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Christopher DeMars
PHD student Department of Land, Air and Water Resources University of California Davis
Email: chdemars@ucdavis.edu Phone: (209) 573-0674 |
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Education: UC Santa Barbara 1997 - 2002 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Columbia Community College 2005 - 2008 GIS technical certification as well as introductory biological courses missed during my computer science education.. UC Davis 2009 ¨C present Graduate study in the Hydrology program with a focus on watershed scale modeling of non-point source agricultural pollution through model development and the leveraging large geospatial datasets.
Relevant Experience: UC Davis: Graduate Student Researcher 2010 - present Utilized ESRI's Arc products as well as open source GIS tools to quantify solute loadings of waterways and acres of farmland impacted by proposed legislation. Used SWAT for basin modeling of solute and bacterial transport. UC Davis: Graduate Student Researcher 2009 - 2010 Coded machine learning algorithms in matlab to find an inverse solution to fractal generating functions. Google Summer of Code Summer of 2008 and 2009 Worked on OpenJUMP, a Java based open source GIS platform. Developed a triangulated irregular network plugin and a database driver. System Administrator 1999-2002 Was responsible for maintaining a mixed Unix/Windows network for the Institute for Earth Science Systems at UCSB. I also wrote code for scientific data collection and analysis in C++.
Relevenat Skills: ESRI ArcMap suite ENVI image processing Open source GIS: PostGIS, gdal, proj4, OpenJUMP, GeoDjango Programming language fluency: Fortran, SQL, Python, Java, C/C++, Matlab, R, Perl, Lisp, VHDL, Unix shell scripting Models used: SWAT, MODFLOW, HYDRUS, SRH2D |
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