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I serve as principle investigator and provide leadership to the division on landscape ecological research, on application of geospatial sciences to the understanding of water quality in fresh and estuarine waters, and on the use of informatics and information management tools in environmental research. In this role, I have developed tools and methodologies (GIS and statistical) using numerous software packages and languages (R, ArcGIS, GRASS, Python, MS Excel) and have continued prior research on technology transfer of data, analytical methods and predictive tools to Northeast States; and developed statistical and modeling tools to facilitate use of defensible techniques in water quality criteria development. Previously I have: served as Co-lead on a project studying ecosystem services related to nutrient cycling in Northeastern lakes and ponds, was the liaison between the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and EPA’s Ecosystem Services Research Program (ESRP), was task lead for our lakes ecosystem services work, and served as co-task lead for developing decision support tools for a project in Narragansett Bay and its watershed. I am currently serving as a co-Task Lead on a project exploring cyanobacteria risk in lakes of the Northeastern US. I am also exploring the use of Open Science, data science, and computational ecology in our various research programs.
Contributed to research and technology transfer of National Coastal Assessment data, analytical methods and predictive tools to Northeast States. Developed statistical and modeling tools (e.g. Conditional Probability Analysis with R and Excel) to facilitate use of defensible techniques in water quality criteria development. Provided Landscape Ecology, Spatial Statistics and GIS support to a variety of ongoing projects at the Atlantic Ecology Division and within US EPA’s Office of Research and Development. Explored linkages between landscape and downstream receiving waters and examined utility of broad scale monitoring data in identifying and assessing ecological impairment.
Continued prior research on multi-scale interactions between landscape structure (via NLCD) and sediment metal concentrations (via EMAP) and predictive modeling of estuarine impairment. Worked with students, faculty and colleagues in the Marine Sciences Section, the International Ice Patrol, and Information Services Division on a wide variety of Geographic Information Systems projects.
Researched and assisted in planning of ecological observatories designed to address the National Research Council’s Environmental Grand Challenges. Made specific contributions in the design of the land use change component of NEON and design of a Multi-Scaled Remote Sensing System designed to support and develop NEON analytical tools and ecological forecasting models. Other duties included managing Geographic Information Systems operations in the Project Office, maintaining the NEON web presence (http://www.neoninc.org), interacting with research scientists and educators on the NEON Senior Management Team and National Network Design Committee, and assisting with the day-to-day operations of the NEON Project Office.
Used monitoring data from the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) and the National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) to explore relationships between landscape structure and indicators of estuarine condition. I specifically researched the accuracy of the NLCD at multiple spatial scales, the role of spatial scale on the relationship between landscape organization (e.g. landscape composition) and ecological health and integrity of Atlantic coast estuaries, and built predictive models of estuarine condition designed to locate estuaries with impacted ecological integrity. As member of Landscape Ecology Working Group, discussed and assisted on projects at USEPA Atlantic Ecology Division and URI utilizing landscape ecology, spatial analysis and broad scale environmental monitoring data, in particular NLCD and EMAP.
Contributed towards the design and implementation of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey (RINHS) Biodiversity Databases, specifically the Odonata of Rhode Island and the Biota of Rhode Island. Designed field sampling methodology to accurately map invasive species with geostatistical techniques.
Compiled bathymetry, current and historic eelgrass locations, historic, and water quality data sets for use in eelgrass restoration efforts. Using the Short et al. (2002) methodology, built geographic information system models of eelgrass restoration potential and generated maps of areas in Narragansett Bay with higher potential of eelgrass restoration success.
Conducted research on ecological impacts of small wetland loss in the Southeastern United States, use of home range in the design of gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) reserves, and habitat use and landscape ecology of Northern Bobwhite Quail . Other research duties included remote sensing data analysis (e.g. Landsat Thematic Mapper, SPOT-XS, B&W and CIR Aerial Photography), analysis of vector and raster GIS data, and field data collection (e.g. GPS, vegetation data). Supervised and assisted other technicians, graduate students and summer field workers and managed day-to-day operations of the Landscape Ecology Lab.
