Item talk:Q46124

usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T15:21:18.633918'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/kevin-foley
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education:
   - Master of Public Administration, with Concentration in Environmental Science
     and Policy, George Mason University. 2015
   - B.S. Geology, George Mason University. 1995
   email: kfoley@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - cartography
   - maps and atlases
   - remote sensing
   - topography
   - ocean temperature
   - paleoceanography
   - sea-level change
   - human impacts
   - data management
   - data preservation
   - database administration
   - biogeography
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - I work as a member of the USGS PRISM project (Pliocene Research, Interpretation
     and Synoptic Mapping).  I provide data management and programming to make the
     project's twenty-year collection of data useable and available to the Climate
     Modeling Community.  Our primary users are the NASA GISS project and PlioMIP
     (Pliocene Model Inter-comparison Project) , an international consortium of climate
     modelers.
   name: Kevin Foley
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0003-1013-462X
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/florence-bascom-geoscience-center
   organization_name: Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
   personal_statement: I previously worked as a member of the Glacier Studies Project  on
     theCoastal Change and Glaciological Maps of Antarcticamap series.  This map
     series draws on a broad range of resources from satellite imagery and aerial
     photographs to ships logs from previous centuries to demonstrate changes in
     the configuration of Antarctic glaciers and coastal ice over time.  The project
     dates back to 1990.  I joined the project in 2000 to study problems in map production
     that existed due to the broad range of source materials of varying scale and
     projections and the small number of reliable positional ground control points.  I
     initiated a program to digitize all source materials and shift the production
     of maps to digital means.
   professional_experience:
   - "2007 to present \u2013 GIN project, formerly PRISM Project, U.S. Geological\
     \ Survey, FBSC, EGPSC, Reston, Virginia. Programming, data management and micropaleontology."
   - "2015 \u2013 Detail to USGS Core Science/ Land Remote Sensing Group for feasibility\
     \ study of a LANDSAT data cube project."
   - "2000 to 2014 \u2013 Coastal Change and Glaciological Maps of Antarctica, EGPSC,\
     \ Reston, Virginia. Digital mapping of glaciers and coastal change in Antarctica."
   - "1995 to 1999 \u2013 Warm Climates Project, Physical Scientist, Climate History\
     \ Team. Management of computer graphic lab, GIS application servers and network\
     \ data servers."
   - "1989 to 1995 \u2013 Physical Science Technician, Paleontology and Stratigraphy\
     \ Branch, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. Microfossil Laboratory Manager."
   - "1987 to 1989 \u2013 Physical Science Aide, Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch,\
     \ U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. Moving offices, repairing computers,\
     \ shaking sieves."
   title: Physical Scientist