Gap Analysis Program

GAP gets new GIS technician

Anne Davidson joined the National Gap office working part-time in December. She began working for us full-time in July as a remote sensing GIS analyst. Her time is split between working on the land cover mapping for the Northwest Regional Gap Project and providing support and review for states finishing up their Gap Analysis projects.

Anne grew up in Boulder, Colorado. She earned a B.A. from the University of Colorado in environmental biology and a M.S. degree from Washington State University in environmental science. She is most interested in using GIS and Remote Sensing technology to map and characterize habitat for wildlife and fish. Her Master’s thesis documented the creation of a habitat suitability model for lynx in the Clearwater region of central Idaho. Her professional experiences include working as a wildlife biologist in a study of Mountain Plover nest site selection and breeding biology on the Pawnee National Grasslands of northern Colorado, surveys for rare plants and noxious weeds in central Idaho, and spatial modeling of watershed sedimentation risks in northern Oregon. Most recently, Anne preformed the GIS analysis and wrote the terrestrial habitat characterizations and wildlife biology sections for five subbasin plans written as part of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s subbasin planning process. You can contact Anne at 208 885-3907 or e-mail her at adavidson@uidaho.edu.

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