Developed a GIS methodology and series of Arc Macro Language scripts to facilitate the identification of river reaches, as required by the Clean Water Act, in the states of North Dakota and Arkansas.
Researched environmental, ecological, and spatial controls on the establishment success of Red Spruce (Picea rubens) in northwestern Virginia. Research techniques included a variety of geographic information systems analytical tools (e.g. Topographic Convergence Index) and spatial statistics techniques (e.g. partial mantel’s tests).
Team taught in alternating Spring Semesters, with Dr. Peter V. August, Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes (NRS 534) a graduate level seminar course in Landscape Ecology. Course included readings and group discussion of the concepts and principles of landscape ecology. Team taught with Drs. Rachel Schwartz and Harrison Dekker, Special Topics in R. Also team taught with Drs. Peter V August and Adam Smith, a scientific computing survey course focusing on R, version control, and reproducible research. Provided guest lecture on R in CSC 592 Programming For Scientists during Fall 2014.
Responsible for teaching 3 laboratory sections of Introduction to Geospatial Sciences (major topics include: introduction to ESRI products, geospatial data management, spatial analysis, cartography, coordinate systems and projections, geodatabases, development of geodatabase for emergency management and hazardous materials response) and teaching 3 sections of a core course in Oceanography (major topics include: marine and coastal ecology, fisheries, meteorology, physical oceanography, coastal oceanography, estuarine classification, and oil spill impact/response).
Coordinated Conservation of Populations and Ecosystems course (major topics include: conservation biology, ecological and socioeconomic importance of biodiversity, introductory population, community, and ecosystems ecology, genetics, metapopulations, landscape ecology, and data analysis for conservation biology). Taught laboratory sections for Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (major topics include: operating systems essentials for GIS, ArcInfo Workstation, Editing and creating spatial data, cartography, and introductory spatial analysis).
Provided training to Rhode Island Natural History Survey and Ecological Inventory and Monitoring Stewardship Program Staff on ArcView and ArcMap GIS and Trimble GPS. Training focused on use of these products for ecological and natural history applications. June 2001 Geographic Information Systems Consultant, National Park Service, Gateway National Recreation Area, Staten Island, NY Trained Gateway National Recreation Area staff in use of ArcView, Spatial Analyst, and Trimble GPS products.
Hollister, J. W., W.B. Milstead (2010). Using GIS to Estimate Lake Volume from Limited Data. Lake and Reservoir Management. 26(3)194-199 10.1080/07438141.2010.504321. pdf corrigenda: 10.1080/10402381.2014.930627 pdf.
Benyi, S. J., J. W. Hollister, J. A. Kiddon, H. A. Walker. (2009). A Process for Comparing and Interpreting Differences in Two Benthic Indices in New York Harbor. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 59:65-71. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2008.11.009.
Hollister, J. W., P. V. August, J. F. Paul, and H. A. Walker. (2008). Predicting Estuarine Sediment Metal Concentrations and Inferred Ecological Conditions: An Information Theoretic Approach. Journal of Environmental Quality. 37(1):234-244 10.2134/jeq2007.0105.
Hollister, J. W., P. V. August, and J. F. Paul. (2008). Effects of Spatial Extent on Landscape Structure and Sediment Metal Concentration Relationships in Small Estuarine Systems of the United States’ Mid-Atlantic Coast. Landscape Ecology. 23(SI):91-106 10.1007/s10980-007-9143-1.
Hollister, J. W., M. L. Gonzalez, J. F. Paul, P. V. August, J. L. Copeland (2004). Assessing the Accuracy of the National Land Cover Dataset at Multiple Spatial Extents. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 70(4):405-414 10.14358/PERS.70.4.405. pdf.
