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Additional Coursework

Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, MA

Web GIS: Technologies and Applications; Cloud Services, Infrastructure, and Computing (AWS); Designing and Developing Relational and NoSQL Databases; Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Graduate Certificate in Front End Web Development

Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, MA

Fundamentals of Website Development; Introduction to Web Programming with JavaScript; Developing Single-Page Web Applications; Web Application Development using Node.js

Master of Science in Geo-Information Science (GIS)

Salem State University, Salem, MA

Coursework in remote sensing interpretation, spatial database design, cartographic modeling, and GIS software design/programming.

  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Interpretation of Remote Sensing Imagery
  • Digital Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery
  • Spatial Database Analysis Design
  • Computer Cartographic Modeling
  • Software Design and Programming in GIS
  • Advanced Geographic Quantitative Methods
  • GIS Project Implementation
  • GIS for Research and Analysis
  • ArcGIS Desktop
  • ArcGIS Pro
  • ArcGIS Online
  • ArcPy
  • ArcGIS plugin for Adobe Illustrator
  • ERDAS Imagine
  • TerrSet
  • R with RStudio
  • SQL with PostGres
  • PostGIS

B.S. Environmental Geology

Beloit College, Beloit, WI

Fieldwork-heavy coursework in hydrogeology, sedimentology, and glacial geomorphology, including a semester studying fjord and glacier systems at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and independent groundwater-flow research; presented at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.

  • Calculus
  • Chemistry
  • Earth: Explore/Dynamic Planet
  • Environmental Writing
  • Field Geology
  • Geomorphology
  • GIS
  • Hydrogeology
  • Mineralogy
  • Microbiology
  • Oceanography
  • Sedimentology
  • Global Political Ecology
  • Comparative Politics
  • U.S. Federal Government and Politics
  • Journalism
  • French
  • Dean's List: Fall 2015 and Spring 2018
  • Presented at the Geological Society of America annual meeting: November 2018

Groundwater flow analysis of Duck Lake in Milton, WI.

  • Experience with seepage meters, groundwater sampling, field filtering, and wellpoint installation.

"From Mountain to Fjord" — a five-month program at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Sogndal, Norway, with weekly lectures and field work. Primary modules: Geological Aspects of Western Norway; Glaciers and Ecology; Fjord Processes — covering limnology, sediment sampling, the Caledonian mountain chain, geological mapping, glacier forelands, and fjord water circulation and food webs.

  • 20 days of field excursions to islands, fjords, and mountains
  • Sediment core sampling of the Ikjefjord
  • Final project on grain size and particulate matter analysis of a sediment core
  • Excursions included glacier hiking, geological mapping, and arctic surfing