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<h3>—A—</h3>
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<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Juliann Anesi</a></b>: Juliann Anesi is an Assistant Professor of
Gender Studies at the University of California - Los Angeles. Her
research
interests include disability and indigeneity, educational policies,
and decolonial feminisms. As a community educator and activist, she
has also
worked with non-profit organizations and schools in American Sāmoa,
California, Hawai ́i, New York, and Sāmoa.</li>
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<h3>—B—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Carlos Barahona</b>: Carlos Barahona - I am a Data Scientist &
Systems Architect for the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science
&
Policy. I have worked in IT in everything from desktop support to
application developer, and now support UC Davis supporting all things
ArcGIS</li>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Nicolas Barth</a></b>: Nicolas Barth is an Assistant Professor of
Geology at the University of California, Riverside. He specializes
in utilizing high-resolution topographic data (lidar,
structure-from-motion photogrammetry) to answer natural hazard
problems
related to faults and landslides, and more broadly to understand
landscapes.</li>
<li><b>Heidi Batchelor</b>: Heidi Batchelor earned an MA in Geography
from San Diego State University and specializes in Geographic
Information Systems for the marine environment. Heidi teaches classes
in GIS at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
(SIO) and through UCSD Extension. She is an experienced data analyst
having worked with a wide variety of oceanographic
data including side scan sonar, sub bottom profilers, vessel and
AUV-based multibeam, and acoustic arrays. At SIO
she manages data repositories and databases for marine data, prepares
data for 3D visualization and VR, and assists with
many aspects of oceanographic research both in the lab and in the
field.</li>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Karen Beardsley</a></b>: Karen received her Ph.D. in Geography from
the University of California, Davis, and before that, a Masters
in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She
worked for over 20 years as a researcher and GIS project manager for
the
Information Center for the Environment at UC Davis. Since 2014 she has
served as Director of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship
Program at UC Davis, and for four years has been the Director of
Global Professional Programs for UC Davis Global Affairs. She was a
Fulbright scholar, teaching GIS in Bhutan (2015‐2016), and a US Peace
Corps Volunteer in Kenya in the late 1980’s, where she taught
math and science in a rural secondary school. Her GIS career began
shortly after her Peace Corps service, also in Kenya, working for
the United Nations Environment Programme on elephant conservation. In
addition to her position with Global Affairs, Karen continues to
teach GIS for UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education and for
UC Davis. She taught Introduction to GIS as a summer abroad course
in 2018 and 2019 in Bhutan, and taught a virtual summer GIS class for
UC Davis in 2020.</li>
<li><b>Maylei Blackwell</b>: Coming Soon!</li>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Katherine Brenner</a></b>: Katherine Brenner is a UCLA undergraduate
student majoring in environmental sciences and minoring in
public health. She has been working in the Fielding School of Public
Health Environmental Health Sciences Department as a
student researcher. She is currently working on 2 projects- one in the
Marlier Lab mapping 2018 California Wildfire PM2.5
emissions as well as on a Natural & Working Lands scenario-based tool
for the California Air Resource Board (CARB), focusing
on greenspaces and health. She has a passion for protecting
marginalized communities against unequal burden of diseases and
plans to pursue an MPH after undergrad.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—C—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Kian Tyler Carson</b>: Kian Tyler Carson I am a third-year
student at UCLA majoring in Economics with minors in Geospatial
Information
Systems and Technologies as well as Geography. I plan to graduate this
spring and pursue either an MA in Applied Economics or an MS
in Geospatial Sciences or Remote Sensing. I am a Washington native,
born in Seattle.</li>
<li><b>Jamie Chan</b>: Jamie Chan is the Management Services Officer at
the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. She oversees the Center’s
administration, budget, payroll/personnel, events, and special
projects. Chan graduated from UCLA in 2010 and received a BA in
political
science. In her free time, she enjoys binge-watching shows on Netflix
and playing video games. Her role in the Hate Crime Map project was
overseeing the student workers who researched and collected reports of
hate crimes to add to the dataset.</li>
<li><b>Heather Noel-Chien Chou</b>: Heather Chou is a second-year UCLA
undergraduate majoring in Geography and minoring in Geographic
Information Systems and Technology (GIS&T) with a potential minor in