Paul, J. F., J. L. Copeland, M. Charpentier, P. V. August, and J. W. Hollister (2003). Overview of Geographic Information Systems applications in Estuarine Monitoring and Assessment Research. Marine Geodesy. 26:63-72 10.1080/01490410306704.
Salmon, M, MacDonald A., Woo K., Boettiger, C., Hollister, J. (2017). emldown - From machine readable EML metadata to a pretty documentation website. ROpenSci Blog. web.
von Hardenberg A, Obeng A, Pawlik A, Pletzer A, Shiklomanov A, Fouilloux A, Fournier A, Marwick B, Brown C. T., Voter C, Hulshof C, Bahlai C, Shaw C, Bouquin D, Stubbs D, Vanichkina D, Fishman D, Wilson E, Hart E, Hannon E, Sügis E, Strauss E, Gan E, Becker E, White E, Rodriguez-Sanchez F, Michonneau F, Boehm F, Ye H, Dashnow H, Lapp H, Ashander J, Byrnes J, Hollister J. W., Chen J, Dunic J, Keane J, Stachelek J, Herr J, Mislan K. A. S., Woo K, Cranston K, Jordan K. L., Ram K, Hertweck K, Todd-Brown K, Lotterhos K, Peck K, Direk K, Hall K, Tylén K, Chatzidimitriou K, Deer L, Gatto L, Wasser L, Tarkowski L, Breckels L, Foos M, Chiapello M, Robinson M, Akenbrand M. J., Kuzak M, Grenié M, Grenié M, Duffy M, Koontz M, Johnston M, Marino N, Carchedi N, Burge O, Lijnzaad P, Lijnzaad P, Peek R, Supp S, Taylor S, Labou S, Pederson S, Webster T, Sandmann T, Teal T, Furnass W, Pearse W, Li Y, Lapp Z, ashander, sfn_brt and suparee (2017). “Data Carpentry: R for data analysis and visualization of Ecological Data.” 10.5281/zenodo.569338, web.
Hollister, J. W. (2007). Natural Resource Management Partnership Annotated Website Link. Submitted to Ecology on the Web, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 88(2). doi: 10.1890/0012-9623(2007)88[204:WSOITE]2.0.CO;2. pdf.
Hollister, J. W. and H. A. Walker (2007). Beyond Data: Reproducible Research in Ecology and Environmental Science. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 5(1):11-12. doi: 10.1890/1540-9295(2007)5[10a:TPOC]2.0.CO;2.
Hollister, J. W. (2004). Predicting Condition of Small Estuarine Systems Along the United States’ Atlantic Coast. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Rhode Island. 143 pp. pdf.
Wilson, A. et. al. (2015). Federal Agency Networking Session. Invited panelist. Organizers: Alan Wilson, Henry Gholz, and Daniel B. Stover. 100th Annual Ecological Society of America meeting. Baltimore, MD. August 2015.
Hollister, J. W. (2013). R for Spatial Data Management and Analysis. Presented during Student Workshop, US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. April 2013. web slides code/data.
Morzillo, A. T., and J. W. Hollister. (2007). Job Hunting Experiences of Recent Graduates in Landscape Ecology. Co-organized with A. T. Morzillo US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ. April 2007.
Paul, J. F. and J. W. Hollister. (2006). Conditional Probability Analysis: Demonstration using R and R-Excel. Co-presented with J. F. Paul Workshop for Developing Suspended and Bedded Sediment Water Quality Criteria, Arlington, VA. November 2006.
Kellogg, D., J. W. Hollister, B. J. Kreakie, S. Shivers, E. Herron, L. Green, and A. Gold. (2018). 25 Years of Water Quality Change in Rhode Island Lakes and Ponds. Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Summer Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia. June 2018.
Shiver, S., J. W. Hollister, B. J. Kreakie, W. B. Milstead. (2018). Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Cyanobacterial Blooms in Two Rhode Island Ponds. New England Association of Environmental Biologists (NEAEB) Annual Conference, Devens, MA. March 2018.
