During my internship with the Everglades Foundation, I worked on a variety of GIS and mapping projects, including a historical ecology analysis of the Florida Everglades. In collaboration with the senior GIS Scientist at the Everglades Foundation, Rosanna Rivero, and Noosha Mahmoudi, a PhD student at FIU, a vegetation map of South Florida produced in 1913 was transformed for GIS compatibility using ArcGIS, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop. The final result is a polygon shapefile (illustrated above) that will be applied toward land cover change analysis and assessment of historical environmental conditions in the Everglades. The project was presented in the form of a poster at the 2009 NACIS conference in Sacramento, California, as well as the 2009 South Florida GIS Expo, where it won first place in the poster contest.