Public Health. She is also UCLA's 2020-21 Geography
Association GIS Representative. She is beginning her journey in
learning GIS through courses and self-learning, and has a
strong interest in combining Healthcare and Public Health disciplines
with GIS technology. Heather is also a database research
committee member and client navigator for UCLA's Asian Pacific
American HEALTH Care organization where she performs health
screenings for underserved Asian and Pacific Islander communities
throughout San Gabriel Valley, California at health fairs
and conducts research with other organization members. She is also a
new member of UCLA's PILOT (Public-Health Initiative:
Leaders of Tomorrow) Pre-Professional Public Health organization, as
well as a Clinical Care Extender Volunteer for UCLA's
Ronald Reagan Hospital. She is beyond excited to learn more GIS and
apply its amazing capabilities to real-world issues in hopes to
benefit and improve the well-being and quality of people's lives.</li>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Claire Chua</a></b>: Claire, who graduated from UCLA Class of 2020
with a B.A. Psychology was inspired by her frequent travels to take up
GIS courses in her sophomore year. Her favorite part about GIS is
cartography and making pretty maps. GIS exposed her to the world
of data analysis and motivated her to pursue the Master of Social
Science that she is currently working towards at UCLA. Pre-covid,
you'd be more likely to find Claire at LAX than in the library, but
these days she enjoys staying home and drinking a lot of coffee.</li>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Sachi R Cooper</a></b>: Sachi Cooper is a third-year Geography
student at UCLA. She serves as the USAC Facilities Commissioner,
representing
students with disabilities at the student government level.</li>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>—D—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Cam Denney</b>: Cam received a Master's in Geography from UC
Davis in 2018. He currently works as a researcher for the Alameda
County
Community Food Bank. Cam uses GIS to understand the complex issue of
food insecurity, and how food banks can better distribute food and
advocate
for policies to reduce food insecurity. He also teaches QGIS courses
in the evenings through BayGeo. Cam previously worked for Kaart @
Facebook,
curating the data that goes into maps on Facebook. While at UC Davis,
Cam's thesis was under the Institute for Transportation Studies where
he
created automated GIS tools to analyze wildlife-vehicle conflict.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—E—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Ethan Ebinger</a></b>: Ethan is a graduate student at UC Berkeley
pursuing a Master in City Planning and a Master of Science in
Transportation Engineering. He is interested in how GIS and data
science can be used to improve transportation access and equity.
Ethan currently works as a graduate student researcher at the Terner
Center for Housing Innovation and in his spare time enjoys
making wheel-thrown pottery. https://ethanebinger.com/.</li>
<li><b>Ahmed Eldawy</b>: Ahmed Eldawy is an Assistant Professor in
Computer Science at the University of California Riverside. His
research
interests lie in the broad area of databases with a focus on big data
management and spatial data processing. Ahmed is the main inventor
of SpatialHadoop, for big spatial data processing, and UCR-Star, an
interactive repository of big spatial data. Ahmed has many
collaborators in industrial research labs including Microsoft Research
and IBM Watson. His work is supported by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).</li>
<li><b>Emily Esposito</b>: Emily Esposito is a graduate student studying
psychology at UC Riverside. As a part of the Riverside Social and
Spatial
Cognition Lab, she studies how the qualities and characteristics of
places interact with individual-level characteristics, such as
attitudes
or identity, to predict different behaviors. Her research interests
are beginning to look at how people perceive places, and how social
environments and physical places may differentially shape people's
attitudes, experiences, and actions.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—G—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Max Andrew Gardner</b>: Max is a Ph.D. Candidate in Civil Systems
Engineering interested in econometric modeling of intra-urban
migration patterns.</li>
<li><b>Anusha Goyal</b>: Anusha Goyal I am a 4th-year student at UCLA,
majoring in Geography and International Development Studies with a
minor in Geospatial
Information Systems and Technologies. I'm an international student,
from Dubai, who is looking to enter the geospatial data solutions
market after graduating.</li>
<li><b>Burke Greer</b>: Burke Greer has been mapping and analyzing
geographic data for over 15 years and holds an MA from UC Santa
Barbara’s Department of Geography
and a PhD from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University. As
a geographer and scientist he has deep expertise in gathering and
turning real-world data into
information and products ready for mapping and spatial analysis.