Nojavan, F., B. J. Kreakie, J. W. Hollister. (2017). A Bayesian Multilevel Model for Microcystin Prediction in Lakes of the Continental United States. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. April 2017, Boston, MA.
Nojavan A., F., B. J. Kreakie, J. W. Hollister, S.S. Qian. (2016). Assessing Lake Trophic Status: A Proportional Odds Logistic Regression Model. The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Annual Meeting. June 2016, Santa Fe, NM.
Kreakie, B. J., F. Nojavan A., J. W. Hollister, W. B. Milstead. (2016). Computational Approaches to Predict Indices of Cyanobacteria Toxicity, National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC) Annual Meeting. May 2016, Tampa, FL.
Kreakie, B. J., S. Ernst, T. Hollenhorst, J.W. Hollister, W.B. Milstead, and H. Snook. (2016). cyanoScope: Mapping cyanobacteria one slide at a time. New England Association of Environmental Biologists (NEAEB) Annual Meeting. February 2016, Rockport, ME.
Hollister, J. W. (2015). Spatial Data Analysis in R: Lightning Demo! Lightning Talk at Northeast Arc Users Group Fall Meeting, November 2015, Burlington, VT. GitHub.
Kreakie, B. J., F. Nojavan, J. W. Hollister. (2014). When Green Goes Bad: A Computational Ecology Approach to a Better Understanding of Cyanobacteria, Nutrients, and Lakes. USEPA Office of Water Oceans, and Wetlands Cyanobacteria webinar series. October 2014. web slides.
Kreakie, B. J., W. B. Milstead, J. W. Hollister. (2014). When Green Goes Bad: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Better Understand Cyanobacteria, Nutrients, and Lakes. USEPA Safe and Sustainable Water Resources Webinar Series. June 2014. web.
Kreakie, B. J., W. B. Milstead, J. W. Hollister. (2014). Combined Influence of Landscape Composition and Nutrient Inputs on Lake Trophic Structure. US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Anchorage, AK. May 2014.
Hollister, J. W. (2014). Blogging, Social Media, and Science: EPA Edition. Presentation given at USEPA Atlantic Ecology Division. March 2014. slides.
Hollister, J. W. (2012). Who am I and Why am I here: Lakes, Linked Data, and R Invited presentation to Data.gov Semantic Web and Linked Data working group. Aug 2012. slides.
Hollister, J.W., W. B. Milstead, K. C. Hychka, H.A. Walker, J. L. Copeland. (2011). Nutrients, Ecosystem Services, and Human Health in Northeastern Lakes and Ponds. Invited Seminar at Western Connecticut State University, Dept of Biology Seminar Series. 30 November, 2011. slides.
Hollister, J. W. and W. B. Milstead. Using GIS to Estimate Lake Volume from Limited Data. Annual Meeting of the North American Lake Management Society, Hartford, CT. October 2009. slides.
Hollister, J. W. and W. B. Milstead. A Simple GIS Approach for Estimating Lake Volume from Limited Data. Northeast Arc Users Group Annual Meeting, Nashua, NH. October 2009.
Hollister, J.W. Using CProb in R and Excel to conduct conditional probability analysis. Annual Meeting of the North East Association of Environmental Biologists, Westport, CT. March 2009.
Walker, H. A., J. W. Hollister, B. Wilson, R. Scarborough, D. Carter, D Kreeger, K. Laudenabuch-Nelson, A. Howell, C. Strobel. More precise assessment of benthic conditions in Delaware Bay using probability survey data, targeted sampling and acoustic habitat maps. Sixth National Monitoring Conference, Monitoring: Key to understanding our waters. Atlantic City, New Jersey. May 2008.
Hollister, J. W. The new space race: Getting landscape data more fully integrated into causal analysis. Super Causal Analysis Team Workgroup (SuperCAT) Meeting. February 2008.
Hollister, J. W. Estuarine monitoring and assessment: The integral role of GIS. Rhode Island Geographic Information Systems Conference, Narragansett RI, June 2007.
