GIS Staff
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Sarah Olimb, GIS Lab Manager/Community GIS Coordinator Sarah has over seven years of experience as a GIS technician and field ecologist. She has participated in a variety of projects including work with Allegheny woodrats, long-leaf pine ecosystems, eastern U.S. coastal salt marshes, and the northern Great Plains. Her master's project focused in western Minnesota where she used GIS to quantify the impact of surrounding landscape on coleopterid populations in residual prairie patches. |
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Joy Ritter, GIS Specialist Education:B.S., Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University M.S., Wildlife Biology, University of Alaska - Fairbanks Joy recently completed her M.S. in Wildlife Biology developing distribution models for four species residing in and around Denali National Park and Preserve. She used animal radio-locations and geographic information system (GIS) layers to build databases containing habitat variables derived at multiple scales. E-mail: jritter@wildlands.org |
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Julie Betsch, GIS Apprentice Education:B.S., Biology, University of Cincinnati Julie has 8 years of field experience in conservation and wildlife biology with an emphasis on non-invasive methods to study large carnivores. Most recently she was employed by the Center for Conservation Biology of the University of Washington, where she trained dogs to find scat samples from endangered species. Some studies she has contributed to include population assessments of puma and grizzly in the Northern Rockies and response of wolf and caribou populations to oil development in north-eastern Alberta. She is currently working on a diet analysis of puma and jaguar from scat samples collected in central Brazil. Julie received her B.S. in Biology from the University of Cincinnati in 2000. E-mail: jbetsch@wildlands.org |
