Hello!
My name is Rob (he/him)
Geospatial Analyst & Developer | Communicator | Writer
Interests:
Environmental Justice, Education, Community Geography, Numerical Spatial Analysis, Free and Open-Source SoftwareAbout
I am a member of the South Side Green Zone Council, a volunteer with the East Phillips Health Team, and, tentatively, a visiting instructor at Macalester College (Fall 2024).
My current project is creating a free and open-sourced alert system for community air monitoring projects with a loose collective called, “SpikeAlerts.” There is a working example for the Minneapolis Health Department’s Community Air Monitoring Project that I am managing.
Research interests include: historic and contemporary barriers to racial equity; spatio-temporal modeling; and consequences of climate change. I am also passionate about community education and procedural justice in decision making.
In my free time I enjoy paddling, dancing, making music, and writing.
Bio
I was raised on Dakota Land in the town of Red Wing, Minnesota where I was taught a deep appreciation of our natural world at the Red Wing Environmental Learning Center. In 2017, I graduated from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities with a B.S. in mathematics and moved to Australia.
After 15 months of work-traveling as a farm hand, arborist’s assistant, and general labourer, I returned to the States to serve 2 terms as an Americorps math tutor in Minneapolis. During this time I was introduced to the Mapping Prejudice project, experienced the George Floyd Uprising, and began volunteer-organizing with various grassroots movements.
These experiences led me to the University of Minnesota’s Masters of Geographic Information Science (MGIS) program, which I graduated from in the Spring of 2023.