Walker, H. A., J. W. Hollister, B. Wilson, R. Scarborough, D. Carter, D Kreeger, K. Laudenabuch-Nelson, A. Howell, C. Strobel. More precise assessment of benthic conditions in Delaware Bay. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Annual Symposium, Washington DC, April 2007.
Hollister, J. W. Ecoinformatics: What is it and why should you care? Seminar at US EPA Atlantic Ecology Division, February 2007.
Hollister, J. W. Predicting Condition of Small Estuarine Systems along the United States Atlantic Coast. Seminar at US EPA Atlantic Ecology Division, June 2006.
Hollister, J. W., P.V. August, J.F. Paul. Predicting Estuarine Sediment Metal Concentration along the United States’ Atlantic Coast. North Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 12th Annual Meeting, Portland, ME. June 2006.
Hollister, J. W., P. V. August, J. F. Paul. Predictive modeling of estuarine condition along the United States’ Atlantic Coast. US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. April 2006.
Hollister, J. W., J. Copeland, P. V. August, J. F. Paul. Coastal landscape structure and estuarine condition relationships: How does scale alter model reliability? US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada. April 2004.
Hollister, J. W., J. Copeland, P. V. August, J. F. Paul. Utilizing Hydrologically Defined Sampling Units for Landscape Analysis. Northeast Arc Users Group Annual Meeting, Mt. Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, NH. November 2002.
Snook, H., B. J. Kreakie, W. B Milstead, and J. W. Hollister. The Cyanobacteria Monitoring Collaborative: Multi-Tiered Approach to Citizen Science Based Cyanobacteria Monitoring. Office of Research and Development Regional Science Poster Session, Durham, NC. September 2018.
Nojavan, F., B. J. Kreakie. A Bayesian Multilevel Model for Microcystin Prediction in the Continental United States Lakes. 2015 Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI May 2015.
Copeland, J. L., J. W. Hollister. Geospatial Tools for Ecosystem Services. ESRI International Users Conference, San Diego, CA. June 2010.
Hollister, J. W., W. B. Milstead. Linking landscapes to ecosystem services: Landscape structure as an indicator and predictor of water clarity in New England lakes. US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Athens, GA. April 2010.
Milstead, W. B., J. W. Hollister, H. A. Walker, J. A. Kiddon, J. L. Copeland, H. W. Buffum, M. A. Charpentier, D. J Keith. A Northeastern US Lakes Database to Support Ecosystem Services Research. Annual Meeting of the North East Association of Environmental Biologists, Newport, RI, March 2010.
Hollister, J. W., A. Kuhn-Hines, J. L. Copeland. Mapping human population density in and around New Hampshire’s common loon lakes: A comparison of dasymetric methods. US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Snowbird, UT April 2009.
Hollister, J. W., J. L Copeland. Where New England Lives: A dasymetric population map for New England. Northeast Arc Users Group Annual Meeting, Hyannis, MA September 2008.
Hollister, J. W., H. W. Walker. Landscape Thresholds and the Condition of Northeastern Estuaries. New England Estuarine Research Society Spring Meeting. Portsmouth, NH. May 2008.
Keith, D. J., J. W. Hollister, A. Kuhn-Hines. The Distribution of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter and Salinity along the Southern New England Coast from Aircraft Remote Sensing. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography annual meeting, Orlando, FL. March 2008.
Hollister, J.W., A. T. Morzillo, E. J. Weissberger, J. A. Nestlerode, and J. F. Paul. Comparing Apples to Apples: Generating a Nationally Consistent Index of Benthic Biology in Estuarine Waters. Estuarine Research Foundation Annual Meeting, Providence, RI November 2007.
Benyi, S.J., Kiddon, J. A., Hollister, J.W., Walker, H. A. Interpreting Differences in Several Benthic Indices. Estuarine Research Foundation Annual Meeting, Providence, RI November 2007.