Burke’s experience working in agriculture, natural hazard planning,
military facilities planning,
and research science means that he knows how to leverage geographic
data into real insights to help customers. Burke acts as a bridge
between cutting edge GIScience
and real-world implementation. He is currently the Geospatial Lead at
Geosite, a startup in Palo Alto, California where he is working to
help make geodata more
accessible to end users.</li>
<li><b>Joy Guey</b>: Joy Guey is establishing an innovation studio at
Social Sciences Center for Education, Research, and Technology and
works as an Emerging Tech
Advocate at UCLA.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—H—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Alyssa Hemler</b>: Alyssa Hemler is the Project Director of UCLA
Undergraduate Student Association Council Facilities Commission's
Access on Board. Our work
centers around fighting for the rights of students with disabilities
on institutional, cultural, and infrastructural levels. Project
MetaMap is an integral part of
USAC FAC's work in making UCLA a more accessible and equitable place.
</li>
<li><b>Cassie Hoeprich</b>: Cassie Hoeprich, cityLAB UHI Fellow Cassie
is an urban planner and community development specialist.
Building off of her experience at the City of San Francisco where she
worked on public realm and economic development
strategies, she is currently pursuing a Masters in Urban and Regional
Planning at UCLA. While at UCLA, Cassie's research
focuses on public-private partnerships and government policies that
advance spatial justice and undo racialized patterns of
land dispossession within vulnerable communities. Cassie works for the
Hollywood Partnership, a business improvement district, as
their Research Manager and is a cityLAB Urban Humanities Initiative
Fellow for the 2020-21 school year.</li>
<li><b>Ryan Horne</b>: Ryan is UCLA's Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library
Data/Metadata Coordinator. He came to UCLA from the University of
Pittsburgh where he served as Research Associate in the World History
Center. There, his work focused on developing open data standards
to describe and model historical artifacts, geography, and events in
order to visualize and inform our understanding of the social,
political, and economic networks. Prior to this position, Ryan served
as Director of the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC-Chapel Hill
and he currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Pleiades
gazetteer of ancient places, an authoritative source for data on over
35,000
ancient locations in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Ryan received his Ph.D.
in Ancient History from UNC-Chapel Hill.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—I—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Pushkar Inamdar</b>: Dr. Pushkar Inamdar is a Data Scientist in the
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF). His Ph.D. is in the field of Earth
and Atmospheric Sciences. His previous research experience is in the
Geospatial Sciences, including an application of geostatistics in understanding
temporal-spatial patterns. Since, joining UCSF, he has gained experience in
characterizing neighborhood attributes for epidemiologic studies, including
cohort and electronic health records studies as well as conducting geospatial
analyses (e.g., spatial autocorrelation, proximity analysis, kriging, geocoding,
remote sensing image analysis). He is applying more advanced concepts like deep
learning to perform remote sensing data analysis for the neighborhood characterization,
and application of machine learning on geospatial datasets to understand underlying
patterns of health risk factors and outcomes.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—J—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Jamie Jamison</b>: Jamie Jamison is a collection manager in the
UCLA Library Data Science Center. She recently completed the UCLA
Extension GIS and Geospatial Technology Certificate Program.</li>
<li><b>Marta Jankowska</b>: Dr. Jankowska is an assistant research
scientist and Geographic information system (GIS) specialist at the
Qualcomm
Institute, University of California San Diego. Her expertise is in
spatial analytics including GIS, GPS, and spatial statistics as
applied to
health-related problems.</li>
<li><b>Alicia Jensen</b>:Alicia Jensen is a seasoned environmental
professional with an environmental policy degree from UC Davis (during
which she first encountered GIS as a student intern and unofficially
double majored in whitewater rafting), a Master’s Degree in Geography
from San Diego State (where she became interested in the wildland
urban interface), and 20 years of experience in land use planning,
CEQA,
and Phase 1 site analyses - mostly in support of project approvals at
UC’s Office of the President. While in UCOP’s capital programs office,
Alicia
distinguished herself as co-chair of the 10-campus committee that
formulated UC’s first sustainable water practices policy. In UCOP’s
Risk
Services office, Alicia has applied her land use planning background
to UC systemwide emergency management for natural and human-caused
disasters, a
combination that is especially pertinent to the threat of wildfires.
