Jessie Shapiro

Develop and produce analytical workflows, technical assessments, interactive dashboards, and research to help manage and conserve big game habitat related to the wildlife management and conservation needs of USDA’s Working Lands for Wildlife Program and Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Additionaly provide analytical, data management, and research support for the Merkle Research Group, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Wyoming Migration Initiative, as well as state, federal, and NGO cooperators and partners.

Support technical geospatial, data, research and application developments and products for the Wildlife Migration Initiative. Manage, analyze and visualize big data using cloud computing. Perform research analysis and complete various GIS and research-based projects using R statistical packages, ESRI products, and GCP. Build customized solutions for processing wildlife movements with R Shiny apps.

Maintain, edit and ensure quality control of spatial databases of wildlife locations for the State of Utah. Create programming scripts that detect and repair problems in the data. Assist in the migration of spatial SQL database to google cloud platform and development of web applications. Map migration corridors and home ranges using Brownian Bridge Movement Model for Utah using R scripts. Prepare GIS data requests for regional staff and partners.

Developed relational spatial database for raptor and passerine survey. Develop web applications to streamline field data collection. Write and draft technical reports based on passerine demographics, raptor and vegetation surveys. Identify information from analyses that suggest developing patterns of problems or complaints from which general specific trends can be discerned, suggesting a need for further investigation.

Transcribe nesting burrowing owl behaviors. Perform literature searches on North American passerines for comparative analysis on latitudinal pattern in clutch size. Responsible for data management and entry of passerine nest data in MS Access.

Use a variety of geospatial tools to find, edit, digitize, geo-reference and display data using ESRI GIS software. Collaborate with management to see technical projects through from conception to completion.

Software/Web: ESRI ArcGIS (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS 9.3-10.7, ArcGIS Online, Survey123, Experience Builder, WebApp Builder, ArcServer, Field Maps), QGIS, Leaflet, PostGIS, Mapbox, R Studio, R Shiny, Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, AI Notebooks, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, GeoViz, Data Studio, CloudSQL), Visual Studio, PgAdmin, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Netlogo, MS Access

Programming: SQL, R, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Project Management: Trello, Asana, G Suite

UTTWS & CCTWS Annual Conference

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Utah Geographical Informational Council Annual Conference