GIS for Disaster Risk Reduction
Learning how GIS can actively prepare communities for potential disasters combining 4 disciplines: planning, emergency management, geography, & GIS
World Bank Certificate
Awarded e-learning certificate, Understanding Risk, by obtaining basic understanding and knowledge of core concepts/ideas surrounding Disaster Risk Management.​​
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Scope of Work
Project planning for high winds hazards for County of Maui that help defines project expectations, helps avoid future conflict/provide resolution, and avoid scope creep. Ultimately, this supports a plan to create a persistent system, maintain & evolve the system, identify risks, and inform decision-makers.
Stakeholder Management
Generate stakeholder strength map practices representing groups in the community to identify those who can positively/negatively influence project efforts.
Hazard Analysis
Simple Geospatial Risk Assessment
Risk Communication
Navigate through disaster discovery, analysis, and creative phase with a hazard mapping GIS System including layers depicting hazard areas, housing, and critical infrastructure:
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Develop a natural hazard risk exposure profile & hazard prioritization tool
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Delineate hazard areas in Maui & create structure inventory of buildings within flood hazard layer
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Create maps depicting natural hazard areas &AGOL
asset layer ​​
Perform an analysis that merges the attributes for hazard with the structures and then perform calculations within them showing the risk for a potential moderate level tsunami in Tongoy:
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Spatial join analysis
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Calculate analysis field to show moderate tsunami risk = resistance minus max depth
Learn good communication to convey confidence, represent ambiguity in maps, and create a story map that describes a potential impact from a tsunami in Tongoy (deterministic model of generating risk assessment information).
Develop a Website with Interactive Maps to Report Water Quality Issues
Review current issues in water quality and its reporting systems, search for relevant geographic data, build a set of web maps, and design a website to embed maps
Key explorations
Exploring existing water quality databases, web apps, and web development
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Water Quality Portal
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Citizen Reporting system
Water Quality Portal Data
Download/organize dataset manually: create map using dataset
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Automate data process w/python
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Automate tasks creating maps
Watershed Delination
Automate a manual process through ArcGIS Pro Model Builder
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USGS Earth Explorer Digital Elevation Model Data
Python
Automate tasks creating maps
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USGS National Map - Watershed Boundary Dataset
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Jupyter Notebook
Regularly Monitored Parameters
Make ESRI dashboard to visualize the regularly monitored water quality parameters in Orange County, CA, with water Quality Portal Data, Jupyter Notebook, MS Excel, and Python code to spatially visualize levels of:
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pH
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arsenic
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manganese
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nitrate
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Website Development
Learn how to create & display
Setup AWS Map Services for Wildfire Assessments
section under development
Define a GIS Framework that Supports Strategic Plan