Biography
Amanda Frick | |
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As the GIS Coordinator at the Southeast Regional Office of NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service in St. Petersburg, FL, Amanda wears many hats. She helps create regulatory areas for endangered species, marine mammals, sustainable fishing, essential fish habitat, and occasionally, enforcement issues. She uses various GIS methodologies and spatial analysis to create the regulatory areas and monitor species status. Disseminating the geographic data and metadata, and communicating through maps is also a big part of her job. Amanda graduated from University of Michigan in 1980 with a BS in Physical Geography, and in 1984, received her MS in Geography from Oklahoma State University, while working for NASA as a student. She continued her remote sensing research at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, and also worked in St. Petersburg, Florida for the USGS as the GIS Coordinator. Amanda has been a member of the ASPRS since 1982. |
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