Amanda Kowalski

• Produced and maintained Clark County feature classes across 40+ databases, including creating/updating vector and raster feature classes, attribute information, field names, domains, layer files, and metadata documentation.
• Created maps, reports, spatial analyses, web maps, story maps, web experiences, dashboards, and surveys to aid various county departments in buildable land modeling, public works, emergency services, public health initiatives, and environmental management.
• Independent maintenance and writing of Python scripts to automate data maintenance, quality control, map production, and spatial analysis.
• Responded to and organized inquiries for GIS products, services, or technical support from government customers and the public.
• Developed workflows and created accessible documentation guides for maintenance and quality control processes.

• Used authoritative data sources to digitize asbestos, lead paint, and PCB data for AF Environmental Compliance teams.
• Verified stakeholder GIS workflows in ArcGIS Pro to identify weak points in system knowledge, and inform CEMML training seminars.
• Performed quality control and assurance on CEMML environmental feature classes to confirm the spatial accuracy of environmental hazards.
• Traveled to various AF bases to meet with program managers, discuss GIS needs, desired product functionality, and future projects.

• Developed Python script tools to automate data maintenance processes for CEMML’s Data Integrity and Reach Back Support teams.
• Wrote and led training sessions for CEMML and AF staff on data development, data attribution, and cartographic principles and production for ArcGIS Pro.
• Collaborated with diverse stakeholders (AF staff, field technicians, engineers, and the public) to
  create maps and spatial analyses for government and public publications.
• Responsible for all environmental GIS support for eight Air Force installations in the Pacific region.
  This included the organization, maintenance, and quarterly data updates to 12 geodatabases (43 feature datasets, 180 feature classes, 45 business tables, and roughly 127,000 features).
• Ensured consistent contact with 50 AF Environmental Program Managers and responded to all requests for GIS map products, spatial analyses, surveying assistance, data deliveries, and technical support, often managing multiple tasks at the same time.
• Created a range of cartographic products, including maps, map series, web applications, and story maps, according to AF Environmental teams’ specific requests and needs.
• Completed monthly quality control checks in addition to attribute, spatial, and metadata updates to environmental data in accordance with SDSFIE requirements, environmental reports,
  and Authoritative Databases.

• Created and completed a workflow for monthly updates on 96 Environmental Constraints feature datasets using CEMML custom script tools, tracking updates, and delivering new data to remote CEMML analysts. I trained fellow analysts on this process.
• Assisted all environmental GIS support for Scott AFB, Whiteman AFB, and McConnell AFB: maintained six geodatabases (33 feature datasets, 90 feature classes, and roughly 50,000 features).
• Co-led a site visit to Scott AFB, Whiteman AFB, and McConnell AFB to present GIS support capabilities to AF Environmental teams.
• Coordinated with 27 Environmental Program Managers to fulfill GIS support requests, georeferencing aerial imagery, digitizing historic maps, and creating map products like map series, web maps, and story maps.
• Routinely met with AF staff to discuss their actual GIS knowledge, use, needs, and collaborate on where to address gaps when needed.

Responsibilities and Achievements.

- Collaborated with Scott Esser (Director of the Continental Divide Research and Learning Center, Rocky Mountain National Park) to discuss research questions, survey methodologies, and GIS applications for an ongoing park-wide research project, Rapid Aspen Regeneration Assessment (RARA).
Conducted overlay analysis using park-sourced GIS vectors and rasters to generate 33 research plots for RMNP’s 2022 RARA BioBlitz sampling conducted on Aug. 30-31, 2022.
- Assisted the BLM to survey fuel reduction treatments on Douglas-fir beetle severity in Gunnison, CO
using Avenza Maps to navigate to off-trail research plots, recording forest stand metrics, and map site
boundaries for GIS applications.
- Partnered with Rocky Mountain National Park to use park-sourced GIS data, publicly available climate data, and ArcGIS Pro and Python scripting to create forest-based classification and regression models, determining the lead cause of aspen mortality within park boundaries.