Previous Projects

Employer: Alaska Natural Heritage Program

Partners/Clients:
Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
US Fish and Wildlife Service

Project: AKOATS - Alaska Online Aquatic Temperature Site, created a statewide spatial metadata inventory and web mapping site for over 1600 stream and lake temperature monitors.

Links:
AKOATS - Project Website

Employer:
The Nature Conservancy

Partners/Clients:
US Fish & Wildlife and Mat-Su Salmon Partnership

Project: Used recent satellite imagery to map impervious surfaces across 4,000 sq. miles of Mat-Su

Employer:
The Nature Conservancy

Project:
Participant in 3 year effort to map salmon streams in Southwest Alaska: site selection, fisheries and water quality fieldwork, data management, and nomination of 100 miles to AK Anadromous Waters Catalog.

Document Links:
Bristol Bay Salmon Science

Employer:
US Army Alaska

Project: Primary GIS Analyst for multi-year Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Evaluated potential impacts of three primary sites to construct and operate a 10,000 acre live-fire training range. Analysis included: line of sight, noise, wildfire risks, wetlands, cultural resources, floodplain, recreation, and wildlife.

Employer:
The Nature Conservancy

Partner: Southwest Alaska Salmon Habitat Partnership

Project: Collaborated with Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game staff to file an instream flow reservation with the AK Dept. of Natural Resources. Helped to define reaches and contributing watershed.

Document Links: Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust

Employer:
The Nature Conservancy

Partners/Clients: Native Village of Wainwright,
US Environmental Protection Agency

Project: Through a series of nearly 20 maps documented traditional knowledge (TK) of important fish and wildlife species and habitats. Combined collections of previous studies (1970's, 80's, and 90's) with recent TK gathered via interviews and mapping sessions.

Employer:
The Nature Conservancy

Partners/Clients:
Mat-Su Salmon Partnership

Project: Worked with multiple agencies and a partnership science committee to identify salmon habitat data, catalog human impacts within the basin, and identify conservation opportunities, produced 22 maps.

Document Link: Mat-Su Salmon Partnership

Employer:
The Nature Conservancy

Partner: Nushagak-Mulchatna Watershed Council and five Villages in the basin.

Project: Distilled information from dozens of paper maps, written notes, and translations from Yup`ik field interviews conducted in the communities of Ekwok, New Stuyahok, Koliganek, Portage Creek, and Aleknagik. I created a comprehensive geospatial database of Traditional Use sites for freshwater fish, salmon, plants, waterfowl and land mammals.