Most recently Alicia has taken an interest helping realize the
possibilities of
a systemwide GIS tool for emergency management by teaming with
colleagues from across the system.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—K—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Albert Kochaphum</b>: Albert Kochaphum works for the Institute
for Digital Research and Education and serves as the campus GIS
coordinator for
UCLA.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—L—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Rayne Laborde</a></b>: Rayne Laborde, cityLAB Research Fellow Trained
as an architect and urban planner, Rayne's interdisciplinary work
links design, planning, and collective memory to produce interventions
focused on spatial justice. Her current research includes
re-thinking the role of Los Angeles Parks to serve the immediate needs
of unhoused residents; tracing the spatial network of migrant
labor in the greenhouses of Almería, Spain; and analyzing inequity in
unincorporated LA County. In addition to her work with cityLAB,
Rayne is a Levine Distinguished Fellow at the Ziman Center for Real
Estate.</li>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Chris Lam</a></b>: Chris Lam is a fourth-year undergraduate studying
computer science. His experience with programming began prior to
entering
UCLA, but he became involved with the Hate Crime Map project and
mapping roughly two years ago. As a side task for his job in Social
Sciences
Computing, Lam picked up the Hate Crime Map where another student
worker—now an alumnus—left off, developing it simultaneously with his
skill set.
He notes that this project was a learning experience and an eye-opener
to data mapping in general, and is delighted to feel more equipped to
tackle
projects like this now.</li>
<li><b><a href="[email protected]">Dan LaSusa</a></b>: Coming soon!</li>
<li><b>Carolanne Link</b>: Coming soon!</li>
</ul>
<h3>—M—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Sierra Mabanta</b>: I became involved in the geospatial community
after I transferred to UC Davis. I pursued my minor in GIS and started
routinely attending #maptimeDavis workshops each week. I was lucky
enough to become an intern in Robert Hijman’s Lab and gained knowledge
about different types of open source GIS platforms as well as unmanned
aerial systems. I spent year at the lab, gaining valuable experience
processing aerial imagery, and using OpenStreetMap for humanitarian
efforts. I also got my Part 107 pilot’s license to fly drones used for
one of the long-term projects. I began applying to jobs at the state
shortly before I graduated and became a Scientific Aide at the
Department
of Water Resources (DWR). I assisted the GIS Analyst and helped with
the new Drone Program. I have since become an Environmental Scientist
and
still utilize my mapping skills often, attending DWR’s Open Source GIS
meetings, and staying involved in the Enterprise GIS Committee.</li>
<li><b>Hoda S. Abdel Magid</b>: Hoda Abdel Magid, PhD, MHS is a
postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Lorene Nelson and Dr.
