GIS Projects

Wildlife Corridor Reproduction Study

I completed the following project with a classmate in the Middlebury College course Open GIScience in Fall 2023. We attempted to reproduce a least cost surface from a QGIS model by instead using R. We used packages such as raster, stars, and tmap to create an analogous workflow to the QGIS model. I provided CRediT roles to reflect the balance of work between the contributors at the conclusion of the report linked below.

Access the published Open Science Framework page, created by instructor Dr. Joseph Holler to detail the project, at this link.

Access my version of the report for the project at this link.

Green Needham “Tap Map”

In Summer 2024, I created a web map showing the locations of water fountains and water bottle filling stations in Needham, Massachusetts for the community environmental organization Green Needham. This work involved taking coordinates in the field and inside public buildings and using the WordPress plugin WP Go Maps to construct the map.

Access the map at this link.

Ecological Restoration StoryMap

I created an ArcGIS StoryMap in 2023 as part of an internship with environmental consultant Betsy Taylor, formerly of Breakthrough Strategies and Solutions. An embedded map shows the locations of 19 successful case studies of ecological restoration. I identified and summarized the selected case studies with the advisory of Ms. Taylor, who herself wrote the introduction to the StoryMap. This document is named on Ms. Taylor’s website as representing her “Ecological Restoration Initiative”.

Access the project summary page, created by supervisor Betsy Taylor, at this link.

Access the StoryMap directly at this link.

Forested Habitat Block Report

This is a report I composed for the Middlebury College course Conservation Planning in Spring 2023. It involves adding to a forested habitat block model created by instructor Dr. Jeff Howarth to allow for natural communities, a classification system for habitat types administered by the state of Vermont, to be captured in the model. I used Google Earth Engine and WhiteboxTools to achieve the results.

Read below or view in a separate tab.

Flood Hazard Area Natural Habitat Report

In the following report for the Middlebury College course Conservation Planning, I write about a Google Earth Engine model which calculates the amount of natural habitat in the FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area in Middlebury, Vermont. The report concerns how small variations in model parameters, such as scale, can have impacts on the outputs.