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U.S. Department of State
Serves as maritime geography expert at U.S. maritime boundary negotiations. Develops, coordinates, and implements U.S. policy and positions pertaining to maritime limits and boundaries. Advises the Department and other U.S. Government agencies of significant worldwide events on geographical and technical aspects of the law of the sea and related ocean activities that may affect U.S. ocean policy.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - PNNL
Subject matter expert in geography and geographic information systems:-Modelled impacts of land use on current and future greenhouse gas emissions and different policy scenarios-Completed a project to downscale future global and regional greenhouse gas emissions to country and pixel level analysis, using growth in GDP and population data.-Applied geospatial methods to calculate global electricity transmissions costs, when renewable energy sources (solar and wind) are introduced into the electricity grid.
US Navy
U.S. National Ice Center subject matter expert in GIS and cartography:- Created sea ice analysis maps for presentation briefs to the command and other government agencies- Automated GIS analyses and satellite image processing, using Perl, VBA, Python and ArcGIS Model Builder- Managed spatial RDBMS for vector and raster data- Provided training on use of GIS and analysis of remote sensing information- Helped to coordinate the joint GIS effort in sea ice analysis between the US and Canadian governmentshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-melchior-4bb037100/
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