User:Wildintellect

Graduate Student | | Geography Graduate Group | | University of California, Davis
 * Member of the California Chapter

Conference Activities

 * Spoke at FOSS4G2007 : Community Mapping using Plone
 * Spoke at the American Association of Geographers 2008 Conference in Boston, Apr 14-19th.
 * Tabled for OSGeo at the California Geographical Society 2008 Conference in Chico, May 2-4th.
 * Tabling and Organizing Session at the American Association of Geographers 2009 Conference in Las Vegas

Code/Application Experience

 * Python, VBA/VB, html, css, js
 * Plone, Trac, Apache
 * QGIS, GRASS, GDAL, OpenLayers
 * SQLite, Postgis, MySql
 * Inkscpae, GIMP, Scribus

School Activities

 * Organized a course to evaluate new QGIS tutorials at UCD written by a Professor who teaches intro GIS.
 * Organized a directed group study of graduate students to solve a geographical problem using programming and open source software.

Degrees

 * Bachelor of Science: Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology with minors in Landscape Restoration and GIS
 * Current Thesis/Dissertation - Framework for spatial model testing using GPS telemetry data of species movements.
 * Future Research - Community Mapping Tools

Relevant Memberships

 * | Linux Users Group of Davis
 * | GLOBAL: Geography Club