Michelle Odden
in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health and the Center
for Population Health Sciences at Stanford University. She is also a
fellow in the Big Data-Scientist Training Enhancement Program
(BD-STEP) at the Palo Alto VA. Her graduate career research promoted
the
understanding of new and emerging tobacco products use among
adolescents and young adults. She received her Masters of Health
Science in
Environmental Epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health in 2015 and her Doctorate in Epidemiology from the
University of California, Berkeley in 2018 with a focus in Social
Epidemiology. Dr. Abdel Magid’s current research builds upon her
previous
training to further understand chronic disease risk behaviors and
leverages spatial epidemiology to examine health disparities among
socially-
marginalized communities.</li>
<li><b>Joseph Mascaro</b>: As Director of Academic Programs, at Planet,
a San Francisco-based aerospace company that operates the largest
fleet of
Earth-imaging satellites, Joe created Planet’s Education and Research
Program, and managed science, environmental, and humanitarian
engagement,
building Planet’s efforts to improve forest monitoring and
conservation, track glacier retreat and cryosphere change, enhance
food security, and
promote ecological resilience for some of the world’s most vulnerable
communities.</li>
<li><b>Andre Mere</b>: I am a graduate student in the Earth and
Planetary Sciences department of UC Riverside working with Dr. Nicolas
Barth. I utilize
a combination of field, digital, and laboratory research methods to
study active tectonic processes operating proximal to Alpine Fault in
the
South Island of New Zealand.</li>
<li><b>Martha Morrissey</b>: Martha is a machine learning engineer at
Development Seed. She brings expertise around applying ML models to
solve urban
challenges and is expanding our modeling capabilities for detecting
urban infrastructure like uncommon building types and energy grids
faster and more
efficiently. Martha is passionate about bringing open geospatial data
to academics and innovators as a basis for addressing large-scale
global issues.
She previously worked at Maxar Technologies (formerly DigitalGlobe).
Martha has a M.A. and B.A. in Geography from the University of
Colorado, Boulder
and the University of California, Berkeley. Her graduate research
involved modeling bike commuting at high spatial and temporal
resolutions in urban
areas using a variety of data sources including crowdsourced cycling
data and OSM data.</li>
<li><b>Erin Mutch</b>: Erin Mutch is the founding Spatial Analysis and
Research Center (SpARC) Director, of UC Merced’s interdisciplinary
cross-campus
research center supporting faculty, graduate, undergraduate and staff
in geospatial training, geospatial implementation and research
services. Before
coming to UC Merced, Ms. Mutch worked in private GIS consulting for 15
years and has a Masters of GIS from Pennsylvania State University. Ms.
Mutch has
experience with GPS data collection and training since 1997. She has
worked on projects with the US Army, small municipalities and water
districts, mining
companies and her first GPS/GIS project was mapping golf courses for a
personal autonomous robotic golf caddy. /li>
</ul>
<h3>—N—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Brenda Nicolas</b>: Dr. Brenda Nicolas (Zapotec) is an Assistant
Professor in Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount
University in Los Angeles. Dr. Nicolas received her PhD in Chicana/o
and Central American Studies from UCLA where she finished her
dissertation, Zapotec Generations Across Settler Colonial Borders:
Gendering Identity and Belonging. She will continue her book project
at LMU that looks at the transborder communal experiences of Zapotec
diasporas in Los Angeles.</li>
<li><b>Andrew Nguyen</b>: Andrew Nguyen is a recent public health
graduate from UC San Diego. He works in and has a passion for
interdisciplinary
community health projects that utilize practical technological
applications and human-oriented design.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—O—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Debby Oh</b>: Debby is a data scientist from the University of
California, San Francisco' department of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics. She
has a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California, Los
Angeles and has worked on a range of public health topics including
HIV/AIDS,
cancer, childhood adversity, and health disparities. Her current work
involves analyzing and visualizing large data sources including data
from
the cancer registry, electronic health records, census, and other
public data sources.</li>
<li><b>Elizabeth Owen</b>: Elizabeth Owen is a first-year graduate
student in Urban & Regional Planning at UCLA Luskin School of Public
Affairs. She is
also a 2020 alumni of UC San Diego's undergraduate Urban Studies &
Planning program. Elizabeth's interests are focused in transportation
and land use
planning, spatial analytics, affordable housing/ADU development, and
tactical urbanism.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—P—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Nicole Pereira</b>: Nicole Pereira is a PhD student in the
Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School
of Public
Health and a Graduate Student Researcher at the UCLA Center for
Healthier Children, Families, and Communities. Her primary research
goals are to explore
the value of measuring spatial equity to support alternative payment
reform efforts with an interest in advancing population health
outcomes. Specifically,
she is keen on leveraging spatial information to better understand how
neighborhood level factors can influence the integration of community
resources and
health spending.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—R—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Sri Ramesh</b>: Sri Ramesh is a Master of Development Practice
(MDP) candidate at UC Berkeley where she studies applied data science
and
GIS for public policy. For the last 5 years, she has lived and worked
in the development sector in India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and
Washington DC, working on projects ranging from government finance,
girls' education in former war zones, and randomized evaluations. Most
recently, she led strategic monitoring and evaluation initiatives at
Cloud to Street, a remote sensing startup providing flood analytics to
African governments. Sri is an alumna of the US Fulbright Program as
well as the US Department of State.</li>
<li><b>Fernando Roman</b>: Fernando Roman is a 4th year undergraduate
Environmental Engineering major at the University of California,
Merced. Since
June 2020, he has been a part of a UC Center awarded COVID-19
emergency seed grant research team led by Assistant Professor Colleen
Naughton at
UC Merced entitled "Integrated Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
and Geospatial Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater for Vulnerable
Populations." As part of Dr. Naughton’s team, he 1) contributes to our
global dashboard of wastewater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2, 2) maps
wastewater treatment plants in California and 3) analyzes their
proximities to residential and commercial areas. Mr. Roman is
currently enrolled in a UC spatial analysis and modeling course, and is applying
what he learns in the class to his research. He loves all things
related to water, and is interested with any tool related to the distribution
of both wastewater and potable water. Mr. Roman is currently applying
to graduate programs in Civil and Environmental Engineering.</li>
<li><b>Michelle Vasquez Ruiz</b>: Michelle Vasquez Ruiz is PhD Candidate in the
department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern
California. She is a USC Mellon Humanities in a Digital World PhD Fellow.
Her research considers the ways Indigenous populations in Los Angeles have
historically navigated spatial and racial inequalities in the city.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—S—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Charles Schafer</b>: Charles Schafer: Charles works as an
Emergency Manager for UC Davis Health and is one of the Co-Chairs for
UC Emergency
Management Council subcommittee on GIS for Emergency Management. His
role is to prepare and respond to internal and external emergency
events for the
UC Davis Health system including a Level 1 Hospital. Past roles
include Emergency Preparedness Specialist for the California
Department of Public Health,
where he implemented GIS technology for tracking health facility
closures during disaster events.</li>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Jane Schafer-Kramer</a></b>: Jane is a Geographic Data Specialist
with the California Department of Water Resources working as the
Technical Lead for
the California Stewardship of the National Hydrography Dataset. She
learned GIS at American River College in Sacramento to enable her
mid-life
career shift She is serving as Chair of the California GIS Council,
July 2020 - June 2021 - http://cgia.org/cagiscouncil; is a member of
California
Geographic Information Association - https://cgia.org/, an active
member of URISA - https://www.urisa.org/ , and a job steward with SEIU
Local 1000.</li>
<li><b>Jared Schor</b>: Jared Schor is an Analyst and Program Designer
at the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities,
where
he works to build Learning Communities around child and family health
and develop tools to share data in ways that engage and motivate
communities. He is particularly interested in applying human-centered
design principles to the field of public health and aspires to build
systems that help people live better lives. Jared holds a master’s
degree in Sociology from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree
in
Economic History for the London School of Economics.</li>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Elia Scudiero</a></b>: Elia has a PhD in Crop Science from the
University of Padua, Italy, which he got in 2013. He has been in
Riverside
since 2014, as a postdoc at the USDA-ARS US Salinity Laboratory, which
is located on UCR's campus.Since January 2018, he is an Assistant
Research Agronomist at the Department of Environmental Sciences. His
"Digital Agronomy Lab" includes 2 postdocs and 2 jr. specialists.