Hollister, J.W. and J.L. Copeland. Relating distance weighted measures of landscapes to water quality: Does distance matter? US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ. April 2007.
Weissberger, E. J. , J. A. Nestlerode, A. T. Morzillo, J. W. Hollister, J. F. Paul. Developing a nationally consistent approach for assessing regional associations between nutrients and benthic biological condition in estuarine waters. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Annual Symposium, Washington DC, April 2007.
Hollister, J. W., J. F. Paul, J. L. Copeland, M. L. Gonzalez, P.V. August. Accuracy of the 1992 National Land Cover Dataset area estimates: An analysis at multiple spatial extents. North American Land Cover Summit, Washington, DC. September 2006.
Hayden, B., Brewer C., Estrin D., Goldman J., Michener W., Baru C., Cid C., Collinge S., Foster D., Franklin, J., Goldberg, D., Huenneke, L., Krishtalka, L., Levitt, J., MacMahon, J., Nadelhoffer, K., Palmer, M., Reichman, O. J., Swain, H., Welge, M., Hollister, J. W. Designing the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). North American Carbon Program Data Management Workshop, New Orleans, LA. January 2005.
Hollister, J. W., J. Copeland, P. V. August, J. F. Paul. Assessing the Predictive Capability of Landscape Sampling Units of Varying Scale in the Analysis of Estuarine Condition. US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Banff, Alberta. April 2003.
Hollister, J. W., J. F. Paul, J. Copeland, R. L. Comeleo, M. Charpentier, P. V. August, M. Brush. Relating Estuarine Condition with Landscape Structure in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Madison, WI. August 2001.
Hollister, J. W., J. F. Paul, J. Copeland, R. L. Comeleo, M. Charpentier, P. V. August, M. Brush. Landscape Structure and Estuarine Condition in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States: II. Assessing the Accuracy of the National Land Cover Dataset at Multiple Extents. Poster Presentation for the US-International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Tempe, AZ. April 2001.
J. Ott., J. W. Hollister, C. Guyer, and W. K. Michener. Re-evaluating Guidelines for Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Reserve Design. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Snowbird, UT. August 2000.
Hollister, J. W., J. Ott, C. Guyer, and W. K. Michener. Estimating Preserve Size for Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus). US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. April 2000.
Hollister, J. W. and W. K. Michener. Landscape Ecology of the Northern Bobwhite Quail in the Coastal Plain of Georgia. International Association for Landscape Ecology World Congress, Snowmass, CO. July/Aug 1999.
I started using R in 2003 for data analysis and have been using it daily for basic computing and programming tasks since 2011. I have created packages with four on CRAN (quickmapr, lakemorpho, elevatr, and lawn) and several in development on GitHub. I co-moderate (with Sarah Goslee) the R-SIG-Ecology mailing list, and have taught several classes/workshops on R. I am the lead maintainer of rOpenSci’s Maptools CRAN Taskview, I contribute to both the development of lawn: an R client for turf.js and the Reproducibility Guide.
Starting in 2006, I have written Python scripts to interact with ESRI products. Since then, I have also developed many scripts for data management, data collection, interacting with the Twitter API, and communicating with R.
I have about one year experience with Java, primarily from computer science coursework.
Since 2012, I have used R (with sp, rgdal, rgeos, raster, and, since its release, sf) as my primary GIS and spatial analysis platform. The prior 17 years I extensively used the ESRI product line including ArcGIS, Arc/INFO, ArcView, ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server, and Geostatistical Analyst. I have limited experience using GRASS.
My statistics work has been conducted primarily in R since 2003. I have experience with many many statistical methods including least squares, logistic regression, information theoretic model selection, principal components, multi-dimensional scaling, boosted regression, and Random Forests. In the past I have used SAS, SPSS, SPlus, and SigmaPlot.
I have many years experience managing small to medium-sized research datasets. I have done this using relational databases (Access, SQLite), flat files, and for spatial data, shapefiles, coverages, File Geodatabases, and recently GeoJSON.
