three month field data collection project, I was promoted to field technician team leader. I supervised research technicians in the capturing and monitoring of white-tailed deer fawns. I also compiled the data collected to be used in the analysis of the project.

Masters Of Science, Geographic Information Science; Gis; Natural Resources

Graduate Project: Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Analyze Quality of Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)

Biology, Bible

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