Elia's
lab uses near-ground and remote sensing measurements to characterize
and model multi-scale agro-environmental soil-plant processes to
support
sustainable agriculture and water management practices. His extramural
funding includes The Lawn Institute, the California Department of
Food and Agriculture, and USDA’s National Institute of Food and
Agriculture, from which he received a New Investigator award in 2019.
</li>
<li><b>Pat Seed</b>: Oxford Map Companion: A Hundred Maps in World
History. (2014); ESRI Map Book “Rising Sea Levels at Cape Blanco,”
(best software maps) American Geographical Association representative
to UN Climate Change Conference (Marakesh) (2016). Currently
working on origins of magnetic variation on nautical charts ca 1460.
</li>
<li><b>Mōno Simeone</b>: Mōno Simeone (he/him/his) works for UCSF Real
Estate Business Intelligence as the UCSF GIS Manager. His role is to
support UCSF business systems by incorporating spatial analytics and
location intelligence. Other roles include: Co-Chair of the UC GIS
Leadership Committee, Co-Chair the UC Emergency Management Council
subcommittee on GIS for Emergency Management, and the current
Education
representative for the California GIS Council, a state-wide body. Past
roles include President of BayGeo URISA Chapter, Director of the
GIS Education Center at City College of San Francisco. Past Projects
include: Development of the California Stranded Marine Mammal GIS
database (NPS), Development of the 2012 SF County Election Precincts,
and GIS for Construction Logistics (UCSF).</li>
<li><b>Shannon Speed</b>: Shannon Speed is a citizen of the Chickasaw
Nation. She is Director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and
is Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology. Dr. Speed has worked
for the last two decades in Mexico and in the United States on issues
of Indigenous autonomy, sovereignty, gender, neoliberalism, violence,
migration, social justice, and activist research. She has published
numerous journal articles and book chapters in English and Spanish, as
well as published six books and edited volumes, including her most
recent, Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants in the Settler
Capitalist State. Dr. Speed currently serves as Past President of the
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).</li>
</ul>
<h3>—T—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Arianna Tariq</a></b>: Arianna Tariqi is a fourth year Environmental
Engineering major at the University of California, Merced. She found
her
love for mapping in March of 2019 when she joined Dr. Naughton’s
research team, mapping nitrate contamination in drinking water wells
in
California and it’s potential relationship to thyroid cancer with a
focus on disadvantaged communities. She also works on the mapping team
for the COVID-19 emergency seed grant entitled "Integrated
Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Geospatial Analysis of
SARS-CoV-2 in
Wastewater for Vulnerable Populations". Using her prior knowledge of
ArcGIS Pro, she assists in the mapping of wastewater treatment plants
and finding statistical significance of their proximities to
residential and commercial areas. Arianna hopes to continue
researching after
graduation and is currently applying to Civil and Environmental
Engineering graduate programs. When she isn’t finding the perfect
color scheme
for her maps, she spends time playing tennis and learning how to cook
food with her family.</li>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Michele Tobias</a></b>: Michele Tobias is the Geospatial Data
Specialist at UC Davis DataLab: Data Sciences & Informatics. She has a
BA & PhD in Geography from UCLA and UC Davis, respectively, and an MS
in Ecology from University of Michigan. She is a biogeographer
who uses her geographic and geospatial research skills to assist
researchers of many fields in learning and applying geospatial methods
to their research. She oversees long-term geospatial data development
projects like the American Viticultural Areas Digitizing Project
and geospatial research projects at DataLab. Her personal area of
research interest is in California’s sandy beach vegetation.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—V—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Michelle Vasquez</a></b>: Michelle Vasquez Ruiz is PhD Candidate in the
department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of
Southern California. She is a USC Mellon Humanities in a Digital World
PhD Fellow. Her research considers the ways Indigenous populations in
Los Angeles have historically navigated spatial and racial inequalities
in the city.</li>
<li><b>Cecilia Vu</b>: Cecilia is currently working at Esri as a
Solution Engineer. Prior to her role at Esri, she studied Urban
Studies and Planning at