I have experience analyzing aerial photography and satellite imagery to develop land use/land cover classifications and used a variety of accuracy assessment methods and approaches. Must of my past remote sensing work was conducted with ERDAS Imagine.
I have collected GPS data from a variety of devices including Trimble ProXR, Trimble GeoExplorer, Trimble GeoXT, Garmin Chartplotters, and associated device specific software.
I use Red Hat (RHEL 6) and Ubuntu daily. I have built and am responsible for system administration on several Ubuntu (12.04 and 14.04) machines.
I use Windows (NT/2000/XP/7) daily and am capable of basic systems administration.
I have extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office 2000-2013 and have some networking and hardware maintenance experience.
USEPA Safe and Sustainable Water Research Program Task 4.01C: A Data Intensive Investigation of Temperature Impacts and Bloom Modelling. Deputy Task Lead with B. J. Kreakie, Lead. 2016 - 2019.
USEPA Safe and Sustainable Water Research Program Task 2.3C: Cyanobacteria, nutrients, and land use – a nexus for sustainable water resources and human health protection, co-lead with B. J. Kreakie. 2013 - 2015.
Geospatial Statistical Analysis Seminar, A Cooperative Training Project Between the University of Rhode Island and the US EPA Atlantic Ecology Division, US EPA NHEERL Grant, June 2003. PI’s: P. August, L. González; Co-PI’s: R. Sand, J. Opaluch, J. Hollister, and D. Grossman-Garber.
Estuarine Condition and Landscape Structure Relationships in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern New England Regions of the United States, EPA/URI Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Major Advisor: Peter V. August, EPA Mentor: John F. Paul).
US EPA, Region 1, 2015 Science Achievement Award - Water Quality for Cyanobacteria Monitoring Initiative Team, with Hilary Snook, Betty Kreakie and Bryan Milstead.
2010 ESRI International Users Conference, First Place Poster in Software Integration.
USEPA, National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory, 2007 Strategic Goal 4 Award: Science Integration –Interdivisional Laboratory Research, Received with Eric Weissberger, Anita Morzillo, Janet Nestelrode, and John Paul.
2008, Masters of Environmental Science and Management Written Comprehensive Exam Committee, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.
Host Committee and Social Chair, 2010 Northeast Arc Users Group annual meeting in Newport, RI.
Member, R Consortium Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, June 2018 - Present.
Member, Data Carpentry Geospatial Curriculum Advisory Committee, March 2018 - Present.
Data Carpentry Instructor, Mar 2016 - Present.
Software Carpenty Instructor, Oct 2014 - Present.
List administrator for R-sig-ecology, a Special Interest Group mailing list on the use R in Ecology, April 2008 - Present.
Co-lead/co-founder of 2018 Nor’eastR Conference https://noreastrconf.com. July 2017 - Nov 2018.
Provided Peer Review for: Journal of Open Source Software, Journal of Open Source Education Landscape Ecology, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Plant Ecology, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Environmental Quality, Selbyana, Minnesota Sea Grant, and numerous USEPA Office of Research and Development internal reviews.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Jan 2007 - Nov 2016.
Liaison between USEPA’s Ecosystem Services Research Program (ESRP) and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).
Participated in the Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System (CADDIS) Planning Retreat at Hueston Woods Conference Center, Oxford, OH, April 30 – June 3.
Co-organized (along with Jason Grear, Suzy Ayvazian, Peter August and Deb Coty) a short course by David Anderson entitled, “Information Theoretic Model Selection and Multimodel Inference in Science and Management”, March 28-29, URI Coastal Institute, Narragansett, RI.
Section Editor,“Ecology on the Web” Department of the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2007 - 2010.
Attended Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) Postdoctoral and New Faculty Training in ecoinformatics: Jan 8-12, 2007, University of New Mexico.
Assisted with compiling links of software and graduate programs in spatial ecology for the US-IALE web page.

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