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I am currently a geospatial researcher with the elementslab, and have been focused on developing future “what-if” tree planting spatial models to evaluate effects on heat island, shading, cooling and livability of neighbourhoods. My academic background is in environmental sciences, ecology, remote sensing, geospatial analysis, geographic information science/systems (GIS), and some philosophy. I earned my MSc from the Integrated Remote Sensing Studio (Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia (UBC)); my thesis focused on characterizing multi-decadal vegetative greenness and land use dynamics across Canadian urban areas using satellite remote sensing. I defended my MSc thesis in October 2020 with honours designation, and have since been awarded the Best Master’s Thesis Award from the UBC Faculty of Forestry in 2020 and the National Best Master’s Thesis Award in 2020 from the Canadian Remote Sensing Society.
Since my graduate studies I’ve been involved with additional studies that used the spectrally unmixed greenness dataset developed through my MSc (i.e. vegetative greenness fractions (1984-2016) for 18 Canadian urban areas) for urban vegetation exposure studies related to early childhood development and greenspace inequity. I’ve also contributed to developing a framework to assess flooding frequency – a component of wetland classification – using Sentinel-2 imagery in Google Earth Engine while with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute. Throughout my academic and professional experiences, I’ve developed my technical skills in advanced geospatial and statistical analysis, using ArcGIS (Pro and Online), QGIS, R (posit), JavaScript through Google Earth Engine (GEE), ENVI + IDL, Agisoft, LAStools, FUSION, and Fugroviewer. I am also well versed in using Adobe Creative Suite products like Illustrator and InDesign for enhancing data visualization of maps, figures, and posters.
In case you were wondering, the cover photo shown is of Nose Hill Park in Calgary, Canada which I had the pleasure to live down the street for a while. Nose Hill Park is a natural area park, designated as such in the 1980s, and is one of the largest urban parks in North America. I often would walk the trails and observe the varying plant communities that spanned the area. It fascinates and inspires me that such biological diversity, and such peaceful natural solitude, is able to exist harmonious in the middle of a growing metropolitan landscape. Later, while looking at Landsat satellite imagery for my MSc thesis, I was fascinated to see how this iconic green space of Calgary has persisted since its creation in 1980s while urban developments continued to rise around and past it over the past 30+ years.
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