UC Berkeley with a minor in GIST. Her work focuses on creating
products to help stakeholders adopt new approaches for making faster
and better-informed
decisions. She works with professionals specializing in infrastructure
and asset management; transportation, and architecture, engineering,
and
construction (AEC). Her passion lies in transforming cities using
technology as a catalyst.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—W—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Julie Wartell</b>: Julie Wartell has spent 25 years working with
local, state and federal criminal justice agencies and communities
around
crime analysis, research and prevention; including as a crime analyst
for police and prosecution, managing a regional crime mapping
initiative,
conducting research and evaluation for non-profits, as a National
Institute of Justice fellow, and as an independent advisor. Julie has
performed
a wide range of research and analysis of crime problems, conducted
studies of police and prosecutor processes, and assessed information
technologies. She has conducted extensive training and presentations
to officers, prosecutors, analysts and community internationally on
topics relating to analyzing crime and problem solving. Julie has
edited or authored numerous publications and teaches at the University
of
California–San Diego. She has an MPA from San Diego State and a
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Criminology and Police Management from
University of Cambridge.</li>
<li><b><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Joakim A. Weill</a></b>: Joakim (Jo) Weill is a PhD candidate at UC
Davis working on the economics of environmental inequalities. His
research
leverages microeconomic tools and causal inference methods to study
(i) how environmental changes impact the most vulnerable populations,
and (ii) the distributional impacts of public policies that aim to
increase environmental resilience. Current projects investigate the
unequal
adaptation to flood risk in the United States and the distributional
impacts of the flood insurance program, as well as the economic
origins of
inequalities in air pollution exposure. Prior to his doctoral studies,
Jo worked as a consultant at the World Bank’s Environment and Natural
Resources division. He holds masters in environmental sciences and
environmental engineering from AgroParisTech, France.</li>
<li><b>Parker Welch</b>: Parker Welch - Parker has worked on the
Physical Planning, Development & Operations (PPDO) team for over 3
years. He
primarily supports the Physical and Environmental Planning group but
has a hand in operational GIS and CAD services across all of PPDO.
</li>
<li><b>Amy Work</b>: Currently the GIS Librarian at UC San Diego. I
support students, faculty, researchers and staff with their geospatial
needs. I
instruct workshops and helps curate geospatial data within the Library
and across campus. In the past I ran a non-profit in Costa Rica
engaging community
members to use GIS to investigate community issues and worked with
K-12, community colleges and universities across the U.S. to integrate
geospatial
technologies into their curricula.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—Y—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Jiue-An (Jay) Yang</b>: Jiue-An (Jay) Yang: Dr. Yang is a
geospatial research scientist and developer at the Qualcomm Institute,
University of
California San Diego. His research focuses on the dynamics between
place, human behavior, and health outcome. He is passionate about
bringing this
connection alive and accessible through spatial analytics and
visualization.</li>
<li><b>David Yu</b>: David Yu is a Data Scientist with the GeoAI team at
Esri, where he works on applying machine learning solutions to
problems
in the imagery space such as object tracking & anomaly detection,
pattern analysis and generative networks. His interest is in exploring
the
intersection of machine learning and GIS and its application to
solving real-world problems.</li>
</ul>
<h3>—Z—</h3>
<ul>
<li><b>Bingyu Zhao</b>: Dr Bingyu Zhao is a postdoc in the Civil and
Environmental Engineering Department at UC Berkeley. She specializes
in city
and regional scale traffic and transport system modeling. Her research
experiences include pavement degradation, emission modeling, wildfire
evacuation and post-earthquake resilience assessment. She uses a
variety of GIS and spatial data analysis tools in all stages of her
research,
from initial conceptualization to visual verification of the results.
By participating in the UC GIS week, she wishes to learn about new
tools
and ideas that can help her and colleagues to overcome the
visualization/mapping performance bottleneck in their current
research.</li>
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