User:Wildintellect

Graduate Student | Geography Graduate Group | University of California, Davis

• Member of the California Chapter

Conference Activities

Talks

• FOSS4G2007 : Community Mapping using Plone
• American Association of Geographers 2008 Conference in Boston, Apr 14-19th. - Open Source Course Development
• American Association of Geographers 2009 Las Vegas (Panel)
• California Geographical Society 2009 - Spatialite
• North American Cartographic Information Society - OSGeo Sampler (With CA Chapter members)
• California Geographical Society 2010 - OSGeo Live

Booths

• 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
• Where 2.0 2009
• OSCON 2009
• California Geographical Society 2009

Code/Application Experience

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

Projects & Committees

• QGIS
• OSGeo Live
• Marketing
• Systems Adminstration

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.
• Quantum GIS plugin for metadata editing [1]
• Cartography Course using Inkscape
• Teaching Assistant: Programming GIS with Python

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

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