Andy Atallah

Graduate Student in Geographic Information Science and Technology

This page lists select software and programming languages with which I have become familiar and the courses and/or positions in which I have used them. “UMass” refers to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and “Middlebury” refers to Middlebury College.

Adobe Illustrator

Courses:
-Cartography (Middlebury, Spring 2024)

ArcGIS Online

Courses:

  • WebGIS (UMass, Spring 2025)
  • Spatial Databases and Data Interoperability (UMass, Fall 2024)
  • Community-Engaged Practicum (Middlebury, Spring 2024) – The senior capstone course for the Environmental Studies program.
  • Conservation Biology (Middlebury, Spring 2022)
  • Population Geography (Middlebury, Spring 2021)

Positions:

  • Graduate Research Assistant at UMass Amherst for State Geologist Brian Yellen (January 2025–present)
  • Watershed Restoration Intern at Charles River Watershed Association (Summer 2024)
  • Data Communication Intern at Charles River Watershed Association (Summer 2023)
  • Ecological Restoration Intern at Breakthrough Strategies and Solutions (March–July 2023)

ArcGIS Pro

Courses:

  • Python for ArcGIS (UMass, Spring 2025)
  • GIS and Spatial Analysis (UMass, Spring 2025)
  • Introduction to GIS (UMass, Fall 2024)

Positions:

  • Graduate Research Assistant at UMass Amherst for State Geologist Brian Yellen (January 2025–present)
  • Watershed Restoration Intern at Charles River Watershed Association (Summer 2024)

ENVI

Courses:

  • Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation (UMass, Fall 2024)

FME

Courses:

  • Spatial Databases and Data Interoperability (UMass, Fall 2024)

Google Earth Engine

Courses:

  • Conservation Planning (Middlebury, Spring 2023)
  • Mapping Global Environmental Change (Middlebury, Fall 2022)

PostGIS

Courses:

  • Spatial Databases and Data Interoperability (UMass, Fall 2024)

Python

Courses:

  • Python for ArcGIS (UMass, Spring 2025)

QGIS

Courses:

  • Cartography (Middlebury, Spring 2024)
  • Human Geography with GIS (Middlebury, Spring 2024)
  • Open GIScience (Middlebury, Fall 2023)

R

Courses:

  • Spatial Data Analysis in R (UMass, Spring 2025)
  • Human Geography with GIS (Middlebury, Spring 2024)
  • Open GIScience (Middlebury, Fall 2023)
  • Statistical Learning (Middlebury, Fall 2023)
  • Introduction to Data Science (Middlebury, Spring 2023)
  • Biostatistics (Middlebury, Spring 2023)
  • Reproducible Biology in R (Middlebury, Winter 2023)