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Andrew R. Homsey

ASSISTANT POLICY SCIENTIST
(GIS Research Analyst)

ahomsey@udel.edu e-mail
302-831-4932 phone/voice-mail
302-831-4934 fax

Water Resources Agency | Delaware Geological Survey Annex
Academy Street | University of Delaware | Newark, Delaware 19716-7380

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EXPERTISE

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Andrew has more than 12 years experience in the field of geographic information systems (GIS), much of it in the academic/research environment. He has worked, in both a contractual and full-time capacity, on a wide variety of challenging projects in many types of environments. In addition to his familiarity with many GIS tools, remote sensing, and related technolgies, he has experience in object-oriented programming in various languages, design and implementation of websites with DHTML (in particular web-based mapping using ArcIMS), database creation/management. His interests include environmental studies and natural-resource management, as well as land-use planning issues as they relate to preservation, sustainability, and liveability.

After graduating from the University, Andrew worked for the City of Wilmington as a Planning and a Historic Preservation intern. In graduate school he TA'd many courses in Cultural, Historical, and Econominc Geography. His GIS experience begain when he interned for the Water Resources Agency (WRA), then part of New Castle County, working with Dave Racca under Bernie Dworsky. In 1993 he moved to Georgia, where he served as a research assistant in the Geography Department (in GIS and Remote Sensing) and worked on various projects at the Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS). While at the CRMS, he worked with a team of researchers on such projects as the mapping of the vegetation of the Everglades National Park (which comprises over a million acres) and the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. Additionally, he assisted in the teaching of many GIS/Remote Sensing short courses offered by the CRMS.

In 2000, he moved to the Washington, D.C., area, where he was a GIS contractor with NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS), specializing in national shoreline mapping. Having recently moved back to this area, he has provided GIS and Remote Sensing services to groups including The Nature Conservancy and the College of Marine Studies' Center for Remote Sensing, largely in the wetlands mapping arena. He came on part time with WRA in June, 2003, and took a fulltime position in the GIS services group under Vern Svatos in October of the same year.
 

 

EDUCATION

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BA, University of Delaware 1987, Geography
 

 

EXPERIENCE

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2003 - present

 

Assistant Policy Scientist (GIS Research Analyst), Water Resources Agency, Institute for Public Administration, CHEP, University of Delaware
 

2001 - 2003

 

GIS Consultant, Center for Remote Sensing, College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware
 

2000 - 2001

 

GIS & Remote Sensing Consultant, Remote Sensing Division, National Geodetic Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Silver Spring, Md.)
 

1993 - 1999

 

Research Assistant/GIS Analyst, Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science, University of Georgia (Athens, Ga.)
 

1991 - 1993

 

GIS Assistant, Water Resources Agency for New Castle County, Delaware
 

1989 - 1991

 

Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Delaware
 

1987 - 1989

 

Planning/Historic Preservation Intern, City of Wilmington, Delaware
 

 

PUBLICATIONS

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"Datum Shifts for UTM Coordinates," Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, April 1997, vol. 63, no. 4.
 

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