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Software and Tools

7-Zip Script Tools for ArcGIS

You can download the tools discussed in my blog post "A Script Tool for Unzipping Files in ArcGIS" by clicking on the link below. More information  about these tools is available in the blog post.

7ZipExtractionToolbox.zip [Zip, 8Kb].




Ecology Presentations and Posters

Presentation: Using GIS to Automate Distribution Models for New World Trees

The following is a link to a PowerPoint Show (*.ppsx) file containing the slides from my presentation [PPSX, 7.6Mb] at the 2011 esri User Conference in San Diego.

The conference abstract is also below:

This presentation will show how ArcGIS Modelbuilder, Python and the geoprocessing environment were instrumental in automating the data processing and analysis workflows for a project to create over 200,000 temperate and tropical plant species distribution models from the largest single-database of species occurrence records spanning the entire New World. The modeling results are helping define the spatial distributions of some tree species that were not previously understood, identify potential ICUN red-list candidates for species with critically small spatial distributions, and better understand how climate and climate change influence species range sizes, abundance, and extinction risk. This presentation will also discuss future data dissemination plans, and how practitioners can overcome the problems associated with combining multiple datasets of spatially referenced ecological data so that the science and conservation communities can effectively combine datasets to help analyze ecological patterns at large spatial scales and understand how species may respond to climate change.

 

Poster: Does the climatic variability hypothesis explain the longitudinal range size gradient in North American trees?

From the 96th ESA Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas: View [PDF, 1.3MB].




Miscellaneous Articles and Presentations From my Past Life

White Paper: Ethical Considerations for a Vendor/Consultants

While obtaining a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Redlands, John Donoghue received an award from the University’s Banta Center for Business, Ethics and Society for his submission, "Ethical Considerations for a Vendor/Consultant" [PDF, 41Kb]. In his submission he explored the conflicts of interest faced by IT vendors who simultaneously work for firms that hold consulting contracts with their customers. John graduated from the University’s Masters of Business Administration program in 2006.


Article: Improving Code Enforcement Services with GIS

April-June 2001 ArcUser. [PDF, 114 Kb]


Selected Presentations

 

Examples