{"id":36,"date":"2015-11-02T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T22:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giscoster\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2018-02-14T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T17:25:41","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giscoster\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a student at University of British Columbia, studying in the Environment &amp; Sustainability Program. The program combines field data acquisition, lab work, literature reviews, and GIS components to gain a better understanding of the interactions between society and the natural environment.<\/p>\n<p>Geography interests me because I like uncovering hidden connections between entities and events that seem otherwise uncorrelated, and I hope to use my education in the environmental assessment sector.<\/p>\n<p>I specialize in GIS applications: I volunteer with Pacific Spirit Park Society (PSPS) and work part-time with Stanley Park Ecology Society (SPES). I collect and organize invasive plant species spatial data throughout Pacific Spirit Park. I am a GIS administrator and cartographer with SPES, creating online map applications and publishing invasive species maps for their annual State of Ecological Integrity in Stanley Park (SOPEI) Report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">I am a student at University of British Columbia, studying in the Environment &amp; Sustainability Program. The program combines field&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34821,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giscoster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giscoster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giscoster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giscoster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giscoster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giscoster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giscoster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giscoster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}