Abigail Pendry

Experience

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  ACE Adventure Resort

  May 2017 - Aug 2017

  Raft Guide
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  Elon University Landscaping

  Sept 2017 - May 2018

  Groundskeeper
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  Elon University Campus Recreation

  Feb 2018 - Dec 2019

  Outdoor Trip Leader
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  Avid4 Adventure

  May 2018 - Sept 2018

  Multi-sport Instructor
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  Elon University

  Sept 2018 - Dec 2019

  GIS Research Fellow
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  University of North Carolina at Greensboro Center for Housing and Commu

  Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

  Geographic Information System Intern
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  Child Care Aware of America

  Mar 2020 - Jun 2020

  GIS Research Analyst

  • Created and published ESRI Web Applications that were utilized by several congressional staffers depicting the child care program supply data amid the COVID19 states for 11 different states• Designed ETL workflows for updating, summarizing, and visualizing child care supply and trends over time• Communicated with over 30 nation-wide contacts to organize data pulls, data validation, and map quality assurance

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  National Audubon Society

  Jun 2020 - Jun 2021

  Dangermond Fellow

  One of three national fellows to participate in a full-time, joint program, between Esri & the National Audubon Society with the purpose of training the next generation of conservation GIS professionals• Collaborated with the Director of Science Technology to develop a high-profile application, for the longest-running wildlife count, which receives 55 views per day on average• Redesigned NAS’s Birdability tool, a crowd-sourced survey & web map that increases green-space accessibility for those with accessibility challenges, which has received 5,500 views, 240 new submissions, & attention from the Sierra Club Magazine since its relaunch in October 2020• Conducting spatial analyses to determine the statistical relationships between birding rates & socio-economic status of neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia• Supported over 250 GIS users across the national & chapter organizations by building an internal education Hub including web materials, training seminars, & live office hours• Resolved GIS Help Desk requests ranging from cartographic development to user account management Show less

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  Blue Raster

  Jun 2021 - now

  • Provide GIS support for conservation non-profits including The Jane Goodall Institute, National Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, The World Resources Institute, and NRDC• Build automated data pipe-lines for updating and maintaining live data streams• Create scalable ecological analyses based in academic research to support public policy

  • GIS Analyst II

    Dec 2024 - now

  • GIS Analyst I

    Dec 2022 - Dec 2024

  • Associate GIS Analyst

    Jun 2021 - Dec 2022