Hi, I'm Ethan, a GIS Specialist.
About Me
Currently, I work as the GIS Coordinator in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University. To be specific, the lead developer on the interactive platform for the Strategic Conservation Assessment (SCA) of Gulf Coast Landscapes as well as the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) Next Generation Blueprint. Our team intends to provide a conservation framework that synthesizes and advances the existing and ongoing conservation planning and design efforts in the Gulf Coast Region. My work includes maintaining and developing the online assessment tools being used in the vital decision-making process for shareholders and conservation practitioners. I have extensive experience within the field of GIS, including spatial/statistical analysis, data processing, model building, web-based mapping/development, SQL/No-SQL database management, remote sensing, and cartography.
Education
2019–2021
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, IL
Master of Science in Geographic Information Science
2014–2019
Tongji University – Shanghai, CHINA
Bachelor of Engineering in Surveying and Mapping Engineering
2015–2017
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics – Shanghai, CHINA
Minor Certificate: Business Administration
Experience
Selected Work
Strategic Conservation Assessment
Client: Mississippi State University
The goal of this project is to develop planning tools that help users identify areas that will maximize the benefits of land conservation based on their goals and priorities. Currently, three conservation assessment tools are under development, with the production version of our web-application tool suite available in 2021. This site describes the co-production process by which priorities were identified in existing Gulf plans (Conservation Planning Inventory Tool), vetted and refined by Gulf stakeholders, and then incorporated into our Conservation Prioritization Tool (CPT) and Conservation Visualization Tool (CVT).
WhereCOVID-19 Dashboard
Client: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, CyberGIS Center
WhereCOVID-19 provides a collection of static and dynamic maps for estimating the spread and exposure risk of COVID-19 at various spatial and temporal scales. For example, a set of vulnerability maps synthesize information of confirmed COVID-19 cases, tested cases, population density, social vulnerability index based on CDC data, people living with HIV, and spatial accessibility to hospital resources based on a linear model.
Get in touch via ethan.liang@msstate.edu
