Andrea Rodriguez Flores

Resume

I'm a passionate and detail oriented GIS graduate student with experience leading cross functional teams, collaborating with peers, and a love for both science and the arts.

Education

University of Arizona, Tucson AZ— Master's in Geographic Information Systems Technology

Fall 2023 - May 2025

University of North Carolina, Greensboro NC— Bachelor of Science in Biology

August 2017 - December 2021

Skills

Professional Skills

Fully fluent in Spanish
Public Speaking
Project Management & Collaboration
Peer Reviewed Research & Technical Writing

GIS Skills

Multispectral LiDAR image processing and enhancement
Land-use and Land-cover Classifications and Change Detection
Accessing, merging and working with remotely sensed data
Analysis with Digital Elevation Models and Digital Terrain Models
Generating Viewshed Models for visibility and radio wave analysis
Compute morphometric parameters from raster fields, particularly slope, aspect and curvatures
Hydrological Modeling using Hydrology for ArcGIS
Point Pattern Analysis & Modeling
Spatial Regression and Spatial Statistics Analysis
Spatial Interpolation
Network Analysis
Terrain Analysis
Location Suitability Analysis
ESRI Model Builder and programming with Python for Arcpy
Database creation and management
Web-Mapping with ArcGIS Online, Survey123, WebAppBuilder, Storymaps, AppStudio and the Javascript API
Training & Deploying Deep Learning Models with ESRI's Deep Learning Tools

Programming & Computer Skills

Microsoft Office Suite
Adobe Creative Suite
Canva
Google Suite
ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online and other ESRI Software
QGIS
Website Design & Integration
Cloud based server management
R Studio
SQL
Python & Arcpy
Javascript & Javascript API
HTML
Markdown
Discord API
Zoom, Skype & Discord communication

Publications

Four Years Continuous Monitoring Reveals Different Effects of Urban Constructed Wetlands on BatsProactive artificial wetland constructions have been implemented to mitigate the loss of wetlands and their ecosystem services. As wetlands are habitats for bats, short-term (one or two years) studies find that constructed wetlands can immediately increase local bat activity and diversity. However, it is not clear how constructed wetlands affect bats through time while the wetlands are aging. We collected four years of continuous bat acoustic monitoring data at two constructed wetlands in an urban park in Greensboro, NC, USA. We examined bat activity and community composition patterns at these wetlands and compared them with reference sites in the city. With four years of data, we found that the effects of constructed wetlands were both habitat- and species-specific. The wetland in forests significantly increased bat activity, while the wetland in the open grass altered bat community composition. Specifically, in terms of species, we found that over time, constructed wetlands no longer attracted more big brown, silver-haired, or evening bats than control sites while the wetlands aged, highlighting the need to study broadly how each bat species uses natural and artificial wetlands. We emphasize the importance of long-term monitoring and the periodical evaluation of wildlife conservation actions.

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