About Me
I am passionate about leveraging my background in environmental education with my technical geospatial skills to connect people with information. I am committed to developing solutions that convey complex information in compelling, innovative, and engaging ways, with the ultimate goal to educate people, inform decisions, encourage collaboration, and achieve results.
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Current Position
GIS Lead, Michigan Department of Great Lakes, Environment, & Energy (EGLE)
January 2021 - Present
Leadership
URISA's Vanguard Cabinet of Young GIS Professionals, Outreach Chair
2020 - Present
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
MS in Natural Resources & Environment
Specialized in Policy, Planning, & Communication
Master's Thesis: "Supporting Conservation and Decision-Making in the Northwoods: Mapping Values, Services, and Threats"
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University of California, Los Angeles
BS in Ecology & Evolution
Minor in Geographic Information Systems & Technology (GIS&T)
Graduated with Departmental Honors
Featured In
The Bounding Box: Where the GIS memes go! (Interview with Kate Berg)
Harvard on the Map Podcast
Geomob Podcast - 119. Kate Berg & Michele Tobias: #gischat
Named xyHt Magazine's "22 Young Geospatial Pros To Watch In 2022"
Story Map portfolio featured on GIS Wow with Adam Carnow
Story Map portfolio featured in "Create a story map of your CV or resume"
Story Map portfolio featured in "Highlight Your Skills with a GIS Portfolio"
Map featured on Esri's Instagram page
Voted top 3 funniest GIS accounts on Twitter
Maps featured in 2018, 2021, & 2022 GeoHipster Calendar
Select Presentations & Publications
URISA Webinar: Building Your Professional GIS Portfolio
NACIS Talk: The GISt of It: Discoveries from a Daily Social Mapping Challenge
Fitness and hormonal correlates of social and ecological stressors of female yellow-bellied marmots.
Location, location, location: small shifts in collection site result in large intraspecific differences in macroalgal palatability.
Heterospecific alarm call eavesdropping in nonvocal, white-bellied copper-striped skinks, Emoia cyanura