Hello, I hope all is well!
My name is Nadia Noori and I recently graduated from the City University of New York, Brooklyn College last year. Currently I live in North Dakota and work at the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, US Geological Survey as a GIS Specialist (Contractor). The focus of my main project is to quantify ecosystem services in the Prairie Pothole region.
Thurs far, my most memorable GIS success I've had this year is creating a model to understand the relative level of habitat quality and degradation on the current landscape of a county in our region. I used ArcGIS Pro to create my data layers and used InVEST to run the model.
I have a bachelors of science in the earth and environment and taking a brief hiatus working in the geo-sciences until I go back to school for my masters. I am gaining lots of experience through the technical work of the project I'm involved in and that was a must in my gap as I wanted to learn real life scenarios rather than textbook knowledge. I took a couple courses in college, an advanced gis and remote sensing class, and a field mapping course as well. I completed a fellowship with the USFWS creating a protocol to map invasive species in the pacific Northwest. In my downtime I use online resources and classes available to study coding languages and practice.
I have a lot more to learn and no where near the goal I see for myself just yet, this is why I'm here! I want to contribute what I can through my knowledge of GIS and Arc programs, as well as absorb as many skills and methods too to achieve the objective I have set for myself.
Aspiring GIS Developer,
Nadia Noori
Oh! Here's my favorite place on earth...179° 56′ 39.4″ +0° 2′ 46.2″