2014-2015 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, American Geographical Society Centroamérica Indígena project
◦ collaborate with colleagues at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán, Tegucigalpa, Honduras in the supervision and GIS training of indigenous student researchers
◦ integrate participatory-mapping-derived data with other sources to develop and produce innovative "transparent overlay" online maps, as requested by indigenous groups in Honduran Mosquitia (MASTA, FITH, and others) to strengthen their management of protected areas and “concejos territoriales” (newly titled, multi-village-scale collective tenure properties)
◦ helping to identify variables and analyze data associated with territorial, cultural, and environmental stability in indigenous areas throughout Central America
2010-2013 Geographic Researcher, American Geographical Society “Expedition to the Borderlands” project
◦ created integrated GIS platform of thirty countries in Central America and the Caribbean, with emphasis on ethnic census data, land tenure systems and dynamics, and protected areas
◦ helped organize the World Human Geography Conference (University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University), with focus on communities and ethics in social science fieldwork
◦ helped organize the World Human Geography Conference (University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University), with focus on communities and ethics in social science fieldwork
2005-2008 Geographic Researcher with México Indígena international project team (principal institutions: University of Kansas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí).
◦ conducted community mapping workshops in two fieldwork regions: Huasteca Potosina, San Luis Potosí and Sierra Norte, Oaxaca
◦ trained and supervised local investigators and Mexican student researchers
◦ acquired and analyzed geographic and land tenure data from Mexican institutional sources
◦ diverse GIS tasks using ArcGIS software
◦ developed and maintained project website, including scalable vector graphics and GoogleEarth web portals for online interactive GIS
◦ trained and supervised local investigators and Mexican student researchers
◦ acquired and analyzed geographic and land tenure data from Mexican institutional sources
◦ diverse GIS tasks using ArcGIS software
◦ developed and maintained project website, including scalable vector graphics and GoogleEarth web portals for online interactive GIS
2003-2004 conducted collaborative fieldwork, community land use planning workshops, GIS database development and training, community map production, and report preparation for Ordenamiento Territorial en Cuatro Comunidades de la Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico [Rural Land Use Plan in Four Communities of the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico], a World Wildlife Fund Oaxaca/CAPLAC project in the Chinantec indigenous area
2002 collaborated with landowner (ejidatario) of critical habitat to develop demonstration ecological restoration project and experimental farm in community of Valentín Gómez Farías, Calakmul, Mexico
2001-2002 developed CommunityViz (future-modeling and 3D graphics extension of ESRI GIS software) and directed public collaborative planning workshops, Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Planning Commission, Woodstock, Vermont
1997-2001 Geographer, Pronatura Península de Yucatán (organization based in Mérida, México, affiliated with The Nature Conservancy)
◦ directed topographic surveying, map production, and workshop organization for sharing of agroforestry, apiculture, and ecotourism knowledge, participatory rural land use planning, and regional geographic analysis in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve and surrounding region
◦ produced first official vegetation and land use planning maps for the Punta Laguna Natural and Cultural Reserve; tasks included air photo and satellite image interpretation, GPS fieldwork in collaboration with indigenous residents, and GIS digitalization and production
◦ produced first official vegetation and land use planning maps for the Punta Laguna Natural and Cultural Reserve; tasks included air photo and satellite image interpretation, GPS fieldwork in collaboration with indigenous residents, and GIS digitalization and production