Cornerstone Welcomes Our New GIS Analyst – Kevin Dickinson
Kevin is a GIS Analyst and Wildlife Biologist with over 17 years of experience working in the conservation and natural resources fields. During his career, he has conducted flora/fauna inventory surveys across 20 states and territories of the United States and has worked with special status species on long-term projects to assess viability and impacts of human behavior on species’ success. He has conducted special-status species surveys for Mexican spotted owls, southwestern willow flycatchers, Chiricahua leopard frogs, and the Arizona treefrog amongst other species, and has worked on habitat management for the Huachuca water umbel. Kevin provided project management and technical support for Environmental Impact Assessments, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation, invasive species surveys and control, Endangered Species Act Section 7 consultation, baseline biological surveys, and ecological risk assessments. He is trained in wetland delineation using the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 1987 delineation manual and the regional supplements and has conducted wetland work in seven states across the country.
Kevin has extensive GIS experience using ESRI's ArcGIS 10 Suite, responsible for collecting, importing, and editing spatial data, producing maps, and conducting analysis using the tools in ArcToolbox and Spatial Analyst. He works with both raster and vector data, has experience with versioned geodatabases, and has been part of a team responsible for developing, creating, and managing real-property data in geodatabases for the U.S. Army Reserve. Additionally, Kevin has worked with remote sensing software (ENVI) to conduct landscape scale analysis and classification of vegetation in the lower Colorado River. His graduate research project involves using historical imagery to determine the effectiveness of using NAIP imagery to conduct vegetation monitoring in a 1,400-acre riparian restoration along the Colorado River.
Kevin has a B.A. in Biology from Ithaca College, a Graduate Certificate in GIS from Northern Arizona University, and is completing his M.S. in Applied Geospatial Sciences from Northern Arizona University.
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