Projects

Analysis of Soil Moisture in R (Awarded the Trussell Family Scholarship by the U of O Geography Department)

The goal of this project was to perform an analysis of Long-term-monthly mean values of soil moisture content in North America, Central America, and Greenland within R Studio.

Analysis:

Reshaped the netCDF file into an organized dataframe.
Calculated additional columns containing mean minimum/maximum soil moisture and months of mean minimum/maximum soil moisture
Mapped the new data, creating separate maps of minimum and maximum soil moisture content and the months corresponding to each.

Packages Used:

ncdf4, lattice, RColorBrewer

(Link available upon request)

IMAGE Analysis of "Tracers" at Krafla Geothermal Power Station (Mývatn, Iceland)

During the summer of 2016, I participated in a two and a half month research project conducted by an international team of scientists at the Krafla Geothermal Power Plant in Northeastern Iceland. I joined several geochemists in the field to collect geothermal water daily and test it for the presence of a tracer chemical that was introduced into the geothermal reservoir.

My duties involved:

Organization of field supplies
Sampling water from geothermal wellheads
Keeping detailed notes during sampling
Providing supplemental training to arriving scientists in our sampling methodology

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IMAGE Website: http://www.image-fp7.eu/Pages/default.aspx

Automated GIS Analysis of Available Properties Within User-Defined Terrain using ArcPy

The goal of this tool is to allow the user to define terrain attributes of property (e.g. elevation, slope, aspect) and be returned a data table of available lots that meet their needs.

Pseudocode:

Generates a suitability raster surface based on user inputted elevation, slope, and aspect.
Addresses of tax lots selected from within the suitable area are appended to a list.
A Search Cursor is used to match the addresses to a Multiple Listing Service database containing properties for sale and their attributes (e.g. acreage, price).
Exports a CSV file of the available properties data table.

Extensions/Modules Used:

Spatial Analyst, csv, arcpy