GIS Internship

This semester, I am working on an internship to gather real-world experience. I was fortunate enough to take on an additional project at work to provide this experience. I will be creating a geodatabase for our Gullah/Geechee Burial Ground Reporting Project. This in an ongoing project to document cultural resources in eastern Nassau county significant to the African American and Gullah/Geechee communities. While I've been working on aspects of this project for several years, the skills I've learned through my GIS coursework will allow me to take a different role this fall - not just collecting data in the field, but actually compiling, analyzing, and creating geospatial deliverables. 

My new efforts in the project will include gathering historic imagery to help map the past landscape for the area, conducting in the field surveys to document resources including collecting and creating shapefiles and maps for each site, and conducting GPR surveys to help located buried features including unmarked burials. The GPR surveys include collecting geographic location information for each grid, creating a geodatabase for each project that includes georeferenced raster files for each grid slice (imagery every 10 cm) and a feature layer of potential areas of interest, and in many cases, taking this data back into the field via an online map in Field Maps to mark the locations back on the ground. 

I've also joined the Florida URISA user group to help me link into the GIS community in Florida. I've chosen this user group because they are looking at issues in Florida and providing webinars and other resources that could help me.