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Reference ID: CV-BKHDUYL
Updated: January 24, 2010
Available: September 2010
Will Relocate: Yes
GIS Experience: 5 years
Desired Salary: unknown
Email: [ Click here to contact ]
Primary Phone: [ Click here to contact ]
Address: Austin  TX  78751
Country: United States
 
 
 
Ophelia Wang
 
Educational Experience
University of Texas Austin, Texas, USA
Degree: PhD
Major: Geography
Dates: 2010
University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois, USA
Degree: MA
Major: Latine American Studies
Dates: 2006
University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois, USA
Degree: MS
Major: Ecology
Dates: 2004
National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan
Degree: BS
Major: Botany
Dates: 2000
 
Professional Experience
GIS Workshop Coordinator University of Texas
09/09- Austin, Texas, USA
Advanced GIS workshop organizing and
lecturing for applications in various research disciplines.
Remote Sensing Consultant University of Texas
07/09-09/09 Austin, Texas, USA
Remote sensing imagery preprocessing for animal species distribution modeling
funded by Texas National Guard.
GIS Analyst University of Texas
12/08- Austin, Texas, USA
GIS analyses
for various conservation planning and disease modeling projects funded by
Conservation International and other agencies.
Research Assistant University of Texas
01/06-05/06 Austin, Texas, USA
Conservation assessment and prioritization in indigenous territories in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
 
Other Information
Research Interests
Biodiversity
Alpha and beta diversity of species at community level and landscape scale.
Species distribution modeling using GIS and remote sensing data under climate change schemes.
Recruitment processes of plants: seed rain, seed dispersal and seedling establishment.

Conservation biology
Conservation planning using habitat and species distribution data for site prioritization.
GIS and remote sensing for conservation assessment and prioritization applications.
Effects of disturbance on species regeneration, composition, and spatial distribution.

Landscape ecology
Physical constraints and ecological processes of dynamics in heterogeneous land use.
Analysis of changes in landscape for natural resource management.
Land use and land cover change (LULCC) using remote sensing and GIS data.

Professional Skills
Proficiency in the use of GIS and remote sensing techniques for conservation biology and landscape ecology studies and software for GIS (ArcGIS, ArcHydro, Patch Analyst, and GeoDa), remote sensing (ERDAS Imagine, Feature Analyst, ENVI, and FragStats), and conservation planning (Maxtent and ConsNet).

Proficiency in statistical packages (SAS, SYSTAT, StatView, S-Plus, R, and CrimeStat) and
ecological software (Gap Light Analyzer, Hemisfer, EstimateS, PASSaGE, PC-ORD, and Spatial
Analysis in Macroecology).
Keywords:  ArcGIS Extensions, ArcGIS, ENVI, ERDAS, Idrisi, eCognition
 
 
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