Geospatial data science, remote sensing, environmental studies
Geospatial Data Science · Remote Sensing · Environmental Monitoring
A peer-reviewed Google Earth Engine tool written in Python that detects livestock-waste spreading on snow-covered cropland from free satellite imagery. Built and validated across three Wisconsin regions, it turns public Sentinel-2 and Landsat data into an open monitoring tool for agencies, nonprofits, scientists, and the public.
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Environmental Governance · Qualitative research · Urban forestry
Master’s thesis on how urban foresters in Austin and Denver actually use—and quietly resist—ecosystem-services metrics. A bottom-up account of environmental valuation in the hands of the people who manage a city’s trees.
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Map: Groundwork USACartography · Environmental History · Archival Research & Digitization
A cartography and environmental-history series reconstructing the borders, names, and surviving remnants of southern Wisconsin’s lost 200-square-mile Empire Prairie—rendered as original maps drawn from historic land-survey records that I georeferenced and digitized.
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Data Engineering · Public Policy · Data visualization
Python pipeline that cleans and unifies two and a half decades of messy Wisconsin Municipal Financial Reports into a single, analysis-ready dataset; data-engineering groundwork to enable downstream policy analysis.
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Plant conservation science · Statistical analysis · Science Writing
A data-driven site of controlled propagation experiments: side-by-side stratification trials, measured germination percentages, and honest reporting of what works—and what fails—when growing rare native prairie plants from seed.
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